Erika Dannhoff

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Erika Margot Dannhoff (born December 2, 1909 in Berlin ; † June 18, 1996 there ) was a German actress .

Life

After leaving school at a secondary school in 1928, she was of Olga Limburg won for the acting profession and already worked in 1929 in several films. Then she attended Ilka Grüning's drama school .

She played at the Kleiner Theater Unter den Linden, appeared as a cabaret artist with her own poems and took part in the radio, for example in 1932 in the radio play Das Käthchen von Heilbronn . From 1934 to 1939 she was engaged at the Volksbühne Berlin , later she also acted at the Deutsches Theater under Heinz Hilpert . She took the title role in Shaw's Saint Joan , Desdemona in Othello , Elisabeth in Don Carlos and Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew . In 1939 she moved to the State Theater in Munich , from 1942 to 1948 she worked in Dresden at the Theater des Volkes and at the State Theater. She also worked as a supporting actress in various films, in the fairy tale adaptation Cinderella (1931) she took the title role.

From 1948 she appeared in Halle , Nuremberg and Frankfurt , from the end of the 1950s she was back on Berlin stages, especially in the stands . Since 1951 she played again in several films. In 1973 she had a permanent role as the housekeeper Marianne in the television series The Little Doctor . In 1987 she was seen as everyone's mother at the first Berliner Jedermann Festival . Since 1966 she has taught at the Max Reinhardt School for Drama . Dannhoff was temporarily married to colleague Erik Schumann in his second marriage .

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SURNAME Dannhoff, Erika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dannhoff, Erika Margot (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1996
Place of death Berlin