Antje Weisgerber

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Antje Weisgerber as Marianne von Palen at the Deutsches Theater Berlin in the play Der Snob by Carl Sternheim (April 1946)

Antje Weisgerber (born May 17, 1922 in Königsberg , † September 29, 2004 in Dortmund ) was a German stage and film actress .

Life

Antje Weisgerber, the daughter of a veterinarian (chief agricultural officer) and a dance teacher, visited the Lyceum in Königsberg , where she obtained primary school . From 1939 to 1941 she received acting training at the drama school of the Prussian State Theater in Berlin . During her apprenticeship she took on her first roles there.

Weisgerber was given a leading role in the film Zwei Welten through Gustaf Gründgens in 1939 , but the 17-year-old was banned from filming because of her “ Unarican appearance”. From 1941 to 1943 she had an engagement at the State Theater in Berlin and in 1941 also appeared at the Münchner Kammerspiele ; From 1943 until the theater was closed in 1944, she worked at the Burgtheater in Vienna , where she made her debut as Thekla in Schiller's Wallenstein .

After the war she worked at the Deutsches Theater and the associated Kammerspiele in Berlin from 1945 to 1948 . Then she played at the Schlosspark Theater and the Theater am Kurfürstendamm . In addition to Berlin, she had her most important time at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus from 1951 to 1955 and from 1955 at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg , both under the direction of Gustaf Gründgens. In Gründgen's legendary production of Faust from 1957, she played Gretchen .

Between 1952 and 1960 she played at the Salzburg Festival , where she embodied Faith in the annual Jedermann performances from 1952 to 1956 . In 1961/1962 she worked at the Münchner Kammerspiele, after which she took on guest roles. In the period from 1971 to 1979 she sometimes appeared in touring productions. From 1980 to 1985 she was a member of the ensemble of the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin . She had her last big theatrical success in 1990 at the Berlin Schillertheater as Amanda in The Glass Menagerie of Tennessee Williams .

In comparison, the German feature film offered Weisgerber few job opportunities. She was the mother of the Günther twins in the Erich Kästner film The Double Lottery and played the role of a settler woman in the Karl May film The Oil Prince . She later appeared in popular early evening series such as The Country Doctor . In 1990 she received the Gold Film for her many years of outstanding work in German film .

Private

Honorary grave of Horst Caspar and Antje Weisgerber in the churchyard of the St. Annen congregation in Berlin-Dahlem

Antje Weisgerber married the theater actor Horst Caspar in 1944 , who died in 1952. The children Frank and Renate were born out of the marriage. The son died shortly after the father. From 1958 to 1968 Weisgerber was married to Reinhard Schilling, from 1970 to 1979 she was in a relationship with the actor Oskar Werner .

Since 1999 Weisgerber suffered from a brain tumor . She died in 2004 at the age of 82 in Dortmund in the house of her daughter Renate and was buried in a grave of honor in Berlin-Dahlem in the churchyard of St. Annen's parish next to Horst Caspar .

Filmography

Filmography (selection)

Synchronous roles

In the first post-war years, Antje Weisgerber also worked as a voice actress from time to time . She lent her voice to Jean Arthur (... and love forever wins) , Olivia de Havilland ( The Heiress ) , Ava Gardner (Singapore) and Jean Simmons ( Hamlet ) .

Audio book

Awards

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personal data
SURNAME Weisgerber, Antje
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 2004
Place of death Dortmund