Angela Schmid (actress)

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Angela Schmid , also Angela Schmidt (* 1936 in Stuttgart ) is a German actress .

The daughter of a music professor and a singer attended drama school after graduating from high school. She received her first engagement in Krefeld . There she played Hedwig in Die Wildente , whereupon she signed Gustaf Gründgens at the Schauspielhaus in Hamburg during the 1959/60 season .

There she embodied Lesbia in Hebbel's Gyges and his Ring , Gustchen in Lenz / Brecht's Der Hofmeister and Desdemona in Othello . In 1963 she moved to the Staatstheater Kassel, in 1964 to the Schauspielhaus Köln . Here she was seen as Viola in Was ihr wollt , Gretchen in Faust , Katrin in Mother Courage and Her Children (directed by Peter Palitzsch), in the title role of Strindberg's Miss Julie and as Zoe in Saunders ' A Scent of Flowers .

In 1965 she received the sponsorship award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists .

In 1968 she returned to the Hamburger Schauspielhaus, where she took part in a total of 37 productions until 1979/80. She played u. a. Amalia in Die Räuber (directed by Egon Monk), Luise in Kabale und Liebe (directed by Hans Peter Kaufmann), Marie in Woyzeck (directed by Niels-Peter Rudolph), Agnes Sorel in Die Jungfrau von Orleans (directed by Wilfried Minks) and performed under the direction by Claus Peymann in world premieres of pieces by Thomas Bernhard , namely as Johanna in Ein Fest für Boris (1970) and as Queen of the Night in Der Ignorant und der Wahnsinnige (1972). In the world premiere of Bernhard's Over All Summits is Ruh (1982 Ludwigsburg Castle Festival / Schauspielhaus Bochum) she was seen as Miss Werdenfels.

In 1983 she appeared in the Thalia Theater as Michaline in Hauptmanns Michael Kramer . Directed by Rudolf Noelte , in the famous staging of Moliere's misanthrope had worked from 1975 at the Hamburg Schauspielhaus as Eliante. In 1986 she went to the Schauspielhaus Bochum , where she performed several times under the direction of Andrea Breth . In 1992 she followed Breth to the Schaubühne in Berlin.

Guest performances have taken Angela Schmid to the Salzburg Festival as Octavia in Shakespeare's Antonius and Cleopatra and to various other theaters. At the Ruhr Festival in Recklinghausen she was seen in 1997 as Mrs. Alving in Ibsen's Ghosts (directed by Hansgünther Heyme) and in 2007 as Miss Schneider in the musical Cabaret (directed by Ulrich Waller). In 2003 she appeared on stage as Mary Tyrone, addicted to morphine, in Eugene O'Neill's One Long Day Journey into the Night at the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater in Hamburg. In 2013 she was seen in Elfriede Jelinek's The Contracts of the Merchant (director: Boris von Poser ) at Neuhardenberg Castle .

Angela Schmid only sporadically took on a few roles in television. In the documentary film Der Fall Bachmeier - No Time for Tears , she was seen as a friend of the leading actress.

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SURNAME Schmid, Angela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Angela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart