Agnes Fink

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Agnes Fink (born December 14, 1919 in Frankfurt am Main ; † October 28, 1994 in Munich ) was a German-Swiss actress .

Life

Agnes Fink began acting training at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt in 1938 . She was denied graduation from this conservatory on the grounds of lack of talent. Nevertheless, she made her theatrical debut in Heidelberg that same year . A four-year engagement in Leipzig followed . In 1944 she became a member of the ensemble at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich. On February 24, 1945, she married the Swiss actor and director Bernhard Wicki , with whom she performed together in Zurich from 1945. Further stages were Stuttgart , Hamburg , Berlin and the Ruhr Festival in Recklinghausen .

In 1954 Agnes Fink made her feature film debut with a small role alongside Curd Jürgens in the production prisoners of love . Two years later she got her first television role in the Sartre film The Dirty Hands . In her rare film appearances, Agnes Fink embodied character roles with great depth. She starred alongside Giulietta Masina in the films Jons and Erdme (1959) and Das Kunstseidene Mädchen (1960), directed by Hans W. Geißendörfer in Sternsteinhof (1976) and directed by Margarethe von Trotta in the films Schwestern or Die Balance des Glücks (1979) and Heller Wahn (1983). In addition, she also showed acting breadth in guest appearances in television series such as Der Kommissar , Derrick , Der Alte and the Tatort series. As the odd mother-in-law of Robert Atzorn in the ZDF family series Happy Divorce ... she was also able to show her comedic side. Agnes Fink has received several awards for her artistic achievements, including the Federal Cross of Merit . She played her last role in 1990 in the two-part television film Marleneken , directed by Karin Brandauer .

In addition, Agnes Fink lent a voice actress her distinctive voice prominent colleagues such as Katharine Hepburn ( Suddenly, Last Summer ), Ellen Burstyn ( The Exorcist ) and Joan Fontaine (in Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca ).

Bernhard Wicki

Agnes Fink often played under the direction of her husband Bernhard Wicki , for example in Karpf's career (1971), alongside Klaus Maria Brandauer in the internationally acclaimed film Das Spinnennetz and with Helmut Qualtinger as his wife in The False Weight (1971; based on Joseph Roth ) . In 1968, Agnes Fink and Wicki even appeared together in front of the camera for the television film Graf Öderland (based on Max Frisch ) , and Mr. and Mrs. Brandes also appeared as the eponymous couple in Commissioner episode 66 . The marriage with Bernhard Wicki lasted until Agnes Fink's death, although Wicki had lived with Elisabeth Endriss , whom he met in 1977, in recent years .

Agnes Fink died on October 28, 1994 after a long and serious illness in Munich. Her grave is in the Pfarrwerfen cemetery .

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SURNAME Fink, Agnes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1994
Place of death Munich