Elsa Schünzel

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Elsa Schünzel , also Else Schünzel , married Elsie Grossmann (born April 29, 1887 in Hamburg , German Empire , † probably in the 1960s in New York City , United States ), was a German stage and film actress .

Live and act

The daughter of Hamburg businessman Bernhard Theodor Hermann Schünzel and one and a half years older sister of the famous actor and director Reinhold Schünzel received her artistic training as a teenager at the Marie Seebach School of the Royal Drama Theater in Berlin. Her first theater engagement led Elsa Schünzel in 1905 to the city ​​theater in Bonn . There she was employed in the subject of the naive and sentimental and worked in pieces such as Max Halbes Jugend (as Ännchen), Gerhart Hauptmann's Hanneles Himmelfahrt (as Hannele), Franz Grillparzer's Sappho (as Melitta) and Hauptmann's Die versunkene Glocke (as Rautendelein).

Schünzel then went to the German Theater in Göttingen, and immediately afterwards her path led to the city theater in Metz, Lorraine. In the 1910s she mainly worked as a guest artist, but also took on permanent engagements, such as the one at the Apollo Theater in Düsseldorf in the 1917 season. In the 1920s, Elsa Schünzel can hardly be proven as a theater actress; at the beginning of the 1930s, the Hamburg artist appeared as Else Schünzel with tiny roles in two sound films.

Like her much more famous half-brother Reinhold, Elsa Schünzel (four years after him, in 1941, with his help and Reinhold's Jewish mother) emigrated to the United States. There, at the time of Brother Reinhold's death in Munich in 1954, she can be proven as Elsie Grossmann, who lived in New York. The former actress probably died there around a decade later, the deaths of Elsie Grossmann and Grossman can be proven there in 1963 and 1964.

Filmography (complete)

literature

  • Heinrich Hagemann (Ed.): Specialized lexicon of the German stage members . Pallas and Hagemanns Bühnen-Verlag, Berlin 1906, p. 103.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorfs international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1560.
  2. ↑ Elsa Schünzel on books.google.de
  3. ↑ Hans-Christoph Blumenberg on November 7, 1994 on focus.de
  4. ↑ according to the certificate of death of Reinhold Schünzel ("Report of the Death of an American Citizen") issued by the US Vice Consul Foley on September 13, 1954, available in the Kay Weniger film archive

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personal data
SURNAME Schünzel, Elsa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schünzel, Else; Grossmann, Elsie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress on stage and film
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: between 1960 and 1969
Place of death unsure: New York City