Gertrud Welcker

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Gertrud Welcker , also Gertrude Welcker or Gertrud Carlsund (born July 16, 1896 in Dresden , † August 1, 1988 in Danderyd , Sweden ) was a German actress in theater and silent film .

Life

Born in Dresden, she attended Max Reinhardt's drama school in Berlin during the First World War . In 1915/16 she played at the Albert Theater in Dresden. From 1916 to 1919 she was employed at the theaters led by Reinhardt ( Deutsches Theater , Kammerspiele, Volksbühne ). She was seen as a prostitute in August Strindberg's master Olaf in a production by Ferdinand Gregori , as Lesbia in Felix Hollaender's production of Friedrich Hebbel's Gyges and his Ring , as Recha in Ephraim Lessing's Nathan the Wise and as sister Martha in Gerhart Hauptmann's Hanneles Himmelfahrt . In addition, she played under Reinhardt's direction Marion in Georg Büchner's Dantons Tod , Sophie in Friedrich von Schiller's Cabal and Love, as well as Desdemona in William Shakespeare's Othello and Jessica in The Merchant of Venice .

In 1917 Gertrud Welcker began working in film, to which she brought her stage partner Paul Wegener when he gave her the role of an angel in his film Hans Trutz in the land of milk and honey . Gertrud Welcker's best-known roles include Dusy Countess Told in Fritz Lang's masterpiece Dr. Mabuse, the player and the Gesine von Orlamünde in Zur Chronik von Grieshuus . Other large-scale productions in which Welcker participated were Richard Oswald's Lady Hamilton and Carl Froelich's Luise Millerin (based on Schiller's Kabale und Liebe ). Gertrud Welcker played leading roles in less important productions such as The Geisha and the Samurai and A Woman with a Past . She was Albert Bassermann's partner in four films .

In the mid-1920s, the actress withdrew from film and (a little later) from the stage, and in 1930 married a Swedish painter whom she had met during a stay in Paris . After the divorce (1937) from him, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, Gertrud Welcker found a brief job at UFA as a lecturer. Since 1941 she was active for the Red Cross . Shortly before the end of the war, Gertrud Welcker managed to escape to Sweden, where she spent the rest of her life as Gertrud Carlsund.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. Acabus-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , pp. 655 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Welcker, Gertrud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Welcker, Gertrude (full name); Carlsund, Gertrud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress in theater and silent film
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1988
Place of death Danderyd , Sweden