Kate Jöken-König

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Käte Jöken-König (born October 24, 1898 in Naumburg (Saale) ; † September 27, 1968 in West Berlin ; also known as Käthe Jöken-König ) was a German actress , operetta singer and radio play speaker .

Life

After a voice training and acting lessons first followed rollers as Soubrette at the National Theater in Mannheim . Since 1926 she was engaged in various stages and cabarets in Berlin. From 1957 to 1958, Käte Jöken-König also received an engagement at the Berlin operetta stage "Atrium".

From the 1930s on, she appeared in many film productions, mostly in supporting roles . These included the National Socialist propaganda films Jud Suess and Ohm Krüger , which today in Germany can only be shown as reserved films under certain conditions. Jöken-König also played in 1942 in the historical film The Great King by Veit Harlan with Otto Fee , Kristina Söderbaum and Gustav Fröhlich and in the DEFA films Irgendwo in Berlin from 1946 by Gerhard Lamprecht with Harry Hindemith , Hans Leibelt and Fritz Rasp and 1949 Die Kuckucks by Hans Deppe with Rainer Penkert and Carsta Löck . She had her last appearance in a feature film in 1968 in the Edgar Wallace film Der Gorilla von Soho , directed by Alfred Vohrer with Horst Tappert , Uschi Glas and Hubert von Meyerinck .

Käte Jöken-König was also active as a speaker in several radio plays . In the radio play adaptation of the novel The Fourth Scalpel by Hans Gruhl in a coproduction by Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) and Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) from 1968, she played the role of the professor . Martin Hirthe , Enzi Fuchs and Arnold Marquis played next to her .

On January 23, 1923 she married the tenor Carl Jöken .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

  • 1948: During the power cut
  • 1949: my daughters
  • 1949: Snow Maiden
  • 1959: Rightly wanted and badly wanted
  • 1962: Under the wheels
  • 1963: traitor
  • 1963: souvenirs
  • 1964: A really stupid kid
  • 1968: The fourth scalpel - four parts as a Frau Professor

literature

  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 763.
  • Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 327.
  • Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 257.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The fourth scalpel on ARD audio play database online; Retrieved February 3, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Jöken-King, Kate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jöken – King, Käthe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, singer and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Naumburg (Saale) , Germany
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1968
Place of death West Berlin