Anni Mewes

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Anni Mewes (born May 6, 1895 in Vienna , † April 27, 1980 in Munich ) was a German theater, film and TV actress and a pen pal of Rainer Maria Rilke .

Life

Anna Mewes (also known as Annie or Anni Metes ) was the daughter of the stage secretary of Otto Brahm , Adolf Mewes, and the sister of the actor Ernst Mewes, who died in 1918 . As early as 1913 she played in the silent film A Midsummer Night's Dream in Our Time by Hanns Heinz Ewers and was very well known. Mewes performed at the Lessing Theater in Berlin at the age of 18 and at the Vienna Volksbühne under Arthur Rundt in 1915. She was friends with Rainer Maria Rilke and Peter Altenberg . Otto Falckenberg brought her to the Münchner Kammerspiele in 1916 . Around 1917 she went to the Hamburger Kammerspiele.

Around 1918 and 1919 there was extensive correspondence with Rilke. In 1920 she went to Max Reinhardt in Berlin. Around 1921 she was portrayed as a bronze portrait by Edwin Scharff . In 1922 she had a daughter in Berlin, the artist agent Annemarie Herald . In 1929 Mewes also wrote cabaret pieces, such as Wenn die Igel in der Abendstunde… , which were performed by a male choir in Vienna. Anni Mewes left Berlin in 1935 and resumed her job after the death of her husband, played at the Josefstädter Theater in Vienna and went on tour with Marianne Hoppe , the wife of Gustaf Gründgens .

In 1958, Mewes held reading evenings at the Theater in der Josefstadt , in which she presented her unpublished correspondence with Rilke for the first time. Her daughter brought her to Munich in the 1960s. In the 1960s and 1970s, she also appeared on German television as an actress into old age (including Die Fifth Kolonne , 1964, Der Kommissar , 1975). In the 1970s she lived with the actress Marianne Hoppe in a stable relationship. Anni Mewes died in Munich at the end of April 1980. Mewes' correspondence with Rilke is kept in the Bavarian State Library in Munich.

Berlin sculpture find from 2010

Around 1917 the artist Edwin Scharff created the bronze portrait of Anni Mewes . The work was recovered in 2010 as part of the Berlin sculpture discovery. It was confiscated from the collection of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen in Munich in 1937 as "degenerate art" and transported to Berlin and had been missing since 1939.

Filmography (selection)

Movies unless otherwise stated

literature

  • Else Feldmann, Adolf Opel, Marino Valdez: Else Feldmann (1884–1942): Works for the theater . LiDi 2007. pp. 128 and 271. (= Series Hommage Issue 3.)
  • Birgit Pargner: Marianne Hoppe: First beauty, then wisdom and then the bright… . Deutsches Theatermuseum, Munich 2009.
  • H. Meister: Mannheimer Theater-Jahrbuch , 1919, p. 59.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography in Else Feldmann, Adolf Opel, Marino Valdez 2007, pp. 128, 271.
  2. ↑ Helga Bemmann: Always around the advertising column: poems from seven decades of cabaret. Henschel Verlag, 1982.
  3. ↑ Anni Mewes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  4. ↑ Pargner 2009
  5. ↑ according to PH Honig / Rodek: 1000001. The show business encyclopedia of the 20th century.
  6. ↑ Some sources give Berlin as the place of death; see. Feldmann et al. 2007.
  7. ^ Precious works of art discovered at the Rotes Rathaus. In: Berliner Morgenpost , November 8, 2010.
  8. ↑ Portrait of the actress Anni Mewes, 1917/1921. Retrieved March 12, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Mewes, Anni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mewes, Anna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1980
Place of death Munich