Edyth Edwards

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Edyth Edwards , also Edith Edwards (born May 14, 1899 in Breslau as Edyth Paula Fischer , † March 6, 1956 in West Berlin ) was a German film and stage actress.

Life

Edwards made his successful debut at the Renaissance Theater in Charlottenburg in 1924 . In 1926 she became a member of the ensemble of the Komödienhaus am Schiffbauerdamm . From 1932 to 1934 she performed at the Deutsches Künstlertheater in Nürnberger Straße. Edwards then worked from 1936 to 1944 at the Volksbühne (Berlin) and at the Theater der Jugend in ( Vienna ).

The actress was also convincing after the Second World War in Jean Giraudoux 's play The Trojan War Doesn't Take Place (premiered on April 18, 1947, Hebbel Theater ) and in Minna von Barnhelm by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (March 4, 1948, Schloßparktheater).

Especially between the two world wars, she was considered one of the most talented stage actresses in Berlin. She shone in roles of both classical theater literature and modernity on many stages in Berlin; including the theater on Königgrätzer Strasse under Victor Barnowsky and under Max Reinhardt at the Staatstheater .

Death and grave

Grave of Edyth Edwards in the Heerstraße cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Edyth Edwards died almost six weeks before her 57th birthday on March 6, 1956 after years of severe heart disease in a Berlin hospital.

Her grave is in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: 15-164). The Greek marble grave slab was based on a design by Richard Scheibe with an inscription designed by Johannes Boehland . In the middle of the plate is a bronze relief created by Harald Haacke that depicts Orpheus playing the lyre .

The final resting place of Edyth Edwards was dedicated as an honor grave of the state of Berlin from 1987 to 2009 .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1923: His Wife, the Stranger (aka "Wilbur Crawford's Wondrous Adventure")
  • 1923: The lost shoe
  • 1924: Mater dolorosa
  • 1925: Pietro, the corsair
  • 1929: The woman you long for
  • 1930: the stolen face

literature

  • Klaus Hammer: Historic cemeteries & tombs in Berlin. Stattbuch-Verlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-922778-32-1 (later as: Friedhofsführer Berlin. Historical cemeteries and tombs in church rooms . Edition Jaron, Berlin 2001).
  • Heerstrasse cemetery. In: Ute Nitsch: Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf from A to Z ... a lexicon. Edition Berlin in Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-936411-80-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data of Edyth Edwards in: Rosemary Hilmar: Alban Berg. 1885-1935. Exhibition by the Austrian National Library, State Hall, 23 May to 20 October 1985. Universal Edition, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-7024-0176-8 , p. 100.
  2. ^ Edyth Edwards . In: Peter Jung: Erwin Piscator, the political theater. Berlin 1929. One comment. NoRa, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86557-105-2 , p. 313.
  3. ↑ Edyth Edwards died . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . Friday March 9, 1956. p. 6. Retrieved November 24, 2019.
  4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 486.
  5. ↑ Birgit Jochens, Herbert May: The cemeteries in Berlin-Charlottenburg. History of the cemetery facilities and their tomb culture . Stapp, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-87776-056-2 . P. 229.
personal data
SURNAME Edwards, Edyth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Edwards, Edith; Fischer, Edyth Paula (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film and stage actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1956
Place of death West Berlin