Heath Kipp

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Heide Kipp (born November 12, 1938 ) is a German actress.

Life

Heide Kipp initially trained as a nurse and then studied from 1959 to 1961 at the State Drama School in Berlin-Schöneweide . After graduating, she was engaged at the Deutsches Theater and in 1963 moved to the Hans-Otto-Theater in Potsdam , where she played Ophelia in Hamlet in 1964 .

In 1971 she was brought to the Volksbühne by the director Benno Besson , of which she was a member for more than 30 years. Kipp made her debut at the Volksbühne with a role in Manfred Karges and Matthias Langhoff's staging of the robbers (1971); In addition to roles in other Karge / Langhoff productions ( Goethe's Der Bürgergeneral , 1976), there followed appearances in directorial work by Fritz Marquardt ( Erich Köhler's Der Geist von Cranitz , 1972; Molières Der Menschenhasser , 1975, and Heiner Müller's Der Bau , 1980), Christoph Schroth ( Ulrich Plenzdorf's The New Sorrows of Young W. , 1972), Benno Besson ( Peter Hacks ' Margarete in Aix , 1973; Shakespeare's As You Like It , edited by Heiner Müller, 1975; Shakespeare's Hamlet , translated by Heiner Müller and Matthias Langhoff, 1977), Jürgen Gosch ( Büchner's Leonce and Lena , 1978), Berndt Renne , Brigitte Soubeyran and others. In the 1980s followed roles in Heiner Müller's adaptation of Macbeth (1982; directed by Heiner Müller and Ginka Tscholakowa ) and in a series of productions by Helmut Straßburger and Ernstgeorg Hering . Kipp was also involved in the reading series Authors en suite , which has been taking place under Jürgen Verdofsky's direction since 1986 .

Since the 1970s she has also been seen increasingly in supporting roles at DEFA , often in contemporary films by directors such as Helmut Dziuba , Iris Gusner and Herrmann Zschoche reflecting everyday life in the GDR . For her role in Konrad Wolf's solo Sunny , she received a prize for best supporting actress at the 1st National Feature Film Festival in 1980 . There was also some synchronized work; for example, she spoke Kirsten Walther's Yvonne in the third Olsen Gang film The Olsen Gang goes to Jutland (1971) and Eileen Brennan in the DEFA dubbing of A corpse for dessert (1975).

After the fall of the Wall, she worked at the Volksbühne in productions by Andreas Kriegenburg (Büchners Woyzek , 1991; García Lorcas In his Garden, Don Perimplin Loves Belisa , 1992) and Artistic Director Frank Castorf ( König Lear , 1992; Pension Schöller : Die Schlacht von Laufs / Jacoby and Heiner Müller, 1994; Stanisława Przybyszewskas Die Danton , 1994; Hebbels Die Nibelungen , 1995; Golden flows along the Stahl / Wolokolamsker Chaussee by Karl Grünberg and Heiner Müller, 1996 and Richard II. The property , 1999). Often it was also occupied by Christoph Marthaler , for example in his "patriotic evening" Murx the European! Murx him! Murx him! Murx him! Murx him! (1993), in The Intruder - An Anniversary Concert in Two Acts (1994, based on Karl Valentin & Maurice Maeterlinck ), in his project Street of the Best (1996) and in Chekhov's Three Sisters (1997), and finally in The Ten Commandments according to Raffaele Viviani (2001) and not in Marthaler's own play Lieber. One Thinning (2003).

Filmography (selection)

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