Bruni Löbel

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Bruni Löbel, 1941

Brunhilde Melitta "Bruni" Löbel (born December 20, 1920 in Chemnitz , † September 27, 2006 in Mühldorf am Inn ) was a German stage and film actress .

Professional

Bruni Löbel failed the entrance exam at the drama school . But this did not stop her from wanting to become an actress. 1935 Löbel played finally her first role at the Chemnitz Municipal Theater in The Imaginary sick of Molière . She took private acting lessons from Sonja Karzau , who in 1938 received an engagement from Otto Falckenberg at the Münchner Kammerspiele . Bruni Löbel really wanted to follow her, but her parents forbade the 17-year-old to move to the big city “ Den of Sin“And locked her in her room on the mezzanine floor. But the daughter was not stopped: she climbed out of the window, previously lowered her fully packed suitcase with a rubber rope, drove to Munich and never returned. She initially worked as a secretary. But two years later, Bruni Löbel was just 19 years old, she received an offer from Ufa for a role alongside Wolf Albach-Retty in the operetta strip Heimatland . With that, at least in the Ufa films, she was committed to the role of the “lively naive”. From this point on she played both film and theater roles, for example at the Marburg Festival with the still unknown Gert Fröbein a midsummer night's dream .

On January 1, 1940, Löbel signed her first contract with Ufa. After a short time in the Reich Labor Service, she returned to Berlin and played her second film role in Robert Adolf Stemmle's youth film Jungens . After shooting outdoors at the Curonian Spit and at the Berlin studio, she then performed in Potsdam in Hansel and Gretel , until Horst van Diemen accepted her into the Ufa troop, which first stayed in East Prussia and then for four weeks in Italy as part of the Wehrmacht support . After a short stay in Berlin, she visited the Ufa troupe in Romania, which gave presentations in camps and barracks of the German Wehrmacht for over three weeks .

With Paul Klinger and Paul Wegener at his side, Bruni Löbel made his breakthrough in the film drama When the Sun Shines Again (1943), directed by Boleslaw Barlog . After the end of the war, Bruni Löbel initially went on tour with Margot Hielscher and Heinz Rühmann through numerous German cities and theaters. In 1950 she played again on the side of Paul Klinger, this time in the comedy The Night Without Sins , where she played the leading female role. In the years 1950/51, three loosely connected films were made under the direction of Ákos Ráthonyi , which in Germany also under the titlesPaulchen und die Mädchenschule (original title sender unknown ), Paulchen prevails (OT girls with relationships ) and Paulchen and the million-dollar inheritance (OT angel in evening dress ) were published. Bruni Löbel played the student Magda Lehmann. In these films she starred with Henny Porten , Cornell Borchers , Rudolf Prack and Willy Fritsch , among others .

Bruni Löbel in the Münchner Kammerspiele (1957)

In 1958 she stayed in Munich and worked mainly on the Kleine Komödie, the Münchener Kammerspiele and the Residenztheater . They were also seen playing in Hamburg, Düsseldorf and Vienna.

She took on more than 40 film roles, including three in American productions ( The Big Lift , Almost Angels and Special Delivery ) from the 1950s onwards. In the semi-documentary drama The Big Lift , she worked with Montgomery Clift and again with Cornell Borchers, directed by George Seaton . Bruni Löbel also became more and more a sought-after television actress and received leading roles in television games and series. She was considered an almost ideal actress of the resolutely amiable type of woman, which gave her first the mother and later the grandmother roles. From 1977 to 1988 she played alongside Walter Sedlmayr"Mama" Elisabeth Schöninger in the popular TV series Police Inspection 1 . She gained further popularity in the role of the scratchy housekeeper Ms. Rabe in the series I'm Marrying a Family . Children and young people also know her in the role of sister Agatha in the television adaptation of James Krüss' youth book Timm Thaler . In other television series, such as For Heaven's Sake , she took on guest roles.

From 1989 Löbel played the role of grandmother Herta in the family series Forsthaus Falkenau ; The role and series were a huge hit and she played this character regularly until the year she died. But she also remained loyal to the theater stage. In 2003 she played Aunt Abby in Arsenic and a lace cap in the comedy in the Bayrischer Hof in Munich. Her last role she played in the ARD - telenovela Sturm der Liebe as Almuth Baroness von Thalheim year of 2006.

Personal

Bruni Löbel had three older brothers and two younger sisters (Ruth and Margot). Her youngest sister Margot Leonard (* 1927) was a sought-after dubbing actress during her active time and was the standard German voice of Marilyn Monroe , she also played some minor roles in film and television.

Bruni Löbel was married twice. Her son Felix, from her first marriage to the cabaret artist Gerhard Bronner , with whom she was married from 1955 until the divorce in 1959, is a freelance pianist and piano teacher. She was married to the actor and dubbing actor Holger Hagen from 1971 until his death in 1996 and played with him in several television games, including the dream ship . Löbel is buried in Rattenkirchen , Ramering / Mühldorf am Inn district, next to Holger Hagen's farm in an urn grave.

Filmography

Posthumously

Radio plays (selection)

Honors

Books

  • Travel reports
  • Small unknown size (novel), Kreisselmeier, Munich 1962, also: Heyne (paperback), Munich 1963.
  • Fanta and Tasie (radio play).
  • A portion of happiness (memoirs), Herbig, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7766-1907-4 .
  • My portion of happiness (revised new edition), Langen-Müller, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7844-2921-1 .

Web links

Commons : Bruni Löbel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bruni Löbel's biography at filmportal.de
  2. ↑ Obituary. In: Der Spiegel . 41/2006, p. 230. Retrieved July 14, 2013 .
  3. ^ The German film. (...) Bruni Löbel. In:  Südostdeutsche Tageszeitung. Organ of the Germans in Romania. Edition Banat , No. 171/1941 (68th / 23rd year), October 12, 1941, p. 12 (unpaginated), top right. (Online at ANNO ).Vorlage:ANNO/Wartung/bdz
  4. ↑ Homepage Felix Bronner ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@2Vorlage:Webachiv/IABot/www.klavier-felixbronner.de
  5. ^ The grave of Bruni Löbel adS knerger.de
  6. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Löbel, Bruni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hagen, Brunhilde Melitta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stage and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 2006
Place of death Mühldorf am Inn