Elsa Scholten

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Elsa Scholten , née Else Erkelenz (born February 28, 1902 in Homberg , now part of Duisburg , † October 14, 1981 in Cologne ), was a German actress and radio play speaker .

Life

Elsa Scholten came from an old family of actors of Jewish descent. Her parents owned a travel theater with which they traveled through the country and performed comedies in the Rhenish dialect. Elsa Scholten performed on this stage as a child and was discovered in 1920 at the age of 18 for the Millowitsch Theater in Cologne , to which she remained loyal for a lifetime, so that she celebrated her 50th anniversary there in 1970. Very early on, Scholten was committed to the role of the comical old man . She quickly became a crowd favorite and thus a popular actress in the best sense of the word. She was seen as a dominant wife, resolute boss, or sloppy housewife. With her temperament and corpulent appearance, she was the congenial partner of the equally room-filling Willy Millowitsch and made herself indispensable as a punch line with often hearty sayings. All of her roles were shaped by her unmistakable Cologne humor. Her best-known comedies were certainly Et fussig Julche (Princess Laundress: Die Rote Jule) and Em Nachtjackenveedel .

When the NWDR Cologne began broadcasting performances of the Millowitsch Theater on television in 1953, Elsa Scholten became known nationwide. The transmissions were street sweepers . What Heidi Kabel , Otto Lüthje and Henry Vahl did for the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater , whose plays were broadcast by NWDR Hamburg from 1954 after the success of the Millowitsch broadcasts, that Willy Millowitsch, his sister Lucy and Elsa Scholten did for the Cologne stage. Scholten's numerous television roles included the farmer Anna in the Schwank The Sold Grandfather (1955) and Aunt Jutta in Aunt Jutta from Calcutta (1962) .

Scholten also appeared as a speaker in some radio play productions of the WDR , for example in 1961 as Stine in Duvejecke vum Kreegmaat , an oral arthropod about the inheritance of a deceased pigeon fancier .

Elsa Scholten was married to her acting colleague Heinz Scholten , with whom she sometimes stood on the stage of the Millowitsch Theater. She died on October 14, 1981 and was buried in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne . The grave no longer exists.

Recordings from the Millowitsch Theater

Radio plays

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  • German theater dictionary by Wilhelm Kosch. Bern, 1992
  • ARD radio play archive (radio play overview)
  • Management of the Melaten cemetery (life data)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Scholten, Elsa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scholten, Else; Erkelenz, Else (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Homberg
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1981
Place of death Cologne