Agathe Poschmann

Agathe Poschmann (left) as "Recha" with Gerda Müller in a production of Lessing's "Nathan the Wise" at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, 1945.

Agathe Poschmann (born January 18, 1922 in Bochum ) is a German theater actress and speaker.

biography

Poschmann completed an acting training at the acting studio of Hans Schultze in Berlin between 1940 and 1942. She made her debut in 1943 as "Anna" in a production of Hermann Bahr's "Die Kinder". This was followed by his first engagement at the Staatliches Schauspielhaus Hamburg (1942-1944) and several at various Berlin theaters such as the Volksbühne (1944-1945), the Deutsches Theater (1945-1947), the Theater am Kurfürstendamm (1947-1948) and from 1948 on Schloßparktheater, the grandstand and the comedy.

Poschmann mostly served the role of the “young lover”. She embodied “Helene” in Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's “When the Young Wine Blooms”, “Recha” in Lessing's “Nathan the Wise”, “Ophelia” in Shakespeare's “Hamlet”, “Ria” in Fritz Denger's “We are called you hope ”, the“ Hermia ”in Shakespeare's“ Midsummer Night's Dream ”, the“ Greens ”in Ibsen's “ Peer Gynt ”, the“ Celia ”in Lope de Vegas “ Whims of Dona Belisa ”, the“ Marie-Josèphe ”in Jean Sarments “ You 106th birthday ”, the“ Alice ”in Curt Goetzens “ Taube in der Hand ”, the“ Amine ”in Goethe's “ Laune des Verliebten ”, the“ Frau Pless ”in Bruckner's “ Fährten ”and the“ Marianne Pahlen ”in Carl Sternheim's "Snob".

In addition, she acted as a spokesperson for various radio productions, where she also mostly interpreted classical stage characters such as B. the "Olivia" in Goethe's "Groß-Kophta" (Berliner Rundfunk 1948), the "Klärchen" in Goethe's "Egmont" (Berliner Rundfunk 1949), the "Juliet" in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" (NWDR 1950) and the "Klara" in Friedrich Hebbel's "Maria Magdalene".

She also worked as a voice actress since the 1940s and lent her voice a. Ba. Heather Angel (" The Traitor "), Danielle Darrieux ("Ruy Blas, a Queen's Lover") and Kim Hunter (" Error in the Hereafter ").

While Agathe Poschmann's artistic focus was on the stage, she was an extremely rare guest in film and television. Her main role in the DEFA crime film Razzia on the side of Paul Bildt deserves a special mention, for which she was interviewed in detail as part of the DEFA cultural film documentary “Der Augenzeuge”.

Filmography (selection)

• 1947: raid

Radio plays

• 1956: Herbert Burgmüller / Manfred Schäffer : His song was German (The young woman Lortzing) - Director: Hans Busse (radio play - Radio of the GDR )

swell

1. ↑ Kürschner's biographical theater manual. P. 565.
2. ↑ defa-stiftung.de ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2010 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. 

literature

• Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 565.

Web links

Commons : Agathe Poschmann  - Collection of Images

• Agathe Poschmann in theInternet Movie Database(English)