- Towards the end of her career, she occasionally worked for Austrian television (ORF) in the 1960s.
- She chose Bukovics as the stage name, after her mother's maiden name.
- From November 1944 to the beginning of April 1945, Margarete von Bukovics was imprisoned by the Gestapo in the prison on Landesgerichtsstrasse for making statements against the military ("statements that undermined military power"), where she was released when the Russian army invaded. According to different statements by her sister Adrienne Gessner, Margarete von Bukovics was imprisoned in the Rossau barracks, where she managed to escape with a fellow sufferer before the capitulation.
- At the end of World War II Grete von Bukovics was arrested because of demoralising statements against the Wehrmacht till to the end of the war.
- She only appeared rarely in the film business - her first movie role was for the production "Don Juan" (1919) . It followed the silent movie "Elixiere des Teufels" (1920), again directed by Edmund Löwe.
- Bukovics has occasionally worked as a radio play speaker since the 1930s.
- From 1912 she was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna. She debuted there in June 1912. There she embodied the roles of the "naive" and "sentimental" with an artistic talent "more for harsh than for sweet roles".
- She was born as the daughter of the Austrian master singer and music writer Gustav Geiringer (1856-1946) and his wife, the theater actress Christine von Bukovics (1867-1937), in Altlerchenfeld in the VII district of Vienna (Neubau).
- After an acting and singing education she got an engagement at the Stadttheater Brünn in 1911. In the next year she belonged to the ensemble of the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna, beside it she also appeared in Prague, Baden, Berlin and other theaters in Vienna.
- She grew up in an artistic environment - her mother was the actress Christine von Bukovics, her father the singer Gustav Geiringer - and therefore she also chose an artistic profession.
- Her sister was the actress Adrienne Gessner.
- In August 1950 she made a guest appearance at the Bregenz Festival as the nanny Anne-Marie in Henrik Ibsen's Nora.
- After the Second World War, Margarete von Bukovics, usually under the name Grete Bukovics, (as a guest) returned to the Theater in der Josefstadt (including the 1946/47 season in Once in a Life by William Saroyan, and the 1952/53 season as Miss von Bruun in "Aufruhr im Damenstift " by Axel Breidahl), at the Wiener Volkstheater (1949, in Shaw's Pygmalion) and at the Wiener Bürgertheater (season 1951/52, in Frauen in New York by Clare Boothe). In the 1946/47 season she embodied the role of Madame de Sotenville in the Molière comedy George Dandin in the Little House of the Theater in der Josefstadt. In the 1947/48 season she took over the landlady of the convalescent home in Valentin Katajew's play A Day of Rest at the short-lived "Neues Schauspielhaus Meidling".
- Her last works in front of the camera came into being for television with "Der Tod des Junggesellen" (1968) and "Leni" (1969).
- The actress Grete von Bukovics was born as Margarete Geiringer in Vienna.
- She was the older sister of actress Adrienne Gessner. In the years 1911-13 the sisters were in contact with the famous tenor Enrico Caruso, who was a guest at his Viennese opera performances in their father's house and made music with him.
- Margarete von Bukovics married the Austrian actor Anton Edthofer in February 1919. For Edthofer it was the second marriage. She went to Berlin with him in the early 1920s after Edthofer had been engaged to the Deutsches Schauspielhaus there. In Berlin she continued to play occasionally, but faced stiff competition in her roles. The marriage was divorced again in 1924 after a previous settlement agreement between the spouses.
- After a longer interruption she returned to the big screen with the sound film "Die unruhigen Mädchen/Finale" (1938) directed by Geza von Bolvary.
- She mastered a wide repertoire that included the classics (Shakespeare, Lessing, Kleist), contemporary plays from the turn of the century and the modern age (Schnitzler, Bahr, Ibsen), but also numerous comedies, farces and comedies. She played i.a. Franziska in Minna von Barnhelm, the embroiderer Thecla in Das Mädl aus der Vorstadt (including the 1911/12 and 1912/13 seasons), Käthchen von Heilbronn (1913/14 season), Katharina in Der Ruf des Lebens (1914 season). /15), the niece Betty von Hohenegg in the comedy Im Bunten Rock by Franz von Schönthan (1914/15 season), Elise in The Miser (1916/17 season) and Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew (1916/17 season, as partner of Carl Goetz).She also appeared in the plays Alt-Heidelberg and Die Wildente, as well as u. a. in plays by Franz Molnár (as Elsa in Der Teufel, season 1916/17), Hermann Bahr (Der Star, season 1913/14), Hermann Sudermann (Blumenboot) and several times in works by the playwright Hans Müller (brother of Ernst Lothar, attitude , The Lovely Adrian) on.
- Grete von Bukovics was married with the actor Anton Edthofer.
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