Margrit Ensinger

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Margrit Ensinger (born November 12, 1926 in Haltingen ) is a German actress and radio play speaker .

Life

Margrit Ensinger took acting lessons from Gisela von Collande in Hamburg from 1946 to 1948 . She had her first engagement from 1948 to 1950 at the Deutsches Theater Konstanz under the direction of Heinz Hilpert . Together with Hilpert, Ensinger moved to the German Theater in Göttingen in 1950 , where she played until 1953. Another permanent engagement at the Münchner Kammerspiele followed from 1953 to 1958 , before, after guest engagements at the Berlin Schillertheater and the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf , she moved to the Schauspielhaus Zürich in 1962, to whose ensemble she belonged until 1994 and to which she continued to appear as guest performers in later years. During her career, Ensinger played numerous well-known characters from the stage literature. Among other things, she was in the world premieres of the Dürrenmatt pieces An Angel Comes to Babylon and The Anabaptists as well as various Swiss premieres.

Since the beginning of the 1950s, Ensinger was also present on the screen and on screen. In 1953 she stood next to Valérie von Martens and Curt Goetz in the film adaptation of his play Hokuspokus in front of the camera, in 1963 she played Maria Rosegger, the mother of the writer Peter Rosegger , in a film trilogy based on his stories. In particular, from 1953 to 1964 Ensinger also worked for radio, partly in known productions such as The Last Day of Lisbon by Günter Eich or Ingeborg Bachmann's last radio drama The Good God of Manhattan .

Margrit Ensinger was married to the actor Peter Arens until his death . Their daughter Babett also works as an actress.

Stage roles (selection)

Filmography

  • 1952: The day before the wedding
  • 1953: hocus-pocus
  • 1955: It happened under the midnight sun
  • 1955: The Lost Years
  • 1958: Woe to him who lies
  • 1958: Sister Bonaventure
  • 1959: Herbert Engelmann
  • 1962: The escape
  • 1963: From my forest home
  • 1963: When I was with Käthele in the forest
  • 1963: When I was still the forest farmer's boy
  • 1963: Detective Story
  • 1964: Our German small townspeople
  • 1973: return from Venice
  • 1981: yes and no
  • 1984: Bluebeard
  • 1986: Murder at the pool

Radio plays

Web links

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean Grädel: Margrit Ensinger . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 534 f.
  2. ↑ "The Zugbekanntschaft" by Paul Barz - Schreckmümpfeli - Swiss Radio and Television website SRF Swiss radio and television. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Ensinger, Margrit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Haltingen