Marga Maasberg

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Marga Maasberg (born May 21, 1903 in Hamburg ; † November 12, 1981 ) was a German actress , radio play and voice actor .

Life

Marga Maasberg took three years of private acting lessons from Carl Wagner in her hometown of Hamburg. There she played for many years in various theaters and also in cabaret programs. For her artistic merits she was also made an honorary member of the Hamburger Schauspielhaus .

Since her feature film debut in 1948 in the drama Arche Nora , she has also played in numerous film productions, including alongside Maria Schell in The Dreaming Mouth . When, on December 25, 1952, Werner Pleister , the director of the NWDR , opened the first official broadcast day of German television , Marga Maasberg was one of the first television actresses : Alongside Benno Gellenbeck , Josef Sieber and Alf Pankarter , she played in the first television production, the Christmas film Silent Night, Holy Night .

In the following years Marga Maasberg worked in numerous television productions such as E.g. in Eberhard Fechner's documentary play Vier Stunden von Elbe 1 , the crime series Gestatten, mein Name ist Cox , the family series Ida Rogalski (with Inge Meysel in the title role), the science fiction film Wir as well as in films from the crime series Stahlnetz and Tatort .

Pillow stone in
the women's garden

However, Marga Maasberg achieved particular fame through her gnarled, unmistakable voice, which can be heard on numerous radio plays by the NWDR Hamburg, Radio Bremen and NDR , as well as the Europa label . She often spoke resolute and powerful characters (including Five Friends , Burg Schreckenstein and as Baghira in the jungle book ), of which the witch Shrumpeldei from the radio play series of the same name deserves special mention. Between 1973 and 1979 a total of eleven episodes were produced around the strange but lovable witch and her clumsy daughter.

Marga Maasberg also worked as a voice actress and lent her voice to Cathleen Nesbitt ( Paris at midnight ).

Marga Maasberg was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg, Chapel 13. After the entire grave field was abandoned in 2011, the Women's Garden Association had their gravestone moved to the Women's Garden at the Ohlsdorf Cemetery (Chapel 10).

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Marga Maasberg
personal data
SURNAME Maasberg, Marga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, radio play and voice actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1981