Elfriede Datzig

Elfriede Datzig
Born	26 July 1922 Vienna, Austria
Died	27 January 1946 Ramsau bei Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1938–1945 (film)

Elfriede Datzig (26 July 1922 – 27 January 1946) was an Austrian film actress. Following the Anschluss, Datzig appeared in a number of films made by Wien-Film such as the 1939 comedy Anton the Last. She married the actor Albert Hehn. After the war, she formed a band (Hit Kid Swingsters) and sang with Mady Rahl for the USO. In 1946, she died at the age of 23 due to an allergic reaction to penicillin.

Selected filmography

• Finale (1938)
• Anton the Last (1939)
• Hotel Sacher (1939)
• Fräulein Figaro (short, 1939)
• Roses in Tyrol (1940)
• My Daughter Lives in Vienna (1940)
• The Waitress Anna (1941)
• The Secret Countess (1942)
• The War of the Oxen (1943)
• Black on White (1943)
• The Eternal Tone (1943)
• Trip Acquaintance (1943)
• The White Dream (1943, unfinished)
• Seven Letters (1944)
• The False Bride (1945)

Bibliography

• Dassanowsky, Robert. Austrian Cinema: A History. McFarland & Company, 2005.
• Polt, Rudolf. The Films of Elfriede Datzig. 2011.
• Polt, Rudolf. The Diary of Elfriede Datzig. 2011.

External links

• Elfriede Datzig at IMDb