Karin Evans

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Vittoria Karin Wichgraf Hoffmann-Evans (born September 25, 1907 in Johannesburg , South Africa , † July 1, 2004 in Berlin ) was a British-German actress.

Life

Karin Evans, daughter of a British university professor and a German, attended the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Berlin from 1923 (today UdK Berlin , Faculty of Performing Arts), and Max Reinhardt occupied it in his Jedermann . In Berlin's last great theater years before 1933, she played with Adele Sandrock , Albert Steinrück , Felix Bressart , Theodor Loos , Alexander Moissi , Albert Bassermann and Werner Krauss .

Before the war she established herself at the "Deutsches Theater" , after which she became a well-known actress at the State Theaters of Berlin ( Schillertheater , Schlossparktheater and Hebbeltheater ). From 1924 to 1967 she played at various Berlin theaters, at the Deutsches Theater , at the Komödie am Kurfürstendamm , at the Tribüne in Berlin, at the Renaissance Theater and at the Schlossparktheater, and she also gave guest appearances in Vienna and Salzburg. Occasionally the character actress also appeared in the film. B. 1948 in two DEFA strips, embodied here u. a. the sensitive wife of the Jewish businessman Blum in the judicial drama Affaire Blum .

Tilla Durieux once characterized her as "a talented actress who doesn't have all the cups in her cupboard". Her roles looked accordingly, the capricious schoolmaster's wife in Dylan Thomas ' Unter dem Milchwald , the mother in August Strindberg's dream play , as well as various scheming salon ladies and cranky maids.

Her cinema career began in 1927 in the silent film industry , in 1930 she fought with Conrad Veidt in The Last Company against Napoleon and in 1948 in Affaire Blum against the anti-Semitic justice of the Weimar Republic .

Karin Evans was married to the painter Wolf Hoffmann (1898–1979) since 1931 . She moved with him in 1946 to the Berlin artists' colony , where she lived until her death, and organized exhibitions of her husband's paintings.

Karin Evans died in Berlin in 2004 at the age of 96. She was buried next to her husband in the Dahlem cemetery (field 010-12).

Filmography

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  1. ↑ Kay Less : The large personal lexicon of the film , cyranos.ch and several obituaries ( archived copy ( memento of the original from September 25, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. , Archived copy ( memento of the original from May 14, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) name 1907 as the year of birth, IMDb on the other hand 1909. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerkolonie-berlin.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerkolonie-berlin.de
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 568, 570. Photo of the grave of Karin Evans on http://knerger.de (with incorrect attribution to the adjacent St.-Annen-Kirchhof ).
personal data
SURNAME Evans, Karin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wichgraf Hoffmann-Evans, Vittoria Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-German actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Johannesburg , South Africa
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 2004
Place of death Berlin