Frigga bride

Frigga Braut (born September 18, 1889 in Hamburg , † February 13, 1975 in Düsseldorf ) was a German actress .

Life

Born in Hamburg, she received acting lessons in her hometown in 1904/05 and immediately took up her first engagement at the age of 16. She made her debut in Frank Wedekind's Die Büchse der Pandora . In 1908 Frigga Braut worked in the Swabian town of Eßlingen am Neckar (spelling at that time). In 1909 she went to Altona (today part of Hamburg), in 1911 to Itzehoe in Schleswig-Holstein . From 1913 to 1916 she worked at the Schiller Theater in Altona, 1916-18 at the Lübeck Hansatheater . In 1918 Frigga Braut returned to Hamburg, to the Kammerspiele .

The artist came to Berlin for the first time in 1923 . There she took up an engagement at the Lustspielhaus. After ten years, Frigga Braut left the capital again and went to Munich to perform at the local chamber plays . After only one season she left the Bavarian capital and settled in Düsseldorf . There Frigga Braut was a busy member of the Schauspielhaus ensemble until her death a good forty years later .

Frigga Braut was mainly used in the character subject, she celebrated particular success as a tragedian. Her best-known roles include Mrs. Peachum in the Threepenny Opera , Alexandra in Herod and Marianne, and Akate in ghost comedy . She was also seen in an abundance of maternal roles.

Especially in her Berlin years, Frigga Braut also appeared in front of the camera every now and then, but hardly got beyond supporting roles. Her son was the actor Thomas Braut , her niece the actress Ingrid Braut (1926–2001).

Filmography

• 1925: Rooster in the basket
• 1925: The Notorious
• 1925: The one from the other bank
• 1926: Burning frontier
• 1926: Five o'clock tea on Ackerstrasse
• 1926: The Frauengasse in Algiers
• 1927: Heaven on earth
• 1928: Adam and Eve
• 1929: anesthesia
• 1930: Eva scandal
• 1930: The linden landlady
• 1930: the stolen face
• 1930: love song
• 1931: Who takes love seriously?
• 1932: paprika
• 1949: Madonna in Chains

literature

• Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 79.
• Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 1: A-Heck. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1960, DNB 451560736 , p. 187.

Web links

• Frigga bride in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Frigga Braut at filmportal.de