Brigitte Grothum
Brigitte Kaethe Grothum (born February 26, 1935 in Dessau ) is a German actress , voice actress , film producer and director .
Life
Brigitte Grothum was born in Dessau in 1935 and moved to Berlin at the age of 15 . She graduated from high school at the Ricarda-Huch-Schule in Berlin-Charlottenburg and then began acting training with Marlise Ludwig and Herma Clement . At first she mainly played theater on various Berlin stages. Later, despite many engagements in radio and film, she kept coming back to the stage.
In 1955 she was in front of the camera in Maturing Youth for the first time, the following year she played Marion in the equestrian drama Prize of Nations (Das Mädchen Marion) . Brigitte Grothum was best known in 1961 for her leading role in the Edgar Wallace film The Strange Countess at the side of Klaus Kinski , with whom she was also a private friend at the time. Further Wallace adaptations followed The Inn on the Thames and The Curse of the Yellow Snake . In 1966 and 1967 she appeared at the Salzburg Festival as Hermia in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream , directed by Leopold Lindtberg . Grothum was seen in over 100 different productions on television. Her longest television engagement was as Magda Färber in the early-evening TV series Drei Damen vom Grill , where she played alongside Brigitte Mira , Gabriele Schramm , Günter Pfitzmann and Harald Juhnke .
In 1987, Grothum directed the mystery play Jedermann by Hugo von Hofmannsthal , which was performed every autumn in the Berlin Cathedral . She also took on the allegorical role of faith in all performances . The Berliner Jedermann-Festspiele existed until 2014, always produced and staged by Grothum.
In addition, the actress was active in the dubbing from 1957 and lent her voice to prominent colleagues such as Lee Remick (They Want To Be Giants) , Diane Keaton (The Sleeper) , Barbara Eden ( Company Fire Belt ) , Virginia Mayo ( Submachine Guns ) , Diana Rigg as Emma Peel in With Umbrella, Charm and Bowler Hat or Debbie Watson as Tammy in the TV series Tammy, the girl from the houseboat . In Die Halbstarken she dubbed Karin Baal , who had never been in front of a camera before and who had no other acting experience.
In addition to her film roles, Brigitte Grothum has also appeared repeatedly on German theater stages, most recently in 2011 and 2012 in Berlin and Hamburg in the very successful theater production of Calendar Girls . From June 21 to July 2, 2012 she played Gertrud Mahlbeck from episodes 30 to 36 in the ZDF telenovela Paths to Happiness - Traces in the Sand and was seen again in this role from episode 69 to 74.
She is the niece of the German aviation pioneer Hans Grade . She was married to the orthopedic surgeon Manfred Weigert from Bavaria until his death on December 15, 2019; the marriage resulted in two children. She lives in Berlin-Nikolassee . Her daughter Debora Weigert is also an actress.
Filmography (selection)
- 1955: Maturing youth
- 1956: The girl Marion
- 1956: The first day of spring
- 1956: A man doesn't always have to be beautiful
- 1957: The last will be the first
- 1957: Lemke's blessed widow
- 1958: My whole heart is full of music
- 1959: 2 × Adam, 1 × Eve
- 1961: The miracle of Malachia
- 1961: The Strange Countess
- 1961: your most beautiful day
- 1962: The red intoxication
- 1962: The inn on the Thames
- 1962: The happy years of the Thorwalds
- 1963: The curse of the yellow snake
- 1966: The really big thing
- 1967: It has to be Friday
- 1968: A man named Harry Brent
- 1968: Astragalus
- 1971: One is always crazy
- 1972: Private detective Frank Kross - The Amazon Report
- 1973: Crime Scene - An ordinary murder
- 1973: Local appointment - Miss Bluebeard
- 1975: Decided and announced - shots at dawn
- 1976–1991: Three ladies from the grill
- 1977: Grete Minde
- 1981: The old man - acquittal
- 1981: A Case for Two - Death Friends, S1 / E4
- 1986/1988: Favorite Kreuzberg
- 1989: You're right with me
- 1990–1993: The Piefke saga
- 1993: A job for life
- 2003: Swap company for household
- 2005: bed whispers & baby luck
- 2006: the last train
- 2006: Welcome to Lüsgraf
- 2007: Janitor Krause - Order must be - An immoral offer
- 2008: The Lawyers - Faith
- 2010: Hanna - Follow your heart
- 2010: The Criminalist - Shadow of the Past
- 2010: My wonderful family - ... on new paths
- 2011: In all friendship - Merry Christmas everywhere
- 2011: child prodigies
- 2012: Paths to happiness - tracks in the sand
- 2013: Danni Lowinski - a matter of the heart
- 2014: my lover, his father and me!
- 2014: Emergency call harbor edge - thieves
- 2016: The specialists - On behalf of the victims - Little Angel
- 2018: Heldt - Elefant does not forget
Theater (selection)
- 2016: Bad Hersfeld Festival - witch hunt (production: Dieter Wedel )
Radio plays
- 2014: Marguerite Duras : La Musica (lady at the reception) - Director: Kai Grehn (radio play - SR / RBB )
Synchronous rollers (selection)
actress | Film / series | role |
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Angie Dickinson | Jessica | Jessica |
Poppy is also a flower | Linda Benson | |
Ann Bell | The billing | Rosemary Marler |
Anne Maxwell | Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (TV series) | Susan Taunton |
Barbara Bosson | Capricorn company | Alva Leacock |
Barbara Bouchet | Milano caliber 9 | Nelly Bordon |
Barbara Colby | California split | Receptionist |
Barbara Eden | Company fire belt | Lt. Cathy Connors |
Carmel Johnson | A 2nd Chance (Synchro 2015) | Beverly Teague |
Carol Lynley | Three girls in Madrid | Maggie Williams |
Carolyn Hennesy | Dance off | Mary |
Danik Patisson | Too hot to touch | Lilliane Decker |
Diane Keaton | The sleeper | Luna locksmith |
Dolores Hart | Gold from a hot throat | Susan Jessup |
My life is the rhythm | Nellie | |
Eva Gabor | Aristocats | Duchess |
Gemma Jones | Spooks - MI5 Target (TV Series) | Connie James |
Gretchen Corbett | Farewell to Manzanar | Lois Ames |
Jean Arthur | Always more, always happier | Connie Milligan |
Jennifer Rhodes | Ally McBeal (TV series) | Gladys |
Joan Lorring | Scotland Yard was wrong here | Lottie |
Karin Baal | The youngsters | Sissy Bohl |
Kyoko Ai | Frankenstein and the monsters from space | Queen of Kilaak |
Laura Antonelli | Musketeer with blow and stab | Pauline Gosselin |
Lola Albright | Starsky and Hutch (TV series) | Lola Turkel |
Margaret Tallichet | Eve Eve | Gloria Pennington |
Rita Tushingham | Doctor Zhivago | The girl |
Sarah Branch | The sword of Robin Hood | Lady Marian |
Stéphane Audran | La Gitane - Nothing but trouble with women | Brigitte |
Susan Clark | Bloody trail | Dr. Elizabeth Arnold |
Sylva Koscina | Some like it secret | Vlasta Simoneva |
Yvonne De Carlo | Bonanza (TV series) | Lotta Crabtree |
Yvonne Furneaux | Champagne killer | Christine |
Awards
- 1988: Order of Merit of the State of Berlin
- 2004: Golden Iffland-Taler of the Berlin Theater Club for their commitment to the Jedermann Festival in Berlin
- 2006: Berlin Bear (BZ Culture Prize)
Web links
- Brigitte Grothum in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Brigitte Grothum at filmportal.de
- Brigitte Grothum in the German synchronous file
- Homepage of Brigitte Grothum
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.morgenpost.de/printarchiv/seite3/article133173157/Zur-Person-Brigitte-Grothum.html
- ↑ Biography at the Berliner Jedermann Festival
- ↑ tvder60er.de
- ↑ Calendar Girls in the Winterhuder Fährhaus
- ↑ http://www.morgenpost.de/printarchiv/top-bmlive/article1504719/Zur-Person.html
- ↑ http://www.morgenpost.de/printarchiv/seite3/article133173157/Zur-Person-Brigitte-Grothum.html
- ↑ http://www.morgenpost.de/printarchiv/seite3/article133173158/Alles-laeuft-ueber-Brigittchen.html
- ↑ hessenschau.de: Bad Hersfeld Festival opens "witch hunt" at the beginning . In: hessenschau.de . June 25, 2016. Archived from the original on June 25, 2016. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 25, 2016.
- ↑ German synchronous files. In: www.synchronkartei.de. Retrieved September 16, 2016 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Grothum, Brigitte |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grothum, Brigitte Kaethe (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress and director |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1935 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dessau |