Ann Höling

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Anneliese Amalie "Ann" Höling (born April 22, 1925 in Oberstein / Nahe ; † November 2005 in India ) was a German actress .

Life

Ann Höling completed her stage training as an apprentice from 1939 to 1941 at the Stadttheater Bielefeld with the dance master Anny Menge and the director Karl Bockx. In 1941 she made her stage debut with a soubrette role in the revue Träum von mir by Erwin Bootz at the Kabarett der Komiker in Berlin. Until 1952 she performed engagements at numerous Berlin theaters, a. a. to the Deutsches Theater , the Schlossparktheater , the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm , the Hebbel-Theater , the Theater am Nollendorfplatz and the Theater am Kurfürstendamm . She then relocated her stage work to Hamburg and played at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus , the Thalia Theater and the Kammerspiele .

For a long time she was the stage subject of the youthful salon lady and the naive sentiment. For example, she played Claudine in Molière's George Dandin (Hamburg, 1953), Polly in Bert Brecht's Threepenny Opera (Hamburg, 1954) and Eliza in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (Hamburg, 1955).

From 1957 Ann Höling worked mainly in Switzerland: From 1957 to 1966 she was part of the ensemble of the Stadttheater Basel , where she - now in the character subject - a. a. played the pirate Jenny in Brecht's Threepenny Opera . She has also made guest appearances in Bern, Zurich, at the Tanztheater Wuppertal (under Pina Bausch ) and at touring theaters in Europe and Southeast Asia.

In 1948 Ann Höling made her feature film debut in the DEFA production Chemistry and Love, directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt . Another DEFA film followed in the same year, And again 48 (director: Gustav von Wangenheim ). From 1949 she played in various West German productions, such as the school-based films Sender unknown (with Henny Porten as director) and Stips (with Gustav Fröhlich in the leading role). You could see her on television in the multi-part crime series The Death Runs Afterwards , the Tatort film The Missing Weight and in several episodes of the crime series Der Kommissar . She took on one last television role in 1993 in the Rosamunde Pilcher film, Stormy Encounter .

In addition, she worked for radio as a radio play speaker (inter alia in the main role of money does not play a role according to Curt Riess , BR 1954) and since the 1950s also as a voice actress .

Ann Höling died in November 2005 during a spa stay in India.

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Radio plays

literature

Remarks

  1. Piet Hein Honig, Hanns-Georg Rodek name this year of birth : 100001. The show business encyclopedia of the 20th century. Showbiz-Data-Verlag, Villingen-Schwenningen 1992, ISBN 3-929009-01-5 , p. 445 and Paul S. Ulrich: Biographical directory for theater, dance and music. List of references from German-language reference works and yearbooks. 2 volumes. Berlin 1997, Volume 1, p. 807 and Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Some obituaries give 1921 as the year of birth.

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