Gisela Reissmann

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Gisela Reissmann (* 1920 ; † April 17, 2009 in Jena ) was a German voice actress and actress .

Life

At the end of the 1940s she began her professional career, initially as a house model for fashion designers such as Heinz Oestergaard . As an actress, she was seen in, among other things, the casino affair (1957), as an evil stepmother in Snow White (1959) and in another fairy tale film The Swapped Prince (1962).

However, Reißmann became known mainly as a voice actress in the 1960s. Her voice has been used extensively in Disney films for evil characters. These include, for example, the evil queen and the witch from Snow White and the seven dwarfs (1937) in the second German dubbing version and Malefiz from Sleeping Beauty (1959). It was through these roles that she achieved her greatest fame. Within 20 years, from 1955, Gisela Reissmann was involved in over 80 synchronizations. After she retired from the business in 1975, she became very quiet.

On the evening of April 17, 2009, Gisela Reissmann died of heart failure at the age of 89 in her Jena villa .

Filmography

Synchronous rollers (selection)

actress Film / series role
Annie Cordy The cat Nelly
Betsy Palmer Star of the law Nona Mayfield
Caterina Boratto The 120 days of Sodom Signora Castelli
Dawn Addams Do you want to dance with me? Anita Floers
Joan Crawford The straitjacket Lucy Harbin
Eileen Herlie Luck in installments Anne's mother
Eleonora Rossi Drago The carpet of horror Mabel Hughes
The portrait of Dorian Gray Esther Clouston
Only dead witnesses are silent Magda Bergen
Erni Arneson The baroness from the gas station Clarissa Rabenfeldt
Hermione Baddeley Blockade in London (2nd synchro) Edie Randall
Aristocats Madame Adelaide
Honor Blackman Shalako Lady Julia Daggett
Irene Dailey Bizarre murders Mrs. Fitts
Jan Sterling 1984 Julia
Lucille La Verne Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (2nd Synchro in 1966) The wicked queen
Barbara Stanwyck He only came at night Irene Trent
Marlene Dietrich Under the sign of evil Tana
Patricia Neal Breakfast at Tiffany's 2-E
The wildest among a thousand Alma Brown
The desire Alison Crawford
Simone Signoret Murder included in the fare Eliane Darès
Is Paris on fire? landlady
Violet Shelton Suspicion (2nd synchro in 1965) Mrs. Barham
Yvonne Furneaux The friends Momina De Stefani

Awards

On May 17, 1956, she and her colleagues Lothar Blumhagen and Albert Venohr received the Heinrich Greif Prize, 2nd class, for the dubbing of the French film Red and Black .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German synchronous files. In: www.synchronkartei.de. Retrieved September 16, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Reissmann, Gisela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German voice actress and actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1920
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 2009
Place of death Jena