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Helga Anders

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Helga Anders (11 January 1948 – 30 March 1986)[1] was an Austrian actress.

She was born Helga Scherz in Innsbruck, to an Austrian father and a German mother, and she grew up in Ruhpolding and Bielefeld after her parents divorced. She made her stage debut at the age of eight. [citation needed]

Anders is best known in Great Britain for her part in the Yugoslav-West German television series The White Horses, and is also remembered for playing several roles in the German TV series Derrick.[citation needed]

Personal life

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She had a daughter, Tatjana Leslie, with the actor Roger Fritz.[citation needed]

She appeared as one of 28 women under the banner We've had abortions! (Wir haben abgetrieben!) on the cover page of the West German magazine Stern on 6 June 1971. In that issue, 374 women publicly stated that they had had pregnancies terminated, which at that time was illegal.[2]

Death

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Her addictions with alcohol and drugs resulted in her death at 38. She died of heart failure in Haar, Bavaria, West Germany.[citation needed]

Selected filmography

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References

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  1. ^ "DER SPIEGEL 15/1986 - Helga Anders". www.spiegel.de. Archived from the original on 2012-03-15.
  2. ^ Deutschland, Stiftung Deutsches Historisches Museum, Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik. "Gerade auf LeMO gesehen: LeMO Objekt: Druckgut Stern "Wir haben abgetrieben!"". www.hdg.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-05-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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