Ellen Mahlke

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Ellen Mahlke (born March 5, 1914 in Berlin ) is a German actress , radio play speaker and acting teacher.

Life

Ellen Mahlke was born in Berlin as the daughter of Hans Mahlke and his wife Erna. Her father was a full professor at the Berlin University of Music and first solo violist at the Berlin State Opera . Her mother was a budding actress who had given up her acting career for family reasons. Her older sister, the dancer Vera Mahlke (1913–1982).

She attended drama school in Berlin. This was followed by theater engagements in Zwickau , Detmold , at the Staatstheater Stuttgart (including in the 1935/36 season), Mannheim , at the Stadttheater Memel and at the Stadttheater Dortmund . At the Stadttheater Dortmund she appeared in 1937 as Peppa (ward of the landlord Raffaele) in the world premiere of the operetta Zauberin Lola by Eduard Künneke .

After the Second World War , engagements followed at the former Fehling Theater in Berlin (1946/47 season; inter alia as Lieschen in Faust alongside Joana Maria Gorvin as Gretchen) and at the Schloßparktheater Berlin (1947–1950). She had further engagements at the Schillertheater Berlin and at the Volksbühne Berlin in the theater in the Kastanienallee. There she played in Lysistrata under the direction of Franz Reichert , with Maria Schanda , Steffie Spira , Ernst Wilhelm Borchert and Arthur Wiesner as additional actors.

In 1946 she appeared as Hildegard Knef's partner in As You Like It (Premiere: April 1946, Director: Boleslaw Barlog ) and as Audrey Trowbridge in Three Men on a Horse (Premiere: August 1946, Director: Boleslaw Barlog) by John Cecil Holm and George Abbott . Mahlke's other stage roles at the Schloßparktheater Berlin were Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew (premiere: January 1947, director: Boleslaw Barlog), Agafia in The Marriage of Nikolai Gogol (1947) and the maid Franziska in Minna von Barnhelm (1948).

As a radio play speaker, she worked for RIAS Berlin and NWDR Berlin . From the beginning of the 1950s she lived in Munich , where she first appeared as an actress (including in 1953 at the Die Kleine Freiheit theater ). She had guest engagements a. at the Stadttheater Kiel ; there she appeared in 1958 as an old woman in Die kahle Sängerin (director: Hans Niederauer).

Later she worked in Munich mainly as a radio play speaker for Bayerischer Rundfunk and as an acting teacher, a. a. at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media . Her students included u. a. Hermann Lause (1963–1965), Gert Voss (1964–1966), Dieter Geißler , Peter Pius Irl , Tilo Prückner , Marianne Groß , Wolfgang Jaroschka , René Schoenenberger , Enrico de Paruta , Johannes Kaetzler and Christoph Moerikofer (1982–1985).

Her radio play works include Einsame Menschen by Gerhart Hauptmann (Bayerischer Rundfunk 1962, as Frau Lehmann); Dreams of Günter Eich (Bayerischer Rundfunk 1964); Life and views of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Bayerischer Rundfunk / SDR 1986) and Ball verkehrt or Großer Schwof in Serners Tanzpalais. A radio play for the mature youth in various fashion dances by Walter Serner (Bayerischer Rundfunk 1987).

Mahlke also took part in a few film roles, for example in a supporting role as Frau Scholz in the movie Lina Braake (1975), with Lina Carstens in the lead role. In the ARD television series MS Franziska (1978) she had a continuous supporting role as Aunt Martha.

Filmography (selection)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Vera Mahlke ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Vita. Official website of the SK Foundation Culture - German Dance Archive Cologne. Retrieved April 15, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sk-kultur.de
  2. ↑ Hildegard Knef: Stage roles 1944-1947 Retrieved on April 15, 2016.
  3. ↑ Radio play: Günter Eich: Träume ( Memento from April 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) plot / cast / production details. Official website of Bayerischer Rundfunk . Retrieved April 15, 2016
  4. ↑ Ellen Mahlke entry at HÖRDAT. Retrieved April 15, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Mahlke, Ellen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, radio play speaker and acting teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin