Evelyn Hamann

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Evelyn Hamann (1981)

Evelyn Hamann , real name Eveline Braun , b. Hamann , (born August 6, 1942 in Hamburg ; † October 28, 2007 there ) was a German actress and voice actress .

life and work

Training and engagements

Evelyn Hamann received her Abitur in 1962 at the Bondenwald grammar school in Hamburg.

During her acting training at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Hamburg - among others with Eduard Marks - Hamann took on smaller roles at the Thalia Theater . In 1968 she received her first engagement at the Junge Theater in Göttingen . In 1971 she went to the Städtische Bühne in Heidelberg , where she played alongside Jürgen Prochnow, among others . After two years she returned to Northern Germany and became a member of the ensemble at Theater Bremen . There she played a number of major roles up to 1979, such as Marthe Schwerdtlein in Goethe's Urfaust and the old woman in Ionesco's Die Stühle . She also worked as a voice actress.

Collaboration with Loriot

Evelyn Hamann with Vicco von Bülow during a reading from his book Loriot's dramatic works (1981)

Radio Bremen entertainment director Jürgen Breest discovered Evelyn Hamann at the Bremen Theater when Radio Bremen was looking for an actress for the Loriot productions.

Loriot had actually been looking for “a blonde, chubby housewife” for his sketch series and said to Hamann after she had played for him: “Dear Mrs. Hamann, if you eat pork knuckle every day for several weeks at our expense, you think you will be fuller ? ”But Hamann, who was gaunt and brunette, convinced him so much that he decided on her anyway:“ Good, then not chubby. ”So from 1976 she became known to a larger audience as Loriot's partner in numerous skits . With an unmoved expression and dry Hanseatic humor, she wrote television history. B. as Miss Dinkel in a love-clinch with her stiff boss, in the sketch Die Nudel as Hildegard when meeting a vain admirer who sticks a noodle stubbornly on his face ("Please don't say anything now, Hildegard"), or as a woman Hoppenstedt in the Kosakenzipfel and with the yodel diploma (“I have something in hand when the children are out of the house - I have something of my own”). One of her most popular skits showed her as a television announcer who wants to present the British crime series The Two Cousins and almost suffers a nervous breakdown because of the demanding articulation of the many th sounds in English place names and personal names.

In 1988 and 1991, Hamann also played the leading female role in the Loriot films Ödipussi and Pappa ante portas . She herself said of the collaboration that she had learned from Loriot that attention to detail that is essential for real comedy:

"The staging of humor requires rigor, artistry and discipline."

Loriot said goodbye to his late partner Evelyn Hamann on the Beckmann program on October 29, 2007 with the words:

"I have lost a loyal partner and we have all lost a wonderful actress who has always managed to overcome the tricky sides of life through comedy."

Addressing Hamann himself, he added:

"Dear Evelyn, your timing was always perfect, only today you didn't keep the order. Just wait…"

Later roles

In the 1980s she played the role of the housekeeper Carsta Michaelis in the series Die Schwarzwaldklinik . She later appeared regularly in the role of Thea in the weekly doctor series The Country Doctor .

From 1993 to 2005 the television series Evelyn Hamanns Stories from Life with her in the lead role ran. From 1993 she played - alongside Heinz Baumann , Tilo Prückner , Gisela May , Gerhard Garbers (who had often played her (spouse) partner since he was at drama school) and others - the title role in the successful NDR television series Adelheid and their murderers , from the six seasons (with a total of 65 episodes) were shot.

Readings and radio plays

Hamann has also made a name for himself through literary readings and audio book productions, such as the crime novels by Patricia Highsmith . In the radio play series Jonas - the last detective , she played the role of Dr. Praetorius.

Private life

Grave of Evelyn Hamann (2009)

Evelyn Hamann came from a family of musicians. Her father Bernhard Hamann was a violinist , concertmaster of the NDR symphony orchestra and founder of the Hamann Quartet , her mother was a singer and music teacher. Hamann's grandfather worked as a concertmaster in Berlin, her brother Gerhard Hamann was professor of violoncello at the Trossingen University of Music . From 1964 to 1976 she was married to Hans Walter Braun, whom she had met at the theater in Hamburg. After her divorce, she lived in Hamburg, most recently with her partner, the actor Stefan Behrens . She attached great importance to her privacy and lived rather withdrawn in an attic apartment in Hamburg-Harvestehude .

Evelyn Hamann died on the night of October 28, 2007 of complications from a malignant lymphoma that she had been diagnosed ten months earlier. She was buried on November 16, 2007 in the old Niendorfer cemetery in Hamburg.

Filmography (selection)

watch TV

movie theater

Radio plays (selection)

honors and awards

Web links

Commons : Evelyn Hamann  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. Vera Altrock: Evelyn Hamann on the Abitur photo, second from the left , Hamburger Abendblatt website, November 3, 2007. Accessed on February 19, 2020.
  2. synchrondatenbank.de
  3. a b The "better half" of Loriot. Epoch Times Europe , October 29, 2007, archived from the original on December 12, 2008 ; accessed on January 24, 2016 .
  4. Loriot at Beckmann: "Well wait, Evelyn!" Süddeutsche Zeitung GmbH, May 17, 2010, accessed on February 9, 2018 .
  5. ^ Christiane Kruse : Who lived where in Hamburg . Stürtz, Würzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8003-1996-1 .
  6. ^ Report in the Hamburger Abendblatt from November 17, 2007