Mita von Ahlefeldt
Mita von Ahlefeldt (born December 13, 1891 in Hamburg ; † April 18, 1966 there ) was a German actress .
biography
After graduating from a private school, von Ahlefeldt first completed an apprenticeship at a Hamburg teacher training college. In 1919, at the age of 27, she took private acting lessons from Erich Ziegel and Mirjam Horwitz . Her debut as a stage actress came a year later as "Puck" in a production of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night 's Dream at the Hamburger Kammerspiele . Two years later she appeared on the stage of the renowned Thalia Theater for the first time with Ibsen's “Nora” . In addition to shorter engagements in Riga and Lüneburg, the Hamburg theaters were to remain their artistic home for almost 50 years. Here von Ahlefeldt primarily embodied mothers and roles from the older character subject such as the “grandmother” in Lawrence Edward Watkins Death in the Apple Tree (Young Stage, 1947), the general in George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara ( Theater im Zimmer 1948), the “Aunt Martha ”in Joseph Kesselring's Arsenic and Top Hat (Theater im Zimmer 1950), the“ Aase ”in Ibsen's Peer Gynt , the“ Mother Wingfield ”in Tennessee Williams ' glass menagerie and“ Klarchen's mother ”in Goethe's “ Egmont ”.
In addition, she played in various cinema and television productions such as Egon Monk's drama Schlachtvieh , the Heimat film Drei Birken auf der Heide , the Edgar Wallace crime thriller Die Gang des Schreckens , the Jerry Cotton thriller Shots from the Violin Case or the previous evening series Gestatten, mein Name is cox .
In addition, von Ahlefeldt was active as a radio speaker (especially NWDR) and lent her voice as a voice actress to actresses like Helen Hayes ( Demon Woman ).
Mita von Ahlefeldt died on April 18, 1966 at the age of 74 and was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery. Her tombstone is now in the women's garden there .
Filmography (selection)
- 1949: The other
- 1954: A postman passed by
- 1956: Three birches on the heather
- 1958: Travel to Italy - love included
- 1959: love, air and lots of lies
- 1960: The Gang of Terror
- 1963: cattle for slaughter
- 1965: Shots from the violin case
- 1965: Permit me, my name is Cox - Incorrectly Linked (TV series)
Remarks
- ↑ http://www.garten-der-frauen.de/schauspiel.html , accessed on February 12, 2010
literature
- Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 3f.
Web links
- Mita von Ahlefeldt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mita von Ahlefeldt at filmportal.de
- Biography on the website of the women's garden
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ahlefeldt, Mita von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg , German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 18, 1966 |
| Place of death | Hamburg , Federal Republic of Germany |