Addi Adametz

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Adele "Addi" Adametz (born April 17, 1921 , in Lauterbach , Czechoslovakia ) is a former German actress of Czech origin .

Life

Addi Adametz, born in the Zwittau district as the daughter of a senior teacher, began studying medicine in Wroclaw after graduating from high school during the Second World War , which she broke off after three semesters. At the end of the war in 1945 she turned to acting and took lessons from Elisabeth Flickenschildt . In the same year she began to play theater in Berlin .

Her first stage station was the Schloßparktheater, founded by Boleslaw Barlog immediately after the end of the war . There she worked in the season 1945/46, first in the comedy Hokuspokus by Curt Goetz (premiere: November 1945). She also appeared in A Game of Love for Death after Romain Rolland (premiere: December 1945) and in As You Like It (premiere: April 1946, as shepherdess Phoebe, with Hildegard Knef , Gudrun Genest and Hans Söhnker as partners). In April 1947 she played Luise Hilse in Gerhart Hauptmann Die Weber at the Hebbeltheater in the first performance of the play in Berlin after the Second World War. In June 1947 she worked at the Hebbeltheater in the premiere and a total of eight performances of the play Ein Punkt in der Welt by Alexander Nikolajewitsch Afinogenow . In 1949 she was portrayed by Gustav Seitz . In 1952 she appeared in the House of Culture of the Soviet Union in Berlin in cabal and stage , a vaudeville in 4 pictures (German adaptation: Johannes von Guenther ).

This was followed by stage engagements in Frankfurt am Main (1959 at the Kleiner Theater im Zoo ), Düsseldorf and Munich , where she could be seen at the Kammerspiele there. In August Everding's highly acclaimed staging of the Grabbe play Napoleon or Die Hundred Days , which premiered in June 1967 at the Ruhr Festival in Recklinghausen , Adametz played two smaller roles: Luise and the market woman La Gueule. Later Addi Adametz worked as a freelancer.

She made her film debut in August 1946 in Zugvögel , directed by Rolf Meyer . In 1948 she stood in front of the camera as Hanna in Anonymous Letters . Further appearances followed in films such as Uli - The young seafarer (1950), The beautiful Tölzerin (1952), Der Herrgottschnitzer von Ammergau (1952; as dairymaid Liesl) and The sun from St. Moritz . In the 1950s she also starred in several then very successful fairy tale films . She embodied imperious roles in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1955; as the Evil Queen) and as widow Berta in Frau Holle (1961).

In a television version of the Hauptmann play Und Pippa tanzt! Directed by Fritz Umgelter . , which was broadcast on Bavarian television in 1961 , she played the second female role in the play, the waitress in the inn Wende's tavern. Her best-known series include Salto Mortale (1969) and A Very Ordinary Story from 1975. She also made small appearances in Tatort episodes. Addi Adametz appeared as a guest in several crime series such as Der Kommissar (1971) and Derrick (1976 and 1984, as a toilet lady and landlady at the side of Doris Kunstmann and Sissy Höfferer ). As Adametz's last film appearance, the IMDb performed an episode role as Baroness von Degenwald in the German family series Forsthaus Falkenau (1993).

Addi Adametz also worked intensively as a radio play speaker and occasionally as a voice actress .

Adametz lived in Munich for many years . In 1994 she ended her acting career after 47 years. She herself said that she thinks it is funny to end her career exactly 47 years after her first film Migratory Birds from 1947. She withdrew into her private life and spent her old age in her home town of Lauterbach.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 1: A-Heck. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1960, DNB 451560736 , p. 5.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Proof of parentage from the Reich Chamber of Culture for the actress Adele (Addi) Adametz (* Lauterbach 1921) in Bad Doberan. Hans Wendt's Uckermark Archive / 074. Retrieved October 10, 2016
  2. ^ Boleslaw Barlog: Theater, lifelong . Universitats Verlag 1981. Pages 76, 373. Excerpts from Google Books. Retrieved October 10, 2016
  3. ↑ Hildegard Knef: Stage roles 1944-1947 . Retrieved October 10, 2016
  4. ↑ Walther Karsch: What was, what remained . Berlin Theater 1945-46. Publisher Heinz Ullstein. FUK Berlin 1947. Pages 35, 72. Excerpts from Google Books. Retrieved October 10, 2016
  5. ↑ 24 hour stay ; Performance review. In: DER SPIEGEL of June 28, 1947. Retrieved October 10, 2016
  6. ↑ Gustav Seitz biography and selection of works. Website of the Gustav Seitz Foundation. Retrieved October 10, 2016.
  7. ↑ Klaus Jürgen Seidel (Ed.): The whole world is a stage. August Everding . Piper Publishing House . Munich / Zurich 1988. Page 123/124. ISBN 3-492-03285-0
  8. ↑ Schneewittchen (FRG 1955) ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Plot, cast and scene photos on Märchenfilm.com. Retrieved October 10, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.maerchenfilm.pytalhost.com
  9. ↑ Frau Holle - The fairy tale of Goldmarie and Pechmarie (BRD 1961) ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Plot, cast and scene photos on Märchenfilm.com. Retrieved October 10, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.maerchenfilm.pytalhost.com
  10. ↑ And Pippa is dancing! . Cast and production details. In: Sigfrid Hoefert: International bibliography on the work of Gerhart Hauptmann III. Tape. Erich Schmidt Verlag GmbH & Co KG, 1986. Appendix: TV films, page 122.
  11. ^ Addi Adametz . Photos from Derrick with Addi Adametz. Retrieved October 10, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Adametz, Addi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adametz, Adi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauterbach