Marianne Simson

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Marianne Lena Elisabeth Clara Simson (born July 29, 1920 in Berlin , † July 15, 1992 in Füssen ) was a German actress .

Life

Marianne Simson was born in Berlin in 1920 as the daughter of the insurance employee John Eduard Simson (1885–1945) and his wife Frida, b. Born Kühl (1888–1979). She is the sister of Wolfsburg mayor Helmut Simson (1916–2013). In 1935 she joined the " Bund Deutscher Mädel " (BDM). She received training in classical dance from Victor Gsovsky and became a dancer at the Nollendorftheater in Berlin in 1935 . In 1936 she became a dancer at the German Opera House in Berlin and in 1939 at the State Theater under Gustaf Gründgens .

In the same year she impersonated Snow White in the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . Her best-known role is probably that of the woman in the moon in Münchhausen (1943).

In 1943, Marianne Simson applied for membership in the NSDAP , but it was rejected. In July 1944 she reported Fritz Goes, a major at the time in the Wehrmacht , to the Gestapo for having made positive comments about the assassination attempt on Hitler in her presence . Goes was then ill-treated for three months in the Gestapo custody. In the interrogation by SS-Obersturmbannführer Karl Radl (adjutant of Otto Skorzeny ) and in the court hearing before a special court of the army , she stuck to her testimony, which was rated as untrustworthy. a. by Victor de Kowa , Anneliese Uhlig , the film producer Herbert Engelsing and General Jesco von Puttkamer ensured the defendant's acquittal. Simson subsequently complained to Joseph Goebbels that their denunciation was not believed.

In May 1945, Marianne Simson and her parents were arrested by the operational group of the NKVD Charlottenburg and taken to the Ketschendorf special camp on charges of being an employee of the Gestapo . Her father died there in July 1945. In January 1947 she was transferred to the special camp Jamlitz and in April 1947 to special camp No. 1 in Mühlberg . In 1948 she was moved to special camp No. 2 in Buchenwald . In 1950 she was sentenced to eight years in prison as part of the Waldheim trials . In 1952 she was released early as part of a general amnesty . She moved to the Federal Republic of Germany, where her application for the equalization of burdens for her time in captivity was rejected by the courts (according to Fritz Goes' testimony).

In 1953 Marianne Simson received an engagement at the Württemberg State Theater in Esslingen and at the theater "Die Insel" in Karlsruhe . Later she played in Oldenburg and as a guest in the City Theater Konstanz . In 1971 she became head of the project " Voluntary Social Year " in the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband Schwaben-Allgäu.

Marianne Simson was married to the artistic director Wilhelm List-Diehl (1915–1992) and died in 1992 in Füssen in Allgäu .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael H. Kater: Weimar: From Enlightenment to the Present. , Yale University Press, 2014, p. 275, ISBN 978-0-300-17056-6
personal data
SURNAME Simson, Marianne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Simson, Marianne Lena Elisabeth Clara (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1992
Place of death Füssen , Bavaria , Federal Republic of Germany