Mechthild Grossmann

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Mechthild Großmann (born December 23, 1948 in Münster ) is a German actress , voice actress , audio book and radio play speaker and dancer .

Life

Mechthild Großmann was born after three brothers as the fourth child of a translator and a businessman . She grew up in Münster in the Kreuzviertel near the Coerdehof. As a child she took ballet lessons . Later she started dancing professionally. Then she completed an acting training in Hamburg.

In 1969 she was hired by Kurt Huebner , the artistic director of the Bremen Theater on Goetheplatz , the leading theater in the Federal Republic of Germany at the time. After Hübner's departure in 1973 she went to the Stuttgart State Theater under the direction of Claus Peymann and from 1977 to the Schauspielhaus Bochum under the direction of Peter Zadek . Großmann was a member of the Pina Bausch dance theater from 1976 to 2017 and was one of the pillars of this dance ensemble. Pina Bausch chose her in 1975 as a singer for her production of the Brecht - Weill play The Seven Deadly Sins (1976). Großmann made her dance debut in the piece He takes her by the hand and leads her into his castle, the others follow.

She made her debut as a film and television actress in 1980 in the role of the whore Paula in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's fourteen-part miniseries Berlin Alexanderplatz , where she was seen in the opening episode The Punishment Begins . Many other film and television productions followed. She became known nationwide through her role as chain-smoking public prosecutor Wilhelmine Klemm in the Münster crime scene , which she has played since 2002. In the Wilhelm Hauff fairy tale adaptation, Dwarf Nose (2008), she took on the role of the fairy herb white under the direction of Felicitas Darschin . She had another role in 2016 in the fairy tale film Prinz Himmelblau and Fee Lupine based on a fairy tale from Christoph Martin Wieland's Dschinnistan , where she played the queen and mother of Prince Himmelblau at the side of her colleague Friederike Kempter from Münster .

For her portrayal of Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Staatstheater Kassel she was awarded the Actor Prize of the Hessian Theater Days in 2007. In the 2008/09 season she was a guest at the Schauspiel Frankfurt as bailiff Frosch in a production of Johann Strauss ' operetta Die Fledermaus , and as Queen Margaret, Duchess of York, Bürger and Geist, she took on four different roles in the Shakespeare drama Richard III. and played Death in Everyone (dies) in the 2020/21 season . At the Schauspielhaus Bochum in 2015 she was the multimillionaire Claire Zachanassian in Friedrich Dürrenmatt's tragic comedy The Visit of the Old Lady , directed by Anselm Weber.

Her trademark became her deep and smoky voice with a high recognition value . By her own admission, her voice was so deep when she was a child. She also stated that she had almost no frontal and maxillary sinuses. Since the 2000s she has recorded numerous audio book and radio play productions. In 2015 and 2016 she was awarded the German Children's Audio Book Prize BEO for her interpretation of the children's audio books Der Yark and From the diary of a killer cat .

Mechthild Großmann lived with the director Stephan Meyer , who u. a. In 2000 she produced the crime film The Eighth Deadly Sin: Ghost Hunt and in 2004 the crime scene episode Killer Games with her, and has a daughter born in 1992 with him. She lives in Hamburg .

Filmography (selection)

As an actress

As a voice actress

Theatrography (selection)

Audio books / radio plays (selection)

documentary

  • Mechthild Grossmann. An actress. TV portrait, Germany, 1991, director: Claus Strobel, production: WDR
  • Rasputin-Mord am Zarenhof Documentary, Germany, 2016, Director: Eva Gerberding, Production: arte

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Bettina Trouwborst: Mechthild Großmann: The daring suits her. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . March 28, 2008, archived from the original on February 12, 2013 ; accessed on January 26, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Karin Völker: Mechthild Großmann comes from Münster: Childhood in the Kreuzviertel. In: Westfälische Nachrichten . April 12, 2014, accessed January 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Katharina Rüth: Actress Mechthild Großmann: Last appearance on the dance stage. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . August 16, 2017, accessed May 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Mechthild Großmann: I had never heard the name Pina Bausch before. (mp3 audio, 3.4 MB, 1:29 minutes) In: EMMA . Winter 2010, archived from the original on March 16, 2010 ; accessed on January 26, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Jochen Schmidt: Pina Bausch. "Dancing Against Fear". Ullstein, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-548-60259-2 , p. 63f.
  6. ↑ Richard III by William Shakespeare. Schauspiel Frankfurt, October 7, 2017, accessed on October 7, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Judith v. Sternburg: "Everyone (dies)" in Frankfurt: In the middle of life ... Frankfurter Rundschau, February 3, 2020, accessed on February 4, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Joachim Schmitz: "My voice is a mistake of nature". Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , accessed on June 9, 2012 .
  9. ↑ Biographies: Mechthild Großmann. Bavarian State Opera , accessed on November 9, 2019 .
  10. ↑ For our new production “Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten” ... message on the Facebook account of the Augsburger Puppenkiste, October 1, 2017, accessed on October 3, 2017 .
  11. ↑ The BEO-Kids of the Free Montessori School Berlin: Winner 2016: Prize of the Children's Jury: Free Montessori School Berlin. BEO - German Children's Audio Book Prize, accessed on January 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Großmann, Mechthild
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, radio play speaker and dancer
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster