Käthe Kamossa
Käthe Kamossa (born December 15, 1911 in Berlin ; † July 8, 1989 there ) was a German actress and author .
Life
Käthe Kamossa was born as the daughter of the administrative secretary Paul Kamossa and his wife Margarete. After completing secondary school , she received training at the Reicherische drama school in Berlin. Afterwards she could be seen on stages in Berlin. In 1940, for example, there was an appearance in Franz Grillparzer's tragedy Medea at the Volksbühne Berlin .
From the 1930s Käthe Kamossa worked in various film productions . Among them was the 1941 National Socialist propaganda film I accuse , which today can only be shown as a reserved film under strict conditions. But she also played in the literary film adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist's Der zerbelte Krug by Gustav Ucicky with Emil Jannings , Friedrich Kayssler and Lina Carstens and in 1962 in the crime film The Secret of the Black Suitcase by Werner Klingler with Joachim Hansen , Senta Berger and Hans Reiser . Käthe Kamossa also occasionally worked as a radio play speaker.
In 1934 Käthe Kamossa, who was supported by the poet Gustav Stolze, published her first volume of poems Aufbruch . Other lyrical works followed. She also wrote two children's books.
Käthe Kamossa died on July 8, 1989 and was buried in the municipal cemetery in Berlin-Steglitz .
Filmography (selection)
- 1936: Susanne in the bath
- 1937: Gabriele One, Two, Three
- 1937: The broken jug
- 1937: An enemy of the people
- 1938: you and me
- 1939: The Florentine hat
- 1940: The good seven
- 1941: I indict
- 1952: the fate of women
- 1958: girls in uniform
- 1962: The secret of the black suitcase
- 1964: Jenny and the gentleman in tails (TV movie)
- 1964: A Long Day (TV Movie)
- 1966: Night for the Fourth (TV movie)
Works (selection)
- 1934: Departure: Poems . Kulturpolitischer Verlag, Berlin; Leipzig; Munich
- 1942: Little Symphony . Andree, Prague
- 1943: Lyric Vespers . Andree, Prague
- 1949: Katrinchen . Altberliner Verlag, Berlin
- 1958: Katrinchen's little world . Boje-Verlag, Stuttgart
- 1970: stations . Lettner-Verlag, Berlin
- 1978: It . Bläschke, Darmstadt
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. 790.
- Detlef Krumme: Kamossa, Käthe . In: Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area (Ed. Wilhelm Kühlmann et al.), Volume 6 (Huh – Kräf), 2nd edition 2009, de Gruyter , Berlin / New York, p. 268.
Web links
- Käthe Kamossa in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Käthe Kamossa at filmportal.de
- Literature by and about Käthe Kamossa in the catalog of the German National Library
- Photo portrait from 1950 on Europeana online
- Käthe Kamossa in the archive of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ Program for Medea on antikbuch24.de; Retrieved September 26, 2014
- ↑ Entries on Käthe Kamossa on HörDat online; Retrieved September 26, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kamossa, Kathe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 8, 1989 |
| Place of death | Berlin |