Cox Habbema

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Hilmar Thate , Wolfgang Bayer, Cox Habbema and Eberhard Esche (from left, 1971)

Cornelia "Cox" Habbema (born March 21, 1944 in Amsterdam ; † April 18, 2016 there ) was a Dutch actress and theater director.

Life

In Amsterdam (1986)

After briefly studying Slavic Studies , Habbema received an acting and directing training at the Toneelschool in Amsterdam. In 1967 she made her stage debut with the “Gruppe Centrum” and interned at various stages in London, Paris and Italy as well as with Benno Besson at the Deutsches Theater Berlin . From 1969 to the mid-1980s she lived and worked mostly in the GDR . During this time she was permanently engaged as an actor and director at the East Berlin Deutsches Theater, but also worked as a guest on Dutch theaters and as a film and television actress in the Netherlands and Belgium . In 1968 she got the leading role in Rainer Simon's DEFA strip How do you marry a king? at the side of her husband, the actor Eberhard Esche , with whom she also realized a series of programs with classical ballads and Heine poems as a director, reciter and singer.

In 1984 Habbema returned to the Netherlands. First she worked as a producer, presenter and editor at the television station NOS (series Nederland C ) and in 1986 took over the management of the Stadsschouwburg Theater in Amsterdam as artistic director . In 2004 Habbema published an autobiographical book entitled Mein Koffer in Berlin or Das Märchen von der Wende .

Her younger brother Eddy Habbema also works as an actor and director.

Filmography

Habbema in the Dutch VPRO television production Ramcinitos en de dief (1973)

theatre

play

Director

  • 1979: Voices
  • 1980: Peter Hacks : Senecas Tod ( Deutsches Theater Berlin )
  • 1981: Peter Hacks: Muses
  • 1982: Reineke Fuchs
  • 1982: Biedermann and the arsonists
  • 1983: The love story of the century

Works

  • My suitcase in Berlin or the fairy tale about the turnaround . Militzke, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-86189-705-9 .
  • The new lightness. Appear successfully in public . Militzke, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 978-3-86189-748-4 .

Web links

Commons : Cox Habbema  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Actrice Cox Habbema (72) overleden. In: nrc.nl. NRC Media, April 18, 2016, accessed April 19, 2016 (Dutch).
personal data
SURNAME Habbema, Cox
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Habbema, Cornelia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch actress and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam , North Holland , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 2016
Place of death Amsterdam , North Holland , Netherlands