Gertrud Spalke
Gertrud Spalke (* 1890 in Berlin ; † 1962 ) was a German actress as well as radio play and voice actress .
Life
Born in Berlin, she earned her first merits as an actress on the stage in Berlin and Dresden, where she played the title role in Georg Büchner's “ Leonce and Lena ”, for example . and often played alongside famous stage colleagues like Martin Hellberg . After the Second World War, she mainly worked in Munich.
Gertrud Spalke only rarely appeared in film and television. She played in Fritz Kortner's rubble film Der Ruf and in the drama Between Night and Morning, produced between 1942 and 1944 (screenplay: Alfred Braun and Veit Harlan ), which was revived in 1951 under the title Eyes of Love .
In addition, Spalke worked extensively as a speaker for radio and dubbing. She was involved in various radio play productions of the Bavarian Radio , such as in Das Verhör des Lukullus according to Bert Brecht (1949) and in the Simenon adaptation Maigret und die Bohnenstange (1961) edited by Gert Westphal . As a voice actress she lent her voice character actors like Margaret Rutherford ( Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde and I and the Lord Director ), Una O'Connor ( The Adventures of Robin Hood ), Jean Hagen ( Singin 'in the Rain ), Queen Gladys Cooper ( The Song of Bernadette ), Hedda Hopper ( Pirates in the Caribbean Sea ) and Margaret Hamilton as the "Wicked Witch of the West" in the fantasy classic The Magic Land .
Gertrud Spalke died in 1962 and was buried in the Obermenzing forest cemetery in Munich.
Filmography (selection)
- 1942–1944: Between night and morning
- 1948/49: The call
Radio plays (selection)
- 1948: Wolfgang Borchert : Outside the door - Director: Walter Ohm (Radio Munich)
- 1950: Justin Schröder : Let's go to the shift! An audio picture sheet about the showman king Augustschichtl - adaptation and direction: Peter Glas ( original radio play , dialect radio play - BR)
- 1961: Georges Simenon : Maigret and the Beanstalk . Editing: Gert Westphal ; Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm . (BR). Audio Verlag 2005.
Web links
- Gertrud Spalke in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Gertrud Spalke at filmportal.de
Remarks
- ↑ Erich Scheibmayr , Personalities in Munich Cemeteries, 1985.
- ↑ Axel Bornkessel: Georg Büchner's "Leonce and Lena" on the German-speaking stage: Studies on the reception of the comedy by the theater, 1970, p. 179
- ↑ The colorful lie. Memories of an Actor, 1977, p. 234
- ↑ Thomas Bräutigam: Stars and their German voice. Lexicon of voice actors , Marburg 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spalke, Gertrud |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress as well as radio play and voice actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1962 |