Lisa Wehn

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Lisa Wehn (actually Louise Margarethe Wehn , later married Rösler ) (born December 23, 1883 in Halberstadt , † July 1, 1964 in Possendorf ) was a German actress .

Life

Lisa Wehn ​​was born as the daughter of the theater director Friedrich Wehn. At the age of 16 she began her artistic career in Wroclaw in 1900, further stations were theaters in Augsburg, Bremen, Bremerhaven and Trier. In 1937 she was committed to the German National Theater Weimar , to which she belonged until 1962. Here Wehn was among other Marthe Schwerdtlein in Goethe's Faust , which Daja in Nathan the Wise of Lessing or Kate Keller in Arthur Miller's drama All My Sons . Lisa Wehn ​​celebrated her 50th stage anniversary in 1950 in the role of Meropa Dawjdowna Mursawjetzkaja in the comedy Wolves and Sheep by Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrowski . A year earlier she had already been awarded honorary membership of the National Theater.

From the mid-1950s, Lisa Wehn ​​took part in some DEFA productions , mostly as a bizarre or quirky old woman, such as the comedy Witches by Helmut Spieß or the literary film adaptation Tinko by Herbert Ballmann .

Filmography

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Individual evidence

  1. biography at DEFA-Sternstunden , accessed on October 26, 2016 (no longer available)
  2. Excerpt from the Wölfe und Schafe program , 1950 , accessed on October 26, 2016