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Gisela von Collande

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Gisela von Collande
Born
Gisela Huberta Valentine Maria von Mitschke-Collande

(1915-02-05)5 February 1915
Died22 October 1960(1960-10-22) (aged 45)
OccupationActress
Years active1936–1960 (film & TV)

Gisela von Collande (5 February 1915 – 22 October 1960) was a German film actress.[1]

Gisela came from an acting family. She was the sister of the actor and director Volker von Collande. She married the actor Josef Dahmen, with whom she had a daughter Andrea Dahmen. The granddaughter Julia Dahmen also became an actress.

Collande played the role of Trude in the military spy film The Traitor which premiered on September 9, 1936 at the NSDAP Party Convention. She also played roles in Target in the Clouds (1939) and Pour le Mérite (1938), propaganda films for the Luftwaffe.[2]

She was killed in 1960 during a traffic accident.

Selected filmography

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References

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  1. ^ Kreimeier, p. 102.
  2. ^ Klee, Ernst (2007). Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich: wer war was vor und nach 1945. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer. p. 100. ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5.

Bibliography

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  • Kreimeier, Klaus (1999). The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-22069-0.
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