Christine Lander

Marie Hansen was the daughter, and only child, of Botilde Maasbol and Thorkild Hansen. Her parents managed a dairy in Dybbol, Denmark. At the outbreak of WWII, and the subsequent occupation of Denmark, she was in England on a study visit, and could not return to Denmark. Supposedly she was already at that time pursuing a career in acting. During the war she was a speaker on BBC's broadcasts to Denmark. She used the working name Kjestine. The name is taken after one of her mother's relatives, Kjestine Terp - or so it is said. Kjestine had died young, in 1938. Supposedly the first part of Marie's artist's name - Christine Lander - also derives from Kjestine. In England, Marie met and married a spaniyard, who had fought in the Spanish Civil war and now lived in excile. After the war, they were able to settle in Spain. Marie did not adapt well to the life as a housewife in Spain. Eventually she divorced and returned to England, where she continued her acting carreer. In her old age she lived in Sonderborg, Denmark. She did not have any children.