Inge von Wangenheim

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Inge von Wangenheim, exile in Moscow, 1930s
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From left to right: Inge von Wangenheim, Mary Schneider-Braillard , Annemarie Hasse , Angelika Hurwicz , Helene Weigel and Else Reuss (1949)

Inge Freifrau von Wangenheim (born July 1, 1912 as Ingeborg Franke in Berlin , † April 6, 1993 in Weimar ) was a German actress and writer .

life and work

Inge von Wangenheim was the daughter of a clothing worker. After attending a lyceum , she completed an acting training and then played smaller roles at various Berlin theaters, a. a. at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm and in productions by Erwin Piscator . In 1931 she became a member of the troop led by her future husband Gustav von Wangenheim in 1931 , and in the same year she joined the KPD . After the National Socialists seized power in 1933 , she emigrated to the Soviet Union via Belgium and France . She spent the first years of exile in Moscow , where she worked as an actress and journalist . Among other things, she played the leading role alongside Bruno Schmidtsdorf in the anti-fascist film Fighter , shot in Moscow in 1935/36, directed by her husband Gustav von Wangenheim. In 1941 she was evacuated to Kazan and later to Tashkent in Uzbekistan . From 1943 she stayed again in Moscow, where she worked as an editor for the National Committee Free Germany .

In 1945 Inge von Wangenheim returned to Germany with her husband. In 1946 she became a member of the SED . In the following years she became involved in the “ Bund Deutscher Volksbühne ”, published the magazine “Volksbühne” and worked again as an actress and director , among others at the Deutsches Theater in East Berlin and for DEFA , for example in the film And again 48 . Since the late 1940s she was mainly active as a writer. After the divorce of their marriage, she lived in Rudolstadt from 1961 and in Weimar from 1974 , from 1960 in a lesbian relationship.

Inge von Wangenheim's literary work includes novels , memoirs , essays and travelogues . In addition to novels about the development phase of the GDR (including Am Morgen der Tag ist ein Kind, a description of the uprising of June 17, 1953 from an SED perspective), her memories of the time in Soviet exile ( Mein Haus Vaterland and Auf Weitem Feld ) worth mentioning. She remained silent about the dark side of exile. Since the 1960s, Wangenheim has also published reports about her trips to western countries. She was a member of the GDR Writers' Association , of which she was a member.

Inge von Wangenheim is the mother of the actor and playwright Friedel von Wangenheim and the twins Eleonora and Elisabeth von Wangenheim.

Honors

In honor of the writer Inge von Wangenheim, a literary institute with her name was founded in Rudolstadt on December 9, 2010 . It should regularly award a prize for special literary contributions to humanism and peace as well as for the life's work of authors, collect works banned by the Nazis and make them accessible again to the public, and train young authors and publish their texts.

Fonts

  • The tasks of artists in the new Germany , Berlin 1947
  • My home fatherland , Berlin 1950
  • On the 175th anniversary of Konrad Ekhof's death , Berlin 1953
  • In a wide field , Berlin 1954
  • In the morning the day is a child , Berlin 1957
  • A mother's son , Berlin 1958
  • Professor Hudebraach , Halle (Saale) 1961
  • The room with the open eyes , Halle (Saale) 1965
  • The story and our stories , Halle (Saale) 1966
  • Journey into Yesterday , Halle 1967
  • The hypnotized waitress , Rudolstadt 1968
  • Calcutta is not on the Ganges , Rudolstadt 1970
  • The conspiracy of the muses , Halle (Saale) 1971
  • The rehearsal , Halle (Saale) 1973
  • The ticking frying pan , Rudolstadt 1974
  • From time to time , Halle / Saale 1975
  • Hamburg Elegy , Halle (Saale) 1977
  • Spaal , Rudolstadt 1979
  • The derailment , Halle [u. a.] 1980
  • Comrade Somebody and the Classic , Halle [u. a.] 1982
  • With body and soul , Halle [u. a.] 1982
  • Further education , hall [u. a.] 1983
  • Schauplätze , Rudolstadt 1983
  • Station 5 , hall [u. a.] 1985
  • German and History , Halle [u. a.] 1986
  • The golden tower , Rudolstadt 1988
  • On Germanias Bärenfell , Bucha near Jena 2002
  • as editor : Sergei Michalkow : Ilja Golowin und seine Wandlung , Berlin 1950

Filmography

theatre

actress

Director

literature

  • Honorary doctorate Inge von Wangenheim , Jena 1990.
  • Maren Horn, Bernd-Rainer Barth :  Wangenheim, Inge (borg) von . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Kurt Fricke: The flank from the left - Inge von Wangenheim , in: Inge von Wangenheim: Die Dergleisung, pp. 303–336, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2012, ISBN 9783898128643 .
  • Laura von Wangenheim: In the clutches of history. Inge von Wangenheim. Photographs from Soviet exile 1933–1945 . Rotbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 9783867891905 .
  • Kurt Fricke: Wangenheim, Ingeborg (Inge) Freifrau von, in: Neue Deutsche Biographie, Vol. 27: Vockerodt – Wettiner, pp. 404–405. Duncker & Humblot Publishing House, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-428-11208-1
  • Dieter Fechner : Personal encounters with Thuringian authors in the 20th / 21st Century . Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2014, ISBN 978-3-86777-718-6 , Inge von Wangenheim (1912-1993), p. 197-202 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens-Fietje Dwars: From the granddaughter's point of view. In the clutches of history. The artist Inge von Wangenheim is showing a new photo book. Thuringian regional newspaper, October 12, 2013
  2. ↑ J.-F. Dwars: From the granddaughter's point of view. Thuringian regional newspaper, October 12, 2013

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personal data
SURNAME Wangenheim, Inge von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wangenheim, Inge Freifrau von (full name); Franke, Ingeborg (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1993
Place of death Weimar