Ellen Weber (actress)

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Ellen Ottilie Emma Martha Weber-Erlenwein , b. Ellen Ottilie Emma Martha Weber (born September 10, 1906 in Halle (Saale) ; † December 2, 1992 there ) was a German actress ( theater , film , television ) and opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Ellen Weber was the daughter of the post office clerk Hermann Weber and his wife Minna (née Heise). From 1939 until his untimely death in 1943 she was married to the pharmacist Carl Erlenwein.

Ellen Weber attended the Luisenschule in Halle . Then she studied singing in Halle and Leipzig . In autumn 1933 she got a permanent engagement in Halle and made her debut with a role in Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina . This was followed by smaller roles in Richard Wagner's operas as well as in Bird Trader , in One Night in Venice , in Csárdásfürstin and in Rigoletto . When in March 1937 there was still a theater role to be cast in Jochen Huth's play Die vier Gesellen , Ellen Weber took it over. That was the beginning of her decade-long career as an actress, in which she specialized in the role of the "comical old"; she played Marthe Rull in Heinrich von Kleist's Der zerbrochne Krug , Marthe Schwertlein in Goethe's Faust I , the housekeeper Rosa in Paul von Schönthans and Franz von Schönthans Der Raub der Sabinerinnen or Mother Wolffen in Gerhart Hauptmann's Der Biberpelz (on the occasion of the Reopening of the Landestheater Halle in 1951), but also, at the age of 81 in 1987, Mrs. Higgins in My Fair Lady .

Ellen Weber, who was one of the most popular theater actresses in her hometown, was employed at various theaters and venues in Halle, for example at the Landestheater, the Thalia Theater , the lower castle of Giebichenstein Castle and the operetta theater in the Saalschlossbrauerei . In addition, between 1966 and 1998 she was seen almost twenty times in productions of the Moritzburg television theater (see below “Television”). After genres , art forms and media often endowed, on the part of the press were detected only to 300 1966 on rollers for Ellen Weber; after that it was not counted any further.

Ellen Weber was not only a multifaceted artist, she was also a committed resident of Halle. After the Second World War , she actively participated in the reconstruction of the city; As a works councilor and member of the works union management, she took care of the construction of the theater library. From 1965 to 1969 she was a non-party member of the city council and saw her main task here as providing cultural support to the “chemical workers and future residents of Halle-West” and to arouse “some state officials” with a “greater interest in theater”.

When Ellen Weber died in December 1992, the obituary of the opera house read: “Never careful to play herself in the foreground, she played herself into the hearts of the audience through empathetic roles and thus became one in the best sense of the word People's actress. "

In 2004 a street in Dölau (Halle) was named after Ellen Weber.

Awards

  • City of Halle Art Prize (1972)
  • Honorary member of the State Theater Halle (1976)

Filmography

Movie

watch TV

  • His masterpiece (Moritzburg TV theater, GDR 1966)
  • Contemporaries (GDR 1966)
  • He came with the autumn wind (TV theater Moritzburg, GDR 1968)
  • Overcoming (Moritzburg TV theater, GDR 1969)
  • The naked truth (Moritzburg TV theater, GDR 1969)
  • Examination for three (TV theater Moritzburg, GDR 1971)
  • Life begins at sixty (TV theater Moritzburg, GDR 1971; on the occasion of Ellen Weber's 60th birthday)
  • The plans of the mummy (Moritzburg TV theater, GDR 1971)
  • Nice vacation (TV theater Moritzburg, GDR 1972)
  • Children, children ... (Moritzburg TV theater, GDR 1972)
  • A fabulous game (Moritzburg TV theater, GDR 1972)
  • One shouldn't cheat (TV theater Moritzburg, GDR 1974)
  • Bicycle tour (Moritzburg TV theater, GDR 1975)
  • Happy weekend (TV theater Moritzburg, GDR 1976)
  • Detours to happiness (GDR 1977)
  • Two times Katharina (TV theater Moritzburg, GDR 1978)
  • You never know (TV theater Moritzburg, GDR 1978)
  • We are not angels (TV theater Moritzburg, GDR 1979)
  • My ways - your ways (TV theater Moritzburg, GDR 1981)
  • I don't know anything (TV theater Moritzburg, GDR 1982)
  • Hello, Mr. Fitter, my husband is on the assembly line (TV theater Moritzburg, GDR 1982)
  • Ready for a cure (TV theater Moritzburg, GDR 1982)
  • The wedding present (Moritzburg TV theater, GDR 1982)
  • The double beautiful (TV theater Moritzburg, GDR 1984)
  • Temptation (GDR 1984; episode of the TV series The Public Prosecutor has the floor )
  • The Night Ghost (GDR 1989; episode of the Moritzburg TV theater series Von Fall zu Fall (1989) )

Web links

literature

  • Cloakroom talk with Ellen Weber . In: Theater der Zeit , No. 3, 1985, pp. 22-25.
  • City Archives Halle FA 3353 Weber, Ellen
  • Margit Lenk: Ellen Weber (1906–1992). In: Women's life-women's everyday life - yesterday and today. Hallenserinnen - Biographical Sketches I, Part II , ed. by Courage e. V., n.d.
  • Günter Helmes , Steffi Schältzke (Ed.): The Moritzburg TV Theater. Institution and schedule . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2003. ISBN 3-936522-99-5 .
  • Claudia Kusebauch (ed.): TV theater Moritzburg II. Program history . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2005. ISBN 3-86583-015-3 .
    • Claudia Kusebauch (with the assistance of Michael Grisko ): The Moritzburg TV Theater - Program Chronology . Ibid., Pp. 15-208.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ellen Weber: Street sign in Dölau informs about Halle's popular actress. In: Halle Spektrum from August 25, 2015, accessed on June 7, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Ellen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weber-Erlenwein, Ellen Ottilie Emma Martha (full name); Weber, Ellen Ottilie Emma Martha (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress (theater, film, television) and opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1992
Place of death Halle (Saale)