Blanche Kommerell

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Blanche Kommerell (2007)

Blanche Kommerell (born March 10, 1950 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German actress and author of literary portraits and poems.

life and work

Blanche Kommerell was born as the daughter of actress Ruth Kommerell in Halle an der Saale in 1950 and has already appeared in films as a child. From 1957 first appearances in children's roles at the Deutsches Theater and the Maxim-Gorki-Theater in Berlin. Her first major film role as Little Red Riding Hood in the DEFA fairy tale film of the same name from 1962 made her known nationwide in the GDR; further film projects followed. At first she embodied young girls or took part in fairy tale films by DEFA and DFF (German TV broadcaster).

From 1968 to 1971 Blanche Kommerell studied German and musicology at the Humboldt University in Berlin ; then she completed an acting training at the State Drama School Berlin and at the Berliner Ensemble . From 1975 engagements followed at stages in Magdeburg, Potsdam, Senftenberg, Leipzig and at the Deutsches Theater Berlin . In 1974/1975 she achieved a much-noticed success as an actress in the role of Rosa Frankfurter in Frank Beyer's film adaptation of Jurek Becker's Jakob the Liar . This was followed by film and television roles, including in the DEFA film The Actress and the television film Bahnwärter Thiel .

From the end of the 80s she mainly worked on literary programs, later also on monologues based on texts by Ingeborg Bachmann ("Malina") and Christa Wolf ("Kassandra", "Medea"). She gave guest performances all over Germany with readings and literary portraits a. a. by Anna Achmatowa , Ingeborg Bachmann, Paul Celan , Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , Marina Zwetajewa . There were literary features for the radio and from 1992–1996 literary matinees at the Deutsches Theater on Anna Achmatowa, Marina Zwetajewa and Annette von Droste-Hülshoff.

From 1991 to 1999 she had a teaching position for diction at the Berlin University of the Arts ; In 1990 she received a still existing teaching position for language and drama at the University of Witten / Herdecke , where she set up a student theater with which she mainly staged dramas from world literature. a. by Shakespeare ( Maß für Maß , Ein Midsummer Night's Dream , Hamlet ), Goldoni (Krach in Chiozza), Goethe ( Clavigo ), Kleist ( Amphitryon ), Büchner ( Leonce and Lena , Woyzeck ), Chekhov ( Three Sisters , The Seagull ), Gorki ( Summer guests) and Brecht ( The Good Man of Sezuan ). Since the winter semester 2005/06 she has also been teaching speech training and diction at the Institute for German Literature at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 2003 she started her own series of literary readings at the Literaturhaus Berlin, which have been taking place monthly since the beginning of 2004.

Blanche Kommerell was married to the actor and screenwriter Achim Scholz until 1977 ; her first son Stephan Kommerell died in 1988, her second son Sebastian Kommerell works as a painter and pianist. From 2003 she was married to the dramaturge Alexander Weigel (1935–2020).

Filmography (selection)

synchronization

Movie year role actor
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theatre

Radio plays

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank-Burkhard Habel , Volker Wachter : The great lexicon of the GDR stars. The actors from film and television. Extended new edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89602-391-8 .

literature

  • Cornelia Saxe: At Blanche , In: Cornelia Saxe: The sociable canapé - The renaissance of the Berlin salons , Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 1999, pp. 42–48, ISBN 3-88679-331-1

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personal data
SURNAME Commercial, Blanche
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)