Agnes Windeck

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Agnes Windeck (born March 27, 1888 in Hamburg , † September 28, 1975 in Berlin ; born Agnes Sophie Albertine Windel ) was a German stage, film and television actress and voice actress .

Life

Agnes Sophie Windel, daughter of a Hamburg businessman, began her acting career in 1904 as "Anni Windel." a. the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, the Royal Court Theater Hanover and various stages in Berlin.

As early as 1915 she gave up the job after her marriage, to which she only returned in 1938 after her husband had died. She took up acting again at the Theater der Jugend in Berlin and worked as an acting teacher at the Deutsches Theater until 1945 . a. Klaus Schwarzkopf , Thomas Engel , Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff and Klaus Herm . She continued this work into old age in her apartment in Berlin, to which her own studio was attached.

It first received greater attention in the 1950s with the popular RIAS radio cabaret Die Insulaner in Berlin.

From the end of the 1930s she first played sporadic larger and smaller supporting roles in film. It was not cast more regularly until the 1950s and was soon in great demand: both in Edgar Wallace crime novels such as Der Zinker (1963), The Hunchback of Soho (1966) and The Dog from Blackwood Castle (1967) as well as in cheerful comedies like in the morning at seven the world is still in order (1968) and the gentlemen with the white vest (1969).

She also worked with her concise and recognizable voice as a dubbing and radio play speaker ; Among other things, she dubbed Margaret Rutherford ( 4:50 p.m. from Paddington , Hotel International , the little ones want to go up too ).

On stage she acted as Mrs. Higgins in the German premiere of the musical My Fair Lady in 1961 . In 1967 she played together with Käthe Haack in the crime comedy Two unsuspecting angels . In 1973 she appeared again in a single performance as Mrs. Higgins in the Berlin revival of My Fair Lady ; she replaced Käthe Haack, who fell ill due to an accident, at short notice.

She achieved great popularity with the TV family series The Despicable One (1966–1971), in which she played the role of grandma Köpcke at the side of Inge Meysel .

Honorary grave of Agnes Windeck in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Agnes Windeck established herself as a character actress and became one of the most famous older actresses in Germany. She embodied the type of comical old man , who can be both amiable and annoying. Several major theater, film and television roles brought her nationwide popularity and made her a crowd pleaser.

In May 1975, she suffered injuries from a fall in her Berlin apartment from which she was unable to fully recover. Agnes Windeck died of heart failure on September 28, 1975 at the age of 87 in Berlin .

Her grave is in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend . By resolution of the Berlin Senate , the final resting place of Agnes Windeck (grave location: 18-K-122) has been dedicated as an honorary grave of the State of Berlin since 2004 . The dedication is valid for the usual period of twenty years, but can then be extended.

Filmography

cinemamovies

watch TV

  • 1953: An evening from Rias Berlin
  • 1953: Orient Express: The Red Sash
  • 1958: Greyhound and seal
  • 1958: My lord knows what to do
  • 1959: Good thieves
  • 1960: believe me
  • 1960: Dr. Knock
  • 1960: stop for 20 minutes
  • 1963: My wife Susanne
  • 1964: Court box
  • 1965: Mrs. Cheney's end
  • 1966: Our Pauker (2 episodes)
  • 1966–1971: The incorrigible
  • 1966: 100 years of Kurfürstendamm
  • 1969: Two unsuspecting angels
  • 1970: My friend Harvey
  • 1970: The man who sold the Eiffel Tower
  • 1971: lucky guys
  • 1971: ... and it's called a show
  • 1972: Raven, mushroom and thirteen chairs
  • 1972: A woman remains a woman

theatre

Synchronous rollers (selection)

actress Film / series role
Margaret Rutherford 4:50 p.m. from Paddington Miss Marple
Billie Burke The magical land Glinda the good witch
Lee Patrick Bed whispers Mrs. Walters
Norma Varden Blondes preferred Lady Beekman
Password kitten Miss Pittford

Radio plays (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berlin's theater lady came from Hamburg. Actress Agnes Windeck has died . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . Tuesday, September 30, 1975. p. 12. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 497.
  3. ↑ Senate Department for Environment, Transport and Climate Protection: Honorary Graves of the State of Berlin (Status: November 2018) (PDF, 413 kB), p. 93. Accessed on November 18, 2019. For a time limit of twenty years, see: Implementing Regulations for Section 12 Para. 6 Cemetery Act (AV Ehrengrabstätten) (PDF, 24 kB) of August 15, 2007, paragraph 10. Accessed on November 18, 2019.
  4. ↑ German synchronous files. In: www.synchronkartei.de. Retrieved October 5, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Windeck, Agnes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Windel, Agnes Sophie; Diaper, Annie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1975
Place of death Berlin