Friedl Czepa

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Biography

Austrian actress

  • Primary profession
  • Actress
  • Country
  • Austria
  • Nationality
  • Austrian
  • Gender
  • Female
  • Birth date
  • 03 September 1898
  • Place of birth
  • Amstetten· Lower Austria
  • Death date
  • 1973-06-22
  • Death age
  • 75
  • Place of death
  • Vienna
  • Spouses
  • Rolf Wanka

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Blond Austrian actress of the 1930s and 40s, formerly a bank teller and kindergarten teacher. She was trained in Vienna as an actress and dancer. Czepa served as director of the Vienna Stadttheater (1940-45). Her post-war career was briefly put on hold after she was identified as having been a Nazi sympathizer.

Along with Oskar Sima, Fred Hennings and Leni Riefenstahl she was identified as being an active supporter of the Nazi Party.

Because of her Nazi links, she received a professional ban following the Second World War but slowly rebuilt her career.

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