Ingeborg Hoffmann (actress)

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Ingeborg Hoffmann (born July 1, 1921 in Munich , † March 27, 1985 in Rome ) was a German actress and the first wife of the writer Michael Ende .

life and career

Hoffmann began her stage career as a teenager and played in theaters in Salzburg and Bremen in the pre-war years . In 1940 she got her first film role in Joe Stöckel's The Sinful Village . During the Second World War, she took part in troop support and married a military doctor in 1942. A year later their only son Michael was born. After the marriage failed, Hoffmann returned to Munich and successfully continued her stage career in theaters and cabaret . Further engagements took her to Stuttgart and Zurich. She also worked as a voice actress for Radio Munich . In 1950 Hoffmann appeared in Paul Verhoeven's The Cold Heart .

In 1952 she met Michael Ende , with whom she had a relationship until the end of her life. Through Hoffmann, Ende made contact with the Munich cabaret scene, which was flourishing at the time, and wrote skits, for example for Die Kleine Fisch . In 1964 she married Ende and moved with him to Italy. Hoffmann's influence on the artistic work of Ende and his worldwide successful books for children and young people from 1960 is considered to be great. Ingeborg Hoffmann died of pulmonary embolism a few days after seeing the film The Neverending Story in 1985 in the cinema.

Radio plays

  • 1953: Carl Zuckmayer : Ulla Winblad or Music and Life of Carl Michael Bellmann - Director: Walter Ohm (radio play - BR / RB / SWF)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Boccarius, Peter: Michael Ende, Frankfurt / M. 1995, p. 230 ff.
  2. ↑ Marriage on the Capitol. In: Michael Ende - For the 90th anniversary. AVA international GmbH, accessed on March 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Short biography of Ingeborg Hoffmann on michaelende.de (AVA international)
  4. ↑ cf. Boccarius, Peter: Michael Ende, Frankfurt / M. 1995, p. 244
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Ingeborg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1985
Place of death Rome