Ingeborg von Kusserow

German actress

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

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

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 died 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 adaptation of the play You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running. She played Lady Irina in episode 21 "The Vandals" in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1956).

Death

Kusserow died on 14 April 2014.^[5] Before her death she reportedly fell and broke a femur. She survived but as a result of the injury her health declined severely.

Selected filmography

^[6]^[7]

Three Soldiers in the Kaiserjäger (1933)
The Court Concert (1936) - Zofe Babette
When Women Keep Silent (1937) - Jenny - Zofe bei Wörners
Love Can Lie (1937) - Britta Torsten
Daphne and the Diplomat (1937) - Matz
My Friend Barbara (1937) - Lucie
Rätsel um Beate (1937) - Schauspielerin, 1.Etage
Wie einst im Mai (1938)
Kleiner Mann ganz groß (1938) - Nina Würbel, Plakatmalerin
The Girl of Last Night (1938) - Evelyn Barrow - Tochter
Was tun, Sybille (1938) - Primanerin
A Night in May (1938) - Friedl
Drei Unteroffiziere (1938) - Lisbeth, Telefonistin
Renate in the Quartet (1939) - Li, Frau Ambergs Nichte
In letzter Minute (1939) - Maria
Herz ohne Heimat (1940) - Baby
Der dunkle Punkt (1940)
Counterfeiters (1940) - Else Bornemann
Leichte Muse (1941) - Tochter Jette Müller
Alles aus Liebe (1943) - Zoobesucherin (uncredited)
Das Konzert (1944) - Delfine
Tell the Truth (1946) - Maria - seine Braut
Der große Fall (1949) - Eine reizende Chansonsängerin
Golden Arrow (1949) - 1st Nightclub hostess
Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951) - Hebe (Lady Barbara's Maid)
One Wild Oat (1951) - Gloria Samson
Chelsea Story (1951) - Janice
Two on the Tiles (1951) - Madeleine
Death Is a Number (1951) - Gipsy Girl
Secret People (1952) - Shoe Shop Girl
King of the Underworld (1952) - Marie
Women of Twilight (1952) - Lili, the German Boarder
House of Blackmail (1953) - Emma
Double Exposure (1954) - Maxine Golder
Child's Play (1954) - Lea Blotz
Port of Escape (1956) - Lucy
Across the Bridge (1957) - Mrs. Scarff

References

^ Biography
^ "Ingeborg von Kusserow". Der Spiegel. Vol. 13. 30 March 1950. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
^ "The home of German actress Ingeborg von Kusserow". www.englandunderground.com. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
^ Mills, John, Which Yet Survive. Impressions of Friends, Family and Encounters, Quartet Books, London, 2017
^ 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.
^ "Filmography". Archived from the original on 9 June 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2010.
^ Giesen, Rolf (11 September 2015). Nazi Propaganda Films: A History and Filmography. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-1269-0.