Irmgard Düren

Irmgard Düren , b. Schmidt (born October 28, 1930 in Meiningen ; † August 24, 2004 in Berlin ) was an actress, cabaret artist and TV presenter in the GDR .

Life

Irmgard was born in 1930 as the daughter of the head of the criminal police in Meiningen, southern Thuringia. In 1946/47 she graduated from the drama school in Schwerin . She then made her acting debut in Ludwigslust . In the 1950s Düren appeared in the Berlin cabaret " Die Distel ". From 1960 to 1975 she presented the show Wünsch Dir was every Sunday afternoon , which was later renamed Der Wunschbriefkasten and is still designed in a similar form by the MDR today. After the termination of her contract with television, she completed a distance learning course in philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin and took over the company radio studio of the Berlin Centrum department store at Ostbahnhof. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall , she designed programs for cultural institutions and worked as a speaker teacher and voice actress .

Düren was married to the actor Fred Düren from 1949 to 1954 . In 1994 she married her long-term partner, the doctor Johann-Georg Kämpfer. After his death, she was married to the former NVA officer Klaus Nodes from August 2003.

Filmography (selection)

• 1957: The Swineherd (TV)
• 1957: Vacation on Sylt (short film, speaker)
• 1958: Helenchen is happy (TV)
• 1959: The gentleman from Zurich (TV)
• 1960: The rats came at night (TV)
• 1961: The chaste bon vivant (TV)
• 1962: The Witcher (TV)
• 1963: Daily Bread (TV)
• 1963: The Talisman (TV)
• 1966: Shadows Over Notre Dame (TV)
• 1968: 12 noon the boss arrives

theatre

• 1954: Author collective: Man, drive right! - Director: Joachim Gürtner ( Cabaret Theater Distel , Berlin )

Radio plays

• 1954: Alf Scorell / Kurt Zimmermann : The Wonder Man (Gloria Miller) - Director: Hans Busse (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR )
• 1955: AG Petermann : The premiere is canceled (Vera Hermann, actress) - Director: Herwart Grosse (crime radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1956: Günther Rücker : Pierrot and Columbine - Director: Günther Rücker (radio of the GDR)
• 1961: Anton Chekhov : The Swedish Match - Director: Peter Brang (Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1962: Karel Čapek : An Evening with Karel Čapek - Director: Hans Knötzsch (radio play comedy - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1962: Rolf Schneider : November 25th. New York (Cathie) - Director: Helmut Hellstorff (radio play - Rundfunk der DDR)
• 1963: Rolf Schneider: Die Unbewältigen - Director: Edgar Kaufmann (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1965: Heinz Knobloch : Pardon for Bütten - Director: Wolfgang Brunecker (Children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1970: Finn Havrevold : Catastrophe (languishing voice) - Director: Helmut Hellstorff (Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1970: Armand Lanoux : The Keeper of the Bees (Angelita) - Director: Fritz Göhler (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1976: Adolf Glaßbrenner : Antigone in Berlin (speaker) - director: Werner Grunow (radio play (artificial head) - radio of the GDR)
• 1977: Gerd Zebahl : Kumpane (Mrs. Büssing) - Director: Fritz-Ernst Fechner (detective radio play / short radio play - radio of the GDR)
• 1990: Dylan Thomas : Unter dem Milchwald - Director: Fritz Göhler ( original radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)

literature

• Frank-Burkhard Habel , Volker Wachter : Lexicon of the GDR stars. Actors from film and television. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-304-7 , p. 69.
• Ingrid Kirschey-Feix :  Düren, Irmgard . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Irmgard Düren in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Biography and filmography at defa-sternstunden.de
• Irmgard Düren: “Make a wish” excerpt from a broadcast from 1969 on YouTube .