Brigitte Dryander

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Johanna Brigitte Dryander (born April 24, 1920 in Dillingen , Saar area , † February 25, 1997 in Saarbrücken ) was a German actress and director.

Life

Johanna Brigitte Dryander was born on April 24, 1920 in Dillingen (then Saar area) as the youngest of four children. She was the great-great-granddaughter of Johann Friedrich Dryander (1756-1812), court painter to the Prince of Nassau-Saarbrücken. The father (1865–1933) was married for the second time and died in an accident in 1933 without leaving the family with adequate provisions. The mother could not finance a longer school education for her children. Johanna Brigitte ("Hanni") Dryander therefore had to accept a job as a typist after secondary school.

In her free time she achieved considerable sporting success in athletics (100 m and 400 m run). Some regional championship titles even brought them into the eliminations for participation in the Olympics in 1940 (the games themselves did not take place because of the World War).

The attention that the attractive young lady enjoyed as a sportswoman led to the acquaintance of people outside of her milieu, u. a. to the then very well-known Saarland poet Johannes Kirschweng (1900–1951), who entered into a permanent correspondence with her. From this environment she was encouraged to develop her artistic inclinations. From around 1939 she received private and free acting lessons.

In 1938 she met Eyke Dryander, a very large relative from the Halle Dryander family, whom she married in 1940. The marriage resulted in a son (Ulrich, * 1942). During the 1942/43 season she accepted an engagement at the theater in Litomerice (then Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, today Litomerice (Czech Republic)). After the German theaters were closed due to the war, she returned to Halle in 1944.

The marriage ended in divorce in 1950. Brigitte Dryander returned to her home in the Saarland; the son stayed with his father in Halle. The " iron curtain " separated the mother from the son until 1989.

In 1946 she found an engagement at the Stadttheater Saarbrücken , to which she remained loyal until the end of her active career in 1984, despite some attractive offers. It was there that Brigitte Dryander met the actor Karlheinz Noblé, whom she married in 1950. The marriage resulted in a son (Alexander, * 1951). When she left the Saarbrücker Ensemble in 1984 she was honored with the title “Saarland State Actor”. After her professional retirement, she became socially committed and founded the “Saar Women's Club - Encounter and Conversation”, to which she remained connected until her death. Brigitte Noblé-Dryander died in Saarbrücken in 1997.

Artistic career

In 38 years at the Saarbrücker Theater Brigitte Dryander played practically all the "big" female character roles - sometimes several times, including Medea, Rose Bernd, Mother Courage, Elisabeth (in Maria Stuart), Martha (in "Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf?"), Claire Zachanassian (in "The Old Lady's Visit").

From the late 1950s she was one of the first women in Germany to direct. She was a permanent freelancer at Saarland Broadcasting Corporation . Her unmistakable dark voice could be heard in numerous radio plays. A "street sweeper" of the pre-television era were the detective radio plays by Lester Powell (Die Dame ...), where she played the main female character alongside Albert C. Weiland in weekly sequels until the 1960s. Until the 1970s she taught acting at the Saarland University of Music. Even though she always remained connected to her homeland, she occasionally performed guest performances on other German theaters. She worked on various television productions ("The Devil in Boston" based on Lion Feuchtwanger, "Judith" by Friedrich Hebbel, "Tatort" and others).

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SURNAME Dryander, Brigitte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dryander, Johanna Brigitte (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and director
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Dillingen , Saar area
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1997
Place of death Saarbrücken