Marga Heiden

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Marga Heiden , actually: Marga Saß-Heiden , (born November 29, 1921 in Schwerin ; † December 1, 2013 there ) was a German theater actress .

Life

Heiden first appeared on a theater stage at the age of eleven; she danced in the children's ballet. She began her stage career as a dancer . In 1934 she received an engagement as a ballet trainee at the Mecklenburg State Theater in Schwerin . In December 1934, her name was on a cast sheet for the first time. In 1936 she was engaged as a solo dancer at the Mecklenburg State Theater in Schwerin. Heiden was a permanent member of the Mecklenburg State Theater in Schwerin, first as a dancer, then as a soubrette for operetta and opera . In 1947 she switched to acting entirely . In the course of her career, Heiden played the entire range of roles from character actress to " comic old ". All in all, her stage career lasted over 70 years. She was the longest-serving actress and honorary member of the Mecklenburg State Theater in Schwerin.

From 1965, according to other sources since 1963, until 1997 Heiden was a permanent member of the ensemble of the Low German Drama of the Mecklenburg State Theater in Schwerin, the Fritz-Reuter-Bühne , the East German counterpart to the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater . Even after she left, Heiden continued to appear there as a guest. There she had great success in Low German folk plays , u. a. in honeymoon tau drütt . She embodied the type of the North German folk actress on stage . Recordings of plays on the Fritz Reuter stage were also broadcast on GDR television and later on NDR . Heiden had particular success as Frollein Soffie in a Low German version of the successful sketch Dinner for One under the title "Dinner for one - up Platt". The sketch was recorded for television by NDR in 1999 with Heiden, Eberhard Bremer and Wilhelm Wieben and has been broadcast every year on New Year's Eve since then .

With Eberhard Bremer, Heiden also recorded Low German poems and rhymes by Rudolf Tarnow under the title Dor cares but ümmer wart dormang . With the Tarnow program He was already wrong, when I got him , she had her last public appearance on the stage of the Mecklenburg State Theater in Schwerin in 2005.

Occasionally, Heiden also worked for television in the GDR . a. in the DEFA television film Pay cash, if you can (1981/1982). She also appeared in the GDR television series Barefoot in Bed (1988–1990); she played Klara Schreiber, the mother of the pregnant kindergarten teacher Josi Schreiber; this was played by Renate Blume . She had two small guest appearances in the crime series Polizeiruf 110 .

Heiden was married to the office worker Hans-Otto Saß († December 1980). The marriage has two daughters and one son. Heiden's younger daughter Katrin Saß also became an actress. Katrin Saß writes in her autobiography Das Glück will never get old (2003) that her mother confessed to Hans-Otto Saß during her lifetime that he was not her biological father; Rather, she came from an extra-marital relationship between her mother and a photographer and later actor at the Mecklenburg State Theater Parchim , whom her mother met when he was employed as a stage worker at the Schwerin State Theater.

Heiden and her daughter Katrin Saß played together in cash if you can (1981/1982) and Today only the others die (1991).

Heiden died in Schwerin a few days after her 92nd birthday.

Honors

Filmography

  • 1976: man against man
  • 1980: Mrs. Mohr has done her duty (theater recording; Fritz Reuter stage)
  • 1982: Pay cash if you can (TV movie)
  • 1984: Friends (TV movie)
  • 1984; 1994: Polizeiruf 110 (TV series, two episodes)
  • 1988: Fallada - Final Chapter
  • 1988–1990: Barefoot in bed (TV series)
  • 1990: The stumbling block (theater recording; Fritz Reuter stage)
  • 1991: Today only the others die
  • 1991: Tandem (TV movie)
  • 1999: Your 90th birthday (Dinner for one - up Platt)

theatre

Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin - Fritz Reuter stage

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marga Saß-Heiden: Obituary notice . Schweriner People's Newspaper , December 7, 2013; Retrieved December 8, 2013
  2. ↑ a b c d e Actress Marga Heiden has died . ( Memento from December 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) NDR Kultur , December 3, 2013, accessed on August 20, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b c d Popular actress Marga Heiden has died . Die Welt , December 3, 2013.
  4. ↑ a b Marga Heiden . ( Memento from October 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Short biography at Hinstorff Verlag , version from October 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive, accessed on August 20, 2015.
  5. ↑ Barefoot in Bed - Season 1 (1988) . Portal "Fernsehen der DDR", accessed on August 20, 2015.
    Barefoot in bed . fernsehserien.de, accessed on August 20, 2015.
  6. ↑ Katrin Saß : Happiness never gets old . List paperback. Berlin. First edition March 2005, p. 93. ISBN 3-548-60509-5 .
  7. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Heiden, Marga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saß-Heiden, Marga (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH December 1st, 2013
Place of death Schwerin