Edith Schultze-Westrum

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Edith Schultze-Westrum , with full name Edith Käthe Elisabeth Schultze-Westrum , in cast lists sometimes also Edith Schulze-Westrum , (born December 30, 1904 in Mainz-Kastel ; † March 20, 1981 in Munich ) was a German actress , radio play and voice actress .

biography

Edith Schultze was born as the youngest of three siblings. Her parents were first lieutenant and adjutant Karl August Siegmund Schultze and his wife Else Hulda Mathilde Schultze, née. West around. By an order of the government president in Stralsund on July 3, 1917, it was approved that the child Edith could take and use the family name Schultze-Westrum. So her name was made up of those of her parents. She spent her childhood first in Ulm , later in Berlin and Greifswald , where she also attended the Lyceum. When the First World War began in 1914, her father was drafted and died in Flanders in the first year of the war .

After successfully completing school, she traveled to a cousin, a professor of anatomy, in Munich and stayed there. He got his cousin a job as a medical laboratory assistant in anatomy. But young Edith was more drawn to the theater. In 1926 she was seen for the first time as a crime fiend in the “Nibelungen” on a Munich student theater. The student attended lectures on performing arts in town and took private acting classes. As early as 1927 she received a beginner's contract at the Munich Kammerspiele with Otto Falckenberg . There she was seen in a Lulu production in 1928 as the chambermaid Henriette. She was committed to the maid role in around 20 other productions. It was a long time before she got her first classic role. But then very soon she became a well-known actress. It was also consistently rated very well by the critics of the time. Above all, the versatility and credibility of their role representation was pointed out. “That was elementary, great and relentless art of representation!” Wrote the Munich newspaper, for example, about her performance in 1935 after the premiere of the play “The game from the German ancestors”.

In 1935 she was banned from appearing for several months because she criticized the Nazi dictatorship and stood up for her Jewish friends. Then she was again committed by Otto Falckenberg to the Bavarian State Theater in Munich. Until the end of the war she had only appeared in one feature film (Kiki from 1932). In the first years after the war she often went on tours and worked as a dubbing actress, wrote texts for foreign films and directed herself, before she got permanent engagements at the Munich Kammerspiele and the “Kleine Komödie”. Since 1948 she worked as a freelance actress. Her best-known theater roles include her mother Wolfen in Gerhart Hauptmann's Der Biberpelz , which she performed with great success a. a. at the Staatstheater Hannover and 1966 at the Schauspielhaus Hansa in Berlin, and Selma Knobbe in Die Ratten , also by Hauptmann, and Mrs. Evans in Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill .

As a voice actress she lent her voice and a. Dolores del Río ( Flaming Star ), Julia Faye ( Samson and Delilah ), Ruth Nelson ( Humoresque ), Janet Beecher ( In the Sign of Zorro ) and Aline MacMahon ( The King of Hawaii ).

Her film career also began in 1948. In her first post-war film, Die Zeit mit Dir , she was seen as a welfare worker. A year later she played the woman Berowska in Tragedy of a Passion . She was often seen in mother roles, as in Nacht fell over Gotenhafen as Mother Reiser or Mother Bernhard in the anti-war film Die Brücke by Bernhard Wicki . In 1961 she played the leading female role (mother Lauretz) in Via Mala alongside Gert Fröbe . However, she did not make it to the “mother of the nation”, which was less because of her than because of the kind of people she embodied. She was soon discovered for television too. She was seen on the screen in many small and large roles, including a. in the television series Tournee - A ballet dances around the world as Aunt Anna in one of the leading roles. At her side, Maria Litto , Gerhart Lippert , Albert Venohr and Harry Wüstenhagen played in other leading roles . She was also the main actress in Sister Bonaventura with Hilde Krahl , Mario Adorf and Horst Tappert in other roles. In 1962 she played the female lead under director Falk Harnack in Everyone dies for himself by Hans Fallada . Her partners were Alfred Schieske , Anneli Granget , Hartmut Reck and Werner Peters . In 1965 she was seen in the lead role in the film Das Haus in der Karpfengasse by director Kurt Hoffmann , which was produced in two versions, one in a theatrical version and the other in a three-part television version, which has since been released on DVD. There were 5 gold film tapes for the film .

In several radio plays they had occurred, such as 1958 in the science fiction -Stück The hour of coltsfoot of Günter Eich and 1967 under the direction of Dieter Munck in the title role of the play 's Rifles woman Carrar of Bertolt Brecht . Her partners at the time were Karl Paryla and Grete Wurm . In 1962 she played the fisherman's wife Ilsebill, directed by August Everding, in the children's radio play Von dem Fischer and his wife, the Brothers Grimm . The other leading actors were Hans Cossy , Robert Graf and Benno Sterzenbach . In 1965, she was heard together with Kurt Lieck in the two-person piece Really a shame for Fred by James Saunders .

Edith Schultze-Westrum was married to the film producer Toni Schelkopf for five years from 1940 to 1945 and had two children named Regine and Thomas. The latter comes from a relationship with Paul Verhoeven .

In the mid-1950s, the garden friend bought a house in Pullach . She was also able to convey her love for nature to her son Thomas Schultze-Westrum , who became known as a zoologist and animal filmmaker.

At the age of 76 she died on March 20, 1981 in Munich from the effects of Parkinson's disease , from which she had suffered for a long time. The burial took place in the forest cemetery (No. 16-W-24) in the Solln district of Munich , where Heinz Rühmann , who was involved with her at Falckenberg, gave the funeral speech.

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  1. ↑ Program from January 1, 1966.
  2. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Edith Schultze-Westrum
personal data
SURNAME Schultze-Westrum, Edith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Edith Schulze-Westrum
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz-Kastel
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1981
Place of death Munich