Edith Heerdegen
Edith Heerdegen (born July 2, 1913 in Dresden , † July 13, 1982 in Dachsberg , Waldshut district ) was a German actress .
Life
After graduating from high school, she took acting lessons and was an extra in Wilhelm Tell in 1933 . For years she played on touring stages until shortly before the end of World War II she got an engagement at the Dresden State Theater . During two long breaks due to illness, the actress acquired extensive literary and theoretical knowledge.
With her sponsor and partner Erich Ponto , she came to the Staatstheater Stuttgart in 1947 , to whose ensemble she belonged until July 1979, before moving to Bochum with Claus Peymann. She was entitled "Württemberg State Actress". In the meantime she also worked at the Deutsches Theater in Göttingen and the Residenztheater in Munich. Most recently she worked at the Schauspielhaus Bochum . As an important actress in German post-war theater, she won over in numerous classical and modern roles. Her acting colleague Bernhard Minetti , with whom she appeared more than 70 times in Bernhard's play Der Weltverbesserer , characterized her as a “great, strong force on the stage”.
She also appeared in a number of films , she was seen more often in television plays and she spoke in 343 radio plays . She was described as an actress with extraordinary talent, enormous versatility and a rare sense of style and atmosphere. As an older woman, she made short but concise appearances in many television series with her high-pitched, penetrating voice. As “Aunt Milla” she was convincing in the film adaptation of Heinrich Böll's satire Not only at Christmas time as well as in the Rainer Erler film Order for the child prodigies with Carl-Heinz Schroth . Starting from the ZDF - Special The ancients come in which they occurred in 1980 also along with Schroth in an episode, developed Herbert Reinecker the television series Jacob and Adele , in which both initially embodied the title roles. Since Heerdegen died before the series was completed, Brigitte Horney then took on the female lead.
The actress lived with Erich Ponto during the last years of his life until 1957. She was married to Otto Böhm, the boss of a traditional Stuttgart delicatessen company. She always shielded her private life from the public. Heerdegen lived in Dachsberg in the southern Black Forest , where she died on July 13, 1982 after a long illness and is also buried.
Filmography
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theatre
- "Margareta" in Shakespeare's Richard III
- Title role in Lessing's Minna by Barnhelm
- "Elisabeth" in Schiller's Maria Stuart
- "Rebecca" in Ibsen's Rosmersholm
- Title role in Shaw's Saint Joan
- "Lucile" in Giraudoux Um Lukretis
- “Mizzi” in Kafka's Das Schloss
- "Mary Cavan" in O'Neill's One Long Day's Journey into the Night
- "Dr. Mathilde von Zahnd ”in Dürrenmatt's Physiker
- “Stella” in Peter Ustinov's final spurt
- "The woman" in Bernhard's The Do-gooder
Radio plays (selection)
- 1950: Arthur Miller : The Death of the Salesman - Director: Fränze Roloff (radio play - HR )
- 1957: Hans Daiber : Let the master praise the work. A cheerful audio series about Wilhelm Busch (Die fromme Helene) - Director: Robert Vogel (radio play - SDR )
Web links
- Edith Heerdegen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Edith Heerdegen at filmportal.de
- Literature by and about Edith Heerdegen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Obituary in Die Zeit 30/1982 on zeit.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Edith Heerdegen
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Army sword, Edith |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bohm, Edith |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 2, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 13, 1982 |
| Place of death | Dachsberg , Waldshut district |