Berta Drews

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Berta Emilie Helene Drews (born November 19, 1901 in Tempelhof , † April 10, 1987 in Berlin ) was a German actress .

Life

Commemoration of Berta Drews on Heinrich Georges' gravestone in the Zehlendorf cemetery

Drews was the daughter of the engineer Karl Otto Drews and his wife Helena geb. Harsdorff. She was born in her parents' apartment at Friedrich-Wilhelm-Straße 111 in today's Berlin-Tempelhof. Berta Drews initially wanted to be an opera singer, but because she had difficulties with her voice, she studied at Max Reinhardt's drama school at the Deutsches Theater . In 1925 she was engaged in Stuttgart and played at the Münchner Kammerspiele from 1926 to 1930 . In 1930 she returned to Berlin, initially at the Volksbühne , from 1933 at the Staatstheater , from 1938 to 1945 a member of the ensemble of the Berlin Schillertheater , of which her husband Heinrich George had been her director since 1937 . With this she played together in 1933 in Hitlerjunge Quex .

The two sons Jan and Götz George , also actors, come from his marriage to George .

After the war ended, she worked at the Hebbel Theater until 1949 and returned to the Schillertheater in 1951. She played there, among other things, the "Eliza" in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and the "Winnie" in Samuel Beckett's absurd two-act Happy Days . At the same time she was a popular film and television actress, for example in Anastasia in 1956 , the last daughter of the Tsar of Falk Harnack . In Volker Schlöndorff's novel, Die Blechtrommel , she embodied Oskar Matzerath's grandmother Anna Koljaiczek as an older woman. In addition to a biography about her husband, she published her autobiography Wohin der Weg?

In addition, she lent her voice as a voice actress , including Sylvia Sidney ( Damned Behind Bars ) and Jo Van Fleet ( Wilder Strom ) . Berta Drews died on April 10, 1987 at the age of 85 in Berlin. She was buried at sea . She is remembered at the grave of her husband Heinrich George in the Zehlendorf cemetery .

Filmography

Radio plays (selection)

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register StA Tempelhof No. 213/01 .
personal data
SURNAME Drews, Berta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Drews, Berta Emilie Helene (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Tempelhof , Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1987
Place of death Berlin