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Inge Meysel (May 30, 1910 – July 10, 2004)
was a Germany|German actor|actress.

From the early 1960s until her death, Meysel was
one of Germany's most popular actresses. She had a
successful stage career and played more than 100
roles in film and on television.

Born Ingeborg Hansen as the daughter of a
Denmark|Danish mother and a German Jew, 
she attended drama schools in Berlin from 1928
until 1930, thereafter she was on stage in
Zwickau, Leipzig and Berlin.

During Nazi Germany Inge Meysel was banned from
performing from 1935 until 1945 because of her
Jewish father. In 1945 she restarted her career in
Hamburg.

Since the early 1960s Inge Meysel mainly acted in
made-for-TV films and got the nickname (Fernseh-)
Mutter der Nation ("(Television) Mother of the
Nation").

She won numerous German actor awards including a
lifetime achievement award from the German
Television Awards, but in 1981 she refused to
accept the Bundesverdienstkreuz because "Einen
Orden dafür, daß man anständig gelebt hat,
brauche ich nicht"
("I don't need to be decorated for living a
respectable life").

From the mid-1920s until shortly before her death
Meysel was engaged in social and political themes.

In 2004, aged 94, she died of heart failure at her
home near Hamburg. She was cremated and her ashes
were buried at Ohlsdorf Cemetery, Hamburg.

==External links==
*http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/2004
0710/en_afp/germany_theater_obit_040710213952
*http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0583734/
*http://sueddeutsche.de/panorama/artikel/39/35004/
-- German text 
*http://www.rp-online.de/news/german/2000-0530/mey
sel.html -- older text from 2000 (German)
*http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0583734/bio
*http://www.emma.de/632252258296745.html //
interview in German language (1987)

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