Annemone Haase

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Annemone Haase (born November 13, 1930 in Breslau ) is a German actress .

Life

Annemone Haase began her career in 1949 without any actual acting training. She initially had engagements at various provincial theaters , including the Stadttheater Annaberg-Buchholz , where she appeared in Mother Courage and her children in 1949 , at the Görlitz Theater and at the Erfurt Theater .

In 1959 she was engaged by the Berliner Ensemble and stayed there for 42 years, i.e. until 2001. Haase played various leading and supporting roles at the Berliner Ensemble . At premieres, she was often only cast in smaller roles or intended as a second cast, but she also took on the respective main roles in later performances and when the cast was changed. As an actress, Haase interpreted a broad repertoire , which included plays by William Shakespeare , the turn of the century , but especially the plays by Bertolt Brecht and contemporary theater.

Haase appeared in the Berliner Ensemble, directed by Erich Engel , in Brecht / Weill's Die Dreigroschenoper and in Brechts Schweyk during World War II . She had other roles in Brecht's Die Tage der Commune (1962) (director: Manfred Wekwerth ) and, alternating with Renate Richter , as Virgilia in the version of Shakespeare's Die Tragödie des Coriolanus (1964/1965), also directed by Brecht by Manfred Wekwerth; Haase's partners were Helene Weigel , Ekkehard Schall , Hilmar Thate and Wolf Kaiser ; In 1977 she took over again the Virgilia in the new Coriolan production by Wekwerth and Joachim Tenschert . In the world premiere of the play Zement (1972) by Heiner Müller , based on the novel by Fjodor Gladkow , she played the role of Polja Mechowa under the direction of Ruth Berghaus .

In later years she took on roles in Spring Awakening (as Frau Bergmann, 1973/1974 season), Miss Julie (1975) and Life of Galilei (1978), both directed by BK Tragelehn . In 1974 she appeared in the tragedy Edward II (Life of Edward II of England) by Christopher Marlowe . In the 1980s she played the role of Clara Zetkin in the play Blue Horses on Red Grass by Michail Schatrow (premiere 1980) at the Berliner Ensemble . In the 1990/1991 season she performed the women's monologue The Story of the Maid Zerlina by Hermann Broch . She also played at the Berliner Ensemble in Monsieur Verdouz , Wessis in Weimar by Rolf Hochhuth (1993, directed by Einar Schleef ) and in Beckett's Endspiel (1995, directed by Peter Palitzsch ). At the Maxim-Gorki-Theater , Haase played in The Good Man of Sezuan in 1998 (director: Uwe Eric Laufenberg ). Her last new productions at the Berliner Ensemble in 2000 included the production of Peter Weiss ' play Marat / Sade (director: Philipp Tiedemann).

Haase took on television and film roles regularly during her career; The theater remained the focus of her artistic work . From the 1950s onwards, Haase also worked in a number of film and television productions for DEFA and German television broadcasters . In 1955 she played the role of the secretary Gertrud in the quill movie Last Subject lower right . In the literary film adaptation Lotte in Weimar (1975) she was seen as Amalie Ridel, directed by Egon Günther , who received a visit from her sister Charlotte Kestner in September / October 1816 . In the fairy tale film Snow White and Rose Red (1979) she took on the role of mother; her film children were Katrin Martin and Julie Jurištová . In 1981 she appeared in the comedy Asta, mein Engelchen , a tribute to the actress Asta Nielsen . She also starred in several episodes of the crime series Polizeiruf 110 and The Public Prosecutor has the floor .

Occasionally she also worked as a voice actress for the film . She dubbed the actress Olivera Katarina in her role as the Duchess of Alba in the literary film adaptation Goya (1971) by Konrad Wolf .

In 1984 she was awarded the GDR Art Prize.

After the fall of the Wall , her career on West German television began in the early 1990s. Haase took on continuous series roles, episode roles and guest roles in various television series. She had a continuous series role as Ms. Kolberg in the hit series Our Teacher Doctor Specht . She was also in the series Berlin, Berlin (as the grandmother of the title character Lolle ), Der Landarzt (2006), Notruf Hafenkante (2008) (as a 78-year-old driver Marta Wohlers , who is involved in a traffic accident) and several times in Unser Charly zu see. In 2008, she played the retiree Emma Brettschneider , who suffers from an incurable chronic lung disease, in the hospital series In all friendship . Haase embodied the old woman, who looks forward to her approaching death with serenity and dignity, with all the theatrical means available to her as a theater actress .

In 2004/2005 she was seen in the ZDF telenovela Bianca - Ways to Happiness in the role of Ursula Berger , the grandmother of the heroine. In 2007 she also took on the role of housekeeper Hedwig Wiegand in the follow-up telenovela Julia - Ways to Happiness .

Annemone Haase lives in Berlin .

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Radio plays

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The 1984 Art Prize Winners , In: Neues Deutschland , May 26, 1984, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Haase, Annemone
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw