Margit Nünke
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Margit Nünke (15 November 1930, in Stettin – 10 January 2015, in Munich) was a German beauty pageant winner, model and actress.
Life
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Nünke became Miss Germany on 11 June 1955 after previously being Miss North Rhine-Westphalia. In 1956, she won the election for Miss Europe 1956. When Miss Universe contest in 1955 in Long Beach, California, they reached the final and 4th place.
She appeared from 1957 to 1965 in nine feature films and two television movies, and from 1984 to 1985 in the TV series A class apart with. Margit Nünke was the female lead in several films and was a partner of Peter Alexander, Gerhard Riedmann, and Toni Sailer, among others. As a singer, she recorded several singles, including a duet with Peter Garden.
Later years
Nünke lived in Munich with her husband of more than 40 years, actor Peter Garden. Garden died on 7 January 2015; Margit Nünke died three days later.[1][2]
Selected filmography
- Engaged to Death (1957)
- Arena of Fear (1959)
- Twelve Girls and One Man (1959)
- Guitars Sound Softly Through the Night (1960)
External links
- Margit Nünke at IMDb
- British Film Institute profile
- Listing showing Nünke's Miss Universe competition
References
- ^ Peter Garden und Margit Nünke sind tot, welt.de, access date 12 March 2015
- ^ Obituary Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, filmdienst.de; accessed 12 March 2015.(in German)
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