Blanche Kommerell
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)
- 1962: Little Red Riding Hood
- 1966: The sons of the great she-bear
- 1966: The prosecutor has the floor: Bummel-Benno
- 1970: Effi Briest (TV)
- 1971: Inrun (TV film)
- 1973: Police call 110: criminal record (TV series)
- 1973: The Smart Things (TV)
- 1974: Orpheus in the underworld
- 1974: Jacob the Liar
- 1974: ... damn it, I'm an adult
- 1974: For example Josef
- 1975: Between night and day
- 1976: the blue light
- 1977: The shoes that were danced to pieces
- 1980: Our Man Is King (TV series)
- 1982: Bahnwärter Thiel (TV film)
- 1982: Bohemia (TV movie)
- 1983: Police Call 110: Quick Money (TV series)
- 1986: Police Call 110: A Great Talent (TV series)
- 1986: Christmas Stories (TV)
- 1988: Melanio's Last Love (TV movie)
- 1988: Barefoot in Bed (TV series)
- 1988: the actress
- 1990: Farewell disco
- 2004: In all friendship (TV series)
- 2006: Blackout - The Memory Is Deadly (mini-series)
synchronization
Movie | year | role | actor |
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The white steamer | 1976 | Guldschamal | Ayturgan Temirova |
theatre
- 1981: Louis Angely : Die Schneidermamsells - Director: Günter Rüger ( Small stage "Das Ei" - Berlin )
Radio plays
- 1967: Gerhard Stübe : John Reed. Dramatic chronicle in three parts (Jelisaweta Drabkina) - Director: Fritz Göhler (radio play - Rundfunk der DDR )
- 1973: Gisela Richter-Rostalski : Think better of Ewald (Monika) - Director: Manfred Täubert (children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1979: Wibke Martin : Die Bürgen (Mäuschen) - Director: Joachim Staritz (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1980: Georg Büchner : Dantons Tod (Rosalie and first wife) - Director: Joachim Staritz (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1980: Wolfgang Mahlow : Between Yesterday and Tomorrow (Liane) - Director: Christa Kowalski (radio play - Rundfunk der DDR)
- 1980: Elisabeth Panknin : Prince Rosenrot and Princess Lilienweiß or the enchanted Lily (Emma) - Director: Joachim Staritz (children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1980: Hans Christian Andersen : Thumbelina (Swallow) - Director: Gisela Pietsch (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1981: Richard von Volkmann : Unlucky and Lucky Child - Director: Christa Kowalski (Children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1983: Hans Christian Andersen : Die Schneekönigin (Gerda) - Director: Uwe Haacke (Children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1983: Gabriele Herzog : Anton, Frieda and the new cat (Lilli) - Director: Maritta Hübner (children's radio play / short radio play from the series: Tales from the Hat - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1986: Stephan Göritz : Das sprechende Bild (Nicole Domaine) - Director: Uwe Haacke (detective radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1988: Thomas Rosenlöcher : Das Gänseblümchen (Daisy) - Director: Werner Grunow (Children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
Awards
- 1965: Television's golden laurel in the category “youthful character representation”; among others for Little Red Riding Hood
- 1975: Silver Bear for Jacob the Liar
- 2008: German Language Prize
Individual evidence
- ^ 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
Web links
- Blanche Kommerell in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Blanche Kommerell at filmportal.de
- Literature by and about Blanche Kommerell in the catalog of the German National Library
- Blanche Kommerell's personal website
- Artist agency Tanja Rohmann , with whom Blanche Kommerell is under contract
- Blanche Kommerell's lecturer at the University of Witten / Herdecke
- Blanche Kommerell in the German dubbing index
- Blanche Kommerell archive in the archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Commercial, Blanche |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress and author |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1950 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Halle (Saale) |