Else Bötticher

Else Bötticher (born October 22, 1880 - † July 3, 1966 in Berlin ) was a German actress .

Life

Bötticher began her career in the provinces at the age of 18 and then played Nora on American stages for two years . Back in Germany, she subsequently partnered with great actors such as Josef Kainz and Max Pallenberg . Max Reinhardt engaged them several times for his guest productions in Munich . Guest performances have also taken Else Bötticher to neighboring countries ( Netherlands , Switzerland , Belgium , France ) time and again . Mainly, however, the artist was active on German theaters such as the Royal Court Theater in Stuttgart and above all, since shortly before the outbreak of the First World War, on theaters in Berlin such as the Trianon Theater . In the late phase of the Weimar Republic you could see them at the New Theater at the Zoo .

For a long time the film had only a subordinate role in her artistic work. Apart from a few productions from the 1910s, Else Bötticher only appeared regularly in front of the camera after the National Socialists came to power. There she was given mostly small roles - mothers, wives - like the school principal's wife and mother Annemarie Sörensens in the first Rühmann version of " Die Feuerzangenbowle ", which was launched under the title So ein Flegel . Also in 1933 she took on a permanent engagement in Berlin and appeared at the Metropol Theater . When the war broke out in 1939, she stopped filming for a long time. The following theater engagements were mostly limited to tiny guest theater stages; only in the last season before the end of the war, in 1943/44, did the freelance artist get an engagement from the less important theater Volkstheater Schlesien in Breslau .

After the war, Else Bötticher's permanent engagement can no longer be proven, and the elderly actress, who lives in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, only took guest roles in the post-war film, including in the well-known Swiss movie Palace Hotel , a Swiss production made in the winter of 1951/52 .

Filmography (selection)

• 1914: Miss Lieutenant
• 1914: Miss Feldgrau
• 1917: The Not from America
• 1919: Mrs. Hempel's daughter
• 1933: Maturing youth
• 1933: What a bully
• 1934: Spring fairy tale
• 1934: invitation to dance
• 1934: A seventeen year old
• 1934: visit in the evening
• 1935: An Interesting Case (short film)
• 1935: The man with the paw
• 1936: Women's love - women's suffering
• 1938: Riddle about Beate
• 1939: The Interesting Case (short film)
• 1952: Palace Hotel
• 1956: My father, the actor

literature

• Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 1: A-Heck. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1960, DNB 451560736 , p. 153.
• German stage yearbook. Vol. 75, anniversary edition 1967, ISSN  0070-4431 , p. 124.

Web links

• Else Bötticher in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Else Bötticher at filmportal.de