Ellen Schwanneke

Ellen Schwanneke (1930s). Photography: Zander & Labisch

Ellen Schwanneke (born August 11, 1906 in Berlin , † June 17, 1972 in Zurich ) was a German actress .

Life

The daughter of the actor Viktor Schwanneke grew up in Munich, where her father was director of the Bavarian State Theater after the First World War. Already at the age of 16 she became a volunteer at the Münchner Kammerspiele .

At first she worked for touring theaters with which she traveled through Europe. She received her first permanent engagement at the Hamburger Kammerspiele with Erich Ziegel and then went to Berlin with her father, where she appeared at various cabaret stages, including the 'Tingel-Tangel' . Friedrich Hollaender engaged her in December 1931 for his cabaret revue “Allez hopp!”. She also discussed two gramophone records with cabaret lectures.

She made her film debut in 1931 as Ilse von Westhagen in Girls in Uniform and in 1932 in Asta Nielsen's only sound film Impossible Love , in which she and Ery Bos played the two daughters of the leading actress. Then she worked in other German film classics. In 1937 she emigrated to Vienna. After the “ Anschluss of Austria ”, she fled via Switzerland to the United States in 1939, where she met the American actor and director William Castle , who - after marketing her for the media - cast her several times in theater productions. In 1943 she worked on Oscar Teller's cabaret "Arche" in Richard Beer-Hofmann's play Jaákob's dream .

In 1944 she became an American citizen. After the war ended, she settled in Switzerland, appeared in the film Tomorrow is Better , and acted in the theater. Guest tours also took her to Frankfurt / Main and Berlin again.

She found her final resting place in the Nordheim cemetery . Her grave has been lifted.

Filmography

• 1931: girls in uniform
• 1931: Cadets
• 1931: Children in court
• 1932: A great idea
• 1932: Impossible love
• 1933: Fräulein Hoffmann's stories
• 1935: King Waltz
• 1936: Poor little Inge
• 1937: Not a word of love
• 1948: Everything will be better tomorrow

Audio documents

Electrola EG1844 (mx. BLK 6119) The Night Ghost (Text: Marcellus Schiffer , Friedrich Hollaender . Music: Rudolf Nelson ) / (mx. BLK 6176) Modern parenting (Text: Marcellus Schiffer, Friedrich Hollaender. Music: Rudolf Nelson)

Telefunken A 1473 (mx. 19 277) Schnurren und Moritaten, 1st part / (mx. 19 278) dto., 2nd part

literature

• Berthold Leimbach (Ed.): Sound documents of cabaret and their interpreters 1898-1945. Göttingen, self-published, unpag. 1991.
• Rainer E. Lotz (Ed.): German National Discography. Discography of German Cabaret, Vol. 5 , by Klaus Krüger and Rainer E. Lotz. Bonn: Verlag B. Lotz. ISBN 978-3-9805808-1-6 [3-9805808-1-4]. Hard cover, 288 pages
• Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 455.
• Thomas Blubacher : Ellen Schwanneke . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1647 f.
• Volker Kühn :  Schwanneke, Ellen. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 789 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Stefan Weiss, Jürgen Schebera: Street Scene. The urban space in the musical theater of the twentieth century. Münster: Waxmann Verlag, 2006. ISBN 9783830966302 .

Web links

• Ellen Schwanneke in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• http://www.cyranos.ch/smschg-d.htm
• Pictures by Ellen Schwanneke In: Virtual History

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Allez-hopp, a variety revue in 17 attractions (1931) - life as a variety, cf. Weiß-Schebera p. 215
2. ↑ Berthold Leimbach (Ed.): Sound documents of the cabaret and their interpreters 1898-1945. Göttingen, self-published, unpag. 1991.
3. ↑ the film was also called Vera Holgk and her daughters with the selected title , cf. Jll. Film courier, ill. at siska.at [1]