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(Jester Helen Nefe)
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| 12 September 24 / 25 |
is born in Vienna, Austria; her father is Herbert Naefe, a truck driver
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| c. 40 |
at age 16, she is off to Berlin to attend Ackermann’s Theater School
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is on stage at the Breslauer Schauspielhaus in Breslau
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is on stage at the Intime Theater in Hamburg
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| 48 |
director Rolf Meyer discovers her for the movies
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gets married and divorced
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marries import businessman Alfred Tauszky, the son of a Hungarian and a cleaning woman, and makes her home in Hamburg, Germany
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| 21 July 50 / 51 |
her daughter, Vivian, is born. She will become a renowned director.
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Tauszky slaps her in public during a reception in Bad Oldesloe
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| June 51 |
when prosecuted for tax evasion, Tauszky flees from Hamburg to Italy. Jester and her little daughter go with him.
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| c. 51-53 |
the Tauszkys make their home in Rome, where her second daughter, Silvia, is born. Finally, Tauszky deserts his family and flees to Caracas, Venezuela.
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| ? |
returns to Germany
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| 50s |
her address is Hamburg 20, Heilwigstrasse 40
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| 54 |
is on the back cover of Film Revue, #1
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| c. 56 |
divorces Tauszky
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| ? |
the press calls her “the German Marilyn Monroe”
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| 56 |
lives in Munich
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| 57 |
while filming La Ragazza della salina in Portoroz, Yugoslavia, she has a fighting scene with fellow actress Isabella Corey. During the scene, she falls and hits the back of her head on a rock. She soon starts getting bad headaches.
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the headaches are followed by temporary paralysis
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| Easter 58 |
her illness vanishes, and she is off to the States for a TV show
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actor Gregory Peck calls her one of the “most attractive and beautiful women in the world”
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| January 59 |
is treated at a Munich hospital
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is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis
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when she becomes ill, her friends desert her
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| 60s |
when the medical bills consume all of her earnings, she retires to live with her mother, in her modest home in Wolfratshausen
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| 64 |
is totally paralyzed and temporarily blind
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| 6 July 67 |
dies at age 42 in Geretsried, near Wolfratshausen, Upper Bavaria, Germany, of multiple sclerosis. Her mother and daughter Vivian are at her side. The obituaries give her age as 37.
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Sources:
Bild, www.IMDb.com, Starpress |
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