Dagmar von Kurmin

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Dagmar von Kurmin (2010)

Dagmar von Kurmin (born August 13, 1933 in Riga , Latvia ; † August 1, 2020 in Bonn ) was a German actress and director . She is also known as a speaker for radio plays and as a reciter .

Life

Dagmar von Kurmin came to Germany as a child. She completed her acting training in Hamburg from 1953 to 1955 and had her first engagement with Gustaf Gründgens at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg in 1956 in the play manor house . Other stations in her long and ongoing stage career have included Bamberg , Koblenz , Baden-Baden , Bad Godesberg and Recklinghausen as part of the Ruhr Festival .

From 1960 to 1962 she worked as a television announcer, from 1963 the first television roles followed, although she was rarely seen in leading roles on the screen. Her acting passion has always been stage work.

Dagmar von Kurmin also made a name for herself as a speaker and director of radio plays, among others with the labels of BASF and Deutsche Grammophon . As the successor to Konrad Halver , she worked from 1972 to 1973 as in-house director for the now legendary radio play label Europa ; In the short time there, almost twenty radio plays for young people were created under her direction, including the famous Karl May episodes and Moby Dick . She wrote the dialogue books for other radio plays. B. Fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm .

As a reciter, von Kurmin, who is also fluent in English, French, Russian and Latvian, moved around with a ballad program.

Since the beginning of 2003 she has been a member of the ensemble of the Titania radio play productions, in whose individual radio plays she spoke different roles. She also speaks there Marilla Cuthbert in the 2008 series Anne on Green Gables based on the books by Lucy Maud Montgomery . In 2014 she played one of the main roles in the film My Last Concert (Director: Selcuk Cara , Germany, 2014), which was awarded the title “Particularly Valuable” by the German Film and Media Assessment (FBW), Germany, as Best Short Film August 2014 has been.

In the last few years she played in some cinema and TV productions such as B. Danni Lowinski , system error - When Inge is dancing , Betty's diagnosis , emergency call harbor edge and many more.

Von Kurmin lived in Remagen .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Chamber of horrors
001 - Carmilla, the vampire as The Stranger
002 - The amulet of the mummy as Mrs. Grant
003 - The family of the vampire as princess and mother superior
004 - The Phantom of the Opera as Madame Giry
007 - The Bride of the Dead as a servant
008 - Haunted Hill House I as a mother
009 - Haunted Hill House II as a mother
015 - The Freischütz as a forester
017 - Dracula I as landlady
018 - Dracula II as landlady
019 - Dracula III as landlady
021 - The witch's curse as Katrina van Kampen
036 - The portrait of Dorian Gray I as Mrs. Vane
037 - The portrait of Dorian Gray II as Mrs. Vane
047 - Bewitched as Chessidora Cheney
050 - The Canterville Ghost as Mrs. Umney
051 - The mummy as a market woman
065 - Companies wanted! as Miss Manders
080 - The Monk I. as Abbess Agatha
081 - The monk II as Abbess Agatha
082 - The zombie as a hanging zombie
084 - The cat and the canary I as Mummy Pleasant
085 - The cat and the canary II as Mummy Pleasant
093 - The house with the seven gables as Hepibah Pyncheon
098 - The Schimmelreiter as Trin'Jans
100 - dreams in the witch house as Keziah Mason
153 - Buleman's house as Mrs. Anken
Crime classics
1 - Edgar Wallace - The Indian cloth as Lady Lebanon
2 - Sherlock Holmes - The Sign of Four as Mrs. Bernstone and Mrs. Cecil Forrester
3 - Edgar Wallace - The Blue Hand as Jane Groat
Special
1 - Merry Christmas, Mr. Scrooge! as Caroline Wilkins
2 - The little lord as Lady Lorridaile
15 - Beauty and the Beast as a fairy godmother
ANNE
Episode 1–12 and 15–20 as Marilla Cuthbert
SHERLOCK HOLMES
35 - The Hound of the Baskervilles as Eliza Barrymore

Awards

  • 2004 - Radio Play Award - Best Speaker in a Leading Role (for Lady Lebranon in "The Indian Cloth")
  • 2010 - Ohrkanus audio book and radio play award - honorary award for life's work
  • 2016 - Winner: Best Actress: TMFF The Film Festival, UK

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ KiKA children's channel from ARD and ZDF: KiKA - 26. A comical bird. December 4, 2019, accessed August 18, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Dagmar von Kurmin - She slipped into over 50 roles for 'Titania'. Retrieved August 19, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Ohrkanus 2010 - Prize for life's work to Dagmar von Kurmin - laudation by Konrad Halver , youtube.com, accessed on August 29, 2015
  4. ↑ Proof of film award
personal data
SURNAME Kurmin, Dagmar von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, speaker and director
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga , Latvia