Gundel Thormann

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Gundula "Gundel" Thormann , bourgeois Gundula de Cillia (born March 14, 1913 in Lübeck , † after 1991) was a German stage, film and television actress .

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The daughter of the senior director of studies Dr. Heinrich Müller-Thormann had attended the lyceum. Even when she was a student, Gundula “Gundel” Thormann was active on the stage, for example she was one of the news reports in the Munich student cabaret of the same name, which was performed on January 31, 1932 in the play Hier errt Goethe! participated on the occasion of the Goethe year 1932. Gundel Thormann then took acting lessons with Lilly Ackermann in Berlin and also appeared on stage at this time. She made her regular theater debut in 1937 with Cherubin in a production of Figaro's wedding at the Münchner Kammerspiele under the direction of Otto Falckenberg . Thormann stayed with Falckenberg until 1943 before she accepted a call to the capital. Thormann's next stage station until the end of the war in 1945 was the Berlin Art Theater, followed by guest tours to various cities and engagements in Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna and Stuttgart. Gundel Thormann also took part in the Ruhr Festival in Recklinghausen.

Her most important early stage roles include Marie in Franz Molnar's “ Liliom ”, which she impersonated at Berlin's Hebbeltheater in 1946, the Gladys in Thornton Wilder's “ We've come again from it ” (same place, same year), and Mrs. De Winter in Daphne du Maurier's “ Rebecca ” (1947), Hilde Wangel in Henrik Ibsen's “ Baumeister Solness ” (1948), Jessica in Jean-Paul Sartre's “ The Dirty Hands ”, Dona Belisa in Lope de Vegas “ The Whims of Dona Belisa ” (1950), Nastja in Maxim Gorki's “ Nachasyl ” (1951), Marion in Georg Büchner's “ Dantons Tod ” (1953), Franziska in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's “ Minna von Barnhelm ” (1954), Fräulein Julie in the play of the same name by August Strindberg (1954) and in 1955 the rose in the German premiere of William Saroyan's “ The Innocents ”, again at Munich's Kammerspiele.

Although she had long been involved in movies at that time, working in front of the camera was only of minor importance for Gundel Thormann at the time. Only after television gradually caught on did the Munich resident (from 1956) regularly appear in front of the camera. Here the roles had very different sizes and different meanings. Although Gundel Thormann took part in several TV productions in the early 1960s and early 1970s, she remained primarily an artist connected to the theater. Even at an advanced age you could see her on stage, around 1964 in the comedy “ Nur kein Blumen ”, 1974 in the Sternheim comedy “ Die Kassette ”, 1984 in “ Memories ” and finally in 1991 in “ You don't play with love ”. After that, their track is lost.

Gundula “Gundel” Thormann was with the specialist Dr. Maximilian de Cillia married.

Filmography

literature

  • Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 745.
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1735.

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personal data
SURNAME Thormann, Gundel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thormann, Gundula; Cillia, Gundula de (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress on stage, film and television
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH after 1991