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Nana Osten , born as Renate Schwebs , (born June 1, 1940 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf ) is a now inactive, German actress with a short career in both the Federal Republic and the GDR.

Life

Renate Schwebs first attended elementary school, then high school. In addition, she received dance lessons at the State Ballet School, took acting lessons from Herbert Steininger and briefly appeared as a dancer at the Barlay Circus. In the DEFA people became aware of the 17-year-old in 1957, leaving her under the name "Nana Schwebs" the main and title character of light blond orphans Helga, who in A girl of 16½ makes in the big city male acquaintances and soon off the rails threatens to get. In 1958, the year it was premiered, an offer for a role from the Federal Republic followed, which, like all subsequent works, she accepted under the pseudonym Nana Osten. In the years that followed, Osten became a wanderer between West and East, starring in both West German and East German film and television productions.

In Kurt Hoffmann's minor work Der Engel, who moved his harp (1959), she embodied the blond Rauschgoldengel, which gave the title. It became Nana Ost's most famous film. With the construction of the wall and an open dispute with Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler , the SED mouthpiece on GDR television - Schnitzler is said to have described her as "impotent acting", to which Osten countered that the aristocratic old Stalinist was an "idiot of stature." "- she followed the director Piero Vivarelli , under whom she has just worked as a partner of Helmut Griem in the East-West drama" Oggi a Berlino "set in contemporary Berlin, in his home country Italy. After just one more, 30-minute short television production for NDR , Nana Osten disappeared completely from public view in 1962. It is completely unknown whether or where she currently still lives.

Filmography (complete)

literature

  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 1240.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personal details in Der Spiegel , issue 31, from August 1, 1962

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personal data
SURNAME East, Nana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwebs, Renate (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Wilmersdorf