Elisabeth Volkmann

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Elisabeth Volkmann

Elisabeth Volkmann (born March 16, 1936 in Essen , † between July 25 and July 27, 2006 in Munich ) was a German actress , comedian and voice actress . Volkmann achieved great fame as the dubbing voice of Marge Simpson , to whom she lent her voice from 1989 until her death.

Life

Training and early engagement

Volkmann grew up in the Ruhr area and, after the early death of her father in 1948, contributed to the upkeep of the family as a child with minor stage appearances. Nevertheless, she had to enforce her wish to become an artist against her mother's will. She completed her studies as a soprano and actress at the renowned Folkwang School in Essen . In Essen she also got her first theater role . She made her debut as a cabaret artist in Munich. For further engagements in Berlin, Hamburg and Zurich, she switched back to the serious subject. At the Städtisches Theater in Nuremberg she interpreted the role of the viola in Shakespeare's play What you want at the side of Günter Strack .

Film reels

In 1960 she got a supporting role in the film comedy A Woman for Whole Life by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and stood in front of the camera with Ruth Leuwerik , Klausjürgen Wussow and Theo Lingen , among others . In 1964 she was booked for the international production Die Diamantenhölle am Mekong . After that, however, there were no good offers, so that from 1968 she appeared in erotic films with an ostensibly socially critical tendency. So she took on a supporting role in undress, doll and was seen in around twenty other films with titles such as housewife report , apprentice girl report or massage parlor for young girls . Smaller engagements for upscale productions, such as for the Kästner film Three Men in the Snow with Klaus Schwarzkopf , remained the exception.

In the early 1980s she worked with the director Rainer Werner Fassbinder , who offered her roles in his feature films Lili Marleen , Lola (both 1981) and The Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss (1982). In Walter Bockmayer's non-serious Heimatfilm remake Die Geierwally (1988) she embodied the hereditary duchess. It wasn't until 1993 that she could be seen again in a leading role. In Hape Kerkeling's satire No Pardon , she played the mother Hilde Schlönzke . In early 2003 she was seen in the movie Planet B: The Antman , a German action parody starring Götz Otto and Yasmina Filali .

Klimbim and other TV appearances

In parallel to her film career, Volkmann took part in numerous German television productions. She became known to a wide audience as the mother Jolanthe of the Klimbim family in the television series of the same name (1973–1979, 30 episodes) by Michael Pflegehar . Here she advanced from the still relatively unknown actress to a shrill comedian who played opera arias . Performances in suspenders , open-hearted bodices and curlers became her role subject. In 2004 came the original cast of the series for the theater play, which was also filmed shortly thereafter, The Klimbim family lives together again. The boulevard production toured through major German cities.

After the success with Klimbim , Volkmann was hired for various television series, such as Derrick (1977), Der Alte (1979), Großstadtrevier (1987), Die Stadtindianer (1994), Die Rote Meile (1999) or Siska (2001). She appeared in various talk shows, e.g. B. in Beckmann , people at Maischberger or rooms free! . In 1980 she hosted the game show Notes for Two with Roberto Blanco .

In 1990 and 1991 Elisabeth Volkmann played the marquise Marie-Antoinette von Bommelroth in more than 20 episodes of the RTL erotic series Schloß Pompon Rouge . Acting colleagues were Katja Bienert and Jörg Bräuer.

Since 1989 she was also known as the German dubbing voice of Marge Simpson and her twin sisters Patty and Selma in the American cartoon series The Simpsons . The German version of the episode We're on the Road to D'ohwhere (German title: Die Straße der Verdammten ) ended with a dedication to Elisabeth Volkmann. She also spoke to the astrologer Milva Summer in the youth radio play The Three Question Marks - The Cards of Evil (1998).

Volkmann was awarded the highest German television prize, the Adolf Grimme Prize , and the German Comedy Prize (2003 special prize for Klimbim ) for her acting achievements .

Private

Volkmann was initially married to the film lawyer Walter Hass. In 1998 she married her manager Eberhard Radisch , with whom she had lived for twenty years before. He died in 2004.

On the evening of July 27, 2006, Volkmann was found dead by the police in her attic apartment near Munich's Stachus . The police were alerted by an acquaintance, the reporter for a magazine, who had not heard from Elisabeth Volkmann for several days. The cause of death was heart failure . The exact time of death could not be determined. About a week after her death, her urn was anonymously buried in grave field 421 of the forest cemetery in Munich .

plant

Cinema (selection)

Television (selection)

Dubbing

Radio plays

  • 1998: The Three Question Marks: The Cards of Evil (role: Milva Summer)
  • 1999: Ken Follett : Die Säulen der Erde (Regan) - Director: Leonhard Koppelmann (radio play (9 parts) - WDR )

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Street of the Damned ( December 18, 2007 memento on the Internet Archive ) Springfield Shopper, July 5, 2007
  2. ↑ Jenny Hoch: On the death of Elisabeth Volkmann: Sad comedian. SPON , July 28, 2006, accessed March 28, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Elisabeth Volkmann died lonely , Welt, July 28, 2006
  4. ↑ https://www1.wdr.de/stichtag/stichtag5378.amp
  5. ^ Knerger.de: The grave of Elisabeth Volkmann
personal data
SURNAME Volkmann, Elisabeth
SHORT DESCRIPTION German actress and comedian
BIRTH DATE March 16, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH meal
DATE OF DEATH between July 25, 2006 and July 27, 2006
PLACE OF DEATH Munich , Bavaria , Federal Republic of Germany