Leny Marenbach

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Leny Marenbach , also Leni Marenbach , (born December 20, 1907 in Essen , † January 26, 1984 in Berlin ) was a German actress .

Life

Leny Marenbach burial site

At the age of 16 she made her debut at the Schauspielhaus Essen , where she played, among others, Klärchen in Egmont and Luise in Kabale und Liebe . She then spent three years at the Schauspielhaus Zurich , later in Darmstadt , at the Theater in der Josefstadt and at the Münchner Kammerspiele .

Leny Marenbach also became known to the cinema audience when she starred in three films alongside Heinz Rühmann . The twenty or twenty-one year old is in If we were all angels and The model husband is his wife, in Five million looking for an heir she will be. The couple also had a personal relationship. In 1940 she played alongside Hans Söhnker in Helmut Käutner's comedy Frau nach Maß . Later she took on roles in quite different films, which she showed as a nurse in Error of the Heart or as a single mother in How do we tell our children .

In her roles, she was particularly convincing due to her naturalness and thus particularly enthused audiences in the films of the 1930s and 1940s.

Their popularity waned after the Second World War. Leny Marenbach occasionally received film roles at DEFA and played theater, especially in Berlin. She was briefly married to the cameraman Walter Pindter and had a son with him.

It rests in the Dahlem forest cemetery . (Grave place field 007-100)

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SURNAME Marenbach, Leny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marenbach, Leni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1984
Place of death Berlin