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Elfe Schneider (born November 30, 1905 in Seehausen (Altmark) , † September 14, 1970 in Berlin ) was a German actress , voice actress and photographer .

Life

Elfe Schneider was born on November 30, 1905 in Seehausen (Altmark) and grew up in Eberswalde . She began her professional career as a photographer and soon made a name for herself as an animal photographer in the Berlin Zoo under Ludwig Heck . Her photos have also appeared in books such as So I learned gliding by Rolf Italiaander (1931), Love for Animals. Experienced and seen by Paul Eipper (1933) and Argentinian animals by Hans Schmidt (1935). When her entire studio and accessories were destroyed during a night of bombing in World War II , she decided to embark on an acting career.

After completing their training at Ernst Legal , their first engagements took them to Potsdam and Brandenburg an der Havel . Later she mainly appeared at the Berlin Vaganten stage . Especially her "Amanda Wingfield" in Tennessee Williams ' The Glass Menagerie was famous. She became known to a wide audience through her radio play work.

Elfe Schneider has almost never appeared in film and television. She only had a bigger role in Fritz Genschow's film adaptation of the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty (1955). Since the post-war period, however, she has been regularly active in dubbing . In doing so, she mostly lent her voice to striking supporting actresses, such as Flora Robson in Caesar and Cleopatra (1945), Josephine Hull in the second dubbed version of Arsenic and Lace , Mildred Dunnock in the first dubbed version of Always Trouble with Harry , Anna Lee in This Earth Is mine , Alice Ghostley in Who Broke the Nightingale , Gladys Cooper in The Dead List , Elsa Lanchester in Mary Poppins , Josephine Hutchinson in Nevada Smith and Jo van Fleet in The Unyielding . She was also the voice of Norman's mother in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho .

Elfe Schneider died after a serious illness on September 14, 1970 in Berlin.

literature

  • Elfe Schneider (obituary) in Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, 80th year 1972 - season 1971/72. Theater history year and address book . Cooperative of German Stage Members, Hamburg 1972, p. 117

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ information according to the Imdb; According to the Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, 80th year 1972 , p. 117, she was born on November 30, 1903
  2. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, 80th year 1972 - season 1971/72 , Hamburg 1972, p. 117
  3. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch, 80th year 1972 - season 1971/72 , Hamburg 1972, p. 117
personal data
SURNAME Tailor, elf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, voice actress and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Seehausen (Altmark) , Osterburg district
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1970
Place of death Berlin