Elke Haltaufderheide

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Elke Friederike Gertrud Haltaufderheide (born March 6, 1940 in Herdecke ), initially also known under the stage name Elke Hart , is a German film producer and actress . She is a member of the German Film Academy .

Life

She studied psychology and theater studies in Hamburg . In Munich she graduated from the Zerboni drama school and soon got an engagement at the Stadttheater Würzburg , where she preferred to portray naïve youngsters. She followed the director Kurt Bock who moved to the Oldenburg State Theater . She took on leading roles in plays by Büchner, Sartre, Shakespeare, Schiller, Schisgal and others. a. Her greatest successes were in the theatrical version of Camoletti's comedy Boeing-Boeing as Judith and as the tragicomic Putzi in Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? .

With the third season she left Oldenburg. Full of enthusiasm she joined the new open film scene that was emerging in Munich. Between 1967 and 1971 she played in numerous short films and several long feature films. Often they are low-budget productions . Among others in Detectives by Rudolf Thome and Not fummeln, Liebling by May Spils . Elke Haltaufderheide discovered her organizational talent in the areas of film production and financial accounting . In 1971 she founded VISUAL-Film, and produced, among others. a. supported by a young sponsor, financially strong through inheritance, the film Nightshade . Directed by Niklaus Schilling . She also takes on one of the main roles in Nightshade , as in The Expulsion from Paradise and in Rheingold . In 1978 she received the Federal Film Prize in Gold as a producer for Rheingold . In the multi-part Berlin Alexanderplatz by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and in some of her own productions, she took on other small roles. The fall of the wall inspired her to produce Deutschfieber - as a continuation of the 1979 Willi Busch Report . In 1991 she moved to Berlin.

Filmography

Producer

Producer and actress

Actress (selection)

Awards

For the film Rheingold she received the Federal Film Prize in Gold as a producer in 1978 .

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personal data
SURNAME Haltaufderheide, Elke
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elke Hart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film producer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Herdecke