Miriam Spoerri
Miriam Spoerri (born July 20, 1931 as Miriam Feinstein in Galați , Romania ; † February 20, 2010 in Zurich ) was a Romanian-Swiss film and theater actress. She was the sister of Daniel and Theophil Spoerri .
Life
Miriam Spoerri was the daughter of the missionary Isaac Feinstein and his wife Lydia Spoerri. The father had converted from the Jewish to the Protestant faith and worked for the Norwegian Mission . In the summer of 1941, Romanian fascists murdered their father during the Iaşi pogrom . The mother, a Swiss citizen, fled to Switzerland with her six children in 1942. After high school and applied arts school in Basel , she studied acting at the Zurich stage studio with Erwin Kalser , Gustav Knuth , Walter Richter and Hermann Wlach .
Miriam Spoerri was married three times, with Karl Walter Diess , Ernst Ginsberg and Herbert Fleischmann .
A daughter comes from his marriage to the actor Karl Walter Diess .
Filmography (selection)
- 1960: Factory of the officers by Franz Höllering / Director: Frank Wisbar
- 1960: Emilia Galotti in Emilia Galotti by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing / Director: Ernst Ginsberg
- 1965: Laura in freedom in December by Leo Lehmann / Director: Fritz Umgelter
- 1966: Karin Hendrich in headstand, Madam! by Christian Geissler / Director: Christian Rischert
- 1967: Elinor Rich in Mr. Arcularis by Conrad Aiken / Director: Fritz Umgelter
- 1968: Dete in Heidi returns home by Johanna Spyri / Earl Hamner / Director: Delbert Mann
- 1968: Wife of the Landammann in force of the law by Rolf Hädrich / Director: Rolf Hädrich
- 1968: Elisabeth Alione in This Woman for example by Marguerite Duras / Director: Heinz von Cramer
- 1970: Emilie in Baal by Bertolt Brecht / Direction: Volker Schlöndorff
- 1972: Frida in Die Witwen or a perfect solution by Gabriele Wohman / Director: Tom Toelle
- 1973: Therese Magneau in Victor or the children in power by Jean Anouilh / Director: Tom Toelle
- 1973: Relatives are also people of Erich Kästner / Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner
- 1973: Donna Delizio in Plaza Fortuna by Franz Geiger / Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner
- 1976: head nurse in the misfortune of Max Frisch / Director: George Radanowicz
- 1978: Melanie Sugg in The Unicorn by Martin Walser / Director: Peter Patzak
- 1978: Edith in Late Love by Max von der Grün / Director: Ilse Hofmann
- 1978: Jewish woman in When Hitler stole the pink rabbit by Judith Kerr / Director: Ilse Hofmann
- 1984: Magda Dietrich in Der Sprinter by Christoph Böll / Director: Christoph Böll
- 1985: Miss Smallwood in A Life Between Love and Madness by Matthias Zschokke / Director: Matthias Zschokke
- 1992: Frau Kaiser in Der Tod zu Basel by Markus Kutter / Director: Urs Odermatt
- 1995: The Fog Runner by Jörg Helbing / Director: Jörg Helbing
Theater roles (selection)
City Theater St. Gallen
- 1953: A young girl in The Little Dance of Death by Hans Rudolf Hilty
- 1953: Adrienne in the Marquise of Noel Coward
- 1953: Angelique in the conceited patient of Molière
- 1954: Gretchen in Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 1954: Luise in Kabale und Liebe by Friedrich Schiller
- 1954: Lucia in reputation at the abyss by Albert Steffen
- 1954: Stupid maid in The Sermon of Regina Ullmann
- 1954: Thérèse in the sixth floor by Alfred Gehri
- 1954: Donna Diana in Donna Diana by Agustin Moreto
- 1955: Amine in The Mood of Lovers by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 1955: Dorimène in Unwilling Marriage / The forced marriage of Molière
- 1955: Anna in The Black Pike by Paul Burkhard
- 1955: Thekla in Die Piccolomini by Friedrich Schiller
- 1955: Countess Adele in The Suitors by Joseph von Eichendorff
- 1955: Mirza / Gülnare in The dream of a life by Franz Grillparzer
- 1955: Kurrubi in An Angel Comes to Babylon by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Schauspielhaus Graz
- 1957: Cleopatra in Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw
Baden spa theater
- 1955: Antigone in Antigone by Jean Anouilh
Schauspielhaus Zurich
- 1956: Miriamne in the turn of winter by Maxwell Anderson
- 1962: Lili Dafon in The Paris Comedy by William Saroyan
German Theater Göttingen
- 1958: Alison Porter in Looking Back in the Wrath of John Osborne
- 1958: Margaret in The Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
- 1958: Anne Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich
Darmstadt State Theater
- 1961: Emilia in Emilia Galotti by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- 1962: Princess in Love, Sorrows and Lust by William Shakespeare
Bad Hersfeld Festival
- 1961: Elektra in Orestie by Aeschylus
- 1961: Beauty in the world theater by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
- 1962: Anja in The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
- 1963: Kurrubi in An Angel Comes to Babylon by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- 1963: Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
- 1964: Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Burgenland Castle Games of Forchtenstein
- 1967: Eleonore in The Jewess of Toledo by Franz Grillparzer
Small theater in the zoo / Fritz Rémond Theater Frankfurt
- 1968: Coralie in The Passed Out Horse by Françoise Sagan
- 1969: Vilma in The Fairy Tale of the Wolf by Franz Molnar
Grandstand Berlin
- 1970: Diana Rathbone in Sir Arthur's Strange Games by Alexander Reeling
Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe
- 1979: Role in Die Wupper by Else Lasker-Schüler
Radio
In 1966, Bayerischer Rundfunk and Südwestfunk produced a radio play adaptation of the novel Mein Name sei Gantenbein , directed by Rudolf Noelte . Miriam Spoerri acted as spokesperson with Robert Freitag and Dagmar Altrichter , among others .
reception
"Miriam Spoerri, a talented stage actress from Zurich, plays the woman who strives away from being narrow and locked in with charm and intelligence."
" The unicorn : (...) The Swiss Miriam Spoerri masters her role as publisher Melanie Sugg."
literature
- Frithjof Trapp: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933–1945, Volumes 1-2 Verlag Saur 1999, ISBN 3-598-11375-7 , p. 313.
Web links
- Miriam Spoerri in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Badisches Staatstheater - Actress Miriam Spoerri from Zurich is engaged for the premiere of the drama “Die Wupper” by Else Lasker-Schüler in the German Digital Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ miriam spoerri - death certificate. February 20, 2010. Retrieved July 26, 2017 .
- ↑ Theophil Spoerri: Searching for father's traces Report on a trip to the Romanian Moldova and Bukovina in May 2012 . Theodor Boder Verlag, Mumpf 2016, ISBN 978-3-905802-68-9 .
- ^ Fragments of a Life. Retrieved May 18, 2017 .
- ↑ Markus Bauer: Pasts that do not pass . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . May 17, 2017 ( nzz.ch ).
- ↑ Anna Wegelin: Theophil Spoerri: The two souls in the breast of the pastor and singer. In: onlinereports.ch. August 6, 2010. Retrieved July 25, 2017 .
- ↑ Theophil Spoerri: "Pearls for Messiah". The Goldstein-Hufschmid saga. Publishing house Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna.
- ↑ Andrea Weibel : Ginsberg, Ernst. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- ↑ Herbert Fleischmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Edelgard Abenstein: Blind antihero . On: Deutschlandradio Kultur . April 21, 2006.
- ↑ Review notes on Max Frisch: My name is Gantenbein at perlentaucher.de
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Spoerri, Miriam |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Feinstein, Miriam (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian-Swiss film and theater actress |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1931 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Galați , Romania |
DATE OF DEATH | February 20, 2010 |
Place of death | Zurich |