Ghijs met Heesters in 1928, they married in 1930, and had two daughters Wiesje (1931), nowadays a pianist in Vienna, and Nicole (1937) who became an actress.
Johan Marius Nicolaas Heesters (5 December 1903 – 24 December 2011), known professionally as Johannes Heesters, was a Dutch-German actor of stage, television and film, as well as a vocalist of numerous recordings and performer on the…
Aged 31, Heesters permanently moved to Germany with his wife, Louisa ‘Wiske‘ Ghijs and daughters in 1935. Good friende were the singers/actor Marikka Rökk and Hildegard Knef . During his time there, he performed for Adolf Hitler (did you…
She was born in Potsdam and comes from a family of actors; her parents are Johannes Heesters, a Dutch-German actor, and Louisa Ghijs, a Belgian stage actress. [2 ] Her husband was film director Pit Fischer and one of her children, daughter…
Johannes Heesters. Actor: Die Fledermaus. Growing up as the youngest of four sons of the merchant Jacobus Heesters and his wife Gertruida, née van der Hoevel, he began a commercial apprenticeship after finishing school.