Ehmi Bessel
Ehmi Bessel (born October 11, 1904 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , † February 3, 1988 in Hamburg ) was a German theater and film actress .
Life
She attended the Liselotte School in Mannheim and learned acting from the theater and silent film star Fritz Alberti . She got her first engagement at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf , where she quickly became a character actress, especially in 1926 as Aude in Paul Raynal's The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier .
From 1929 to 1932 she was seen at the Münchner Kammerspiele , for example as Polly in Die Dreigroschenoper (1929), in the world premiere of Alfred Döblin's Die Ehe (1930) and in the title role of Nora (1931). From 1932 to 1939 she was part of the ensemble of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, from 1947 to 1950 she worked at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, and in 1960 she returned to the Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, where she was active until 1977. Ehmi Bessel only occasionally took on film roles. Her most important film is The Girl from Montparnasse from 1932, with her in the eponymous leading role. In 1935 she was appointed Hamburg State Actress .
In 1978 she appeared at the Gandersheim Cathedral Festival in Bad Gandersheim , where she received the “ Roswitha Ring ”.
Ehmi Bessel had a liaison with the aviator general Ernst Udet , from the relationship the daughter Dinah Hinz , who died in 2020, emerged. In 1934, shortly before the birth, she married her colleague Werner Hinz . The sons Michael Hinz and Knut Hinz come from the marriage . All three children followed in their parents' footsteps and also became famous theater and film actors.
Ehmi Bessel died on February 3, 1988 at the age of 83 in Hamburg. She found her final resting place next to her husband in the Dahlem cemetery in Berlin.
Filmography
- 1926: Lost Nights
- 1932: The girl from Montparnasse
- 1933: Greetings and kisses to Veronika
- 1957: Confessions of the impostor Felix Krull
- 1961: The wild duck
- 1966: Hava, the hedgehog
- 1967: Rheinsberg
- 1971: Prussia above everything
- 1977: Women in New York
- 1978: Late love
- 1979: Nathan the Wise
theatre
- 1947: Molière : Tartuffe - Director: Willi Schmidt ( Deutsches Theater Berlin - Kammerspiele)
- 1949: Anton Chekhov : The Seagull (Irina Arkadina) - Director: Willi Schmidt (Deutsches Theater Berlin - Kammerspiele)
- 1950: Richard Brinsley Sheridan : Die Lästerschule (Frau von Hohn) - Director: Aribert Wäscher (Deutsches Theater Berlin - Kammerspiele)
literature
- C. Bernd Sucher (ed.): Theater Lexicon. Authors, directors, actors, dramaturges, stage designers, critics . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1995, 2nd edition 1999, ISBN 3-423-03322-3
Web links
- Ehmi Bessel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Phil: The Roswitha Ring. In: domfestspiele-gandersheim.de. Retrieved November 23, 2017 .
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 567.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bessel, Ehmi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater and film actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 11, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ludwigshafen am Rhein |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd February 1988 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |