Helena Klostermann

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Helene Pauline Klostermann (born February 5, 1918 in Frankfurt am Main , † April 5, 2003 in Bad Homburg ), b. Gries was a German actress , author, and publisher . She published and worked mostly under the name "Helena Klostermann".

Life

Klostermann grew up in Frankfurt am Main and attended the Elisabeth School there . After completing secondary school in 1934, she continued her education at the higher commercial school. In 1935 she switched to the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main, at that time still the University of Theater and Music, where she completed her acting training two years later.

In the same year Klostermann married the publisher Vittorio Klostermann . The marriage had three children: Michael (* 1939, † 1992) and the twins Petra Angiolina (* 1950, † 1978) and Vittorio Eckard (* 1950).

Publisher

Helena Klostermann Überlingen 1942

Shortly after the beginning of the war and after the birth of their first son, Klostermann stayed for a few months in Überlingen on Lake Constance , with the art historian Theodor Hetzer , a family friend and author of her husband's publishing house. There she met Friedrich Georg Jünger and introduced him to her husband. Through this mediation, younger became not only the author of the Vittorio Klostermann publishing house , but also the publisher's closest and lifelong friend. The connection between the publishing house and Otto Julius Hartmann and Rudolf Hauschka was also donated by Klostermann. Ernst Jünger's authorship at Klostermann during the 1950s also goes back to her initiative.

During the war years, Klostermann Verlag had a branch in Freiburg im Breisgau , which Klostermann managed. After the war she worked for the publishing house in Frankfurt am Main, mainly to look after the press work and to maintain contact with the book trade .

actress

At the age of 14 Klostermann had his first extra roles at the Römerberg Festival . After completing her acting training in 1937, she had minor engagements at theaters. Klostermann had one of her first engagements at the Rhein-Mainischen Künstlertheater, today's Theater am Turm . She played the "Creusa" from Franz Grillparzer's drama Medea on the traveling stage at the time .

Cologne

Klostermann achieved her breakthrough in 1947 in the role of "Donna Proëza" in the German premiere of Paul Claudel's The Silk Shoe at the Cologne theater . She was on stage with Werner Hessenland , Wilhelm Pilgram , Friedl Münzer and Hans Müller-Westernhagen, among others . Her acting performance was recognized in the press nationwide. So wrote the Kölnische Rundschau after the premiere on October 20th:

“Above all, we have to thank Helena Klostermann's ecstatic game. She has all the prerequisites for the role of Proeza, the inner remoteness, the infinitely delicate liveliness of expression that is capable of the slightest nuances and yet also the strongest increases. She unfolds this possibility in almost every scene, perfectly in new transformations. "

The Volksstimme explained: “Helena Klostermann designed the Proeza with generous passion and movement.” And also in the ZEIT one saw “a number of great artistic moments” between Klostermann and Hessenland. As a thank you for her performance, Klostermann did not receive flowers after the premiere, but the briquettes that were so important in the post-war period.

Helena Klostermann in Bad Homburg 1950

In 1947 Klostermann was involved in a new production of Schiller's Don Karlos in Cologne. Directed by Herbert Maisch , she played in 1948 as "Lyra Schoppke" in Carl Zuckmayer's Des Teufels General . During the Domfestspiele the same year Klostermann led along with Richard Assmann , Rolf Henninger and Heinz Schacht The Salzburg great world theater of Hugo von Hofmannsthal on. In 1949 Herbert Maisch re-staged the Schiller classic The Robbers after Don Karlos . There Klostermann played "Amalia", the bride of the count's son Karl Moor.

Frankfurt

In the same year Klostermann moved to the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt . Together with Max Noack and Otto Rouvel , she was there on stage for Max Kommerell's drama The Prisoners .

After the birth of twins Petra Angiolina and Vittorio Eckard in 1950, Klostermann initially withdrew from theater life. In 1953 in the competition of the newly founded Hessischer Rundfunk to fill the position as announcer, she was shortlisted, but was not given the position. 10 years later she had a guest appearance as "Heidi Dudenrod" in an episode of the successful family series of the Hessian broadcasting company Die Firma Hesselbach .

Heidelberg

From 1972 to 1976 she played in various roles at the Heidelberger Zimmertheater . During this time she was, among other things, the "Beloved" in Edward Albee's play Alles über and 1976 "Alan's mother" in Peter Shaffer's Equus , which was very well received by the critics. During her time in Heidelberg, Klostermann also gave guest performances in the Tonne , the theater in Reutlingen. There she played in 1973 together with Peter Seum and Raimund and Michael Krone in Edward Bonds Gerettet .

In 1976 Klostermann finally withdrew from the theater world.

Author

In 1965 Klostermann published two essays in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Der Welt . Under her maiden name Helene Gries, she wrote about the unexpected birth and upbringing of twins, as well as her experiences as a volunteer in a hospital.

In 1984 her book Age as a Challenge was published. Tell women over sixty . In this, Klostermann portrays twenty women between the ages of 60 and 90 using interviews. Issues such as autonomy in old age play just as much a role as longings and wishes for the future. Klostermann's non-fiction book found a positive response in the media, for example in the Tagesspiegel , the Deutsches Allgemeine Sonntagsblatt and the EMMA magazine . The Frankfurter Rundschau published a preprint. Klostermann's work was also included in The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature in 1997 .

Theater (selection)

  • 1937: as Elisabeth von Valois in Don Karlos
  • 1937: as Creusa in Medea
  • 1947: as Donna Proëza in The Silk Shoe
  • 1947: as Sophie in A Game of Death and Love
  • 1947: as Elisabeth von Valois in Don Karlos
  • 1948: as Lyra Schoppke in Des Teufels General
  • 1948: as a woman world in the Salzburg great world theater
  • 1949: as Amalia von Edelreich in The Robbers
  • 1949: as Helene in The Prisoners
  • 1972: as a lover in everything over
  • 1973: as Mary in Saved
  • 1974: Roof avalanche
  • 1976: Alan's mother in Equus

Filmography

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Verena Auffermann: How fate results from chance . In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung . October 30, 1980.
  2. ^ Ulrich Fröschle, Michael Neumann: Ernst Jünger & Gerhard Nebel. Correspondence 1938-1974. Klett-Cotta 2003. p. 246. ISBN 978-3-608-93626-1
  3. ^ Siegfried Blasche: cessation of publishing work. In: Publishing history Vittorio Klostermann Verlag. Vittorio Klostermann Verlag, accessed on May 16, 2020 .
  4. ^ Siegfried Melchinger: Five theaters in three hours . In: Frankfurter Generalanzeiger . June 13, 1937.
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Braunfels: "The silk shoe" by Paul Claudel . In: Society for Christian Culture . 1946.
  6. ↑ Paul Claudel. The silk shoe. German premiere in Cologne . In: Kölnische Rundschau . October 22, 1946.
  7. ↑ Cologne Culture Days . In: Volksstimme . October 24, 1946.
  8. ↑ Hans Georg Fellmann: The silk shoe. Die Zeit, November 8, 1946, accessed on May 16, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Jardon: new production of Don Carlos . In: Rheinische Zeitung . September 20, 1947.
  10. ↑ Heinz Less: The devil's general. Almost a tragedy . In: Rheinische Zeitung . January 14, 1948.
  11. ↑ Hannes Schmidt: Spiritual theater. Cologne stages open the cathedral festival . In: The world . August 10, 1948.
  12. ^ Johannes Jacobi: Kölner Dom-Festspiele 1948. Die Zeit, September 2, 1946, accessed on May 16, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Schiller's "Robbers" in the view of our time. A gripping new production by Herbert Maisch . In: Kölnische Rundschau . May 3, 1949.
  14. ↑ Willy H. Thiem: Kommerell's "The Prisoners" in Frankfurt . In: Abendpost . October 12, 1949.
  15. ^ Friedrich Minssen: Max Kommerell's Elegy of Downfall . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . October 12, 1949.
  16. ↑ Eight in the final round in the announcer competition - reports Frankfurter Fernsehfunk . In: Münchner Illustrierte . 5th December 1953.
  17. ↑ Seven in front of the television camera . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . November 26, 1953.
  18. ↑ Watching TV up close . In: Abendpost . March 15, 1963.
  19. ↑ Helena Klostermann. IMDb, accessed on May 16, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Josef von Golitschek: Consuming waiting on the deathbed . In: Mannheimer Morgen and Heidelberger Tagblatt . 22nd September 1972.
  21. ^ Edwin Kuntz: Artistic sensation in the room theater . In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung . 1976.
  22. ↑ Helene Gries: Attempt to love your neighbor . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . January 23, 1965.
  23. ↑ Helene Gries: Do twins always have to be rivals? . In: The world . June 19, 1965.
  24. ^ Elisabeth Willgruber-Spitz: From the life of women over 60 . In: NZ, the large daily newspaper of Styria . 2nd February 1985.
  25. ↑ Annette Bässler: The head is still full of plans . In: Der Tagesspiegel . September 16, 1984.
  26. ↑ Christa Damkowski: In retirement . In: German General Sunday Gazette . 20th January 1985.
  27. ↑ Books. Helena Klostermann. EMMA, 1984, accessed May 16, 2020 .
  28. ↑ Helena Klostermann: If you don't want to grow old, you have to hang up young. Age as a challenge. Excerpt . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . September 1, 1984.
  29. ^ Friedrike Eigler, Susanne Kord: The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature. Greenwood Publishing Group 1997. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-313-29313-9 .
personal data
SURNAME Klostermann, Helena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klostermann, Helene Pauline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, author and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 2003
Place of death bad Homburg