Elisabeth Wiedemann

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Elisabeth Wiedemann (born April 8, 1926 in Bassum ; † May 27, 2015 in Marquartstein ) was a German dancer , actress and voice actress . She became known to a wide audience through her role as Else Tetzlaff in the television series A Heart and a Soul .

life and career

The daughter of a merchant family first completed ballet training with Tatjana Gsovsky in Berlin and made her stage debut in 1944 as a dancer in Göttingen. From 1945 to 1947 she worked at the Berlin State Opera . It was not until 1947 that Wiedemann turned to spoken theater. In 1951 she was brought to the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus by Gustaf Gründgens , to whose ensemble she belonged until 1955. Further stages of her stage career were Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Hanover, Cologne, Vienna and the Deutsches Theater in Santiago de Chile, where she worked as a director for a year in 1961 and directed Max Frischs Biedermann and the arsonists .

Wiedemann made her film debut in 1947. Although from then on she was active in numerous film and television productions (including in Tom Toelle's television satire Das Millionenspiel and Egon Monk's multi-part Die Geschwister Oppermann about anti-Semitism and the fate of a family under National Socialism ), she was in front of the audience mainly through her role as Else Tetzlaff , which she played in the ARD series Ein Herz und ein Seele from 1973 . In this satirical series, she embodied the naive, good-natured and uneducated wife of the main character Disgust Alfred , who endures his constant harassment and insults (the "stupid cow" became famous) with equanimity. The series continued to shape the role image of the versatile actress. In addition, Wiedemann also worked as a speaker for radio play and dubbing; Among other things, she lent Miss Reinlich her voice in the animated series Doctor Snuggles . In 1966 she received the golden camera of the television magazine Hörzu for her participation in the television film of the SR “ Spätere Heirat” or “Pallü ist ein Spiel” (director: Hans Dieter Schwarze ) .

Elisabeth Wiedemann was married to fellow actor Richard Lauffen until his death in 1990 . Her second husband, the businessman and bookseller Werner Mengedoht, died in early 2009. She last lived in a nursing home in Marquartstein in Upper Bavaria , where she died on May 27, 2015 at the age of 89.

Stage (selection)

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Elisabeth Wiedemann has lent her voice to the character of the Windbag woman in various Pitje Puck radio plays.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elisabeth Wiedemann died at the age of 89. Report on t-online.de from May 27, 2015 (accessed on May 27, 2015).
personal data
SURNAME Wiedemann, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Bassum
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 2015
Place of death Marquartstein