Susan Denberg Bio 
Susan Denberg is an Austrian actress, glamour and nude model. Born Dietlinde Ostrun Zechner on August 2, 1944, in Klagenfurt, Austria, she has also been credited as Ditti, Dietlinde Zechner, and Linda Zechner. Playboy named her its August 1966 Playmate at 21. Her appearance came during the 1960s, as Playboy grew into a major force in American magazine publishing.
Denberg has natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 34-25-35.
Photographers remember Susan Denberg’s centerfold not for a pose but for a look: Peter Gowland’s pages framed a European profile that translated with uncanny ease to American screens. Television came quickly—she turned up as a German girl on the ABC drama 12 O'Clock High and, more permanently, as Magda Kovacs in the Star Trek episode “Mudd’s Women,” a single-turn performance that has kept her name in genre annals long after the credits rolled.
Film work followed in a mixed bag of mainstream and cult: a supporting part in An American Dream preceded her appearance opposite Peter Cushing in Hammer’s Frankenstein Created Woman. Contemporary accounts note that her Austrian accent was judged too pronounced for the soundtrack and the speaking voice was dubbed, a technical choice that left the film to preserve her image while altering its sound.
Hollywood flirted with the whole package—at one point Warner Bros. even staged a contest to find a more American-friendly screen name—while Playboy’s machinery kept her in the public conversation. She advanced to the finals of Playboy’s 1967 Playmate of the Year contest, standing alongside Tish Howard and the eventual winner, Lisa Baker. Behind the publicity, the late 1960s brought distractions and departures that quickly diminished the Hollywood momentum.
By the end of the decade Denberg had receded from the U.S. circuit and returned to Austria. Her brief stretch of visibility—a striking centerfold, a notable television guest turn and a pair of contrasting film credits—remains a compact, easily traced chapter: a European newcomer who touched several corners of mid‑60s popular culture before choosing a quieter life back in Klagenfurt.
