Margarete Kupfer

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Margarete Kupfer

Margarete Kupfer (birth name Margarete Kupferschmid ; born April 10, 1881 in Freystadt , Province of Silesia , † May 11, 1953 in Berlin ) was a German actress .

life and career

She came from a family of actors and made her debut without any acting training in 1900 at the Nuscha-Butze-Theater , which later became the theater on Schiffbauerdamm . She toured the Netherlands soon after and later performed at the Irving Place Theater in New York.

From 1907 to 1925 she was a member of the ensemble of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin under Max Reinhardt . She came to film through Robert Wiene and initially played the role of salon lady, as in the theater . Later, the somewhat plump actress played as a supporting actress mainly aunts, mothers, neighbors, housekeepers, landlords and landladies. In this way, Margarete Kupfer took part in over 150 silent and sound films, most recently in roles of the comical old man. She also worked for funk.

After the Second World War, she returned to the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm. For the East German film production company DEFA she appeared in front of the camera in two film productions, in Hans Deppe's post-war comedy No Place for Love (1947) and in the crime film Train Traffic Irregular (1951) directed by Erich Freund . In 1952 she received the GDR National Prize .

Filmography

theatre

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Year of birth according to IMDb, film portal, etc. Kay Less : The film's large personal dictionary names 1884 as the year of birth.
  2. ^ A b Frank-Burkhard Habel , Volker Wachter : The great lexicon of the GDR stars. The actors from film and television. Extended new edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89602-391-8 , pp. 216-217.
personal data
SURNAME Copper, Margaret
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kupferschmid, Margarete (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Freystadt , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1953
Place of death Berlin