Eva Bildt

Eva Bildt's grave in the communal cemetery in Zeesen

Eva Bildt (born January 29, 1916 in Berlin , † April 27, 1945 in Zeesen ) was a German actress , choir singer and secretary . Eva Bildt was Helmut Gollwitzer's fiancée from 1941 until her death .

Life

Eva Bildt was born in Berlin in 1916 as the only child of the actor couple Paul Bildt and Charlotte Bildt. Her father was one of the most sought-after actors of the silent film era, as well as a director and theater manager. When Eva Bildt was born, her mother had finished her active stage career and was taking acting lessons.

After a school career that is largely incomprehensible today, Eva Bildt left school to become a singer. She received private singing lessons. In 1935 she was excluded from the Reichsmusikkammer because she was considered a Jewish mixed race. In the following years from 1936, Bildt took acting lessons and in 1939 received a certificate confirming that he was ready for the stage. In front of the Reichstheaterkammer she successfully passed a final examination for the art genre of drama and was allowed to work as a reciter with a special permit. After the approval was withdrawn, Eva Bildt completed the compulsory year in the Reich Labor Service and was employed in various children's facilities in Berlin. After completing the compulsory year, Bildt was initially an office worker in the evangelical Burckhardthaus in Berlin-Dahlem, and later until September 1944 secretary in the office of Hanns Lilje , the general secretary of the Lutheran World Federation in Berlin-Lichterfelde. A planned move to Switzerland, combined with an engagement at the Zürcher Schauspielhaus, failed in September 1943. From September 1944, Bildt was obliged to do forced labor at Siemens & Halske , initially in Berlin, only in March 1945 through a transfer to the company's Munich operations interrupted.

Relation to Helmut Gollwitzer

After Eva Bildt met Helmut Gollwitzer in August 1940 , they both got engaged on January 25, 1941. Because Gollwitzer was called up for military service in December 1940, the couple only saw each other during his vacation time. Bildt's lively correspondence with Gollwitzer, her involvement in the community life of the village church in Dahlem , as well as the efforts of both to get married, although she was a so-called " half-Jewish ", reflect the deep relationship between the two fiancés.

death

During the turmoil of the last days of the war, Eva Bildt found refuge with her father in Gustaf Gründgens' Zeesen villa and took her own life there one day after the experienced invasion of Russian troops with veronal at the age of only 29.

literature

• Friedrich Künzel, Ruth Pabst (ed.): "I want to tell you quickly that I am alive, dearest." Helmut Gollwitzer - Eva Bildt. Letters from the war 1940–1945 ; with an afterword by Antje Vollmer; Beck series 1877; Munich: CH Beck, 2008; ISBN 978-3-406-57381-1