Inge Langen

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Inge Langen (born May 21, 1924 in Düsseldorf , † November 23, 2007 in Switzerland ) was a German actress .

Life

Langen studied acting in Berlin and got her first engagement at the Erfurt Theater . In 1948 she moved to the Munich State Theater , where she remained a member for many years. After this time she did not take on a permanent engagement and worked freelance, for example at the Vienna Burgtheater in the role of Jeanne d'Arc and the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg as Julia, Countess Widow Imperiali in Friedrich Schiller's The Conspiracy of Fiesco to Genoa .

In addition to her stage work, in which she brought it to over 200 different roles, she was often seen in television plays in the 1960s . B. in Hans Fallada's The Drinker , Jean Genet's The Maids and E. Marlitt's The Secret of Old Mamsell , and she also worked on radio plays .

She was also active in German cinema productions , there a. a. in two Edgar Wallace films (as Millie Trent in Der Zinker and as Matron in Der Gorilla von Soho ). In 1970 she was the first and so far only Miss Marple in a German Agatha Christie film ( Murder in the rectory ). In the mid-1970s she retired from the film business and later taught in her own drama studio. One of her students was the moderator and author Katharina Ohana .

Inge Langen died on November 23, 2007 at the age of 83 in Switzerland.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data of Inge Langen in: Deutsches Theater-Lexikon , Volume Hurka - Pallenberg, by Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.), KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Company, 1960, page 1163
  2. ^ Obituary for Inge Langen in: Die Welt