Elisabeth Flickenschildt

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Elisabeth Ida Marie Flickenschildt (born March 16, 1905 in Blankenese near Hamburg, † October 26, 1977 in Guderhandviertel near Stade) was a German stage and film actress.

Life

Elisabeth Ida Marie Flickenschildt graduated from high school in Hamburg and began an apprenticeship in a fashion company. At the age of 23 she saw a theater performance that excited her so much that a short time later her father, a captain , agreed to training as an actor. Robert Nhil gave the 23-year-old acting lessons. With a height of 1.79 meters, she was literally a great actress at first. Flickenschildt then made her acting debut as Farmer Armgard in Schiller's Wilhelm Tell at the Hamburger Schauspielhaus . Soon she was employed on various German theaters. She played three years in Munich and Berlin . In 1936 she married the theater scholar , dramaturge and personal Gründgens assistant Rolf Badenhausen (1907–1987), the marriage lasted until 1944. Finally, Gustaf Gründgens engaged her at the State Theater in Berlin , where she initially played the witch in Goethe's Faust. A tragedy. embodied.

Flickenschildt's film successes during the National Socialist era , which made her famous throughout Germany, were The Broken Krug (1937), The Muzzle (1938), Robert Koch, the Fighter of Death (1939), Trenck, the Pandur (1940), Ewiger Rembrandt ( 1942) and Romance in Minor (1943). Flickenschildt that from 1932 the NSDAP belonged, was in the final stages of World War II in August 1944 by Hitler approved gottbegnadeten list added - a list of the Reich Propaganda Ministry so-called irreplaceable actor . She was briefly imprisoned after the Second World War on suspicion of fraudulent questionnaires relating to her denazification . After that she continued to play theater, preferably with Gustaf Gründgens as a director. Through him she became a member of the ensemble at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and followed him to Hamburg at the Deutsche Schauspielhaus . Under his directorship, z. Partly under his direction, Flickenschildt played almost all classic female roles in domestic and foreign theater literature (including Marthe Schwerdtlein in Goethe, Faust I). During this time, she also appeared as a leading actress in premieres and world premieres of contemporary pieces: Friedrich Dürrenmatt's The Visit of the Old Lady and Lawrence Durrell's Sappho should be mentioned here.

Elisabeth Flickenschildt's grave, Hittenkirchen am Chiemsee churchyard

After Gründgens' death at the end of 1963, she did not enter into any permanent engagements. She played in crime films based on Edgar Wallace and increasingly took on roles in television productions (e.g. in Der Kommissar , episode 61). But she was also seen in classic productions, such as in 1959 in Die Ratten nach Gerhart Hauptmann , where she played alongside Charlotte Kramm and Edith Hancke under the direction of John Olden . Her most recent works include the films As a mother on strike (1974), MitGift (1975) and The Night of Gold (1976). Until shortly before her death was Flickenschildt in the Shakespeare -Stück Coriolanus , with Boy Gobert in the title role, as Volumnia on the stage of Hamburg's Thalia Theater .

Flickenschildt acquired the “Maria Rast” farm in Hittenkirchen am Chiemsee and developed a great passion for keeping animals . She converted to Catholicism around 1965 .

Her return to northern Germany in the mid-1970s ran into a number of problems, including the purchase of a farm in Guderhandviertel ( Stade district ) in April 1976, which turned out to be less than happy. Flickenschildt died in October 1977 of the aftermath of a serious car accident that she had suffered while studying a role text. She was buried in her long-term home in Hittenkirchen (today Bernau am Chiemsee ) in the St. Bartholomäus church cemetery.

Awards

Elisabeth-Flickenschildt-Strasse in Berlin-Haselhorst (2012)

Appreciations

  • In Berlin-Haselhorst there is an Elisabeth-Flickenschildt-Straße.
  • In Hamburg, diagonally opposite the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater , there has been the “Flickenschildt” restaurant, which is named after her, for more than three decades.

Works

  • Child with red hair - A life like a dream , Droemer-Knaur, Munich and Zurich 1971. ISBN 3-426-00320-1 . (Autobiography)
  • Pflaumen am Hut , Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1974. ISBN 3-426-00449-6 . (Novel)
  • Pony and god. Stories from the estate , edited by Rolf Badenhausen, Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1982. ISBN 3-498-09596-X .

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Bernd Braun: Flickenschildt, Elisabeth. In: Hamburg biography . Volume 5, Göttingen 2010, pp. 116-118.
  • Nicolaus Neumann, Jörn Voss, Boy Gobert : Elisabeth Flickenschildt - "Theater is passion". A picture documentation. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1978. ISBN 3-455-08915-1 .
  • Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 .

Web links

Commons : Elisabeth Flickenschildt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ THEATER: From far away a nightingale from SPIEGEL ONLINE (DER SPIEGEL 47/1949 edition), accessed on July 13, 2016
  2. ^ A b Ernst Klee: The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 157.
  3. ↑ Leo Brawand: If there is freedom of the press, then right away . In: Der Spiegel . No. 1 , 1987, pp. 48-60 ( Online - Dec. 29, 1987 ).
  4. ↑ Premiere on November 21, 1959. In the verdict of the renowned reviewer Willy Haas in the newspaper Die Welt , it was said: "No one, no one on this earth, I believe, could have played it like Elisabeth Flickenschildt as Sappho. This is right Drama waited silently for her for so many years, and she waited for this drama. She is so extremely delicate in it, so quiet, sweet, beautiful and quiet - it can hardly be said. Beautiful in an aging beauty. "
  5. ↑ a b Dierk Strothmann: "Flicki" Hamburger Abendblatt, October 27, 2007, accessed on November 25, 2018.
  6. ^ Ben Witter : Celebrity portraits . Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1977. p. 106.
  7. ↑ youtube.com .
personal data
SURNAME Flickenschildt, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flickenschildt, Elisabeth Ida Marie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stage and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Blankenese
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1977
Place of death Stade