Helga Roloff

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Helga Roloff (born June 17, 1923 in Berlin , † August 1, 2010 in Munich ) was a German actress and speaker.

biography

After graduating from high school, Roloff completed vocational training at the University of Music and Theater in Mannheim from 1943 to 1944. In addition, she later (1947) took voice training lessons from Zdenko Kestranek in Vienna. She made her stage debut in 1948 as “Ophelia” in a “ Hamlet ” production at the Zurich Schauspielhaus . This was followed by a first engagement in Zurich from 1948 to 1951, during which she also met the writer Max Frisch , with whom she had a friendship throughout her life. Roloff's other stage stations were Bern, Chur, Basel and Frankfurt am Main. During her theater career she worked under well-known directors such as Hans Lietzau and Fritz Kortner and embodied numerous classical parts such as "Gretchen" in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's " Faust " (both in Zurich and Chur as well as in Frankfurt), the title role in Henrik Ibsen's " Nora ”(in Chur and Bern), the“ Inken Peters ”in Gerhart Hauptmann's “ Before Sunset ”(Basel), the“ Adela ”in Federico García Lorca's “ Bernarda Albas Haus ”(Frankfurt) and the“ Elisabeth Proctor ”in Arthur Millers "Witch Hunt".

Roloff's rare film appearances include the crime thriller Alibi with Hardy Krüger in the lead role. On television she appeared in various adaptations of stage works and literary sources, such as B. as "Octavia" in George Bernard Shaw's " Antonius and Cleopatra " and as " Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon " in " The Miss of Scuderi " (after ETA Hoffmann ). She was also seen in television games such as Wolfgang Menge's “One Nice Day”, Erwin Wickert's “The Class Essay” and Günter Grass ' “Before”.

A special focus of her artistic work has been speaking since 1953. Roloff was present on the radio for almost half a century as a spokesperson for literary programs and radio play productions as well as the voice of the Bavarian radio broadcasting program Radio Wissen . As a voice actress she worked u. a. in the German version of the multi-part Ich, Claudius, Kaiser und Gott after Robert von Ranke-Graves as the German voice of Caligula's wife Milonia Caesonia (actress: Freda Dowie).

Filmography (selection)

  • 1955: Alibi
  • 1963: The class essay
  • 1963: Antony and Cleopatra
  • 1964: One fine day
  • 1966: The Ballad of Peckham Rye
  • 1967: Ivar Kreuger the match king
  • 1971: Before
  • 1976: The Miss von Scuderi
  • 1982: raindrops

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  1. ↑ month, day and place quoted. after: Kürschner's biographical theater manual , p. 613; the year results from the age in the obituaries
  2. ^ According to Kürschner's biographical theater manual , p. 613; in obituaries like the one from BR 2 ( memento of August 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), however, a staging of a work by Max Frisch in 1949 is named as a debut.
  3. ^ Obituary of BR 2 ( Memento from August 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

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SURNAME Roloff, Helga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and speaker
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 2010
Place of death Munich