Margarete Taudte

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Margarete Anna Helene Taudte (born November 12, 1920 in Jena ; † September 20, 2009 in Weimar ) was a German film and theater actress .

Life

Taudte took private acting lessons from Otto Roland in Weimar . She made her debut as a stage actress as the 1st rose girl in Penthesilea at the Luisenburg Festival in Wunsiedel . She had a theater engagement during the Second World War in the 1943/44 season at the Deutsches Theater in Lille . After 1945 the Stadttheater Jena (1945–1946), the Stadttheater Nordhausen (until 1947), the Rheinische Theater der Jugend in Boppard , the Städtische Bühnen Gladbach-Rheydt , the Städtische Bühnen Gelsenkirchen (1949–1953) and the Staatstheater Schwerin were further stations in her stage career. During her theater career, Taudte also appeared as a soubrette in operettas .

The important stage roles in her early days at the theater included: Annchen in the play Jugend , Gretchen in Faust , Viola in Was ihr wollt , Rienecke in a stage version of the novel Der Flachsacker by Stijn Streuvels , Melitta in Sappho (all Stadttheater Jena, season 1945/46 ), Luise Miller in Kabale und Liebe (1946, Stadttheater Nordhausen), Julia in Zwei Herren aus Verona (Städtische Bühnen Gladbach-Rheydt), Ophelia in Hamlet , the title role in Katharina Knie and Diddo Geiss in Des Teufels General (all Städtische Bühnen Gelsenkirchen ), Fanny in the play the golden anchor of Marcel Pagnol , Cordelia in King Lear , Amalia in the robbers as well as the title roles in the Maid of Orleans and saint Joan (all at the State Theater Schwerin).

In 1954 Taudte was signed to the German Theater in Berlin , of which she was a member of the ensemble until 1998. Taudte's most important theater roles there again included Gretchen (1954) and Luise Miller (1955). She also played in Heiner Müller's Hamlet production. She was last on stage in 1998 in Thomas Bernhard's play Der Weltverbesserer as partner of Jürgen Holtz .

In addition to her theater roles, Taudte also belonged to the actors' ensemble for television in the GDR . She made her debut on GDR television with the female lead of Ottilie von Gersen in the lavishly staged biographical DEFA film Thomas Müntzer - A Film of German History . Later she was mainly seen in television productions. After the fall of the Berlin Wall , Taudte played smaller roles in some television series and television films . She played her last television role in 1992 in the television film The Trio .

She also worked as a voice actress for television in the GDR and lent her voice to Jeanne Moreau , Antonella Lualdi and Birgitte Federspiel , among others .

Taudte was temporarily married to her acting teacher, the actor and director Otto Roland (eigtl. Otto Lechle). Her real name was therefore Lechle . The marriage resulted in two daughters, Christine Lechle and Katja Merlin, who also worked as actresses, as did granddaughter Anja Lechle. Taudte died at the age of 88 in the Marie-Seebach-Stift for stage artists in Weimar.

Filmography

Radio plays

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ During Margarete Taudte's lifetime, the year of birth 1926 was regularly given, for example in: Kürschner's biographical theater manual , p. 737.
  2. ^ Margarete Taudte . Vita at DEFA Sternstunden
  3. ↑ Margarete Taudte is dead . Obituary in the Berliner Zeitung on September 22, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Taudte, Margarete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taudte, Margarete Anna Helene (full name); Lechle, Margarete Anna Helene (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film and theater actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 2009
Place of death Weimar