- Together with Heinz Quermann she present the Christmas show -Zwischen Frühstück und Gänsebraten-, from 1959 until 1991, which run in the morning of the 25 December.
- She became one of the first announcers of the Deutscher Fernsehfunk in 1952.
- She was a German Actress, news presenter, dancer and entertainer.
- She entertained many fans with her leading role in the Tragi-comedy television series Maxe Baumann which ran between 1976 and 1982.
- Margot Ebert grew up in the great northern port city of Hamburg, but her first stage engagement took place in Erfurt.
- She took roles in various popular television dramas and was several times voted a "Television favourite" by viewers in the annual "Television favourites" poll.
- Her annual appearances co-hosting the two-hour Christmas Television song-and-dance extravaganza "Zwischen Frühstück und Gänsebraten" ("Between Breakfast(-time) and roast goose"), which was screened between 11.00 and 13.00 on the first day of Christmas, are remembered with particular affection. She co-hosted the show every year between 1957 and 1991, except in 1984, in partnership with Heinz Quermann.
- Her annual appearances co-hosting the two-hour Christmas Television song-and-dance extravaganza "Zwischen Frühstück und Gänsebraten" was the most enduring entertainment program (1957 - 1991) on West and East German television, and no one would have wished it hadn't been more than the two presenters. From their early thirties to retirement age, they had to stand next to each other once a year and host this matinee, even though the relationship between the two was bad and never got any better.
- In 1952 she became one of the first presenters on her new country's recently founded DFF (National Television Broadcaster), working on numerous broadcasts from the purpose-built Adlershof television centre.
- Margot Ebert was married to the actor Wilfried Ortmann until he died in 1994. She continued to live in Berlin till June 2009 when she unexpectedly took her own life with an overdose of pills.
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