Steffi Ronau

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Steffi Ronau , also Steffi Ronau-Walter (born February 25, 1907 as Stefanie Rosenbaum in Breslau , † January 11, 1995 in Berlin ), was a German actress .

Life

Steffi Ronau began her career as a teenager with the Breslauer Rundfunk when she spoke the Hannele in Gerhart Hauptmann's Hanneles Himmelfahrt . At the age of 20 she toured with a traveling theater through East Prussia and performed at venues in Königsberg and Elbing . From 1930 to 1932 Ronau was a member of the Münster theater company . As a result of the seizure of power , the Jewish artist fled to Vienna , where she went on a theater tour with Ernst Deutsch and Albert Bassermann . Then Steffi Ronau returned to Berlin and in February 1934 joined the Jewish cabaret Uhlandseck .

Excluded from the capital's cultural scene, Steffi Ronau went to the youth stage of the Jewish Cultural Association in autumn 1936 , where she made her debut with the viola in Shakespeare's Was ihr wollt . She got other roles in Die Gezierte, Komödie der Errungen, The Glass of Water and Arm Like a Church Mouse . In 1938, Max Ehrlich, who had temporarily returned to Germany, signed them to his cabaret. In addition, Ronau temporarily went to the Kulturbund Rhein-Ruhr. With her husband Werner Hinzelmann, she also ran her own puppet theater from the end of 1938.

Until August 1941, Steffi Ronau played in productions by Fritz Wisten and Ben Spanier , most recently in Franz Molnar's play in the castle , the last performance by the Jewish Cultural Association. With the closure of all Jewish cultural institutions in the Reich, the artist had to go into hiding. During this time of greatest danger, their daughter Rehab was born, making an escape planned by the couple impossible. Soon afterwards, Steffi's husband Werner died, and in January 1943 the mother and child went into hiding with a prostitute who both hid in the basement of the house.

Immediately after the liberation in May 1945, Steffi Ronau resumed her work as an actress. In August of the same year she was seen in the revival of Bert Brechts and Kurt Weill's Die Dreigroschenoper , a production by Karlheinz Martin . Until November 1978 Steffi Ronau played theater in western Berlin, most recently at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm .

After the war, Steffi Ronau also worked for radio and occasionally as a voice actress. Reha Hinzelmann works as a voice actress.

Films (television)

  • 1965: Forester Horn
  • 1966: father of a daughter
  • 1979: father of a daughter

Radio plays

literature

  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 292.

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personal data
SURNAME Ronau, Steffi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ronau-Walter, Steffi (full name); Rosenbaum, Stefanie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1995
Place of death Berlin