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Ilse Fürstenberg

German actress (1907–1976)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ92518 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ilse Fürstenberg (12 December 1907, in Berlin – 16 December 1976, in Basel) was a German actress, working on stage, screen, television and as voice actress.

Selected filmography

Bibliography

Kosta, Barbara. Willing Seduction: The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich, and Mass Culture.

Editorial summary

“Ilse Fürstenberg” enters the record as german actress (1907–1976). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ilse, Fürstenberg and German can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1907, 1976—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1907-12-12. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ilse, Fürstenberg and German.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Ilse Fürstenberg” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ilse, Fürstenberg and German provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q92518. VIAF identifies the subject as 129436578. The Library of Congress control number is no2010146283. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1907 and 1976.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

Best used for
  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Ilse Fürstenberg”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Ilse Fürstenberg primary sources, Ilse Fürstenberg archive and Ilse research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Ilse Fürstenberg”?
  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
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This entry incorporates text from “Ilse Fürstenberg” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.