Biography

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 husband's 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 DEFA's The Affair Blum (1948) 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.