Angelika Meissner

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Angelika Meissner, 1991
Angelika Meissner's grave

Angelika Meissner (born November 25, 1939 in Berlin ; † January 10, 2018 there ; actually Angelika Antja Voelkner , also listed as Angelika Voelkner or Angelika Meissner-Voelkner in the opening credits ) was a German film actress . She was a child star of German cinema in the 1950s.

Life

Meissner's father Peter Voelkner was a composer, her mother Hildegard Voelkner, nee Meissner, was the head of the advertising department at UFA . Angelika Meissner played her first film role in 1949 in the drama Nachtwache as the little daughter of Hans Nielsen . She became known in the role of Dick in the films of the Immenhof series alongside Heidi Brühl as Dalli and Margarete Haagen as Grandma Jantzen. In her second film, The Falling Star , she embodied Elisabeth Hollreiser, traumatized by the post-war chaos, as a ten-year-old girl, Maria Wimmer played the adult Elisabeth Hollreiser. In the 1952 Dieter Borsche film Father Needs a Woman , she was cast as the cute daughter Ulla, who, together with her siblings, is looking for a wife for her widowed father via a newspaper advertisement and finally finds Susanne ( Ruth Leuwerik ). With Matthias Fuchs , the Ethelbert from the Immenhof films, she met again in 1956 in the film The First Spring Day. She appeared alongside Heinz Erhardt in his film Widower with Five Daughters . In her last film Hubertusjagd she stood in front of the camera again with Raidar Müller-Elmau , Ralf from the films Wedding on Immenhof and Holidays on Immenhof . She then worked briefly as a voice actress. After participating in the television game Hundred Thousand Thaler , she abruptly ended her acting career, withdrew into private life and later worked temporarily as an architect in Canada .

Micaela Jary writes in her book “Traumfabriken made in Germany. The story of the German post-war film 1945–1960 ”, that Meissner's mother, in anticipation of future wages of her daughter, went into debt and was“ obsessed with films ”. Angelika Meissner was unable to withstand the resulting pressure.

As the agency Wort und Kunst announced, Meissner died on January 10, 2018 at the age of 78 in a Berlin nursing home. Her grave is in the Wilmersdorf cemetery , field D2 / 125, in Berlin-Wilmersdorf .

Surname

Angelika Meissner appeared in her first films such as Nachtwache , Der falling Stern , Das Kreuz am Jägersteig as well as in Father Needs a Woman as Angelika Voelkner. She is listed as Angelika Meissner-Voelkner in The Girls from Immenhof , and as Angelika Meissner in Wedding at Immenhof and Holidays at Immenhof . The name change is a result of the parents' divorce, after which Angelika Meissner and her brother took the mother's maiden name.

Filmography

literature

  • Micaela Jary: dream factories made in Germany. The history of post-war German films 1945–1960. Edition q, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-86124-235-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See picture Angelika Meissner's grave , as well as Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 1111.
  2. ↑ A "girl from Immenhof" Angelika Meissner is dead . Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 19, 2018, accessed on August 25, 2020 . .
  3. ^ Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorfs international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 1111.
  4. ^ Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorfs international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 1111.
  5. ↑ Angelika Meissner in the German dubbing index
  6. ↑ Angelika Meissner in the synchronous database
  7. ↑ a b Micaela Jary: Traumfabriken Made in Germay The History of German Post-War Films 1945–1960 , Publisher: Edition Q (August 1998)
  8. ↑ a b Mama wanted to go too high - and the little daughter paid for the newspaper report from 1963
  9. ↑ Klaus Nerger: The grave of Angelika Meissner. In: knerger.de. Retrieved July 14, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Meissner, Angelika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voelkner, Angelika; Meissner-Voelkner, Angelika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Germany
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 2018
Place of death Berlin , Germany