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Agnes Bernelle (born Agnes Elisabeth Bernauer; 7 March 1923 – 15 February 1999) was a Berlin-born actress and singer, who lived in England for many years, then Ireland. She appeared in over 20 films and also made stage and television appearances.
Agnes Bernelle. Wartime secret agent & cabaret legend, she fled from Berlin in 1936 to the United Kingdom, to become the ‘Black Propaganda’ radio announcer code named ‘Vicki’.
Agnes Bernelle was a singer, actress, cabaret legend, wartime agent and Ireland's oldest punk. Learn about her extraordinary journey from Berlin to Dublin, her collaborations with Brecht, Waits and Costello, and her legacy as a renaissance woman.
Agnes Bernelle was born on 7 March 1923 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress and writer, known for The Good Companions (1957), An Awfully Big Adventure (1995) and Still Life (1999). She was married to Desmond Leslie. She died on 15 February 1999 in Dublin, Ireland.
- Actress, Writer
- March 7, 1923
- Agnes Bernelle
- February 15, 1999
Mar 17, 1999 · Agnes Bernauer (Agnes Bernelle), actress and singer: born Berlin 7 March 1923; married 1945 Desmond Leslie (two sons, one daughter); died Dublin 15 February 1999. More about.
The title of Agnes Bernelle’s cabaret show, Father Lying Dead On The Ironing Board, comes from a song by the pre-war German writer Joachim Ringelnatz, whose lyrics, translated by Miss Bernelle and set to music by Michael Dress, evoke the grotesque half-world familiar from the Brecht/Weill canon, a twilight zone graced by absurd death.
May 24, 2004 · A new show uses puppets to tell the extraordinary story of the late Agnes Bernelle. Tony Clayton-Lea reports. In some ways it's almost as if Agnes Bernelle had never gone away. Those of us who...
