Hedwig Wangel
Hedwig Wangel , actually Amalie Pauline Hedwig Simon (born September 23, 1875 in Berlin ; † March 12, 1961 in Lohe-Föhrden , district of Rendsburg ), was a German actress and radio play speaker .
Life
The daughter of a music publisher took acting lessons from Max Grube and made her debut in 1893 with the stage company "Urania". In 1894/95 she played in Detmold , 1896 to 1898 in Riga , 1898/99 at the Berlin Lessing Theater , 1899/1900 at the Hoftheater Kassel , in 1900/01 she toured England, 1901/02 she acted at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, 1902/03 she went on a tour of the Netherlands.
In 1903 a longer engagement at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin followed. During this time, Hedwig Wangel was considered one of the most prominent actresses who embodied convincingly strong female personalities with her deep voice and powerful demeanor.
In 1909 she withdrew from the stage and looked after convicted women and girls in social welfare. From 1924 she played again in the theater in order to be able to finance a technical school for girls released from prison for the benefit of her Hedwig Wangel-Hilfe eV. This association produced two films, namely in 1926/1927 the short documentary A Lifeline for Failed People and in 1930 the feature film People of the Second Quality , in which she directed with Julius Meery.
From the mid-1920s she also worked as a radio play speaker, including for Funk-Hour Berlin and Nordische Rundfunk AG (NORAG). For example, she could be heard on the Hamburg broadcaster in 1927 under the direction of Hans Bodenstedt in the three-person play Der Weibsteufel . At that time, your partners were Karl Pündter and Ernst Pündter . Even after the war ended , she stood in front of the microphone a few times. Her last appearance dates from 1957.
From 1935 to 1944 she was part of the ensemble of the Münchner Kammerspiele . Hedwig Wangel took on important supporting roles in numerous films, such as Queen Victoria in the propaganda film Ohm Krüger . After the war she made guest appearances at theaters in Munich and Berlin.
Filmography (selection)
- 1925: The last cab from Berlin
- 1926: Woman's crusade
- 1926: Dagfin
- 1926: Superfluous people
- 1927: A Dubarry from today
- 1927: The convicts
- 1927: Petronella
- 1927: The governor's mistress
- 1927: Queen Luise
- 1928: Snowshoe bandits
- 1928: A princess's thorn path
- 1930: people of the second class
- 1930: Pension Schöller
- 1930: Flax man as an educator
- 1930: 1000 words in German
- 1931: Poor little Eva
- 1931: Who takes love seriously?
- 1931: Gloria
- 1931: Laundry-washing-welfare (industrial film)
- 1931: The office manager
- 1932: Under a false flag
- 1932: Three from the stamp office
- 1932: Ballhaus golden angel
- 1932: The will of Cornelius Gulden
- 1932: Escape to Nice
- 1932: Friederike
- 1932: Under the spell of the Eulenspiegel
- 1938: Traveling people
- 1939: Liberated hands
- 1940: enemies
- 1940: What does Brigitte want?
- 1941: comrades
- 1941: The way out into the open
- 1941: Ohm Krüger
- 1942: Violanta
- 1942: Beloved World
- 1943: The neverending way
- 1943: a happy person
- 1943: The Majorate Lord
- 1944: The Feuerzangenbowle
- 1945: Journey to happiness
- 1945: The old song
- 1945: My heart belongs to you / I believe in you
- 1945: the puppeteer (unfinished)
- 1947: people in God's hands
- 1948: love 47
- 1948: Amico
- 1949: Gynecologist Dr. Praetorius
- 1949: royal children
- 1949: No angel is so pure
- 1951: The Secret of a Marriage
- 1951: Hanna Amon
- 1951: Immortal Beloved (after Aquis submersus by Theodor Storm )
- 1952: Roses bloom on the heather grave
- 1952: My name is Niki
- 1953: The village under the sky
- 1953: A heart plays wrong
- 1953: Everything for dad
- 1953: Ave Maria
- 1955: roses in autumn
- 1956: The Sunday Child
- 1956: Night falls without you
- 1958: The dairy in vehicle joy
Radio plays
- 1925: Henrik Ibsen : Ghosts - Director: Alfred Braun
- 1926: Hans Sachs : The traveling student in the Paradeis - Director: Alfred Braun
- 1926: Hans Sachs: To make the bad man good - Director: Alfred Braun
- 1926: Hans Sachs: The stolen carnival cock - directed by Alfred Braun
- 1926: NN: In the Zoological Garden - Director: Alfred Braun
- 1926: Friedrich Schiller : Maria Stuart - Director: Alfred Braun
- 1926: Hans Brennert , Jon Lehmann : Der Flieger - Director: Alfred Braun
- 1927: Gerhart Hauptmann : The beaver fur . A thief comedy - Director: Ernst Pündter
- 1927: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust. The first part of the tragedy - Director: Hans Bodenstedt (also adaptation); Harald Röbbeling
- 1927: Karl Schönherr : Der Weibsteufel - Director: Hans Bodenstedt
- 1927: Heinrich von Kleist : The Broken Jug - Director: Ernst Pündter
- 1927: Molière : Sganarelle - Director: Ernst Pündter
- 1927: Gerhart Hauptmann: Fuhrmann Henschel - Director: Victor Heinz Fuchs
- 1927: NN: 3rd part: Max Reinhardt - Director: NN
- 1950: Alexander Puschkin : Pique-Dame - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
- 1950: Gerda Corbett : Friends - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
- 1950: Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann : The golden pot. A radio fairytale - Director: Helmut Brennicke
- 1951: Gabriel Honoré Marcel : The Messenger - Director: Ludwig Cremer
- 1951: Ernst Penzoldt : The Portuguese Battle - Director: Otto Kurth
- 1955: Leopold Ahlsen : Philemon and Baucis - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
- Award: Radio Play Prize of the War Blind , 1956
- 1955: Noël Coward : Tomorrow at this time - Director: Ludwig Cremer
- 1956: Reinhold Schneider : Elisabeth Tarakanow - Director: Ulrich Lauterbach
- 1957: Georges Simenon : Frau Maigret as a detective - Director: Otto Kurth
- 1957: Graham Greene : The Secret - Editing and Direction: Wilhelm Semmelroth
- 1957: John P. Wynn : Inspector Hornleigh on the trail (1st season: 7th episode) - Director: Hermann Pfeiffer
Fonts
- Karl Mühlek : Wangel, Hedwig. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 13, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-072-7 , Sp. 328-329.
See also
Web links
- Hedwig Wangel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hedwig Wangel at filmportal.de
- Pictures by Hedwig Wangel In: Virtual History
- Newspaper article about Hedwig Wangel in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wangel, Hedwig |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Simon, Amalie Pauline Hedwig (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1875 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | March 12, 1961 |
Place of death | Lohe-Föhrden , Rendsburg district |