Angelika Hurwicz

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From left to right: Inge von Wangenheim , Mary Schneider-Braillard , Annemarie Hasse , Angelika Hurwicz, Helene Weigel and Else Reuss (1949)

Angelika Hurwicz (born April 22, 1922 in Berlin , † November 26, 1999 in Bergen , North Holland ) was a German theater actress and director .

Life

Angelika Hurwicz was the daughter of the writer Elias Hurwicz . Because of his Jewish descent, she could not attend a theater school, instead the actress Lucie Höflich gave her private lessons from 1939 to 1941. From 1942 to 1943 she was engaged in a private traveling theater. After all theaters were closed due to total mobilization in 1944, she worked in a car workshop. Her father also survived the Holocaust thanks to his marriage to a gentile woman.

In 1945 she returned to Berlin and was engaged at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm and the Deutsches Theater . Bertolt Brecht brought her to the Berliner Ensemble in 1948 for the role of the silent Kattrin in the play Mother Courage and Her Children . Hurwicz received the GDR national prize the following year . In 1954 Brecht gave her the role of Grusha in the Caucasian Chalk Circle and she played a. a. Frau Sarti in the life of Galileo until she left the ensemble in 1958 and went to West Germany.

Later she worked as a director in Hanover, Frankfurt am Main, Wuppertal, Cologne, Zurich and London as well as at the Burgtheater in Vienna (there the first woman).

Filmography

theatre

Director

actor

Radio plays

Fonts

  • Wind evacuator. People and the world, Berlin 1957.
  • Brecht staged: The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Friedrich, Velber b. Hanover 1964.
  • We bid you hope In: Renate Seydel (Ed.): … Lived for all time. Actors about themselves and others. Henschel, Berlin 1978.
  • Legends of time. Variations on a hopeless situation. Merlin, Berlin 1998.
  • The insect's niche. Fouqué-Literaturverlag, Egelsbach 1999.

literature

  • Gerda Goedhart, Wolfgang Pintzka: The actress Angelika Hurwicz: A photo book. Henschel, Berlin 1960.
  • Peter Roessler: The knowledge of the old masters. Pioneers and antipodes of today's theater. With a special focus on Angelika Hurwicz . In: Andrea Ellmeier, Doris Ingrisch, Claudia Walkensteiner-Preschl (eds.): Ratio and Intuition. Knowledge / s / cultures in music. Theatre. Film . Böhlau, Vienna 2013, pp. 131–158.
  • Hans-Dieter Roser : Life is outside the stage . In memoriam Angelika Hurwicz (1922–1999). In: Gloria Withalm, Anna Spohn, Gerald Bast (eds.): Art, Context, Culture. Manfred Wagner - 38 years of culture and intellectual history at the University of Applied Sciences . Vienna 2012, pp. 237–251.
  • Angelika Hurwicz . In: Berliner Zeitung , February 5, 2000; obituary

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personal data
SURNAME Hurwicz, Angelika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1999
Place of death Bergen (North Holland) , North Holland , Netherlands