Helga Dohrn

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Helga Anna Elisabeth Dohrn , also Helga Dohrn-Kennedy (born April 17, 1914 in Breslau , † after 1955) was an Austrian actress .

Life

Dohrn received her professional training as an apprentice at the City Theater in Königsberg. In addition, she took private acting lessons between 1932 and 1934. In 1935 she made her debut in the role of “Mila” in Walter von Molos Friedrich List at the Stadttheater Pforzheim, where she also received her first engagement and for one season mainly served the role of the “naive”. In 1936 she changed both the stage and the role. From then on she played youthful heroine roles and a large number of saloon cars on stages in Koblenz, Berlin ( Theater am Kurfürstendamm ), Bielefeld, Munich. She did not go on a Wehrmacht tour initially planned for 1943 because of an injury. After the Second World War, the stage continued to be the focus of her artistic work, whereby she was primarily occupied in the character subject and mother roles.

Her roles included Solveig in Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt , Luise in Schiller's Kabale und Liebe , Eve in Heinrich von Kleist’s broken mug , Regine in Ibsen’s Ghosts , Amalia in Schiller's Robbers and Hester Worsley in Oscar Wilde's Wife Without Meaning .

In film and television productions, however, the actress was a rare guest. Particularly noteworthy here are Géza from Cziffra's Heavenly Waltz and Georg Wilhelm Pabst's semi-documentary film The Last Act . In this production about the last days of the Second World War based on the novel by Michael A. Musmanno , for which Erich Maria Remarque wrote the script, Dohrn played the role of Magda Goebbels .

She also worked as a spokesperson for radio productions for RAVAG and Rot-Weiß-Rot Wien and as a voice actress .

Helga Dohrn was married to the journalist Sigmund Kennedy and sometimes appeared under the name Helga Dohrn-Kennedy .

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 125.
personal data
SURNAME Dohrn, Helga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dohrn, Helga Anna Elisabeth (full name); Dohrn-Kennedy, Helga (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH after 1955