Marina of Ditmar

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Marina von Ditmar (married Dehnhardt) (born October 30, 1914 in Saint Petersburg ; † September 3, 2014 in Bad Kissingen ) was a German-Baltic theater and film actress.

Life

Marina von Ditmar came from the Baltic noble family von Ditmar , which belonged to the Estonian and Livonian knighthood and had their ancestral seat on the island of Ösel . Her parents were Georg von Ditmar (* 1889 in Peterhof , Russia ), naval captain and Helene Golovina (1894–1977).

After taking acting lessons with the renowned teachers Lucie Höflich and Ilka Grüning , she began her acting career at the theater. After brief engagements at the Schauspielhaus Bremen and the Alte Theater Leipzig , she was brought to the Volksbühne Berlin in 1937 , where she was part of the permanent ensemble until 1941.

In 1933, at the age of 19, she began her career as a film actress alongside the theater at Deka-Film (later: UFA ) with a small role in the Henny Porten strip Mother and Child and then slowly got bigger roles in films such as Die Czardasfürstin (1934) with Hans Söhnker , The Imaginary Sick (1935) at the side of Fritz Odemar and Stadt Anatol (1936) with Brigitte Horney . In August 1934, after the premiere of the film Die Czardasfürstin, the Bremer Zeitung read about her: “She carried the lion's share of the applause from the scene. Marina von Ditmar, full of cinematic romance with a blessed mouth, decent and open. "

She became known through other roles in propaganda films known at the time of National Socialism , such as Legion Condor (1939) with Paul Hartmann and Stukas (1941) with Carl Raddatz . With the anti-Soviet propaganda film GPU (1942) with Will Quadflieg as lovers and especially as Sophie von Riedesel in Münchhausen (1943) at the side of Hans Albers , the almost 30-year-old made her breakthrough and became a popular film star in the German Reich . In 1944 she received a daily wage of 400 Reichsmarks and was paid similarly to Liesl Karlstadt or Lina Carstens , while the very popular Lil Dagover and Marianne Hoppe earned around 1,500 Reichsmarks a day.

Obituary

After the Second World War , von Ditmar only appeared in two cinema productions - in 1950 with Sybille Schmitz and Hans Nielsen in František Čáps Krimi Kronjuwelen and in 1951 with Ilse Werner and Paul Klinger in the comedy Mutter sein sein! . After that, she ended her career and withdrew completely into private life.

In 1949 she married the physician Hans-Georg Dehnhardt (1913–2001) from Breslau , chief physician of the “Rhön Clinic” and later owner of the private sanatorium “Kurländer Haus” (Menzelstrasse) in Bad Kissingen. His son and her stepson is the documentary filmmaker Sebastian Dehnhardt (* 1968 in Oshakati , Namibia ).

Thanks to personal contacts to politics, the nobility and the world of film and theater, the couple was able to receive many prominent guests in their Bad Kissingen private sanatorium in the following decades - for example, the Thai royal couple Bhumibol Adulyadej and Sirikit during a visit by Federal President Heinrich Lübke and his friends in 1960 Wife Wilhelmine ; At that time Lübke was in Dehnhardt's sanatorium for a cure. "The connection to Mario Adorf was particularly close and Uschi Glas was one of the friends of the family".

Von Ditmar lived in Bad Kissingen until her death and was buried in the park cemetery there.

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Our weekly interview: Marina von Dittmar . In: Film Week No. 9 of March 1, 1939
  2. ^ A b c Hanns-Georg Rodek: Marina von Ditmar: The daughter who would have taken Hans Albers . In: Die Welt from September 8, 2014
  3. ^ A b c Siegfried Farkas, Sigismund von Dobschütz: The end of an era . In: Main-Post from September 8, 2014
  4. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Marina von Ditmar
personal data
SURNAME Ditmar, Marina of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dehnhardt, Marina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Petrograd
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 2014
Place of death Bad Kissingen