Inge von Wangenheim

Ingeborg von Wangenheim
Inge von Wangenheim during the 1930s in Moscow
Born
Ingeborg Franke

(1912-07-01)1 July 1912
Died6 April 1993(1993-04-06) (aged 80)
Weimar, Thuringia, Germany
NationalityGerman
Soviet Union (since 1937)
Occupation(s)Actress
writer
Political partyKPD
SED
Spouse
(m. 1931; div. 1954)
Children4, including Friedel

Ingeborg "Inge" von Wangenheim (née Franke; 1 July 1912 – 6 April 1993) was a German actress who married actor Gustav Von Wangenheim and joined the Communist Party. After the war, she became a successful East German writer.

She also had a talent for photography: she left an intriguing photographic archive from the years she spent living in Moscow during the 1930s and 40s. The archive is the more remarkable because it concerns a time and places where, for both economic and political reasons, very few people would have had access to photographic equipment.