Born 1934 in Költschen, German actress and singer Eva-Maria Hagen made her film debut in Kurt Maetzig’s comedy Don’t Forget My Little Traudel in 1957. Her film career led to her being called the “Brigitte Bardot of the GDR”. From 1958, she acted at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. At the Landestheater Dessau, she had continued success as the flower girl Eliza in the musical My Fair Lady.
Hagen built up a second career as a chanson singer in addition to film and theater. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, she made films in Babelsberg again, appeared on stage as Medea or Mother Courage or sang Brecht songs. She painted in oil and went on reading tours with her own books.
Hagen died in 2022 in Hamburg, at the age of 87. Take a look at these fabulous photos to see the beauty of young Eva-Maria Hagen in the 1950s and 1960s.
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