Margot Göttlinger

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Margot Göttlinger (married Binder , born August 29, 1920 in Elberfeld , today Wuppertal , † April 2001 in Wiehl ) was a German actress , director and co-founder of the German State Theater Timişoara (DSST).

Career

Margot Göttlinger was trained as a costume designer from 1936 to 1939 at the Berlin-Babelsberg Film Academy. On the recommendation of the film director Wolfgang Liebeneiner , she then studied acting in Babelsberg from 1939 to 1941 .

In 1941 Göttlinger got a one year engagement at the German "Landestheater" in Sibiu , where she celebrated her first successes: 1943 as Queen Elisabeth in Schiller's Maria Stuart , in the leading role in "Glück und Glas" by Heinz Steguweit , as Minna in Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm , as Queen in Schiller's Don Carlos or as Iphigenie in Goethe's drama Iphigenie auf Tauris . In 1942 she married the set designer Gustav Binder . Her two sons Wolfgang (* 1943, musician) and Raimund (* 1945, director Wiehl ) were born in Sibiu . The Binder couple stayed in Romania after 1945. The annual theater tours took the company through many Transylvanian towns Mediaș (Mediasch), Agnita (Agnetheln), Brașov (Kronstadt) and Sighișoara (Schäßburg). After 1948, when the State Theater in Sibiu was dissolved, Margot Göttlinger directed at the German high school in Sighișoara. Here she staged Schiller's Cabal and Love and Gogol's Revisor .

Director

When the German State Theater Timişoara reopened in 1953 - after it had been closed for more than 50 years as a result of Magyarization - the Binder family moved to Timișoara (Timişoara), where Gustav Binder worked as a set designer and Margot Göttlinger as an actress. Here she initially took over the game management. Schiller's “Kabale und Liebe” was staged by Göttlinger in 1955 and was the highlight of the Schiller Festival in Timisoara. Schiller's “The Nephew as Uncle” and Goethe's Die Laune des Verliebten were rehearsed by her in 1956. This was followed by Iphigenie auf Tauris in 1957 and the Russian fairy tale game Die feuerrote Blume by Irina Karnauchowa and Leonid Braussewitsch in 1958 . When Hanns Schuschnig came to the theater as in-house director, she took over as assistant director: in 1960 in Schiller's Die Räuber , Beaumarchais Figaros Hochzeit or Jewgenij Schwarz “The Story of a Young Marriage”. In 1961 Göttlinger moved to Sibiu, but in 1969 he returned to the German State Theater in Timisoara.

A special merit of Margot Göttlinger was the support of the German local dramatists: Ludwig Schwarz "Mathias Till" (1977), Norbert Petri's operetta "Bewitching Youth" (1978), the fairy tale pieces by her son Raimund Binder "The brave little tailor" (1972) and the "Goose-girl at the fountain" (1976). Heinz Czechowski's "Rumpelstielzchen" also dates back to 1976 . However, she had her greatest directorial success with Hans Kehrer's dramatization of Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn's "Meister Jakob und seine Kinder" (1978).

actress

In 1954 Margot Göttlinger was seen for the first time in a leading role at the Deutsches Staatstheater Timisoara in Friedrich Wolf's “Mayor Anna”.

Other leading roles were: Lady Milford in "Kabale und Liebe" by Schiller (1954); Minna in “Minna von Barnhelm” by Lessing (1956); Iphigenie in "Iphigenie auf Tauris" by Goethe (1957); Eboli in Don Carlos by Schiller (1958); Mother Courage in Mother Courage and Her Children by Brecht (1958); Desdemona in Othello from Shakespeare (1961); Josie in "A Moon for the Loaded" by Eugene O'Neill (1969); Marthe in Urfaust by Goethe (1973); Wassa in "Wassa Schelesnjowa" by Maxim Gorki (1973); Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie of Tennessee Williams (1974).

With Grillparzer's Sappho she brought it to 34 performances, which were seen by more than 8,000 spectators. It was her last role at the German State Theater Timişoara. During the chamber music evenings she recited poetry by Chamisso , Heine and Eichendorff . In the magazine “Volk und Kultur” she published essays on stage art and also appeared as a poet.

In almost 40 years of artistic activity, Göttlinger played over 80 roles at the German State Theater Timişoara and temporarily at the German department of the State Theater Sibiu. Margot Göttlinger was a first-rate personality in the cultural life of the Banat Swabians and Transylvanian Saxons .

In 1983 she settled in the Federal Republic of Germany, where she died in Wiehl in 2001 at the age of 81.

literature

  • Horst Fassel : The German State Theater Timisoara (1953-2003). From supraregional bearer of identity to the experimental theater , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3643114136
  • Magdalena Binder: Farewell for a year. The unusual fate of Margot Göttlinger , Timișoara 2003

Web links

  • sevenbuerger.de , Dieter Michelbach: Posterity does not weave wreaths for mimes. Obituary by Margot Göttlinger
  • Margot Göttlinger , founding member of the German State Theater Timişoara

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Horst Fassel : The German State Theater Temeswar (1953-2003). From national identity bearer to experimental theater , ISBN 978-3643114136
  2. ↑ a b sevenbuerger.de , Dieter Michelbach: Posterity does not weave wreaths to mimes. Obituary by Margot Göttlinger
  3. ↑ a b Margot Göttlinger (CV with photo)
personal data
SURNAME Göttlinger, Margot
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Binder, Margot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, co-founder of the German State Theater Timisoara
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH April 2001
Place of death Wiehl