Herma Koehn
Herma Koehn (born September 16, 1944 in Kleinheubach ) is a German actress , director and radio play speaker .
Life
Koehn was born as the youngest of three daughters in Markt Kleinheubach am Main ; her older sisters Heidi and Heike are twins . Her father died when Koehn was six years old. Koehn's mother initially kept the family afloat financially by working from home ; later she took a job in the office .
Koehn developed his first acting ambitions at school; one of her classmates was the actor Thomas Fritsch . In a school competition she got the role of Gretchen . After her mother intervened, Koehn was not allowed to accept a scholarship to train acting with Eduard Marks ; this demanded that her daughter should do a "proper" education. Koehn then completed a commercial apprenticeship as a savings bank clerk at Hamburger Sparkasse. It financed her acting training, which she received from Urte Clasing in Hamburg and completed with the stage maturity test.
During her apprenticeship, she played alongside Freddy Quinn in the musical Heimweh nach St. Pauli by Lotar Olias at the Hamburg Operettenhaus ; at the theater for children she appeared as Annika in Pippi Longstocking . In 1968 she became a permanent member of the Ohnsorg Theater in Hamburg . Koehn had already played there as a guest in the play Beach Robbers ; Intendant Hans Mahler initially gave her an annual contract. Her first role as a permanent member of the ensemble was in the fall of 1968 in the folk play Leben in de Bood . Koehn was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater for over thirty years, where she played over 120 roles until 2001. After Strandräuber (1968) with Heidi Kabel, the plays Landleben (1969) with Otto Lüthje and Mein Mann, der geht zur See (1971) with Christa Wehling were among the first television recordings in which she appeared . Other appearances included Gossip in the Staircase (1974) with Heini Kaufeld , Der Etappenhase (1978) with Edgar Bessen and Ein Mann ist kein Mann (1989) with Heidi Mahler .
In 1970 Koehn received the Silver Seagull , the artist prize of the Hamburger Abendblatt for best young actress, for her acting achievements . At the North German Theater Meeting in 1978 she was awarded for the role of Marie in the comedy Der Etappenhase by Karl Bunje .
Since 1994 Koehn has been a regular guest at the comedy Winterhuder Fährhaus with the one-person play Frauke Petersen or The holy Johanna of the fitted kitchen . Koehn had translated the play Shirley Valentine by the British playwright Willy Russell from English into Low German and edited it for the stage; later Koehn also created a version of the piece in standard German . Until December 2010 she played the role of Frauke Petersen in over 300 performances. In this role she also appeared at the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater. In 2009 she returned to the role of psychopath Annie Wilkes in a stage version of the thriller Misery by Stephen King once again return to the stage of Ohnsorg Theater. In October 2009, Herma Koehn received the Rolf Mares Prize of the Hamburg Theater 2009 in the category “Exceptional Performances Actresses” for her portrayal of Annie Wilkes. In 2011 she will be on tour again with this role .
Koehn has been working as a freelance actress since August 2001. She performed at the Altona Theater (2003 as Amandine Landernau in the comedy Cat in a Sack by Georges Feydeau , 2004/2006 as Madame Chanel in Eight Women ), at the Pyrmont Theater (2003/2004 as Madame de Volanges in Dangerous Liaisons , stage version: Manfred Wekwerth ), at the Hamburger Volkstheater (2004/2005/2006 as Anna Reimers in the popular play Zitronenjette ), in Düsseldorf and at the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater (2008 as Violet in the crime classic Der Fall Winslow by Terence Rattigan , director: Volker Lechtenbrink ) on. In 2011 and 2012 she was successful in Berlin and Hamburg with the comedy Calendar Girls .
Herma Koehn also wrote numerous translations into Low German, including Die Buhlschwester by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz and dialogues and sketches by Karl Valentin . She worked as a director, among others for Dat stahlen Glück von Hans Bunje at the Ohnsorg Theater. She performed with literary solo programs in which she performed texts and songs by Heinrich Heine , Kurt Tucholsky , Joachim Ringelnatz , Arnold Risch and Hans Leip . She also put together the staged reading A Friendship with texts from the correspondence between George Sand and Gustave Flaubert . Together with Hans-Peter Hallwachs , she performed in the Torhaus Wellingsbüttel in November 2009 .
Koehn also worked as an actress in film and especially in television . In the cinema she was in North Sea by Hark Bohm and in Soul Kitchen by Fatih Akın . Numerous performances from the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater were broadcast live or as recordings on ARD and in regional programs. At ZDF she played in 1970, directed by Hermann Kugelstadt , in the television play Der Fall Sorge . Koehn also had episode roles in the television series Großstadtrevier , girl friends - Freund mit Herz , Adelheid and her murderer , Einsatz Hamburg Süd and Drei mit Herz .
Koehn was also active as a radio play speaker. In the late 1960s / early 1970s she performed numerous radio play roles for the record label Europa , such as Tirzah in Ben Hur , Nydia in The Last Days of Pompeii , Cora Munro in Leatherstocking and Lucy Westenra in Dracula . Her interpretation of the role of Nscho-chi in the Winnetou radio plays Winnetou I and Winnetou II , based on motifs by Karl May , still has cult status among radio play fans today. She also recorded North German radio plays on Norddeutscher Rundfunk and Radio Bremen , for example in 2001 as the main actress in Santa Claus in Need or With Music, everything goes better according to a story by Felix Timmermans . She also read audio books , including Murder in the Mirror by Agatha Christie .
Koehn is the mother of a now grown son whom she raised as a single mother and has two grandchildren. She lives in Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel .
Filmography (selection)
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Web links
- Herma Koehn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Herma Koehn at filmportal.de
- Herma Koehn personal website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e A life for the stage (portrait of Herma Koehn) in: Hamburger Abendblatt from August 22, 2009
- ↑ a b c d e Herma Koehn - cult figure of the Hamburg theater scene (portrait of Bernd Diekmann), official website of the NDR
- ↑ a b c Herma Koehn ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Portrait at opernfreund.de
- ↑ Misery ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Production details, reviews and photos of the scene
- ↑ Calendar Girls in the Winterhuder Fährhaus
- ^ Herma Koehn list of radio play roles (selection) at Hörspielland
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| SURNAME | Koehn, Herma |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress and radio play speaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kleinheubach |