Hildegard Grethe

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Hildegard Grethe (* 1899 in Germany ; † December 26, 1961 in Berlin ) was a German actress .

Life

Hildegard Grethe has been on stage since the end of the First World War . In the 1920s she worked a. a. in Hamburg (Thalia Theater) and Königsberg (East Prussian State Theater), in the 1930s a. a. in Erfurt , Breslau and Braunschweig . Since the 1938/39 season in Berlin-Wilmersdorf verifiably, she mostly only played touring theater. At this time the artist also worked at the Heidelberg Festival .

At the same time as she moved to the capital of the Reich, Hildegard Grethe, now 40, also began filming. Initially, in the early phase of World War II , she stood in front of the camera with important supporting roles in large-scale productions, some of which were ideological and propagandistic: Grethe made her debut in 1939 as Robert Koch's wife Emmy in Robert Koch, The Fighter of Death , was Friedrich Schiller’s one year later Mother in Friedrich Schiller - the triumph of a genius and in 1942 the wife of the 99-day emperor Friedrich III. in dismissal . Hildegard Grethe not only played ladies of the high nobility, over the decades more and more often mothers, simple women from the people and peasant women. In Josef von Baky's Via Mala version, as the wife of the despotic Jonas Lauretz, she suffered from his unyielding nature.

Hildegard Grethe was one of the first actresses to turn to television after the war. She was already active there in the first full broadcast year 1953. At that time she was hardly on stage, only a permanent commitment to Berlin's grandstand in the 1951/52 season can be proven . The artist played her last role shortly before her death, Christmas 1961, with the old neighbor Anni in Erik Odes Meine Frau Susanne ; a television series that was not broadcast until 1963, a good year and a half after Grethe's death.

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SURNAME Grethe, Hildegard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Germany
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1961
Place of death Berlin