Erika Pelikowsky

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Erika Pelikowsky with director, actor and husband Wolfgang Heinz in 1961

Erika Pelikowsky (born January 18, 1916 in Vienna ; † February 21, 1990 there ) was an Austrian actress .

Life

Erika Pelikowsky completed her acting training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar and has worked at the Vienna Burgtheater since 1939 . After an interlude at the Berlin Schillertheater (1943/44), she returned to Vienna in 1945. There she worked again at the Burgtheater, then at the Volkstheater (1946, master builder Solness by Henrik Ibsen with Albert Bassermann ). After all, she was part of the ensemble of the Wiener Neue Theater in der Scala, which opened in 1948 .

When Wolfgang Langhoff engaged most of the actors at the Deutsches Theater in East Berlin after the Neue Scala was closed , she stayed in East Berlin until the end of the GDR, where she later performed with Bertolt Brecht's Berliner Ensemble .

In addition to theater roles, Pelikowsky became popular through numerous roles in DEFA feature films and television films. Erika Pelikowsky-Heinz is the mother of Gabriele Heinz and was the wife of Wolfgang Heinz .

tomb

She rests in the Adlershof cemetery in Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Radio plays

Web links

Commons : Erika Pelikowsky  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Private obituary notice of the daughter in the Berliner Zeitung of March 30, 1990, p. 13
  2. ↑ Erika Pelikowsky at the DEFA Foundation
personal data
SURNAME Pelikowsky, Erika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1990
Place of death Vienna , Austria