Else Knott
Else Knott (born December 7, 1909 in Frankfurt am Main ; † August 8, 1975 there ) was a German actress .
Life
Else Knott was born in Frankfurt as the daughter of a book printer. She attended the Städelschule to become a painter . However, under the impression of a performance by Faust , she decided to attend the Frankfurt drama school. There she studied from 1925 to 1927 with Richard Weichert and Mathilde Einzig, among others .
After various engagements at the Staatstheater Darmstadt (1927–1931), in Essen (1931–1934), Cologne (1934–1935) and Hamburg (1935–1936) she went on a tour to South America . In 1936 she returned to Frankfurt and took on the role of Gretchen at the Römerberg Festival . She stayed at the Städtische Bühnen until 1942, but at the same time played theater in Berlin from 1940 to 1942 and in Strasbourg from 1941 to 1944 . In the 1930s she also acted in several films.
In addition to classic roles such as Franziska in Minna von Barnhelm , Natalie in Der Prinz von Homburg , Eve in Der zerbrochne Krug , Käthchen in Der Shrewdly , Ophelia in Hamlet , she also played in contemporary pieces, for example in Katharina Knie by Carl Zuckmayer or Inken Peters in Gerhart Hauptmann's Before Sunrise and characters in Christmas fairy tales for children.
In 1945, at the end of the war, she fled to the Black Forest. There she received a call from the artistic director Toni Impekoven , who was looking for actors for a fresh start in the Frankfurt theater. She returned to Frankfurt, where she stayed in the ensemble of the Städtische Bühnen until her death. In addition to Brecht roles, most recently her mother in Baal , she now mainly played in dialect pieces. At the Frankfurt audience she was with Carl Luley and Anny Hanne Forest as part of the Alt-Frankfurt trio a popular folk actress, so in the role of Lorchen in Adolf Stoltze Fluctuating Alt-Frankfurt , as Louise in the outing to Königstein by Carl Malß and as Babette Dummbach in Ernst Elias Niebergalls Datterich . This 1963 production with Carl Luley and Joseph Offenbach was recorded by the Hessischer Rundfunk for television.
She also appeared frequently on the radio. She became particularly well-known among the public for the roles she took on in Wolf Schmidt's Hesselbach productions. In the radio version of the episode The Roaring Deer , she spoke to cousin Erna , whose praise for her groom (“Mei Erwin, he is so worthy!”) In Frankfurt became a winged word . In the four Hesselbach films shot from 1954 to 1957 , she played Mama Hesselbach , and in the episode The Piggy Bank of the television series, she had a highly verbose appearance as a grocer Flischmann.
Else Knott died in 1975 at the age of 65 and found her final resting place in the family grave in Frankfurt's main cemetery .
Filmography
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literature
- Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 .
Web links
- Else Knott in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Else Knott
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Knott, Else |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 8, 1975 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |