Margarete Haagen (29 November 1889 – 19 November 1966) was a German

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and

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. Haagen appeared in over a hundred films during her career, generally in character roles. She specialised in playing good-natured elderly ladies. Following the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

, she appeared in several rubble films, such as ''

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'' (1947).Ó Dochartaigh & Schönfeld p.121 During the 1950s, she often appeared in

heimatfilm ' (, German for "homeland-films"; German singular: ') were films of a genre popular in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. ''Heimat'' can be translated as "home" (in the geographic sense), "hometown" or "homela ...

and

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Partial filmography

References

Bibliography

* Ó Dochartaigh, Pól & Schönfeld, Christiane. ''Representing the Good German in Literature and Culture After 1945: Altruism and Moral Ambiguity''. Camden House, 2013. * Shandley, Robert. ''Rubble Films: German Cinema in the Shadow of the Third Reich''. Temple University Press, 2010.

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* 1889 births 1966 deaths German film actresses German stage actresses Actors from Nuremberg 20th-century German actresses {{Germany-film-actor-stub