Ellen Schwiers

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Ellen Schwiers-Jacob (born June 11, 1930 in Stettin ; † April 26, 2019 in Berg am Starnberger See ) was a German film and stage actress .

Life

Ellen Schwiers came from a family of actors, her father was the stage actor Lutz Schwiers . Due to his frequent changes of engagement, she led an unsteady life as a child. After the Second World War , the family moved to Hesse, where Ellen Schwiers, with a secondary school leaving certificate, first learned the bakery and later the gardening trade in 1945.

After taking acting lessons from her father, she began her first engagement at the Koblenz Theater after passing the acting test . In between she also worked as a prompter . In 1949 she stood in front of the camera for the first time in the film Heimliches Rendezvous , directed by Kurt Hoffmann .

Ellen Schwiers played in various films until 1978. In it she mostly portrayed problematic, seductive women who bring unrest into the orderly life of their fellow men, as in The Legacy of Björndal (1960), The Last Witness (1960), Mrs. Irene Besser (1960) and The Satan with the Red Hair ( 1964). She was also preferred on stage in such roles, whether as Buhlschaft in Jedermann (1961/1962, Salzburg), Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's Macbeth (1972, tour) or Lysistrata in Hochhuth's Lysistrata and Nato (1974, Essen). At the Burgfestspiele Jagsthausen she played Adelheid im Götz von Berlichingen and other roles. In 1984 she became director there.

In 1956 she married the film producer Peter Jacob (December 30, 1909 - February 22, 1992), the former husband of Leni Riefenstahl . The marriage resulted in two children who also became actors: Katerina Jacob ( Der Bulle von Tölz ) and Daniel Jacob ( I'm marrying a family ) . Her son died of a tumor in 1985 at the age of 21.

In 1982 Ellen Schwiers founded the touring theater "Das Ensemble" Jacob Schwiers GmbH together with her husband and daughter Katerina Jacob , which she continued to run after her husband's death in 1992; today the subsidiary is the managing director of the GmbH. Ellen Schwiers' brother Holger Schwiers works as an actor and voice actor. Her granddaughter Josephine Jacob is also an actress. Ellen Schwiers lived in Berg on Lake Starnberg . Most recently, she suffered from severe pain and was bedridden, so she even considered euthanasia . She already suffered from Heyde syndrome in 2015 . Ellen Schwiers was cremated as requested.

Filmography

Awards

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Abendzeitung Germany: Ellen Schwiers (88) is dead: The daughter Katerina. Retrieved April 27, 2019 .
  2. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Obituary notice Ellen Schwiers-Jacob. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 5, 2019 ; accessed on May 5, 2019 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / trauer.sueddeutsche.de
  3. ↑ Actress Ellen Schwiers has died
  4. ^ Emergency operation: Ellen Schwiers in the intensive care unit
  5. ^ The specialists - In the name of the victims: Heldenkinder - ZDFmediathek. April 12, 2017, archived from the original on April 13, 2017 ; accessed on April 13, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Schwiers, Ellen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwiers-Jacob, Ellen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 2019
Place of death Starnberg