Margit Schaumäker

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Margit Schaumäker (born May 12, 1925 in Berlin ; † November 23, 2012 there ) was a German actress and dramaturge . She became known in particular as the first female television announcer on the German television network (DFF).

Professional activity

After finishing high school, Schaumäker trained as an actress at the Berlin Schillertheater and worked as a paramedic in East Berlin during the war. Then she got an engagement at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden . In 1947 she went to the Senftenberg Theater , where she played Gretchen in Goethe's Faust. In 1949 she was engaged by Wolfgang Langhoff at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin and immediately cast as Lieschen in Faust . Since she was newly married and her husband did not want to leave Berlin, she went to the newly founded television. Schaumäker greeted the television viewers on October 1, 1952 with the words: “Here is the test program of the Berlin TV Center.” A year earlier she was seen in her first film role in the film Modell Bianka , a DEFA comedy.

In 1964 she quit her job as an announcer and moved to the culture editorial team as an editor. She worked as a dramaturge with director Dean Reed on the film El Cantor . As an actress, she continued to appear in the series The Public Prosecutor Has the Word and other series and films. As a dramaturge she worked on the scripts for the films Dach überm Kopf (1980) and An old model (1976). Until 1991 she was u. a. worked for the editorial team of the TV magazine Prisma . Her last appearance was in 1993 in Dean Reed - Glamor und Protest , a documentary about Dean Reed.

Schaumäker was married to the DEFA dramaturge Willi Brückner for the second time, and this marriage resulted in two sons.

In 1985 she was awarded the Silver Patriotic Order of Merit .

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c tagesspiegel.de : Margit Schaumäker is dead , November 24, 2012
  2. ↑ a b Brief portraits - the announcers in the 50s and 60s. ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. mdr.de; last updated: January 11, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdr.de
  3. ↑ a b rbb-online: First GDR TV announcer Margit Schaumäker is dead. November 23, 2012.
  4. ↑ Margit Schaumäker at deanreed.de
  5. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , May 2, 1985, p. 6
personal data
SURNAME Schaumäker, Margit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and TV announcer
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 2012
Place of death Berlin