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- Else Eckersberg was born on January 5, 1895 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Die Marketenderin (1914), Die Erbtante (1914) and Es war in Schöneberg (1914). She died on November 2, 1989 in Neureichenau, Bavaria, Germany.
- Even in the time of her active film career the theater remained her main activity and after 1921 she concentrated again exclusively to the stage. There she was a much demanded actress since her title role in "Cäsar und Cleopatra" and in the next years she appeared on stages of the important theaters in Berlin and Vienna.
- A critical phase in her live occurred with her arrest after the assassination of Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944. One of the participants was Peter Graf Yorck von Wartenburg with whose brother Paul Graf Yorck von Wartenburg she was married in third marriage. The hope and fear lasted two months before she was released.
- When she took part in the play "Tod und Teufel" in a private performance in 1912 she got engaged by Reinhardt for his ensemble.
- Else Eckersberg appeared a last time on front of the camera in 1939 for the production "Der Florentiner Hut" (1939).
- Her first professional appearance came in the same year into being for "Faust II". It was also Max Reinhardt who introduced into the still young film business and he engaged her for his direction of "Eine venezianische Nacht" (14).
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