Irene Koss

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Irene Koss (born August 3, 1928 in Hamburg , † May 1, 1996 in Munich ) was a German actress and the first female television announcer in Germany .

Life

Koss was the daughter of a Hamburg cigar dealer. After taking ballet lessons and training as an actor, Irene Koss made her debut in 1946 with Hardy Krüger in the comedy Der zerbrochne Krug at the Landesbühne Hannover . Later she was engaged at the Hamburger Kammerspiele . Among other things, she played together with Lil Dagover .

When the Northwest German Broadcasting Corporation (NWDR) was looking for a program announcer in 1950, Hanns Farenburg selected Koss as a suitable "television face". She made her first television announcement on New Year's Eve 1950 at 8 p.m. as part of the first test broadcasts on the NWDR; the number of spectators was presumably three. When the regular program began to be broadcast on December 25, 1952, she also ran the program. In an audience survey of the most popular announcers carried out at the beginning of 1953, she was in front of her colleague Angelika Feldmann and male colleagues like Hugo Murero , Udo Langhoff and Jürgen Roland , some of whom were judged rather derogatory by the audience. At first she received a wage of 20 DM per announcement day , later she was employed by NDR until 1962 and at the same time directed the children's television lesson  as an author and presenter. In addition, she worked as a speaker for various record productions and wrote children's books such as Schnurzelpurz (1959). In 1961 and 1962 she received the Silver Bravo Otto from the youth magazine Bravo .

Irene Koss had been married to sports reporter and director Sammy Drechsel since 1962 and lived in Munich after their marriage. She and her husband had two daughters together. After Drechsel's death in 1986, she worked behind the scenes of the laughing and shooting society he founded and built up the cabaret archive.

She died on May 1, 1996 of complications from cancer. The couple's communal grave is located in the Munich North Cemetery (Wall grave No. 244 on the right).

literature

  • Margret Baumann: The nation's smile. Irene Koss, the first TV announcer. In: Das Archiv , Volume 58 2010, No. 2.
  • Rolf Potthoff: Who was it? Irene Koss. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , March 1, 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Nation's Smile. Irene Koss, the first TV announcer in Germany. Retrieved March 30, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Yasmin Sibus: When the television program got its overture. Norddeutscher Rundfunk, December 29, 2020, accessed on January 14, 2021 .
  3. ↑ The housewife's praise. In: Der Spiegel . 19/1953, May 6, 1953, p. 30 , accessed January 15, 2021 .
  4. ↑ Births: Irene Koss. In: Der Spiegel . 39/1963, September 25, 1963, p. 108 , accessed November 2, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Bernd Rexing: 80 years ago: first TV announcer is born. In: WDR-2 broadcast “ Stichtag ”. August 3, 2008, accessed November 2, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Koss, Irene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and the first German television announcer
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1996
PLACE OF DEATH Munich