Gerda Zinn
Gerda Ursula Zinn (born September 14, 1913 in Elberfeld or Barmen; † February 26, 2012 ) was a German actress and voice actress .
Life
Gerda Zinne was as celebrated her greatest successes as a theater actress at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden , where she played with Erich Ponto and Hans Helmut Dickow , as well as at the State Operetta . With regard to Zinn's representational power, the critic Alfred Kantorowicz praised Zinn as " gave an example of the economy of means with which complicated roles in these pieces are to be mastered ."
Since the 1930s Gerda Zinn was sporadically seen in film productions. For example, she played alongside Hertha Thiele in the drama The First Right of the Child based on a model by Thea von Harbou , in Johannes Riemann 's You Will Like It once and in Wolfgang Staudte's drama The Staircase .
Gerda Zinn also worked as a radio play voice actress and lent her voice, for example, to “Miriam” (Olive Deering) in Cecil B. DeMille's production of Samson and Delilah .
In 1955 Gerda Zinn moved to the USA and devoted herself to Vedanta .
Filmography (selection)
- 1932: The child's first right
- 1937: One day you'll like me
- 1950: the stairs
Radio plays (selection)
- 1949: Puss in Boots (as a princess); Director: Robert Adolf Stemmle , with Aribert Wäscher , Kurt Waitzmann , NWDR.
- 1950: three people; Directed by Alice Decarli , with Alfred Balthoff , Renée Stobrawa , RIAS .
- 1950: Robert and his brothers; Director: Hanns Korngiebel , with Alice Decarli, Paul Edwin Roth , RIAS.
- 1952: Elga; based on Gerhart Hauptmann , director: Hanns Korngiebel, with Antje Weisgerber , Walter Franck , RIAS.
Web links
- Gerda tin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Gerda Zinn at filmportal.de
- Gerda Zinne in the Arne Kauls synchronous database
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to her obituary in the Santa Barbara Independent of April 11, 2012 [1] ; Piet Hein Honig, Hanns-Georg Rodek : 100001. The show business encyclopedia of the 20th century. Showbiz-Data-Verlag, Villingen-Schwenningen 1992, ISBN 3-929009-01-5 , p. 1066, indicate 1918 as the year of birth; lesgensducinema.com Les Gens du Cinema gives 1917 as the year of birth.
- ↑ Honig / Rodek: 100001 , 1992, p. 1066, cite “Wuppertal”, including Les Gens du Cinema, Filmportal and other sources, although Wuppertal did not yet exist in 1918 or 1917.
- ↑ Hansjörg Schneider: Dresdner Theater, 1933-1945: "Play was pleasure and play was danger" , Henschel 2003, p. 8
- ↑ Lothar Schirmer : Arisen from rubble: Theater in Germany after the Second World War , Society for Theater History 1991, p. 71.
- ^ Alfred Kantorowicz: East and West: Contributions to cultural and political questions of the time 1947-1949 , 1st half of 1948, Volume 2, Athenäum Verlag 1979, p. 89.
- ↑ http://www.independent.com/news/2012/apr/11/gerda-ursula-zinn-ambika-1913-2012/
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tin, Gerda |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zinn, Gerda Ursula (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress and voice actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 14, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elberfeld or Barmen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 26, 2012 |