Anita Mey

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Anita Mey , also Anita Mey-Meier or Anita May (* May 2, 1912 , † 2006 in Kronberg im Taunus ) was a German actress .

life and career

In the 1930s, Mey played minor roles in rather shallow entertainment films and comedies such as Marriage with Limited Liability , The Lords of Maxim , Konjunkturritter or Heinz im Mond . In the comedy So ein Flegel , the first film adaptation of the novel Die Feuerzangenbowle by Heinrich Spoerl , she was a partner of Heinz Rühmann . In 1937 she played alongside Magda Schneider in the film Frauenliebe - Frauenleid . Mey was so popular at the time that she made it into collections of cigarette pictures.

From 1936 Mey worked mainly as a theater actress . From 1936 to 1972 she belonged to the ensemble of the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt and was made an honorary member of the house. In 1954 she played the role of Angustias in the tragedy Bernarda Albas Haus with the ensemble of the Städtische Bühnen at the open-air plays in the Carmelite Monastery in Frankfurt . In 1966 she took over, under the direction of Harry Buckwitz , at the Municipal Theater Frankfurt , the woman Peachum in Brecht / Weill's The Threepenny Opera . With this line-up ( Karin Huebner , Hans Korte , Franz Kutschera ) a record of the work was produced, which was published on the Phonogram label .

After World War II , Mey returned to film. She took on the role of Fräulein Rottenmeyer, the strict governess , at the side of Willy Birgel in the 1952 film adaptation of Heidi by director Luigi Comencini . The New York Times wrote in a film review of Mey's performance: “Anita Mey is precisely shrill and haughty as the persnickety governess of this child, ... “She also played this role in the film sequel to the material under the title Heidi and Peter (1955). In the 1960s, she was the TV occasionally seen in theater roles, so in 1960 as Constance , the quirky friend of the main female role in the television version of the play The Madwoman of Chaillot , where she directed by Harry Buckwitz alongside grains Hermine played. In 1961 she also starred in the television production of the comedy Invitation to the Castle by Jean Anouilh .

In 1968 and 1985 she was seen as an actress on the Saturday night TV show One Will Win .

Mey also worked as a speaker for radio plays . In 1954 she spoke for the Hessischer Rundfunk the role of the woman from the east in the radio play Caterina Cornaro by Marie-Luise Kaschnitz . In 1961 she could be heard at the Hessischer Rundfunk in the role of Mrs. Kehlmann in the radio play A Hot Iron by Kurt Heynicke . In 1969 she took on the role of Miss Rachel Wardle in a radio play version of the novel Die Pickwickier , which was produced by Hessischer Rundfunk and Westdeutscher Rundfunk .

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anita Mey Filmography on filmportal.de , accessed on August 14, 2018.
  2. ↑ Honorary Members ( Memento from August 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt
  3. ↑ Bernarda Alba's house ( memento from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 1954/1955 season (page 7).
  4. ^ Reference in the catalog of the German National Library
  5. ↑ The Threepenny Opera discography
  6. ↑ Heidi kino.de
  7. ↑ Heidi (1952). 4 FOREIGN-MADE FILMS ARRIVE , (New York Times, December 21, 1953)
  8. ↑ Caterina Cornaro HÖRDAT, the audio play database
  9. ↑ A hot potato ( Memento of the original from August 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. hr2 culture @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hr-online.de
  10. ↑ The Pickwickier HÖRDAT, the audio play database
personal data
SURNAME Mey, Anita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1912
DATE OF DEATH 2006
Place of death Kronberg im Taunus