Margarete Haagen

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Margarete Haagen (also: Margarethe) (born November 29, 1889 in Nuremberg , † November 19, 1966 in Munich ) was a German actress .

Life

She was the daughter of the machinist and foreman Leonhard Haagen and his wife Babette, née Sperber. Haagen was already on stage as a six-year-old. Against the wishes of her parents, she was able to enforce her career choice. Shortly before her father's death, at the age of seventeen, she received his father's approval and took private lessons with various Nuremberg actors.

In 1907 she made her debut at the Intimate Theater as a girl in Franz Adam Beyerlein's Zapfenstreich . In 1912 she moved to the Stadttheater Nürnberg , in 1913 to the Schauspielhaus Bremen and in 1914, during the First World War, to the Deutsches Theater Lodz (front theater). She then returned to the Intimate Theater for six years before she became a member of the ensemble at the Schauspielhaus in Stuttgart . She played Hanna Scheel in Fuhrmann Henschel , Deuter in Die Hose and Mother in Maria Magdalena . In 1930 she finally came to the Volkstheater in Munich . She stayed there until she went to Berlin in 1939.

After Haagen had embodied resolute women in classical and modern plays as well as numerous comedies at the theater for many years, she received her first film role in the short film The Postman relatively late in 1939 . She had her first major role in 1944 as a grandmother in The Green Salon . In more than 100 films, Haagen has always played the good-natured, amiable and funny elderly lady. She experienced great acting success in 1958 as the protagonist and great-grandmother in her 106th birthday and in the role of "Grandma Jantzen" in the Immenhof trilogy . She also voiced May Whitty in The House of Lady Alquist and Una O'Connor in The Bells of St. Mary . She was also active in the radio.

After the war she moved back to Munich and played there at the Volkstheater, in the Münchner Kammerspiele , in the small comedy and in the cabaret Die Schaubude or at the Berlin Schlosspark Theater . Her stage work was now limited to rare guest appearances, including in Einsame Menschen .

Margarethe Haagen was married to the composer Lothar Brühne (1900–1958).

Her grave is in the Grünwald forest cemetery near Munich.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Margarete Haagen. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Haagen, Margarete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1966
Place of death Munich