Judith Harms
Judith Harms , bourgeois Paula Elly Adolfine Harms-Hinzpeter geb. Köhnke (born September 27, 1910 in Hamburg , † February 26, 1958 in East Berlin ) was a German actress and radio play speaker .
Life
Judith Harms was born as the daughter of a train driver. At the Hamburg State Opera she first attended the opera choir school, and in later years she trained as a vocal soloist at the Düsseldorf Robert Schumann Conservatory . As such and as a choir singer, she performed at the Lübeck City Theater , the Düsseldorf Opera House and the Hamburg Schiller Opera until all German theaters were closed in 1944 .
After 1945 Harms worked mainly as an actress. Her first stop was the Landestheater Altenburg , where she was seen in the title role of Bertolt Brecht's mother Courage and her children . In 1950 Harms came to Berlin, where she first played at the Neue Bühne and directed the German Event Service. In the 1952/53 season she worked at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater , after which she moved to the Deutsches Theater , where, among other roles, she embodied Marthe Schwerdtlein in Goethe's Faust and the Megara in Androclus and the Lion by George Bernard Shaw .
Judith Harms only appeared in front of the camera a few times in the 1950s. In addition to her role as Rosa Luxemburg in the DEFA feature film Ernst Thälmann - Son of His Class , she was seen in various episodes of the Stacheltier series. In addition, she worked in some radio play productions of the GDR radio at the same time .
In 1958, Judith Harms died of cancer at the age of 47.
Filmography
- 1953–1957: The barbed animal (6 episodes)
- 1954: Ernst Thälmann - son of his class
- 1955: Marysa
- 1956: Young vegetables
- 1957: The people on Dangaard
Radio plays
- 1953: The Rosenbergs - Author: Maximilian Scheer - Director: Peter Brang
- 1954: Energie - Author: Julius Hay - Direction: Wolfgang Schonendorf and Helmut Hellstorff
- 1956: Supporting Society - Author: Henrik Ibsen - Director: Herwart Grosse
- 1956: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - author: Béla Balász - director: Joachim Witte
- 1956: Legend of love - author: Nazim Hikmet - director: Otto Dierichs
- 1957: Nekrasow - author: Jean-Paul Sartre - director: Erich-Alexander Winds
- 1957: His last conversation - Author: Fritz Gay - Director: Peter Brang
Web links
- Judith Harms in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c biography at DEFA-Sternstunden , accessed on November 6, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harms, Judith |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Harms-Hinzpeter, Paula Elly Adolfine (real name); Köhnke, Paula Elly Adolfine (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress and radio play speaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 26, 1958 |
| Place of death | East Berlin |