Margit Saad

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Margit Saad (born May 30, 1929 in Munich ; born Margit Daisy Saad ) is an actress and director .

Life

Margit Saad is the daughter of the Lebanese linguist Fuad Jabbour Saad and the language teacher Agnes Saad, born in Düsseldorf, from Düsseldorf. Diepgen. From a young age she played the piano and harmonium and later took violin lessons. After graduating from high school in 1947, she began an apprenticeship in ceramics, which she broke off after a year and a half to attend the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich.

To finance this study, Margit Saad worked as a photo model, discovered by the photographers Regina Relang and FC Gundlach . She was engaged at Kom (m) ödchen in Düsseldorf for almost two years . She then made guest appearances on various stages, including playing Irma La Douce in 1961 in the German premiere of the musical of the same name alongside Harald Juhnke at the Baden-Baden Theater and in the same role in 1962 at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna. In Munich she played in the Kleine Komödie . Directed by her husband Jean-Pierre Ponnelle , she played in On ne badinne pas avec l'amour at the Stuttgart State Theater , as well as Les Caprices de Marianne at the Baden-Baden Theater and in Purcell's opera Fairy Queen at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz Munich .

Since 1951 she has appeared in many German and Austrian films, mostly in leading or important supporting roles. Again and again she embodied the mysterious, exotic beauty. So she was z. B. 1953 in the biography about Franz von Suppè I only have your love the seductive Countess Barany, with whom the operetta composer portrayed by Johannes Heesters falls in love. In the 1960s she was repeatedly seen in international films, including a. in The Last Escape for United Artists and in The Trace Leads to Nowhere , a film by Joseph Losey .

In 1971, Margit Saad began a traineeship as a director at the Süddeutscher Rundfunk Stuttgart with Ulrich Kienzle and shot magazine articles in the following years, e.g. B. for the show No Commentary , documentaries and portraits, etc. a. Milena Jesenska - More than Kafka's girlfriend or about Johannes Vogt, the light sound inventor . In 1982 she directed her first television film , Adventure from the English Garden by Marieluise Fleißer . As a television director, she caught on from now on with her sophisticated literary adaptations. She wrote the scripts herself and often with co-authors. In 1982 she staged the German premiere of Catherine Hayes I will always long for you, my mother and in Bern, biography - a play by Max Frisch .

Margit Saad distinguished herself primarily through her leadership of actors, often still unknown such as Werner Stocker or Leslie Malton , who both received the Actor Award for their unusual achievements under her direction - the greatest joy for her as a director. In the television film The Story of the Good Old Man and the Beautiful Girl (Leslie Malton), Peter Pasetti showed his great acting skills again in his most beautiful old age role. With this film, Margit Saad was invited to the San Francisco Film Festival.

Again and again Margit Saad worked as a journalist, did interviews a. a. with the writer Grete Weil, with Bob Wilson and wrote portraits about Simone Jürgens, the French singer Suzy Solidor and Marieluise Fleißer .

Margit Saad was married to the stage designer, theater, opera and film director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle from 1957 until his death in 1988. Their son is the conductor and composer Pierre-Dominique Ponnelle (* 1957). Margit Saad-Ponnelle donated her husband's estate to the Akademie der Künste in Berlin . In 2002 a detailed exhibition of works was opened in the rooms of the AdK in Berlin, Hanseatenweg . Thanks to MSP's donation and their collaboration with the publisher, AdK Berlin, the Jean-Pierre-Ponnelle book was created, which presents his comprehensive life's work.

Your archive is located in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Filmography

actress

Director

  • 1974: The Star and the Sex (TV Documentary)
  • 1980: Rudolf Hartmann - born 1900 (television documentary)
  • 1982: One Afternoon (TV play)
  • 1982: Adventures from the English Garden (television, also screenplay)
  • 1985: The story of the good old man and the beautiful girl (TV, also screenplay)
  • 1990: The story of the maid Zerlina (television)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Heinz Hahnl : Irma, how tame and German you are! In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna July 6, 1962, p. 4 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. ^ Margit Saad Archive Inventory overview on the website of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.

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personal data
SURNAME Saad, Margit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saad-Ponnelle, Margit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich