Margot Gödrös

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Margot Gödrös (* 1939 ) is a Swiss actress .

Life

Margot Gödrös was born in Switzerland and has a Hungarian family background. She grew up in the Lucerne hinterland. Her mother was a pianist who, after the family moved to Zurich , also sang in the opera choir. Margot Gödrös became a member of the Chamber Choir Zurich, where she learned to speak theater. She then worked in several jobs at the theater, from cloakroom to director .

She worked as a freelance actress at numerous German and Swiss state and city theaters, but also repeatedly at independent theaters such as Ballhaus Naunynstrasse and Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) in Berlin . Gödrös played a broad repertoire, which included roles from the classical theater repertoire, from the dramas of the turn of the century and the modern era, as well as from contemporary and socially critical contemporary theater.

She had guest engagements and piece contracts in Germany a. a. at the Hamburger Schauspielhaus (1995–1997), at the Theater Baden-Baden (2005), at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg (2008, as “Big Mama” in Die Katzen auf dem Hot Tin Roof ) and at the Theater Oberhausen (2014–2015).

In Switzerland she performed a. a. at the Schauspielhaus Zürich (including 1998, as Miss Doctor Mathilde von Zahnd in Die Physiker , director: Katja Früh ), at the Theater Basel (from 1997), at the Lucerne Theater (2007), at the Stadttheater Bern (2007–2011), at the concert theater Bern (2012–2013), at Theater Winterthur (2014) and Stadttheater St. Gallen .

Her directors on these productions included u. a. Christoph Marthaler (Hamburg), Tom Kühnel (Basel), Niki Stein (Baden-Baden), Ueli Jäggi (Lucerne), Peter Carp (Lucerne / Winterthur / Oberhausen), Stefan Otteni (Bern), Dani Levy (Zurich) and Matthias Lilienthal (Berlin).

From the 2015/16 season she made regular guest appearances at the Schauspiel Köln , where she worked with directors such as Rafael Sanchez , Roger Vontobel , Lilja Rupprecht and Stefan Bachmann . She has been a permanent member of the ensemble at the Schauspiel Köln since the 2018/19 season. Under Stefan Bachmann's direction, she played there in December 2018 "with cutting monologues" "God the Father" (aka President of the Swiss Ski Association) in the world premiere of Elfriede Jelinek's play Schnee Weiss .

She has been working regularly at the Freiburg Theater since the 2017/18 season . In 2018 she gave a guest performance at the Munich Volkstheater in Pınar Karabulut's Lorca adaptation In den Strassen no flowers . In the 2018/19 season she appeared as widow María Wassíljewna Wojnízkaja in a new production of the Chekhov drama Uncle Vanja at the Freiburg Theater. In this role she will be on stage again in the 2019/20 season.

Margot Gödrös has also stood in front of the camera for numerous Swiss and German film and television productions. She shot under the direction of Kurt Gloor , Hans W. Geissendörfer , Mike Eschmann , Sibylle Tafel , Sabine Boss , Niki Stein, Tobias Ineichen and Pierre-Henry Salfati .

In Wes Anderson's US adventure comedy Darjeeling Limited (2007) she was the loud "German Lady" on the train.

On Swiss television she was a. a. in the TV productions Lüthi and Blanc , Schöni Uussichte , in Lucerne's Tatort: ​​Persecuted (2014, as a neighbor and witness Mrs. Stiegeler) in the TV series Der Undatter (2015).

Her German television productions include u. a. the television comedy Wir haben nicht 'Trauschein (2013), in which she played Bruno 's Italian “Mamma” Sophia alongside Bruno Maccallini and Jutta Speidel . In the 4th season of the ZDF series Bettys Diagnose (2018) she played Marlies Benz, the best friend of Dr. Frank Stern's grandmother Ilse ( Monika Lennartz ), who is admitted to the Karlsklinik after a fall. In the 11th season of the ZDF series SOKO Stuttgart (2019) she took on a dramatic leading role in the episode as senior Tilda Schiffer, who demands the payment of her savings invested in a fund in order to be able to pay for care for her husband, who is in need of help after a stroke .

Gödrös also worked as a radio play speaker for productions for WDR and Deutschlandfunk .

Margot Gödrös lives in Cologne and Berlin , where she still has a place of residence. Her daughter Katalin Gödrös works as a director and screenwriter.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Margot Gödrös at schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
  2. ↑ Margot Gödrös . Profile and Vita at CASTFORWARD.com. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Curiosity is Margot Gödrös' elixir of life . Portrait. In: Badische Zeitung of May 10, 2019. Retrieved on December 4, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b God is a Swiss - and Elfriede Jelinek slaughters ski bunnies . In: NZZ from December 23, 2018. Accessed December 4, 2019.
  5. ↑ Ski fan! . Performance review at Nachtkritik.de from December 21, 2018. Accessed December 4, 2019.
  6. ↑ Massive panopticon . Performance review. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung from June 25, 2018. Accessed December 4, 2019.
  7. ↑ Elegy and Ecstasy . Performance review. In: Donaukurier of June 22, 2018. Accessed December 4, 2019.
  8. ↑ Lorca's daughters in the lotus position . Performance review at Nachtkritik.de from June 21, 2018. Accessed December 4, 2019.
  9. ↑ UNCLE WANJA . Production details. Official website of Theater Freiburg . Retrieved December 4, 2019.
  10. ↑ Of love and sorrow . Plot and cast at Fernsehserien.de. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
  11. ↑ Betty's diagnosis . Scene excerpts from Schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
  12. ^ SOKO Stuttgart: Other people's money . Plot and cast. Official website of the ZDF . Retrieved December 4, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Gödrös, Margot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel , Switzerland