Ingeborg von Kusserow

Ingeborg von Kusserow (28 January 1919 – 14 April 2014) was a German film actress.

Ingeborg von Kusserow
Ingeborg von Kusserow in 1946
Born(1919-01-28)28 January 1919
Wollstein, Province of Posen Germany
Died14 April 2014(2014-04-14) (aged 95)
Hove, England, United Kingdom
Other namesIngeborg Wells
OccupationActress

Biography

Kusserow was born in Wollstein, Province of Posen, Germany (today Wolsztyn, Poland).[1]

She starred in Nazi propaganda films during the Third Reich, which she wrote about in a 1949 memoir I Was Hitler's Mickey Mouse.[2]

Kusserow married Percy Graf Welsburg in November 1941; they hoped to get away to Switzerland and Italy but in fact had to remain in Berlin throughout the war, which she describes in a 1948 memoir Enough, no More. They finally emigrated to Britain in 1947 and lived in St John's Wood, London[3] and she restarted her acting career, usually appearing as Ingeborg Wells. Kusserow retired in 1960 and divorced Welsburg, but married again in 1968 to Kenneth Slingsby-Fahn (1913–2007), a retired RAF officer. Their life together in their garden flat in Abercorn Place has been recounted in a memoir by a neighbour.[4]

In 1979 she and her husband relocated to a cottage in Houghton, West Sussex where Kenneth passed away in 2007. Kusserow lived alone until 2013, when she suffered a fall and had to live in a care home until her death a year later.

She is known for her appearance in the 1951 film Captain Horatio Hornblower and in the German adaption of the play You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running.

Death

Kusserow died on 14 April 2014.[5] Before her death she reportedly fell and broke a femur which she survived but resulted in her health declining severely.

Selected filmography

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References
  1. Biography
  2. "Ingeborg von Kusserow". Der Spiegel. 13. 30 March 1950. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  3. "The home of German actress Ingeborg von Kusserow". www.englandunderground.com. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  4. Mills, John, Which Yet Survive. Impressions of Friends, Family and Encounters, Quartet Books, London, 2017
  5. Mills, John (14 May 2014). "Ingeborg Wells: Actress and singer who was a star in Hitler's Germany before continuing her career in postwar Britain". The Independent. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  6. "Filmography". Archived from the original on 9 June 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2010.
  7. Giesen, Rolf (11 September 2015). Nazi Propaganda Films: A History and Filmography. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-1269-0.
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