Christine Laszar

Christine Laszar (19 December 1931 – 17 November 2021) was a German actress. Laszar was born Christine "Christel" Lazarus in Ortelsburg, East Prussia, Prussia, Germany (today Szczytno, Poland). She was educated at the West Berlin Max Reinhardtstageschool and began her career at the Renaissance-Theater (Berlin), the "Die Stachelschweine" and the Munich "Schaubude". She also appeared at the Volksbühne Berlin (East Berlin). In the 1950s, she married Rudolf Schündler (divorced). In 1958, she moved to East Germany and married Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler (the marriage was divorced shortly after). Laszar appeared in several movies of the DEFA. In the early 1970s, she worked at the Deutscher Fernsehfunk and retired for health reasons in the 1980s. Laszar died in Berlin on 17 November 2021, at the age of 89.