Gitta Lind (17 April 1925 – 9 November 1974) was a German singer and film actress. Lind was born in

Trier Trier ( , ; lb, Tréier ), formerly known in English as Trèves ( ;) and Triers (see also names in other languages), is a city on the banks of the Moselle in Germany. It lies in a valley between low vine-covered hills of red sandstone in the ...

as Rita Maria Gracher. During her first employment as a singer she changed her name to Gitta Lind, a tribute to

Gitta Alpár Gitta Alpár (born Regina Klopfer; 5 February 1903 – 17 February 1991), was a Hungarian-born opera and operetta soprano. Biography Gitta Alpár was born in Budapest, the daughter of a Jewish cantor. At an early age, she commenced the study ...

and Jenny Lind. She was married four times, in her second marriage from 1951 to 1954 to the actor

Joachim Fuchsberger Joachim "Blacky" Fuchsberger (pronounced ; 11 March 1927 – 11 September 2014) was a German actor and television host, best known to a wide German-speaking audience as one of the recurring actors in various Edgar Wallace movies (often a Detecti ...

. She died in

Tutzing Tutzing is a municipality in the district of Starnberg in Bavaria, Germany, on the west bank of the Starnberger See. Just 40 km south-west of Munich and with good views of the Alps, the town was traditionally a favorite vacation spot for thos ...

and was buried in Trier.

Selected filmography

* ''

Hit Parade A hit parade is a ranked list of the most popular recordings at a given point in time, usually determined either by sales or airplay. The term originated in the 1930s; ''Billboard'' magazine published its first music hit parade on January 4, 1936 ...

'' (1953) * ''

Scandal at the Girls' School ''Scandal at the Girls' School'' (german: Skandal im Mädchenpensionat) is a 1953 West German comedy film directed by Erich Kobler and starring Walter Giller, Günther Lüders and Joachim Brennecke.Bock & Bergfelder p. 157 It was made at the Bav ...

'' (1953) * '' The Perfect Couple'' (1954) * '' Music in the Blood'' (1955) * ''

My Wife Makes Music ''My Wife Makes Music'' (german: Meine Frau macht Musik) is an East German musical film directed by Hans Heinrich. It was released in 1958, and sold 6,052,050 tickets. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam. The film's set's were desig ...

'' (1958)

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* * 1925 births 1974 deaths 20th-century German actresses German film actresses People from Trier 20th-century German women singers {{Germany-singer-stub