Renee Goddard

Renee Goddard (* 1923 in Berlin ) is a German-British actress .

Life

Renee Goddard was born as Renate Scholem. Her father Werner Scholem came from a German-Jewish family and became the party leader of the KPD in the Reichstag and her mother Emmy Scholem was also a member of the KPD. Her uncle Gershom Scholem emigrated to Palestine in 1923 and helped found the University of Jerusalem. Renee Goddard grew up with her non-Jewish working class grandparents in Hanover because of the acute threat to her parents. At the age of eleven, Renee Goddard came into exile in England and ended up in the family of Jonas and Naomi Birnberg, the sister of Norman Bentwich , the first Attorney General of Palestine .

In England she was temporarily interned as an " enemy alien " in Holloway prison and on the Isle of Man . Later she turned to the small English avant-garde stages. Since that time she was friends with Peter Zadek .

After a career as an actor - she played with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh , among others - she became one of the most influential people in film and television in London and later - for Channel 4 UK - in Munich. Among other things, she was involved in the establishment of the European SCRIPT Fund for project and screenplay development, part of the MEDIA program of the European Union , which she headed under the chairmanship of Richard Attenborough , later Lord Attenborough.

Renee Goddard was married to actor Michael Mellinger for the second time . She later married the journalist and television manager Stuart Hood and then the scientist Hanno Fry.

Feature films (selection)

• 1949: Movie-Go-Round
• 1953: Murder at 3am
• 1979: The Brontë sisters ( Les Sœurs Brontë )

Series

• 1984: The Jewel in the Crown, ITV , UK

Documentaries

• 2008: Some dead are not dead - Renee Goddard on her father, the legendary socialist Werner Scholem, by Alexander Kluge .
• 2014: Between utopia and counter-revolution - a short film about the lives of Emmi and Werner Scholem , by Niels Bolbrinker.

Web links

• Renee Goddard in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• "Between Utopia and Counter-Revolution" - Documentary by Niels Bolbrinker on the biography of Werner and Emmy Scholem, with an interview with Renee Goddard.
• Website (Engl.)
• Portrait of the weekly newspaper Zurich, November 12, 2009

literature

• Ralf Hoffrogge : Werner Scholem - a political biography (1895–1940), UVK Verlag 2014. (Describes, among other things, her childhood as Renate Scholem and her flight to England)