Erika Müller-Fürstenau

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Erika Müller-Fürstenau (born July 5, 1924 in Leobschütz , Silesia , † June 14, 1986 in East Berlin ) was a German actress .

Life

Erika Müller-Fürstenau completed an acting training in Stettin , where she also made her stage debut. After the Second World War she was part of the ensemble at the Lübeck Theater until 1950 . She received film engagements from, among others, Wolfgang Liebeneiner in his rubble film Liebe 47 . In the FRG, Wolfgang Liebeneiner directed even smaller roles in the film comedies Des Lebens Überfluss (1950) and Meine Niece Susanne (1950). In 1954 she went to what was then the GDR with her husband, the actor Gerd Fürstenau (1922–1958) and their son Florian Fürstenau . There she worked as a guest actress at the theater and in cabaret , but was mainly a freelance actress in film and on television in the GDR . She also worked as a voice actress .

Müller-Fürstenau became known through the role of Gerda Krause in Joachim Kunert's DEFA film. Special features: None . Müller-Fürstenau succeeds here in "convincing the development from the sheltered petty bourgeois wife to an independent personality who masters life in her small but important circle, to a heroine." In 1957, she convinced as farmer Maria Diehl in the DFF- Television play The risk of Maria Diehl . In 1967 she played the role of Mrs. Grambauer in the movie Die Heiden von Kummerow and their funny pranks .

After finishing her acting career, she worked from 1974 as an editor and author for the DFF and as a journalist for the Weltbühne and the Wochenpost .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Frank-Burkhard Habel : Lexicon. Actor in the GDR. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-355-01760-2 , p. 299.
  2. ↑ Florian Fürstenau made this statement in the telephone consultation on July 16, 2020. See discussion.
personal data
SURNAME Müller-Fürstenau, Erika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Leobschütz , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1986
Place of death Berlin