Gisela Trowe

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Gisela Trowe with Erwin Geschonneck in the premiere in 1949 in the Deutsches Theater Berlin by Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti

Gisela Trowe (born September 5, 1922 in Dortmund , † April 5, 2010 in Hamburg ) was a German actress and voice actress .

Life

Gisela Trowe grew up as the daughter of a businessman in her hometown. After attending the Goethe City Lyceum, she took private singing and acting lessons during the Second World War , first with Hanns Bogenhardt in Dortmund, later with Saladin Schmitt in Bochum and with Paul Günther in Berlin .

She made her theatrical debut in 1942 (according to other sources: 1943) at the Reussian Theater in Gera as the maid Franziska in Lessing's comedy Minna von Barnhelm . She also appeared there in the comedy Der Meister by Hermann Bahr . From 1946 on, Trowe played primarily on Berlin stages. In the course of her career in Berlin she had engagements at the Hebbel Theater , the Komödie Berlin, the Schlosspark Theater , the Tribüne , the Renaissance Theater , the Theater am Kurfürstendamm and the Deutsches Theater . In November 1949 she played Eva in Bertolt Brecht's play Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti in the opening performance of the newly founded Berlin Ensemble in the house of the Deutsches Theater . 1949/1950 she was a member of the cabaret of comedians in Berlin. Later she played at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna , at the Münchner Kammerspiele and at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg and worked with directors such as Gustaf Gründgens and Giorgio Strehler .

Her stage roles included the title role in Antigone by Jean Anouilh , Madeleine in the play The Terrible Parents by Jean Cocteau , the princess in the fairy tale play The Shadow by Evgeny Black , Glafira in the comedy Wolves and Sheep by Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrowski , Raina in Heroes , Janine in the drama The Gardener of Toulouse by Georg Kaiser and the title role in Ninotschka by Melchior Lengyel .

Between 1948 and 1957 Trowe took on several leading roles in various DEFA films. In Street Acquaintance (1948), directed by Peter Pewas , she played the young girl Erika , who after terrible war experiences plunges inexorably into the vortex of life. In 1948 she shot the DEFA post-war drama Affaire Blum under the direction of Erich Engel , with whom she later also worked for Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti at the Berliner Ensemble . In it she played the bride of the murderer Karlheinz Gabler , who played a decisive role in the clarification of the case. In 1956 she had a role as the French patriot Gervaise in the anti-fascist political film Back then in Paris . Directed by Martin Hellberg , she played a doctor in the 1957 war film Where You Are Going .

Trowe also worked for television from the 1950s , where she participated in the first experimental programs. She became known to the broad television audience in later years through television series such as Our Teacher Doctor Specht with Robert Atzorn , Ein Bayer auf Rügen and Der Landarzt .

Trowe has worked extensively as a voice actress for international stars such as Melina Mercouri , Gina Lollobrigida , Rita Hayworth , Simone Signoret , Anna Magnani and Shelley Winters .

Also in numerous radio plays such as Die Säulen der Erde , Masters of the Universe , Die Drei ??? , TKKG or Hui Buh her voice could be heard. In the story of the castle ghost Hui Buh by Eberhard Alexander-Burgh , she spoke in the very first episode of the mother of Princess Konstantia and several roles in the radio play series Masters of the Universe (Geist von Castle Grayskull / Zoar / Die Zauberin). In 1966 she spoke under the director Otto Düben in the radio play Paul Temple and the Geneva case , the eleventh Paul Temple multi-part , the role of the enigmatic actress and film diva Julia Carrington alongside René Deltgen , Irmgard Först and Günther Ungeheuer .

In 2002 Trowe was honored by the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg with the Biermann-Ratjen Medal for her artistic services to the city of Hamburg.

Her written estate is in the archive of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin.

Private

Gisela Trowe lived in a villa in Hamburg's Harvestehude district until her death . From 1944 to 1964 she was married to the director Thomas Engel . She had two daughters, Angelika († 2013), born in 1944, and Barbara (married Pier), born in 1945, who lives and works as a painter in Hamburg.

Trowe's trademark was her dark voice and red hair.

Filmography

As an actress

As a voice actress

Radio plays

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gisela Trowe Archive Inventory overview on the website of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
personal data
SURNAME Trowe, Gisela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and voice actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 2010
Place of death Hamburg