Hannelore Elsner

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Hannelore Elsner (* July 26, 1942 as Hannelore Elstner in Burghausen ; † April 21, 2019 in Munich ) was a German actress , voice actress and author . Under the direction of Edgar Reitz and István Szabó , among others, she was one of the most famous character actresses in Germany for decades . In her 60-year career she played in over 220 film and television productions and was also a distinguished theater actress.

Life

Hannelore Elsner and Luzia Braun at the Frankfurt Book Fair with the presentation of their memories Im Überwang - From my life , 2011

Hannelore Elsner was born in Burghausen in 1942 and grew up in nearby Altötting . Her brother, who was two years older, died at the end of the war during a low-flying attack when she was not yet three years old. Her father, an Austrian engineer , died of tuberculosis when she was eight years old. In her childhood and youth, she attended, among other things, the convent school in Neuötting , the monastery boarding school at Neuhaus am Inn of the English ladies and the humanistic grammar school in Burghausen.

Her mother went to Munich with her; she died in 1973. When Elsner was 16 years old, she met the Turkish director Halit Refig, who made it possible for her to train as an actor. At that time, she took German citizenship.

Elsner was married to the actor Gerd Vespermann from 1964 to 1966 and was in a relationship with the director Alf Brustellin from 1973 until his accidental death in 1981 . Her son, who was born in 1981 and works as a photographer, comes from a relationship with director Dieter Wedel . She then had a four-year relationship with the film producer Bernd Eichinger . In 1993 she married the theater dramaturge and publishing director Uwe B. Carstensen . That marriage ended in divorce in 2000. She then lived with Günter Blamberger , a professor of German studies, until the beginning of 2002 .

For Elsner's 70th birthday on July 26, 2012, Das Erste showed a 45-minute portrait on July 18, 2012 as part of the series Germany, your artists .

On May 19, 2011 Elsner published her memoirs under the title Im Exuberance - From my life with the accompanying audio book at the Cologne publishing house Kiepenheuer & Witsch .

Hannelore Elsner, who last lived in Munich and Frankfurt am Main , died on April 21, 2019 at the age of 76 in a Munich hospital from a five-year-old breast cancer , which later metastasized to the stomach and other organs . Her urn was buried in the Burghausen cemetery.

Acting career

Education and early theater work

After Elsner completed her acting training in Munich, she began her career at theaters in Cologne , Munich and Berlin . In 1962 she was seen in one of the most popular folk plays from the Millowitsch Theater in Cologne . Here she played alongside Peter René Körner , Willy Millowitsch and Elsa Scholten in Aunt Jutta from Calcutta . First theater engagements she had in 1964 on the little comedy Munich , where in 1964 in the comedy Beautiful stories with dad and mom of Alfonso Paso and 1966 in a daughter of Curth Flatow alongside Georg Thomalla played. At the Münchner Kammerspiele she was the first to be seen naked at the Kammerspiele as Ala in Dieter Giesing's production of Slawomir Mrozek's Tango (1966, with Maria Nicklisch and Helmut Griem as partners). Elsner also made a guest appearance at the Komödie Berlin in the play A handful of nettles by Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon.

movie theater

Hannelore Elsner made her film debut at the age of 17 as a partner at Freddy Quinn's side in Freddy Under Strange Stars (1959). In the film drama Die Endlose Nacht (1963) she played the role of an attractive, penniless starlet. In the 1960s and 70s she appeared increasingly in entertainment films, for example alongside Beppo Brem in Allotria in Zell am See (1963), alongside Hansi Kraus in Die Lümmel von der Erste Bank (1967), with Peter Alexander in To hell with the Penne (1968) and in Pepe, the Paukerschreck (1969) and with Georg Thomalla in Hurray, we're bachelors again! (1971).

In the 1970s Elsner took on more demanding roles and was able to establish herself as a sought-after character actress in the following years. In 1970 she was seen as Susan in Wolfgang Staudte's crime comedy The Gentlemen with the White Waistcoat at the side of Mario Adorf and Martin Held . In 1973 she was seen in the DEFA film From the life of a good-for-nothing in the role of a countess, where she was the first West German actress in a film by the East German DEFA after the Wall was built. In the same year she starred in the feature film Die Reise nach Wien (1973) directed by Edgar Reitz, alongside Elke Sommer as Marga Kroeber, whose husband is fighting at the front . In Alf Brustellin's drama Berlinger (1975), Elsner played a double role as the first and new life partner of the title character Lukas Berlinger ( Martin Benrath ). In 1977 she was seen in the Theodor Fontane film adaptation of Grete Minde in the role of Trud Minde, wife of the half-brother of the title role Grete Minde ( Katerina Jacob ). She had another leading role under Edgar Reitz as the wife of Anna Dorothea Fink of the "Schneider von Ulm" in the film Der Schneider von Ulm about the inventor and aviation pioneer Albrecht Ludwig Berblinger (played by Tilo Prückner ). In 1985 Hannelore Elsner took on the title role in the film drama Marie Ward - Between Gallows and Glory , which portrays the life of the devout Catholic and religious sister Maria Ward . Here she was seen alongside well-known actors of the time such as Irm Hermann , Mario Adorf, Bernhard Wicki , Hans Quest , Anton Diffring and Mathieu Carrière .

Elsner celebrated her greatest success after a fifteen-year break when she returned to the big screen. The role of the suicidal writer Hanna Flanders in Oskar Roehler's feature film The Untouchable earned her the German Film Prize , the German Critics' Prize and the Bavarian Film Prize in 2000 . In 2003 she won the German Film Prize again for her role in Oliver Hirschbiegel's My Last Film , where she played an aging actress. In the same year she was one of the founding members of the German Film Academy .

The Berlin filmmaker Rudolf Thome cast her in the leading role in his trilogy Time Travel . In Red and Blue (2003) she played the architect Barbara Bärenklau, in Woman drives, man sleeps (2004) she was the dentist Dr. Sue Süssmilch and in Rauchzeichen (2006) she played the landlady Annabella Silberstein at the side of Adriana Altaras . In the comedy film Alles auf Zucker! (2004) she played Marlene, the wife of the former GDR sports reporter Jaeckie Zucker ( Henry Hübchen ).

In the film drama Cherry Blossoms - Hanami (2008) she was seen in the role of Trudi Angermeier, who after a medical examination learns that her husband is seriously ill and eventually dies while on vacation together in the Baltic Sea . In the biopic Times Change You (2010) by the musician Bushido , she took on the role of his mother. From 2010 to 2013 she played the director Theobald in the films around Hanni & Nanni . In Das Blaue vom Himmel (2011) she starred alongside Juliane Köhler and David Kross in the leading role of the dementia patient Marga Baumanis. In Marcus H. Rosenmüller's feature film Wer's Glaubt, wird selig (2012) she played an imperious mother-in-law who is to be canonized after her sudden death. In the tragic comedy Auf das Leben! From 2014 she was directed by Uwe Jansons in the role of a lonely revue singer who was lonely in old age and severely traumatized by the persecution of the Jews , who gained new courage through her friendship with a young man suffering from MS . In Lars Kraume's family festival (2015), she played the first wife of the famous pianist Hannes Westhoff ( Günther Maria Halmer ), a “drink-addicted grande dame”. In the German-Austrian-French feature film Hanna's Sleeping Dogs (theatrical release: June 2016), which is based on the autobiographical novel by the Austrian author Elisabeth Escher , she played the role of the blind Ruth Eberth, whose young granddaughter Hanna does not want to deny her Jewish identity.

In the German-Czech production The Great Rudolph , a fictional film satire about the life of the fashion designer Rudolph Moshammer , who died in 2005 , she played Moshammer's mother Else. In the comedy 100 Things (theatrical release: December 6, 2018) Elsner was at the side of Wolfgang Stumph Renate Konaske, the film mother of the main character Paul ( Florian David Fitz ). On March 7, 2019 , the sequel to the film drama Cherry Blossoms - Hanami from 2008, Elsner's last completed film , started with Cherry Blossoms & Demons . She can be seen again in flashback scenes in the role of the dead Trudi Angermeier.

Television work

From the 1960s Elsner played in numerous television series , including in some episodes of the crime series Das Kriminalmuseum . In 1971 she played the role of Sascha in the ZDF crime television play Iwanow by Oswald Döpke , shot after the play of the same name by Anton Chekhov . This representation earned her the Golden Camera in 1972 .

In 1974 she took over the title role of the attractive innkeeper of French origin in the 13-part ZDF series Die Schöne Marianne . In 1986 she took on the role of Charlie in Somehow and Anyway . In the successful ZDF series Die Schwarzwaldklinik , she was the lover of Professor Brinkmann ( Klausjürgen Wussow ), Maria Rotenburg. She took on other serial roles in 1988 in Lorentz and Sons and in 1989 in With Body and Soul as community nurse Sophie Lieberman.

From 1994 to 2006 she embodied the detective chief inspector Lea Sommer in the ARD television crime series Die Kommissarin, who investigated a total of 66 episodes in Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg . For her portrayal there she was awarded the " Telestar " in 1995 as "Best Actress in a Series" .

In the television film Andrea and Marie (first broadcast: January 1998) she took on one of the leading female roles alongside Iris Berben as the art teacher Andrea. In the ARD film drama at the end of the season (first broadcast: November 2001) by Stefan Krohmer , she played Waltraut, the cancer patient , whose daughter Klarissa ( Anneke Kim Sarnau ) wants to take care of her and accompany her as she dies. Directed by Oskar Roehler, in the television film Fahr zur Hölle, Sister! a leading role in which she played the role of Rita, who is held responsible for the accident of her sister portrayed by Iris Berben. She also stood in front of the camera for several novel adaptations . In the novel based on Christian Pfannenschmidt's Der Seerosenteich (first broadcast: February 2003), she took on the role of the fashion designer, Doll Almond. In Die Rosenzüchterin (first broadcast: November 2004) based on the novel of the same name by Charlotte Link , she was seen in the lead role of Beatrice Shaye, who is said to have murdered her own mother Helene Feldmann. In the Dostoyevsky film adaptation of The Gambler (first broadcast: June 2005), she embodied the role of the attractive, wealthy Polina Sieveking. In the melodrama Mein Herz in Afrika (first broadcast: November 2007) she was at the side of Tanja Wedhorn in the second female lead as Agnes Patterson, a manager of a safari park in South Africa who has a secret with her. In the ARD two-part series The Last Patriarch (first broadcast: September 2010) she was next to Mario Adorf as an idiosyncratic artist Ruth, the childhood sweetheart of the “last patriarch”. In the fairy tale film Sleeping Beauty (first broadcast: December 2009) she played the evil 13th fairy Maruna, in Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten (first broadcast: January 2010) she gave the cat her voice.

In the ZDF television crime thriller Commissioner Lucas - In the end must be happiness (first broadcast: April 2011), she played the role of the pub owner Nadja Schumann, who can be seen as a prostitute on the side. In the ARD melodrama Liebe am Fjord - Zwei Sommer (first broadcast: October 2013) she took on the lead role of Johanna Claesen, who worked as a postman on Norway's west coast after a failed marriage. In the ARD television film Special Severity of Guilt (first broadcast: November 2014), she was seen in the role of Agnes Barner, who conceals from her son that he is not her biological child. In the ZDF production Ein Sommer im Burgenland (first broadcast: February 2015) she played a Hungarian from a Roma family, for whom her trip to Burgenland becomes a journey into her own past. In Matti Geschonneck's A Great Awakening (first broadcast: November 2015), she played the ex-wife Ella of Holm Hardenberg ( Matthias Habich ) , a former development worker with cancer and willing to die .

In January 2017 Elsner was in the television tragic comedy The Diva, Thailand and Us! to see in the lead role; she played the 72-year-old Anneliese Behrens, who has to be looked after by her family after a cancer diagnosis . She had a similar role in the tragic comedy Ferien vom Leben (first broadcast: September 2017), where she played the artist Lilo Rosenberg, who is confronted with a brain tumor diagnosis. In the television film Club der einsamen Herzen (first broadcast: June 8, 2019), which was shot in summer 2018, she played alongside Jutta Speidel and Uschi Glas, one of three childhood friends who had been silent for several years and who meet again and open a dance café would like. Already seriously ill, she last stood in front of the camera in March 2019 with Long Live the Queen as the mother of a sales channel presenter waiting for a donor kidney for another ARD tragicomedy. She died before filming was finished. At the end of August 2019 it was announced that the five actresses Iris Berben , Hannelore Hoger , Eva Mattes , Gisela Schneeberger and Judy Winter are completing their roles and the film will thus be completed.

Hannelore Elsner worked in several films in the Tatort television series from 1983 onwards . In the Southwest Radio produced a result Peggy afraid (Air Date: May 1983), she took over in the third case, the detective chief Commissioner Hanne Wiegand ( Karin Anselm 's role) of the eponymous photo model Peggy Karoly, resulting in the killer ( Hans-Georg Panczak ) her friend Natasha ( Ute Christensen ) in love. In the episode Schicki-Micki (first broadcast: December 1985) she was seen alongside Felix von Manteuffel as journalist Vera Jansen. In the NDR crime scene episode Death in the Elephant House (first broadcast: April 1987) she played Dr. Christine Lohnert, who has a relationship with Rolf Bergmann ( Raimund Harmstorf ), the inspector of the Hagenbeck zoo who was later found dead in the elephant enclosure . In the first Tatort episode on Swiss television Howalds Fall (first broadcast in April 1990), she was seen in the role of Eva Wirz. In addition to Günter Bothur , she stood in front of the camera as Gila Abt in the HR crime scene Renis Tod (first broadcast: January 1993). Elsner's last completed television work is also a Tatort episode on Hessischer Rundfunk with the episode title Die Guten und die Böse , which premiered on April 19, 2020 - one year after Elsner's death. In the case of the Frankfurt investigator duo Janneke and Brix, she plays the role of the now retired Commissioner Elsa Bronski, who was never able to solve a rape case that was dealt with many years ago.

Speaker activities and awards

Hannelore Elsner at the Hessian Film Prize 2012

Elsner also worked as a voice actress and borrowed z. B. Liza Minnelli ( inter alia in Cabaret and Pookie ) and Fanny Ardant ( 8 women ) her voice. In addition, she held several readings and worked on various audio books, such as Agatha Christie's Die Mausefalle in 1996 or in the Rilke project of the composer and producer team Schönherz & Fleer , which set the works of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke to music, which was published from March 2001 to November 2015 by Nina Hagen , Xavier Naidoo , Mario Adorf , Ben Becker and the opera singer Montserrat Caballé . In 2006 she was with her recording of Colette -Romans Chérie with the Prize of the German Record Critics' Award. On December 2, 2017, she read the annual Advent story in the television show The Advent Festival of 100,000 Lights , moderated by Florian Silbereisen .

Hannelore Elsner has received several awards in the course of her artistic career. In 1972 she received the Golden Camera . In 1991 she received the Silver Nymph at the Monte Carlo TV Festival for the title role in Hartmut Griesmayr's tragic love story Elsa , set in the Georgian civil war . In 1997 Elsner was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . In 2000 she was awarded the German Film Prize , the Prize of the German Film Critics and the Bavarian Film Prize for her role in The Untouchables . In 2002 she received the Adolf Grimme Prize together with Daniel Nocke , Stefan Krohmer and Anneke Kim Sarnau for her acting performance at the end of the season .

On May 19, 2006 she received the Bavarian TV Prize for her life's work. In July 2008 she was honored with the Bavarian Order of Merit in Munich . As part of a gala event in Munich's Prinzregententheater , the Bavarian Film Prize 2010 was awarded on January 14, 2011 , when the Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer presented Elsner with the coveted “Pierrot” porcelain figure as an honorary award for her life's work. In 2015 she was awarded the Romy in the category Most Popular Actress Cinema / TV Film at the Vienna Hofburg .

In memory of Hannelore Elsner, the Fünf Seen Filmfestival has been awarding the Hannelore Elsner Prize for important acting since 2019 . The first award winner is Barbara Auer .

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

watch TV

Prizes and awards

Hannelore Elsner with Leonhard R. Müller at the Askania Award , 2016

Hannelore Elsner Prize ( Five Lakes Film Festival | Best Acting Art)

Audiobooks (selection)

memories

literature

  • Alice Schwarzer : Hannelore Elsner, actress. In: Alice Schwarzer portrays role models and idols. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2003, ISBN 978-3-462-03341-0 , pp. 96-107 (first published in EMMA 2/2000).
  • Albert Langen : Langen Müller's current actor lexicon. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Georg Müller Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1986, p. 216, ISBN 3-7844-2058-3 .

Web links

Commons : Hannelore Elsner  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hannelore Elsner is dead - actress loses battle with cancer. In: focus.de. April 24, 2019, accessed April 24, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Actress Hannelore Elsner is dead on April 23, 2019. In: welt.de , accessed on April 23, 2019.
  3. ↑ Peter Körte: The Touchable (Obituary for Hannelore Elsner). In: Frankfurter Allgemeine (Feuilleton), April 23, 2019.
  4. ↑ Tobias Kniebe: Full of vital energy and elegance. Obituary for Hannelore Elsner. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 23, 2019.
  5. ↑ Actress: Hannelore Elsner is dead . In: Spiegel Online . April 23, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed April 23, 2019]).
  6. ^ WORLD: Actress Hannelore Elsner died . April 23, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed April 23, 2019]).
  7. ^ Film and television star : Actress Hannelore Elsner has died . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed April 23, 2019]).
  8. ↑ In conversation: Hannelore Elsner - An abandonment in the heart in: Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 22, 2011; Retrieved December 9, 2016.
  9. ↑ Hannelore Elsner speaks: “I feel very free today” Conversation with Alice Schwarzer from March 1, 2000 in: Emma ; accessed on April 23, 2019.
  10. ↑ Hannelore Elsner died at beta.blickpunktfilm.de on April 23, 2019.
  11. ↑ 1942–2019: Hannelore Elsner is dead orf.at, April 23, 2019, accessed April 23, 2019.
  12. ↑ merkur.de: With pumps and pistol May 19, 2009, accessed April 23, 2019.
  13. ↑ Bernd Eichinger - The women of his life from January 26, 2011. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung .
  14. ↑ Prof. Blamberger is gone - Hannelore Elsner solo from October 1, 2002.
  15. ^ Hannelore Elsner: In exuberance. From my life at the publishing house Kiepenheuer & Witsch .
  16. ↑ years Elsner suffered from breast cancer, "knew Hannelore as she stood to" on May 2, 2019. In: welt.de .
  17. ↑ "Actress Hannelore Elsner was buried in close family and friends on Thursday in her native Burghausen (Altötting district). The girl who died on April 21 at the age of 76 finds her final resting place in the family grave." of June 27, 2019. In: Burghauser Anzeiger .
  18. ^ The grave of Hannelore Elsner. In: knerger.de. Klaus Nerger, accessed on November 2, 2019 .
  19. ^ Hannelore Elsner . Interview by Serge Debrebant in: Süddeutsche Zeitung (issue 08/2008)
  20. ↑ Lars Kraume's “Family Festival”: Mama is once again full of stars . Movie review. In: SPIEGEL online from October 13, 2015. Accessed December 30, 2016.
  21. ↑ Prominent family ties from December 6, 2018. In: weltexpresso.de .
  22. ^ Collaboration on "Cherry Blossoms": Touching obituary by Doris Dörrie on Hannelore Elsner In: abendzeitung-muenchen.de from April 25, 2019. Accessed on May 1, 2019.
  23. ↑ Classics of the German television game: Iwanow (1971) at krimiserien.heimat.eu; accessed on May 1, 2019.
  24. ↑ Hannelore Elsner's last film will be completed on the Das Erste website
  25. ↑ Hannelore Elsner apparently died of cancer on April 26, 2019. In: Morgenpost.de .
  26. ↑ The last "Tatort" with Hannelore Elsner runs a year after her death on April 26, 2019. In: Focus.de .
  27. ↑ Five Lakes Film Festival awards the Elsner Prize . Article dated June 3, 2019, accessed June 14, 2019.
  28. ^ Hannelore Elsner Prize to Barbara Auer . Article dated June 13, 2019, accessed June 14, 2019.
  29. ↑ Hannelore Elsner Acting Prize goes to Nina Hoss
personal data
SURNAME Elsner, Hannelore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elstner, Hannelore (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, voice actress and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Burghausen
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 2019
Place of death Munich