Carola Höhn (actress)

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Carola Höhn , also Carola Verdi , real name Karoline Minna Höhn , (born January 30, 1910 in Geestemünde , † November 8, 2005 in Grünwald ) was a German actress and voice actress .

Life

Höhn was born as the daughter of a Swabian merchant and innkeeper. After graduating from school, she first worked in a clothing store. At the end of the 1920s she moved to Berlin, where she took acting lessons from Julia Serda and Hans Junkermann . In 1933 she made her stage debut and played at the Schlosspark Theater in the Steglitz district.

After Carola Höhn had applied to UFA , she was hired for the film. She first appeared on the screen in 1929 in From a Bachelor's Diary . The film Ferien vom Ich (1934) finally helped her breakthrough. In addition to her work in the film studios, she, who was sponsored by Joseph Goebbels, was always present on the theater stage. In 1941 Carola Höhn married Arved Crüger, Major in the Air Force and Knight's Cross . Crüger fell on March 22, 1942. As a commodore of Kampfgeschwader 77 , he was shot down during a mission over the island of Malta in the Mediterranean. Their son Arved-Michael was born in June of the same year.

After the Second World War , Carola Höhn worked temporarily as a voice actress. She lent her voice u. a. Katharine Hepburn ( the woman one speaks of ), Ava Gardner ( Carlotta secret operation ), Maureen O'Hara ( The Hunchback of Notre Dame ), Hedy Lamarr ( Samson and Delilah ) and Carsta Löck in the theatrical versions around Michel from Lönneberga . Löck himself could be heard in the television series.

In 1954 her first post-war film to be highlighted was Heideschulmeister Uwe Karsten , in which she acted as Barbara Rütting's mother . Carola Höhn worked in a total of over sixty films until the 1970s. In later years she was also seen more frequently on television. In addition to episode roles in the crime series Derrick , she played the mother-in-law of Dr. Günter Pfitzmann in the successful early evening series Praxis Bülowbogen from 1987 to 1996 . Brockmann .

In 1987 Carola Höhn received the Bavarian Film Prize , in 1990 she was awarded the Gold Filmband for her many years of outstanding work in German film. The actress successfully ran a fashion salon on the side and wrote numerous articles for the magazine Film und Frau . She died at the age of 95 in a nursing home in Grünwald near Munich and was buried in the Grünwald forest cemetery.

Filmography

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Carola Höhn's urn grave at the Grünwald forest cemetery
  • 1965: A phone call for Mister Clark
  • 1969: A Summer with Nicole (TV Series)
  • 1970: The Case Next Door (TV Series)
  • 1977: Derrick (Follow Neck in the Loop )
  • 1978: SOKO 5113 (TV series)
  • 1978: Derrick (following Lissa's father )
  • 1979: Derrick (episode The Third Victim )
  • 1980: Derrick (Follow Pricker )
  • 1981: A Case for Two (TV series)
  • 1983: Contact please ... (TV series)
  • 1987–1996: Bülowbogen practice
  • 1990: Full Beside (TV series)
  • 1992: Happy Journey - Singapore and Borneo (TV series)
  • 1993: A Man on the Train (TV series)
  • 1994: In love, engaged, married (TV series)

Theater (selection)

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Farewell: Carola Höhn (1910–2005) - Obituary by Hanns-Georg Rodek, Die Welt, November 11, 2005

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personal data
SURNAME Höhn, Carola
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Verdi, Carola; Höhn, Karoline Minna (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Geestemünde
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 2005
Place of death Grünwald