Pamela Wedekind

Anna Naema Pamela Kadega Wedekind (born December 12, 1906 in Berlin , † April 9, 1986 in Ambach am Starnberger See ) was a German actress , singer and translator . She was the daughter of the playwright Frank Wedekind and the actress Tilly Newes . Her younger sister was the journalist and author Kadidja Wedekind .

Pamela Wedekind at the Leipziger Schauspielhaus in 1926

Life

Pamela Wedekind became known when she appeared in Klaus Mann's plays Anja and Esther and Revue for Viert in the early 1920s with the siblings Erika and Klaus Mann , with whom she had been friends since early childhood, and the actor Gustaf Gründgens . After she was engaged to Klaus Mann from June 1924 to January 1928, she married the 28-year-old father of her friend Dorothea Sternheim ("Mopsa"), the playwright Carl Sternheim , in 1930 .

Gründgens, who had been director of the Prussian State Theater in Berlin since 1934, engaged Pamela Wedekind right at the beginning of his directorship for the Theater am Gendarmenmarkt , where she was a member of the ensemble until 1942. Engagements in Hamburg , Cologne and Munich followed (seven years at the Münchner Kammerspiele ).

Pamela Wedekind loved cabaret and often performed with old French chansons as well as with poems and songs by her father Frank Wedekind. She also made a name for herself as a translator for French authors. So she translated z. B. the writers Stendhal and Marcel Pagnol .

After divorcing Sternheim, she married actor Charles Regnier on June 21, 1941 in Berlin , with whom she lived until her death and with whom she had three children: the concert guitarist and author Anatol Regnier , the actress Carola Regnier and the violinist Adriana Regnier, who in turn has been married to the music teacher and flute soloist Peter Schiffers since February 17, 1974. The sons from this marriage are Stephan Schiffers , who works as a director and screenwriter, and Heinrich Schiffers , who is a musician and film composer.

Honors

In 1961 she was honored with the Schwabing Art Prize of the City of Munich.

Works (selection)

As editor

• 25 chansons de la vieille France. Südverlag, Constance 1949.
• Day and night songs. German songs from 6 centuries (Langen Müller's small gift books; Vol. 50). Langen / Müller, Munich 1955.

As a translator

• Marcel Pagnol : A childhood in Provence . New edition Piper, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-492-22808-9 .
• Marcel Pagnol: Marcel and Isabelle. The time of secrets . New edition Piper, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-492-22427-X .
• Marcel Pagnol: Marcel. My father's fame . Goldmann, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-442-41288-9 .
• Marcel Pagnol: Die Wasser der Hügel , Piper Taschenbuch, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-492-22428-8 .
• Stendhal : red and black . Novel . Mendelsohn, Nuremberg 1948 (afterword by Gregor von Rezzori ).
• Gus: A French in New York . Dtv, Munich 1964.

Radio plays

• 1949: Theodor Fontane : Effi Briest (Johanna) - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm (radio play - BR )
• 1951: Molière : The Imaginary Sick (Beline) - Director: Walter Ohm (radio play - BR)

literature

• Anatol Regnier: You on your highest roof. Tilly Wedekind and Her Daughters, A Family Biography. Knaus, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-8135-0223-6 .
• Anatol Regnier: Frank Wedekind. A tragedy for men. Knaus Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-813-50255-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Pamela Wedekind in the catalog of the German National Library
• Pamela Wedekind in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Wedekind from Horst Kr. Neustadt am Rübenberge in Lower Saxony . In: Lower Saxony Gender Book, Volume 187 (1982), pp. 481–634, here p. 532.
2. ^ Wedekind from Horst Kr. Neustadt am Rübenberge in Lower Saxony . In: Lower Saxony Gender Book, Volume 187 (1982), pp. 481–634, here pp. 532–533.
3. ^ Pseudonym for Gustave Ehrlich.