Betty Loewen

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Betty Loewen (born March 17, 1909 in Dozwiniacz ( Poland ), † April 16, 1973 in Berlin ) was a German actress and radio play speaker .

Life

Betty Loewen (birth name: Betty Löwenkopf) was trained as an actress by Jenny Schaffer in Dresden at the end of the 1920s . This was followed by engagements at the Albert Theater in Dresden, the Leipzig Playhouse and the City Theater Meissen . Since she was Jewish , she was only able to save her life by emigrating in 1934 from Germany via France and Czechoslovakia to England , where she arrived in 1939. In London she continued to play theater. In 1947 she returned to Germany and after a short stay in Dresden, she accepted the call to the Berliner Ensemble under the direction of Bertolt Brecht . Here she worked in such well-known pieces as The Caucasian Chalk Circle , Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti , The Good Man of Sezuan , Arturo Ui and The Guns of Mrs. Carrar . This was followed by some involvement in DEFA feature films . Her estate in the Archives of the Academy of Arts proves that Betty Loewen was married to the writer Max Zimmering during her exile and until after the Second World War . The exact times of the wedding and the divorce are not apparent from the documents.

Betty Loewen-Zimmering received the medal for fighters against fascism from 1933 to 1945 in the GDR . She found her final resting place in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstädtische and Friedrichswerder parishes at Chausseestrasse 126 in Berlin .

Filmography

theatre

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Betty Loewen's estate in the archive of the Academy of Arts
  2. Biography of Betty Loewen in a brochure about the film The Pictures of the Witness Schattmann in the Potsdam Film Museum
  3. ↑ Obituary notice in Neues Deutschland from April 30, 1973, p. 6