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3 unusual facts about Viktor de Kowa


Viktor de Kowa

First married with actress Ursula Grabley (1908-1977) in 1926, de Kowa in 1941 secondly married the Japanese singer and actress Michiko Tanaka (1909-1988).

The film idealized the education of the German youth in National Political Institutes of Education, which earned de Kowa an entry on the Gottbegnadeten list to evade his Wehrmacht conscription, though Minister Goebbels was disillusioned with his directing.

He was born the son of a farmer and engineer in Hohkirch near Görlitz (present-day Przesieczany in Poland), from where his family moved to Seifersdorf near Dippoldiswalde in Saxony in 1908 and to Chemnitz in 1913.


Scandal at the Fledermaus

Scandal at the Fledermaus (German:Skandal um die Fledermaus) is a 1936 German musical film directed by Herbert Selpin and starring Viktor de Kowa, Maria Andergast and Adele Sandrock.

The Thing About Styx

The Thing About Styx (German: Die Sache mit Styx) is a 1942 German comedy crime film directed by Karl Anton and starring Laura Solari, Viktor de Kowa and Margit Symo.


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