Elsa Grube-Deister

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Elsa Grube-Deister (born January 11, 1926 in Hamburg , † December 7, 2001 in Bollersdorf ) was a German actress . The actress was on stage for almost 40 years and was remembered by the television audience , especially as Anna Quangel in the three-part film Everyone dies for himself .

life and work

Elsa Grube-Deister began her acting career on stages in Bielefeld, Chemnitz, Neuruppin and Eisenach before she was brought to the Berliner Ensemble in 1953 by Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel , where she received an engagement . Here she played for a few years until she moved to the Deutsche Theater Berlin in 1960 , where she worked on stage until 1999. In performances such as Peter Hacks ' antiquities treatment of " Beautiful Helena " from 1964, she celebrated her first successes at the side of Fred Düren . Further highlights of her stage work were the embodiment of Daja in Friedo Solter's interpretation of the Ring Parable from 1966, as well as her participation in Juno and the Peacock in 1972 , a Sean O'Casey production by Adolf Dresen , which was her greatest success. In 1999 the artist had her last stage appearance as Ms. Schulze in Gerhart Hauptmann's The Red Rooster at the age of 73.

“She does not belong to those who make something of themselves, but to those who make something of themselves. It plays along, not on, and it certainly does not play itself in the foreground. "

- Ernst Schumacher : Theater critic: about the artist

In addition to her stage work, she also played in film and television productions for the DFF and DEFA from the late 1950s . Initially in stage adaptations of her theater roles, such as in 1969 in Nathan der Weise , later also in serious roles for DEFA such as her embodiment of a woman in ruins in the post-war film Stone Age Ballad from 1960.

“Here you can already see her absolutely peculiar charisma, a strange mixture of solid groundedness and daydream-like activity. She was completely here and at the same time not entirely of this world. "

- Dr. Erika Richter : Editor and publisher of the magazine Film und Fernsehen über die Künstlerin, 1999

However, she gained fame as a film actress primarily in 1970 through the three-part television film Everyone dies for himself, based on the book of the same name by Hans Fallada . She shot The Naked Man on the Sports Field with director Konrad Wolf in 1974 , followed by other film projects. Even after the fall of the Berlin Wall , she was in demand as an artist, so that from then on she could be seen in German television films.

Elsa Grube-Deister died at the age of 75 as a result of a serious illness in Bollersdorf and was buried there in the community cemetery.

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Frank-Burkhard Habel , Volker Wachter : The great lexicon of the GDR stars. The actors from film and television. Extended new edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89602-391-8 .
  2. ↑ Detlef Friedrich: Against "Tümlichkeit" . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 8, 2001
  3. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Elsa Grube-Deister
personal data
SURNAME Grube-Deister, Elsa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 2001
Place of death Bollersdorf