Anna Dammann

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Anna Dammann (born September 19, 1912 in Altona , † September 30, 1993 in Munich ) was a German actress .

Dammann attended a high school and from 1930 to 1932 took acting lessons from Albrecht Schoenhals . She made her debut in Hamburg in 1932 as Brünhild in Friedrich Hebbel's Die Nibelungen .

In 1937 it came to the Deutsches Theater in Berlin via Frankfurt an der Oder, Wuppertal, Stuttgart and Düsseldorf . There she embodied many classic female figures such as Antigone , Maria Stuart , Kassandra , Cleopatra and the Maid of Orléans until 1945 . She then belonged to the ensemble of the Residenztheater in Munich until 1953 . She then appeared on various stages, including the Bad Hersfeld Festival , the Gandersheim Cathedral Festival and the Schwäbisch Hall open-air theater . She was rarely seen in the film.

Grave of Anna Dammann in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

She was married to the entrepreneur and art scholar Walter Geese, with whom she had a daughter.

Anna Dammann died in Munich at the end of September 1993 at the age of 81. Her grave is on the state's own cemetery in Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: 8-C-33/35).

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  1. District Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf of Berlin: Prominent graves in the state-owned cemetery Heerstrasse . Notice in the cemetery. As of November 2012. Read on December 3, 2019.