Freca-Renate Bortfeldt

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Freca-Renate Bortfeldt (married Lohkamp , born May 5, 1909 in Hamburg ; † March 17, 1986 ibid) was a German theater actress and theater director .

Life

Freca-Renate Bortfeldt made her debut at the Stralsund City Theater in 1930. This was followed by engagements in Hamburg, at the Stadttheater Bochum and the Stadttheater Königsberg / East Prussia . From 1943 to 1944 she was engaged at the Bremen theater . From 1944 she was engaged at the Hamburg Thalia Theater . She worked for half a life at the Hamburg Thalia Theater and was considered a public favorite there. In 1954 she performed there successfully as Katherine in John Van Druten's comedy "My Best Friend". Her brother, the actor and dramaturge Hans-Robert Bortfeldt and her husband, the actor Emil Lohkamp , worked at the same theater.

Gravestone Lohkamp in the women's garden

In addition, Freca-Renate Bortfeldt had guest appearances as a TV actress and speaker in productions for ARD and NWDR (later NDR ). These included the television games “Im sixth floor” (1954), “Two like us ... and the parents don't know anything” (1966), “A better man” (1973) and the NDR crime series “The hunt for the perpetrator "(1957–1964) and the radio play" Göttin Welt "(1970, NDR / SFB). As a speaker, she also took over the dialogues for the singers in opera and operetta recordings produced by the NWDR, so u. a. the Zorika in “ Zigeunerliebe ” (NWDR 1953, conductor: Wilhelm Stephan ) and the Konstanze in “ Die Entführung aus dem Serail ” (NWDR 1954, conductor: Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt ).

From 1949 to 1969, Freca-Renate Bortfeldt also staged children's fairy tales as a director at the Thalia Theater, for which she usually also took on the editing under her male pseudonym Wilhelm Strahl. The performance of “Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot”, which was produced under her direction, was recorded as a film on December 25, 1953 by the ARD (Association of Public Broadcasters of the Federal Republic of Germany).

Freca-Renate Bortfeldt died in Hamburg in 1986, she and her husband Emil Lohkamp were buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in grid square R26,224. The tombstone has been in the women's garden since spring 2020 .

Activity as a director

  • Cinderella - Premiere: December 29, 1949
  • Puss in Boots - Premiere: June 16, 1951
  • Snow White - Premiere: November 26, 1951
  • Sleeping Beauty - Premiere: June 11, 1953
  • King Drosselbart - Premiere: November 23, 1954
  • Frau Holle - Premiere: January 22, 1956
  • King Drosselbart - Premiere: November 29, 1968

Radio plays (selection)

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  • Press department Thalia Theater Hamburg

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hamburg.de - Women's biographies: Freca-Renate Bortfeldt
  2. ↑ ARD radio play database: Goddess world
  3. ↑ Fairy tales in the media change : On the past and present of fairy tale films edited by Ute Dettmar, Claudia Maria Pecher, Ron Schlesinger
  4. ^ Gravestone at genealogy.net
personal data
SURNAME Bortfeldt, Freca-Renate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lohkamp, ​​Freca-Renate (married name); Strahl, Wilhelm (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actress and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1986
Place of death Hamburg