Gabriele Hessmann
Gabriele Hessmann (* before 1946) is a German actress , voice actress and director .
Life
After completing her professional training, Hessmann first worked as a theater actress and director on Berlin theaters, where she played "Marthe Schwerdtlein" at Urfaust under the direction of Jürgen Fehling . From 1946 she also worked as a teacher for speech technology and role studies at the Deutsches Theater Berlin .
She was a rare guest in feature film productions. For example, she worked in Eugen York's drama Morituri and as the head of the penal institution in Alfred Braun's prison drama Girls Behind Bars . Hessmann became known to a wide audience primarily through her voice. As a voice actress she lent this to Flora Robson in The Lord of the Seven Seas , the title character in the cartoon The Humpbacked Horse , Minna Gombell in Hyenae of the Prairie , Edna May Oliver in Drums on the Mohawk and Marjorie Rambeau in The Hell of Oklahoma . She also took part in numerous radio plays.
Filmography (selection)
- 1948: Morituri
- 1949: girl behind bars
Radio plays (selection)
- 1947: Charlotte von Stein, RIAS
- 1948: Mariechen von Nijmwegen, RIAS
- 1949: Enough is not enough, according to Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
- 1952: Kin Ping Meh or the adventurous story of Hsi Men and his six wives, SFB
Web links
- Gabriele Hessmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lothar Schirmer : Theater in Berlin after 1945: post-war period, "Search nails, offer good theater!" , Writings of the Society for Theater History, Society for Theater History, Vol. 1, p. 43.
- ^ Gerhard Ebert: Becoming an actor in Berlin: from Max Reinhardt's drama school to the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art , Berlin-Information 1987, p. 98
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hessmann, Gabriele |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hessmann, Gabriele |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress, voice actress and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1946 |