Käthe Braun

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Käthe Braun (actually: Katharina Braun ; born November 11, 1913 in Wasserburg am Inn ; † September 9, 1994 in Berlin ) was a German theater and film actress in Berlin.

Life

After taking private acting lessons with Magda Lena in Munich , her first engagement at the Bavarian State Theater followed in 1935 . In 1938 she moved to the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and in 1941 to the Strasbourg City Theater , where she played until the theater was generally closed in 1944.

After the Second World War she came back to Munich and made guest appearances at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin from 1947 to 1951 . From 1951 she also appeared in the western part of Berlin at the Schillertheater and at the Schlossparktheater , as well as other German venues. Her roles included the title character in Das Käthchen von Heilbronn , Annchen in Max Halbe's Youth , Rautendelein in Gerhart Hauptmann's Die sunken Glocke , Elektra in Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Electra , Gretchen in Goethe's Faust , the title character in Saint Johanna , Hermia and Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream , Desdemona in Othello , Viola in What you want and Ophelia in Hamlet .

In the early 1950s she also played a number of larger roles in DEFA's East German film productions , for example as the wife of the butcher and hangman Teetjen in the branch literature adaptation Das Heil von Wandsbek directed by her husband, the resistance fighter who was part of the White Rose area the National Socialism Falk Harnack (1913–1991). Last Käthe Braun became known as a concerned mother in film adaptations of Lausbubengeschichten of Ludwig Thoma .

Grave of the Harnack couple in the Zehlendorf cemetery

Käthe Braun-Harnack died in Berlin in 1994 at the age of 80. She was buried next to her husband, who had died three years earlier, in the Zehlendorf cemetery . (Field 016-49)

Her written estate is in the archive of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin.

Filmography

theatre

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , pp. 671, 674.
  2. ↑ Käthe Braun Archive inventory overview on the website of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.
personal data
SURNAME Braun, Kathe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Braun, Katharina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Wasserburg am Inn
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1994
Place of death Berlin