Anne Dessau
Anne Dessau , actually Anneliese Marie Müller-Lankow , née Chmielecki , (born February 9, 1934 in Dessau ) is a German actress and author .
Acting
She initially trained as a bookseller, then attended the State Drama School in Berlin, today the "Ernst Busch" Berlin Dramatic Academy . For several years she played theater in Quedlinburg ; later in Potsdam at the Hans Otto Theater . In the last few years as an actress she was engaged at the Deutsches Theater Berlin and worked under the direction of Wolfgang Langhoff , Wolfgang Heinz and Benno Besson . Dessau sporadically worked as an actress for DEFA and DFF Berlin. On television she briefly announced a standard Sunday program.
Author activity
At the same time she studied with Jean Villain in a two-year course "Literary Reportage" together with Klaus Schlesinger and Landolf Scherzer . Then she published in the " Neue Berliner Illustrierte " (NBI) and " Die Weltbühne " mainly portraits of contemporary people such as Otto Hahn , Lise Meitner , Ernst Busch and Helene Weigel . Reports, radio plays, television plays and films followed, for which she wrote the scripts.
The prose "Wisdom of Summer" was published in 1992 by Forum Verlag Leipzig. In S. Fischer Verlag , Frankfurt / M. published since 1990 prose works:
- "Farewell to Buddenhagen",
- "Search for traces",
- "Anna is dancing",
- "Angel with a Wing";
- Narratives in anthologies.
In 2007 BoD released “Damn, You're My Father!”.
Since the 1st issue in 1998, " Ossietzky ", the successor to " Die Weltbühne ", has been writing feuilletons about theater performances in Berlin. She worked on scripts for feature films for "Telelux-Film", Dresden and for "Frames", Vienna. For DFF Berlin she developed the series “ Zur See ” and for ZDF the series “Frauenarzt Dr. Markus Merthin ”; for the ORB collaboration on the "home stories".
Literary contributions were made on behalf of the Federal Agency for Political Education , Bonn and for the yearbook "Argonautenschiff" of the Anna Seghers Society in Berlin and Mainz (published by Aufbau Verlag ). Intensive trips abroad took Anne Dessau to Canada, America, India, Central Asia and across Europe. She processed what she had experienced in features and reports for radio and print media.
In 1960 she married the actor Helmut Müller-Lankow . She has a daughter and has lived in Berlin for more than 50 years .
Filmography
- 1980: Unusual Decision (TV Movie)
Awards
- Anne Dessau has received film funding from the Federal Minister of the Interior and the “European Script Fund”, London.
- In 1999 she was selected for an Alfred Döblin scholarship from the Akademie der Künste .
- In 2001 a longer residency at Brecht-Hus Svendborg, Denmark, followed .
Web links
- Literature by and about Anne Dessau in the catalog of the German National Library
- Anne Dessau in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Interview on the website "Ernst Busch as a place of remembrance"
Individual evidence
- ^ Potsdam sketches . Report. Director: Barbara Plensat . Prod .: Broadcasting of the GDR , 1969. Proven in: Patrick Conley: Features and reports on broadcasting in the GDR. Recordings from 1964-1991 . 2nd edition Berlin: Askylt, 1999, p. 25. ISBN 3-9807372-0-9 , doi : 10.15496 / publication-4416
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dessau, Anne |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Müller-Lankow, Anneliese Marie (real name); Chmielecki (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dessau |