Margarete Schön

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Margarete Schön , born in Margarethe Schippang , (born April 7, 1895 in Magdeburg , † December 26, 1985 in West Berlin ) was a German actress and voice actress .

Life

She received private acting lessons from the court actor Hans Calm in Dessau . In 1912 she made her debut in Freienwalde . Shortly afterwards she received an engagement at the municipal theater in Bromberg . From 1915 to 1918 she was part of the ensemble of the Deutsches Theater in Hanover . From 1918 to 1945 she worked at the State Theater in Berlin .

Margarete Schön has appeared in silent films since 1918 and immediately won over her in leading roles. In 1924 she played the vengeful Kriemhild in Fritz Lang's monumental film The Nibelungs . She continued to appear in many films after that, but never again received such an important role. In the film Die Feuerzangenbowle popularized by Heinz Rühmann , she played the wife of the school principal. After the Second World War, Schön worked increasingly for funk and appeared mainly in supporting roles as an actress, including from 1948 to 1950 at DEFA .

Grave of Margarete Schön in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

She was married to the Danish film director Robert Dinesen . In 1968 she received the gold film tape for many years of outstanding work in German film.

Margarete Schön died in December 1985 at the age of 90 in Berlin. She was buried next to her husband, who died in 1972, in the state-owned cemetery in Heerstraße in today's Berlin-Westend district (grave location: II-Ur 6-347).

Filmography

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 494.