Eva-Maria Hagen

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Eva-Maria and Nina Hagen , 2013

Eva-Maria Hagen (* 19th October 1934 in Költschen , district Oststernberg , Neumark as Eva-Maria Buchholz ) is a German actress , singer , painter and writer .

Life

The daughter of East Brandenburg farm workers was expelled with her family to Perleberg in Prignitz in north-western Brandenburg at the end of the Second World War . After an apprenticeship to Maschinenschlosserin in Bahnbetriebswerk Wittenberge they began in 1952 studied acting in East Berlin , where in 1953 under the direction of Bertolt Brecht in the Berliner Ensemble in the piece Katz ditch of Erwin Strittmatter played. In 1954 she married the screenwriter Hans Oliva-Hagen . Their five-year marriage resulted in their daughter Catharina, born in 1955, who later became known as an actress and singer under the name Nina Hagen . In 1956 Eva-Maria Hagen continued her acting studies at the Fritz Kirchhoff Academy in West Berlin . 1957 began her career as an actress in the DEFA - Comedy do not forget my little traudel under Kurt Maetzig . From 1957 to 1965 she took part in around 50 film and television productions. In 1958 Eva-Maria Hagen got an engagement at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater in Berlin. Naturally dark-haired, she mostly had to slip into the roles of bosomed blondes, which is why she was soon known as " Brigitte Bardot of the GDR". Among other things, she was present at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival as a star guest. In 1961 she was the first member of the founding of the drama ensemble of the Berlin-Adlershof television station .

In 1965 she met the singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann , who six months later was banned from appearing and publishing by the SED's 11th plenum . Hagen found access to Biermann's critical spirit and his songs. Both were civil partners from 1965 to 1972. While Biermann was banned from appearing , she denied his health insurance contributions and increasingly came into the line of fire of the GDR leadership. A trial for "defamation of the state" was brought against them and their engagements took place primarily in provincial theaters. Her later book Eva and the Wolf is described as a very open avowal of their relationship and contains her lively correspondence with Wolf Biermann, who contributed a foreword.

At the end of 1976 she was dismissed from her job without notice because of her protest against Biermann's recently expatriated . It fared similarly to many other artists of the GDR. In 1977 her citizenship of the GDR was revoked and she moved to the Federal Republic of Germany with her daughter Nina . Her artistic career and her fame were set back by the expatriation, but she stayed true to her subject. Engagements in small theaters and television roles soon followed. She also took part in music performances alongside Wolf Biermann, including in November 1989 shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in a hall at the Leipzig Trade Fair , and also made her own recordings. Hagen lived at times with the director Matti Geschonneck , later with the pianist Siegfried Gerlich , is now single and lives in Hamburg , Berlin and the Uckermark .

In 1997 she received invitations to concerts from the Goethe Institutes in Ireland, Scotland, England, Sweden and the Ukraine because of her musical Brecht homage . In 1998 she went to readings in 50 German cities with her book Eva und der Wolf . She also starred in the television film A Man for a few seconds . In 1999 there was an appearance related to Brecht at the Hamburger Kammerspiele.

Filmography (selection)

Theater roles (selection)

Radio plays

Discography (selection)

  • Singing for Defa film year 45 (1966) - was banned after the rough cut had been examined, re-assembled in 1990, broadcast by ARD in 2005
  • LP Not Love Without Love (1979) - Russian romances, ballads, gypsy songs - translated into German by Wolf Biermann
  • LP Ich leb 'mein Leben (1981) - songs by Wolf Biermann - accompanied by the Italian group Ensemble Havadia di Milano
  • CD Das mit den Männer und den Frau'n (1995) - arranged and accompanied by Siegfried Gerlich
  • Michael, Michael (1985)
  • CD When I first get started ... (1996) - songs by Wolf Biermann based on Baltic motifs
  • CD Joe, do the music from back then (1997) - a homage to the 100th birthday of Bertolt Brecht
  • CD Eva-Maria Hagen sings wolf songs (1999)
  • CD A Journey Through Adventure Land (2008) - 13 audio stories + song

as well as various concert tours with chansons. In particular from 1977 successes as a song singer at home and abroad (Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, Sweden, France, Italy ...).

  • CD Eva and the Wolf (2001) Econ Verlag, audio book
  • CD A Journey Through Adventure Land (2008) Formart.Media, audio stories

painting

  • Traumbilder in Öl (1999) Templin / Uckermark, then to be seen as part of an international erotic exhibition in Auerstedt Castle and Bad Windsheim .

literature

Awards

  • January 18, 1999: Carl Zuckmayer Medal in Mainz for services to the German language

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personal data
SURNAME Hagen, Eva-Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buchholz, Eva-Maria (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, singer, painter and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Költschen , Oststernberg district , today Lubusz Voivodeship , Poland