Doris Thalmer

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Doris Thalmer , also Dora Thalmer and Doris Thalmer-Grabley , born as Theodora Thalmessinger (born July 20, 1907 in Frankfurt am Main ; †  October 9, 1998 in Bad Saarow ) was a German actress during the Weimar Republic and with DEFA .

Live and act

Theodora Thalmessinger, daughter of a banker and an opera singer, had already performed at Berlin's Children's Theater as an adolescent . She began her professional artistic work at the age of 17 in Bad Godesberg . Thalmer's subsequent stage positions were Bremen (Stadttheater), her hometown Frankfurt am Main (where she appeared at the Neues Theater under the direction of Max Ophüls ) and finally Berlin again, where the blonde artist initially found employment on the Saltenburg stages . At the beginning of the 1930s, the directors / artistic directors Victor Barnowsky and Erwin Piscator were among its most important sponsors. Dora Thalmer played juvenile-comical, but also serious characters. She was seen as Rosalinde in Shakespeare's As You Like It , as Saint Johanna in the Shaw drama of the same name and as Hannele in Gerhart Hauptmann's Hanneles Himmelfahrt .

For the role of Mariechen alongside Hertha Thiele in the young girl drama Girls in Uniform , the director Leontine Sagan brought Dora Thalmer in front of the camera for the first time in 1931. Hertha Thiele was also her partner in her next important film, Anna and Elisabeth , another women's drama. At that time, the National Socialists had just taken power. The Jewess was immediately sidelined and prohibited from performing. Then Doris Thalmer went into hiding in a village and, covered by the mayor, lived by her husband's side until 1945, unrecognized as a farmer.

After the Second World War, Doris Thalmer returned to the theater ( Dresden , Potsdam , East Berlin) and continued her film work with small to medium-sized supporting characters at DEFA. The actress was also seen in a number of television productions well into old age (e.g. The Green Portfolio , The Murderer , Hedda Gabler , The Story of the Golden Thaler , The Language of Birds and the Spreewald Familie series ). After six decades in front of the camera, Doris Thalmer ended her film career in 1991.

In 1986 she received the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold.

She was engaged for 30 years at the Berliner Ensemble , where she appeared in numerous supporting roles with Helene Weigel , Gisela May , Ekkehard Schall and others on the stage on Schiffbauerdamm, most recently at the age of 86 in the Caucasian Chalk Circle . She also gave acting lessons and has accompanied several young actors on their theater career, including Franziska Troegner .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Awards

literature

  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 339.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , 4./5. October 1986, p. 5
personal data
SURNAME Thalmer, Doris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thalmessinger, Theodora (maiden name); Thalmer, Dora; Thalmer-Grabley, Doris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1998
Place of death Bad Saarow