Gerda Gmelin

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Gerda Gmelin's urn grave in the women 's garden

Gerda Gmelin (born June 23, 1919 in Braunschweig , † April 14, 2003 in Hamburg ) was a German actress and theater director .

life and work

Gerda Gmelin was the daughter of the actor, director of the Braunschweig State Theater and later theater founder Helmuth Gmelin and his first wife Thekla Mathilde Lina Christine, nee. Diekmann, who died on July 27, 1919 as a result of childbirth . She was also the niece of the writer Otto Gmelin . After her mother's death, she grew up mostly separated from her father in Braunschweig, until the latter married a second time a few years later and Gerda returned to his household. The father's second wife was Charlotte Gmelin-Wilke , daughter of the Braunschweig artist couple Rudolf Wilke and Amalie Wilke . Gerda was in the lower tertiary of the Kleine Burg Lyceum when her father's theater contract expired in 1935 and the family left Braunschweig in the summer of 1935.

After completing secondary school and after auditioning with the actor Gustav Knuth , who also came from Braunschweig, she attended drama school in the Hamburg theater from 1937 to 1939 . She received her first engagement at the Koblenz Theater , to which she returned in 1950 after an interruption due to the war.

In 1955 she went to the Hamburg Theater im Zimmer , which her father had founded in 1947. After the death of her father in October 1959, she took over the management of the stage. She was director of the theater until it closed in 1999.

In addition to acting, she was a director , dramaturge and teacher. Gmelin also became known through numerous productions on television , such as in Die Unverbesserlichen , in a total of nine films from the Tatort series , Pappa ante portas and the famous sketch Cossack's tip by and with Loriot . She had a prominent role in 1988 in Die Bertinis , a film adaptation of a novel based on Ralph Giordano, and the longest series role was Berta Rogalla in the early evening series Der Landarzt . Her voice was also heard in numerous radio plays on the Europa label .

She was honored with the Biermann-Ratjen Medal by the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City for her artistic services to the city of Hamburg . In 1988 she received the honorary award for the silver mask from the Hamburger Volksbühne . She was a single mother of two sons, Matthias and Christian Masuth.

Her grave is in the women's garden at Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg.

Filmography (selection)

Theater roles

literature

  • Isabel Rohloff: Gerda Gmelin. In: Reinhard Bein (Ed.): Braunschweiger personalities of the 20th century. Volume 2, döringDruck, Braunschweig 2012, pp. 58–61.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Isabel Rohloff: Gerda Gmelin. P. 58.
  2. ↑ a b Isabel Rohloff: Gerda Gmelin. P. 59.
  3. ↑ Hamburg theater legend: Actress Gerda Gmelin dies Biographical data at spiegel.de, accessed on February 15, 2015.
  4. ^ Gerda Gmelin: Principal, short biography of actress at garten-der-frauen.de, accessed on February 15, 2015.
  5. ↑ Gerda Gmelin biography at steffi-line.de, accessed on June 23, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Gmelin, Gerda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 2003
Place of death Hamburg