Gwendolyn from Ambesser

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Gwendolyn von Ambesser , actually Gwendolyn von Oesterreich , (born June 4, 1949 in Munich ) is a German actress , director and author .

Life

The daughter of the actor, director and author Axel von Ambesser (actually Axel von Oesterreich) and the actress Inge von Oesterreich-Ambesser (née Flemming) completed an acting training with Hanna Burgwitz and Ernst Fritz Fürbringer and made her debut as a stage actress in 1967 in Aachen . Engagements followed a. in Hamburg , Munich, Karlsruhe , Bonn , Frankfurt am Main , Bad Hersfeld and for various theater tours. She also worked as an assistant director at theaters in Vienna , Zurich, Munich and Berlin .

Since the late 1960s she has also played roles in film and television productions, such as in literary adaptations One Long Day Journey into the Night according to Eugene O'Neill , the second part of the television saga Heimat of Edgar Reitz , directed by her father in Encounter in Autumn , Children's programs like Sesame Street , thrillers like Police Radio calls and family series like Die Schnell Gerdi (with Senta Berger ) or Der Landarzt .

Gwendolyn von Ambesser also works as a journalist and screenwriter. In 1983 she received the Bavarian Film Funding Award for this activity ( An attempt to survive ). In 1984 she wrote the screenplay for his film Zuckerbaby (with Marianne Sägebrecht ) together with Percy Adlon and a year later, also with Adlon, the screenplay for Herschel or Die Musik der Sterne .

Her first book The rats enter the sinking ship about the absurd life and emigration story of the Jewish actor Leo Reuss (1891-1946) was published in 2005. The foreword to the book was written by the actor and author Mario Adorf .

The second magic show booth - the story and stories of a legendary cabaret about the most important post-war German cabaret The show booth appeared a year later.

In April 2011, a biography of her father, written by her, was published under the title Actors you don't touch! With this sentence her grandfather tried to dissuade his son from going to the theater.

At the moment Gwendolyn von Ambesser works mainly as a director. She is senior stage director at the Chambinzky Theater in her current home town of Würzburg .

Works (selection)

Publications

  • " You don't touch actors! An Axel von Ambesser biography ." Verlag Edition AV , Lich / Hessen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86841-045-7
  • Show booth magic - history and stories of a legendary cabaret. Verlag Edition AV, Lich / Hessen 2006, ISBN 3-936049-68-8
  • The rats enter the sinking ship - The absurd life of Leo Reuss. Verlag Edition AV, Lich / Hessen 2005, ISBN 3-936049-47-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Ambesser, Gwendolyn from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Austria, Gwendolyn von (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, director and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich