Renate Richter
Renate Richter (born April 28, 1938 in Magdeburg ) is a German actress .
Life
From 1956 to 1959, Richter trained as an actor at the State Drama School in Berlin-Schöneweide . She then began as a theater actress at the Brandenburg State Theater . Another theater station followed in the provinces, at the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam . From 1962 to 1970 she was a permanent member of the Berliner Ensemble . There she played in various theater plays by Bertolt Brecht : the Genevieve in Die Tage der Commune , Yvette Pottier in Mother Courage and Her Children , the title role in Turandot or the Congress of the White Washer and the title role in Die Mutter . Richter also appeared in plays of modernism and contemporary theater; she played leading roles in plays by Dario Fo and Seán O'Casey, among others .
From 1973 to 1976 she was engaged at the Zürcher Schauspielhaus , where she played Lady Anne in Shakespeare's historical drama Richard III. and who played Shen Te in The Good Man of Sezuan . However, Richter returned to the Berliner Ensemble. She also gave guest appearances at the Deutsches Theater Berlin .
From 1970 to 1973 she was a member of the actors' ensemble of television in the GDR . In 1973 she starred with Hilmar Thate in the television film Cement . She showed one of her “most impressive achievements”, alongside Rolf Ludwig , in the title role of the multi-part television series Die unheilige Sophia (1974/1975). She endowed her film characters with "charm and wit." She often played under the direction of her husband Manfred Wekwerth , who was also the artistic director of the Berliner Ensemble in the 1980s.
Richter also appeared in the GDR as a singer and entertainer , including in the 1972 television show People make songs - songs make people . She also gave recitals with songs by Bertolt Brecht. With this song program she went on tour in Europe, including France , Sweden , Finland , Greece , Austria , Switzerland , Great Britain and Cuba . She performed with the program in 2006 in Istanbul . She occasionally took on musical roles on stage and in film. In 1979 she played Lilian Hollyday in the film adaptation of the musical Happy End by Bertolt Brecht and Elisabeth Hauptmann ; her partner was Wolf Kaiser , directed by Manfred Wekwerth.
In the 1990s she could still be seen as a stage actress in touring productions . Occasionally she took on smaller television roles, among others on the side of Günter Pfitzmann . In the television series Der Havelkaiser , she played Lotte Kuckuck, who worked for him for many years. In the ARD fairy tale film adaptation of The Princess and the Pea , she played the role of a merciful monastery sister who heads an orphanage in 2010 .
Renate Richter was married to the theater director Manfred Wekwerth until his death in July 2014 . Their daughter is the philosopher Christine Weckwerth . Richter lives in Berlin-Grünau .
Filmography
- 1963: Rime (TV)
- 1966: The Days of the Commune (theater recording)
- 1968: The dead stay young
- 1970: Djamila (TV)
- 1971: Optimistic Tragedy (TV)
- 1973: Cement (TV film, 2 parts)
- 1975: The unholy Sophia (TV series)
- 1976: Beethoven - Days in One Life
- 1976: The composer
- 1979: happy ending
- 1980: Johann Sebastian Bach's futile journey into fame
- 1989: doppelganger
- 1990: Visitation
- 1994–2000: The Havel Emperor
- 1998: Wolffs Revier (episode: The Riddle of Color )
- 2008: SOKO Wismar (episode: four women )
- 2010: The princess and the pea
theatre
- 1962: Bertolt Brecht : The Days of Commune - Director: Manfred Wekwerth / Joachim Tenschert ( Berliner Ensemble )
- 1966: Seán O'Casey : Purpurstaub (Avril) - Director: Hans-Georg Simmgens (Berliner Ensemble)
- 1968: Peter Weiss : Viet Nam Discourse - Director: Ruth Berghaus (Berliner Ensemble)
- 1969: Helmut Baierl : Johanna von Döbeln (Johanna) - Director: Manfred Wekwerth / Helmut Rabe (Berliner Ensemble)
- 1972: William Shakespeare : Life and Death Richard the Third - Director: Manfred Wekwerth ( Deutsches Theater Berlin )
- 1978: Dario Fo : There is no payment! (Margherita) - Director: Konrad Zschiedrich (Berliner Ensemble)
- 1978: Bertolt Brecht: Life of Galilei (Sarti) - Director: Manfred Wekwerth / Joachim Tenschert (Berliner Ensemble)
- 1981: Bertolt Brecht: Turandot or the Congress of White Washers (Turandot) - Director: Manfred Wekwerth / Joachim Tenschert (Berliner Ensemble)
- 1982: Hanns Eisler : Johann Faustus (Hanswurst) - Director: Manfred Wekwerth / Joachim Tenscher (Berliner Ensemble)
- 1986: Dario Fo : Accidentally a woman: Elisabeth (Elisabeth) - Director: Manfred Wekwerth / Alejandro Quintana (Berliner Ensemble)
- 1986: William Shakespeare : Troilus and Cressida (Kassandra) - Director: Manfred Wekwerth (Berliner Ensemble)
- 1987: Marieluise Fleißer : Purgatory in Ingolstadt (Clementine) - Director: Axel Richter (Berliner Ensemble)
- 1988: Bertolt Brecht: Die Mutter (Mother) - Director: Manfred Wekwerth / Joachim Tenschert (Berliner Ensemble)
- 1989: Heiner Müller : Germania Tod in Berlin (Germania) - Director: Fritz Marquardt (Berliner Ensemble)
- 1989: Nikolai Erdman : The Suicide (Maria) - Director: Manfred Weckwerth (Berliner Ensemble)
Radio plays
- 1966: Bertolt Brecht : The interrogation of Lukullus (courtesan) - Director: Kurt Veth ( radio of the GDR )
- 1971: Bertolt Brecht: The days of the Commune (Genevieve Guericault) - Director: Manfred Wekwerth / Joachim Tenschert (radio play - Litera )
- 1980: Friedrich Schiller : Maria Stuart (Maria Stuart) - Director: Werner Grunow (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
literature
- Frank-Burkhard Habel , Volker Wachter : Lexicon of the GDR stars. Actors from film and television. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-304-7 , p. 278.
- Frank-Burkhard Habel , Volker Wachter : The great lexicon of the GDR stars. The actors from film and television. Extended new edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89602-391-8 , p. 315.
- Frank-Burkhard Habel : Lexicon. Actor in the GDR. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-355-01760-2 , p. 353.
Web links
- Renate Richter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Renate Richter at filmportal.de
- Renate Richter (PDF; 102 kB) biography
- Renate Richter Agency
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Judge, Renate |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1938 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |