Anja Elkoff

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Anja Elkoff (born January 7, 1914 in Magdeburg ) is a German singer and actress .

Life

Anja Elkoff had received a classical vocal training and began her first demonstrable permanent engagement in 1940 in Münster . In 1941 she came to Berlin , where she took up an engagement at the People's Theater , run by the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda . Her colleagues in the 1941/1942 season included artists such as the actress Edith Schollwer and the chamber singer Karl Jöken. Until all the venues were closed in the late summer of 1944, she followed a call to the Prussian State Theater in Kassel in 1942 .

Her first post-war engagement led the artist from 1945 to 1950 at the opera / operetta of the Nationaltheater Mannheim . As Anja Elkoff-Magath, she can also be traced back to the Wiesbaden State Theater between 1945 and 1947 . From 1950 to 1955 she was engaged at the Braunschweig State Theater , where she was also employed as a singer in the field of opera / operetta. With the birth of her child, who later became the presenter and actress Christine Reinhart , she ended her artistic career in the fall of 1955.

Anja Elkoff's stay in Berlin in 1941/1942 led to three film appearances. In her screen debut Leichte Muse (at Willy Fritsch's side ) and in Helmut Käutner's work Romanze in Moll , where she performed Lothar Brühne's An Hour Between Day and Dreams , she was mainly used as a singer. Between the two films she took over in the crime film Dr. Crippen on board the role as the mysterious wife of the wanted title hero, who also became her murderer. It became the most significant role of her very short film career.

Anja Elkoff was married to the internist Rolf Christian Triebel.

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SURNAME Elkoff, Anja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anna Triebel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg