German actress and singer of cabaret songs. She was born 4 November 1899 in Berlin, Germany and died 25 December 1993 in Berlin, Germany.
Leading German actress, cabaret performer and chansonniere. The daughter of pianist Gustav Loeser and actress Margarete Wezel, she was on stage from the age of eight. Following her marriage to composer/songwriter Friedrich Hollaender in 1919, she became a major cabaret star in Berlin, performing and recording many of her husbands songs. From 1928, she also appeared in classical roles at the Deutsches Theater. In silent films from 1917, screen success largely eluded her until she re-emerged as a character actress after World War II (notably in DEFAs Affaire Blum and on television).
Ebinger emigrated to the United States in 1937, returning to Berlin in 1947. She moved to Munich, where she met her second husband, the publisher Helwig Hassepflug, in 1961. They eventually settled back in Berlin, where Blandine continued her career in the theater and as an actress on television productions.
Ebinger died on 25 December 1993 in Berlin and is buried on the Waldfriedhof Dahlem.
She was a German actress and chansonniere, the daughter of the pianist Gustav Loeser and the actress Margarete Wezel.
The actress Blandine Ebinger already played at the age of eight at the Leipziger Schauspielhaus and was regularly engaged as a child actress. In 1913 followed works at the Trianon-Theater, in 1916 at the Residenz-Theater.
In the talkies she appeared in many further parts, once bigger, once smaller roles. But all her characters distinguished through the impressive acting.
In 1974 she began parallel to her cinematic career a second one as a chanson singer with tours in Paris, Amsterdam, Los Angeles and others.
Ebinger became acquainted with Friedrich Hollaender in 1919, and with him she became heavily invested as a performer, writer, and composer in the Berlin cabaret scene in the 1920s, beginning in the cabaret Schall und Rauch and the Caf Grenwahn.
After her return to the new FRG she continued to play for movies, besides appearances at theaters.
She worked as a housekeeper for the Heinrich Mann family temporary during World War II.
In 1946 she returned to Europe where she was engaged at the DEFA for the time being.
She married Friedrich Hollaender, and she recorded many of his cabaret songs, including the set of songs entitled Lieder eines armen Mdchens.
Over the years, she performed the works of many of the great songwriters and lyricists of the period including Mischa Spoliansky, Marcellus Schiffer and Werner Richard Heymann.
At the end of the 10s she became a star of the Berliner cabarets "Schall und Rauch" and "Grssenwahn".
In 1937 she went into exile where she barely got an occupation. Only smallest roles like in "Prison Ship" she became offered.
Although Ebinger and Hollaender ended their marriage before Hollaender emigrated to the United States because of the increasingly hostile environment for Jewish citizens in the early 1930s, Ebinger nevertheless faced discrimination as a result of the marriage, much of which was directed at their half-Jewish daughter, Philine, who was briefly married to Georg Kreisler.
