Edith Volkmann

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Edith Volkmann (born November 14, 1920 in Hanover , † July 29, 1997 in Munich ) was a German actress .

Life

She took acting lessons from Max Gaede in her hometown of Hanover and made her debut at the Städtische Bühnen Osnabrück. She then played at the Lower Saxony State Theater in Hanover until 1944 .

After the end of the war, she continued her career from 1945 to 1949 at the Ostfriesische Kammerspiele in Leer . At the beginning of the 1950s she went to East Berlin and performed there on various stages and cabarets.

During this time she received her first film roles from DEFA , for example in the decidedly anti-Western production Frauenschicksale . In the early 1960s she moved to the Federal Republic and was able to continue her professional career.

She was mainly seen on television, occasionally she also acted in theater. In movies, she usually embodied rather bourgeois female characters like the caretaker in Zur Ding, Schätze (1968), ignorant mothers like in Bübchen (1968) and Die Konsequenz (1977) or a secretary in money .

Edith Volkmann was temporarily married to the director Wolfgang Luderer . Her daughter Ulrike Luderer also became an actress.

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SURNAME Volkmann, Edith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1997
Place of death Munich