Gertrud-Elisabeth Zillmer
Gertrud-Elisabeth Zillmer (March 22, 1927 - February 7, 2020 ) was a German actress and director .
Life
Gertrud-Elisabeth Zillmer (as a film actress also Gerti Zillmer) received acting lessons from Lilly Ackermann from 1942 to 1944 . In the following period she had engagements in Eisenach , Frankfurt am Main , Weimar and Potsdam . From 1953 to 1955 she sat in on the Berliner Ensemble with Bertolt Brecht and Benno Besson , and then directed at various theaters herself.
Since 1965 Gertrud-Elisabeth Zillmer was a member of the teaching staff of the State Drama School in Berlin . She was appointed professor in 1984 and after her retirement continued to teach at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art in Berlin . Their strict, precise way of working is the subject of the documentary Die Spielwütigen by Andres Veiel from 2004, which observed four acting students during their training for over seven years.
After a serious illness, Gertrud-Elisabet Zillmer died on February 7, 2020 at the age of 92.
Filmography
- 1956: Thomas Müntzer - A film of German history
- 1957: two mothers
- 1957: Polonia Express
- 1958: Emilia Galotti
- 1965/1990: Don't you think I'm crying
- 2004: Die Spielwütigen (documentary film)
theatre
Director
- 1963: Joachim Knauth : The Campaign ( Theater Greifswald )
- 1966: Gerhart Hauptmann : Rose Bernd ( Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz-Zittau )
- 1971: Carlo Goldoni : Krach in Chiozza ( State Drama School Berlin )
- 1976: Boris Wassiljew : It's still quiet at dawn (State Drama School Berlin)
- 1976: John Kani / Athol Fugard / Winston Ntshona : Sizwe Bansi is dead ( Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin )
- 1977: Claude Pin : Ceremonial for a fight (State Drama School Berlin)
- 1977: Armin Stolper after Michail Bugalkow : Recordings of a dead person (Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin)
- 1978: Vladimir Tendryakov : The night after graduation (Swedish Theater Vaasa - Finland )
- 1979: William Shakespeare : The two Veronese ( Landestheater Halle (Saale) )
- 1979: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Iphigenie auf Tauris (Landestheater Halle (Saale) at the Goethe Theater Bad Lauchstädt )
- 1981: Carl Sternheim : The Uznach School ( Volksbühne Berlin - Sternfoyer)
- 1981: Bertolt Brecht : The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Norrbottensteatern Luleå - Sweden )
- 1983: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Minna von Barnhelm (Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin)
- 1985: Bertolt Brecht: The Threepenny Opera (State Drama School Berlin)
- 1987: Heinrich Kleist : The Broken Krug (State Drama School Berlin im bat )
- 1988: Bertolt Brecht: The Threepenny Opera ( Dresden State Theater )
- 1989: Volker Braun : Lenin's death ( Theater am Neumarkt Zurich )
- 1991: Jean-Paul Sartre : The Trojans ( Malmö Theater School - Sweden)
- 1992: George Tabori after Flavius Josephus : Masada (State Drama School Berlin in the bat studio theater )
- 1993: George Tabori: My Mother's Courage ( Staatstheater Cottbus )
actress
- 1964: William Shakespeare : Richard III. (Anne) - Director:? ( German National Theater and Staatskapelle Weimar )
Web links
- Gertrud-Elisabeth Zillmer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Gertrud-Elisabeth Zillmer at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ [1] Night review from February 11, 2020
- ^ [2] Communication from the "Ernst Busch" Academy of Dramatic Art in Berlin
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zillmer, Gertrud-Elisabeth |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zillmer, Gerti |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 22, 1927 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 7, 2020 |