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Bella Waldritter , née Crescentia Arabella Ritter , later Bella Peters , (born November 1, 1886 in Munich ; † September 3, 1974 , according to other sources: † August 25, 1974 ) was a German soprano and actress .

Life

Bella Waldritter was born as Crescentia Arabella Ritter . Her later real family name was Peters. She attended the König Theater School in Munich and began her theater career in the early 20th century at a Bavarian touring theater . Waldritter was a soprano by nature and mainly took on the role of the soubrette . In 1920 she sang Hannerl in the operetta Das Dreimäderlhaus at the Stadttheater Lüdenscheid ; the musical director was the young Kurt Weill .

At the beginning of the 1950s, after various stops, she joined the Berliner Ensemble under Bertolt Brecht , to which she had belonged for many years. In May 1953 she worked there as Frau Mittelländer in the world premiere of the comedy Katzgraben by Erwin Strittmatter . Her partners were Angelika Hurwicz , Gerhard Bienert and Erwin Geschonneck ; the production came from Bertolt Brecht. A performance of the play was also recorded for German television in 1957 . In March 1954 she took on the role of Petrona in Master awl or boldness pays off by Martinus Hayneccius in a studio performance of the Berliner Ensemble. In 1954 she also played the nanny Maro in Brecht's production of the didactic play The Caucasian Chalk Circle with Helene Weigel at the Berliner Ensemble . In addition, she took on the roles of Aniko Vachnadze and Mütterchen Grusinien in the multi-part play . At the Berliner Ensemble she alternated with Käthe Reichel in the role of the old woman in Mother Courage and her children . In the course of her career she also played in the Brecht plays The Mother and The Good Man of Sezuan (as an old prostitute).

She made her film debut at DEFA in 1951 in a small role in the literary film Der Untertan , directed by Wolfgang Staudte . In the fairy tale film Das Feuerzeug, based on motifs by Hans Christian Andersen , she took over the "bizarre, devious" witch in 1959. In 1961 she played the role of an old woman in the film version of “Brecht's classic, world-famous production” by Mother Courage and her children by Manfred Wekwerth and Peter Palitzsch , alongside Helene Weigel.

Waldritter often played prominent supporting roles in film and television, especially neighbors, grandmothers and customers, including as a buyer in Der Kinnhaken (1962) and as an old woman in deep furrows (1965). At the DEFA and the DFF, she was gladly cast as an “old woman with age wisdom”. She had one of her last roles as an old woman in 1972/1973 in the multi-part television series The seven affairs of Doña Juanita , directed by Frank Beyer .

In 1962 she worked alongside Gisela May , Hilmar Thate and Angelica Domröse in a small role as a woman from Rue Pigalle in the radio play production of Brecht's play Die Tage der Commune for the GDR record label Litera .

Filmography

Radio plays

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b DEFA Star-Hour Forum ( Memento from September 12, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). Contribution by Volker Wachter of March 30, 2008, who cites information from the Berliner Ensemble . Wording: "The bizarre Bella Waldritter (including the insidious witch in the fairy tale film" Das Feuerzeug), whose real name is Crescentia Arabella Peters née Ritter, died on August 25, 1974. Thanks to Mrs. Handel from BE! "
  2. ^ Symonette, Elmar Juchem: Kurt Weill, letters to the family. Metzler, 2000., p. 255.
  3. ^ Jürgen Schebera: Kurt Weill. A biography in texts, pictures and documents. VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1984. Page 28. ISBN 3-370-00289-2 .
  4. ^ Berliner Ensemble, Ruth Berlau: Theater work Henschelverlag 1967.
  5. ↑ Werner Hecht : Brecht Chronicle 1898-1956 . Suhrkamp Verlag 1998. pp. 1052, 1059, 1097, 1250.
  6. ^ Brecht's theater work: his staging of the "Caucasian Chalk Circle" in 1954 by Werner Hecht, pp. 77, 236.
  7. ↑ Mother Courage and her children , Henschel Verlag 1961.
  8. ↑ Die Mutter Henschel Verlag , 1969.
  9. ↑ The lighter . Cast on defa-stern hours.de ( Memento from February 16, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
  10. ^ Rolf Schenk: The second life of the film city Babelsberg. DEFA feature films 1946–1992 . Henschel Verlag Berlin 1994. Page 164, ISBN 3-89487-175-X .
  11. ↑ The Days of Commune ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Production details and cast on the website DDR-Hoerspiele.net. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ddr-hoerspiele.net
personal data
SURNAME Forest Knight, Bella
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ritter, Crescentia Arabella (maiden name); Peters, Bella
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soprano and actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 1974