Marianne Winkelstern

Marianne Winelstern, photograph (around 1929) by Alexander Binder

Marianne Winkelstern (born March 24, 1910 in Berlin , † October 19, 1966 in London ; born Maria Anna Martha Winkelstern ) was a German actress .

Short biography

The daughter of the Berlin merchant Adolf Winkelstern from Ziegenhain near Kassel was sent by her parents to the dance lessons of the solo dancer Evi Peters from the age of five. At the age of nine she was already giving dance evenings, which her father organized under the assumption of the costs.

In 1926 she was discovered by Erik Charell in the Dayelma Ballet in the Berlin Winter Garden . He engaged her for his Großes Schauspielhaus , where she first appeared in the operetta Madame Pompadour in the 1926/27 season . In the following years she also belonged to the theater.

From 1928 she was used in films in which she showed her dancing skills. She acted as a leading actress several times, her partners included Harry Liedtke in Die Zirkusprinzessin and Der Faschingsprinz (both 1928), Richard Tauber in The Great Attraction (1931) and Harald Paulsen in Can you whistle, Johanna? (1934).

During an appearance at the London Coliseum as a ballerina in Charell's musical revue Casanova , she saw her wealthy future British husband, whom she married in 1934 or 1935. At this point she gave up her job. Later she did not want him mentioned in London society. In the late 1930s they both moved to an extensive estate in Sussex, where she survived the war unscathed despite a V-1 that had fallen before her. After that, they both spent the winters on land in what is now Zimbabwe, the summers in Norway, and spring and autumn in Sussex. She selflessly campaigned for her German relatives, impoverished by the outcome of the war. Despite her robust health, she contracted lung cancer in the 1960s as a result of smoking for decades - common in English society at the time. Her husband, who was eleven years her senior, survived her by seven years, deprived of his wife's solid leadership. Since they were childless, a considerable fortune as well as the large and uniquely beautiful property in Sussex went to distant British relatives and new acquaintances. "Gone with the Wind" matches their division and sale to the extremely low English land values ​​in the early 1970s.

Filmography

• 1928: The Carnival Prince
• 1929: The circus princess
• 1930: the white devil
• 1930: Love Waltz
• 1930: just you
• 1931: The big attraction
• 1931: My heart longs for love / The clairvoyant
• 1933: A kiss on a summer night
• 1934: Can you whistle, Johanna?

Remarks

1. ↑ The date of birth is according to cyranos.ch and IMDb 1910, according to Kinotv March 24, 1911, according to Filmportal.de ( memento of the original from July 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. March 24, 1910, according to Karlheinz Wendtland: Geliebter Kintopp , born 1931, second edition 1991, p. 133 March 24, 1913. According to cyranos and IMDb, the date of death is December 1966, according to Filmportal.de October 19, 1966, according to Wendtland December 1986 The biographical information provided by Karlheinz Wendtland and the information provided by cyranos.ch, which is based on Marianne Winkelstern's nephew Detlef E. Bodart, differ extremely widely. According to Wendtland, Winkelstern remained active until the end as a dancer and then as a dance teacher, according to cyranos she has not practiced her profession since her marriage, about which Wendlandt does not provide any information. 

Web links

Commons : Marianne Winkelstern  - Collection of Images

• Marianne winkelstern in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Biography with photo at cyranos.ch
• Pictures by Marianne Winkelstern In: Virtual History