Gisela von Collande

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Gisela von Collande , actually Gisela Huberta Valentine Maria von Mitschke-Collande (born February 5, 1915 in Dresden-Laubegast ; † October 23, 1960 near Nöttingen , Baden ) was a German actress and radio play speaker .

Life

She came from a noble Silesian family and was the daughter of the painter Constantin von Mitschke-Collande (1884-1956) and his first wife Hilde Wiecke (1892-1984), whose father Paul Wiecke was an actor and theater director in Dresden .

She received her artistic training at the drama school of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. In 1932 she was committed to the Volksbühne Berlin . After that she was part of the ensemble of the German Theater , where she took on leading roles in numerous classics.

Grave ensemble Collande / Dahmen with Gisela von Collande (center)

After the Second World War she continued her stage career and played at the Thalia Theater with Willy Maertens in Hamburg as well as in Wuppertal , Berlin and Frankfurt am Main . She was also used in numerous movies, but was mostly limited to the participation in supporting roles. She was also a very busy radio play speaker, mainly for the NWDR Hamburg and its legal successor, the Norddeutscher Rundfunk . But she also had guest appearances at most of the German broadcasters. Here she was again mainly heard in leading roles.

Collande married the actor Josef Dahmen on January 17, 1935 in Berlin (born August 21, 1903 in Ohligs near Solingen ; † January 21, 1985 in Hamburg ); The actress Andrea Dahmen and another daughter and son come from the connection . Her granddaughter Julia (* 1978) and her brother Volker (1913–1990) and his daughter Nora (* 1958) were or are also actors.

Gisela von Collande died in a traffic accident on the A 8 . She lost control of her vehicle between Pforzheim and Karlsruhe and fell five meters into the opposite lane. It is said that the actress died instantly. Her grave is in the Ohlsdorf cemetery next to the graves of her husband and brother, grid square AC 11 (near Stiller Weg and Riedemann mausoleum).

Filmography

Radio plays (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Disconcerting scenes in the former A8 curve on the Nöttinger slope. Pforzheimer Zeitung , October 22, 2010, accessed on May 6, 2014 .
  2. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Gisela von Collande.
personal data
SURNAME Collande, Gisela from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mitschke-Collande, Gisela von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden-Laubegast
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1960
Place of death near Nöttingen , Baden