Helma Fehrmann

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Helma Fehrmann , real name Helma Schultz (born February 3, 1944 in Damgarten , † May 26, 2010 in Berlin ), was a German theater actress , theater pedagogue , theater director and playwright . She was co-founder of the Rote Grütze Theater in Berlin and also appeared in smaller roles in film and television productions.

Life

Helma Fehrmann was born in the penultimate year of the war . In Berlin she attended elementary school from 1950 to 1956, then changed to secondary school and grammar school until 1963. She then did an apprenticeship in bookselling until 1966. Their daughter Caroline Nina Alice was born in the final year of her apprenticeship. From 1970 to 1972 she worked as a library employee in Berlin. In 1973 she made up her Abitur in Bremen and began studying pedagogy at the Technical University of Berlin .

It was at this time that she started acting. Together with Holger Franke and other actors, she founded the “Theater Rote Grütze” in the adjoining room of the Kreuzberg restaurant “Mampf” and worked from then on in the theater, film, television and radio play sectors. The first play in 1973 was about having children and making children, loving, ashamed, afraid, lusting and whatever else happens , which she staged with Franke and four other actors from around the Berlin Grips Theater .

From 1988 to 1991 she completed an apprenticeship in Gestalt therapy , then from 1992 to 2002 in therapeutic individual work, and then lectured in various areas in several German cities, gave seminars and conducted workshops in the areas of theater education and conflict management. To do this, she continued to train.

She wrote several plays in the field of children's and youth theater. Your theater collective was called "Gaukelstuhl". One of her best-known pieces is What is called here love (together with Holger Franke and Jürgen Flügge ), which is played in over 20 countries and was filmed in 1978.

Helma Fehrmann fell ill with cancer in 2009 and succumbed to her illness the following year. Her urn was originally buried in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf and in 2012 reburied in the Friedenau artist cemetery.

theatre

Awards

Quotes

"With the Rote Grütze Theater in Berlin, Helma Fehrmann wrote children's and youth theater history, as an author she shaped dramatic literature for a young audience, as a stage actor she developed neorealistic acting that was specifically aimed at children and young people."

- Wolfgang Schneider : Theater der Zeit , issue 9/2010, p. 89.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sebastian Rattunde: Helma Fehrmann (born 1944) - "Red grits - too hot for children?" , Der Tagesspiegel, December 10, 2010.
  2. ↑ Helma`s grave and reburial to the artist cemetery at Stubenrauchstrasse 43-45 in Tempelhof / Schöneberg , November 11, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Fehrmann, Helma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schultz, Helma (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actress, theater pedagogue, theater director and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Damgarten
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 2010
Place of death Berlin