Dorothea Wieck

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Dorothea Wieck in Leipzig-Gohlis (1946)

Dorothea Wieck (born January 3, 1908 in Davos ; † February 19, 1986 in Berlin ) was a German theater and film actress . She is a cousin of the violinist and author Michael Wieck .

Life

The Wieck family appears in family research for the first time with a Claus Heinrich Wieck (born December 21, 1832 in Petersdorf on Fehmarn ), he becomes a businessman in Altona , gets married and has children. Dorothea Wieck comes from this family. Her father Hans Leopold Wieck was a wholesale merchant in Dresden and her mother was Friederike Wernicke. Dorothea married the journalist and writer Ernst von dercken on September 13, 1932 in Berlin . The marriage ended in divorce in 1935.

Wieck made his debut in 1926 in the film Little Inge and Her Three Fathers and appeared in several silent films. She became generally known for the film Girls in Uniform . In it she plays Fraulein von Bernburg, a pretty educator for whose favor most girls court. The suppression of the awakening (lesbian) sexuality in an authoritarian and hostile boarding school becomes an impressive symbol for the conservative-military educational system of the Weimar Republic in this film . In 1932 she was the Countess Mariza in a film adaptation of an operetta by Richard Oswald . Dorothea Wieck has made around 50 films in total. For a long time she lived in the Berlin artists' colony . She played at the Deutsches Theater and the Schiller Theater in Berlin and at other large theaters. Special roles in: Blasted Grids , The Frog King , A Great Idea . She also worked as a director . As a celebrated actress, Dorothea Wieck was the table lady of Chancellor Hitler several times.

Gravestone for Dorothea Wieck in the Heerstrasse cemetery

After the end of the Second World War , Dorothea Wieck preferred to play theater, only appearing in supporting roles on the screen. At the beginning of the 1960s, she almost completely withdrew from the film business. In 1973 she received the gold film tape for many years of outstanding work in German film. She played her last role in 1973 in the episode Death of a Hippie Girl from the crime series Der Kommissar .

Dorothea Wieck died on February 19, 1986 at the age of 78 in a Berlin clinic. Her grave is in the state's own cemetery in Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: 19-A).

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Dorothea Wieck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Wieck: Testimony of the fall of Königsberg . Verlag Beck, 2nd edition, Munich 2009, pp. 74, 367
  2. ↑ Michael Wieck: Testimony of the fall of Königsberg . Becksche Series, Munich 2005. ISBN 3 406 51115 5 . Pp. 21 and 367
  3. ↑ Dorothea Wieck died at 78 . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . Friday, February 21, 1986. p. 15. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
  4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 497.
personal data
SURNAME Wieck, Dorothea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Davos
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1986
Place of death Berlin