Rosl Schäfer

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Rosl Schäfer , also Rosel Schäfer (born June 10, 1926 in the area of ​​what would later become the Wuppertal , † July 24, 1982 near Parma , Italy ), was a German actress in stage, film and television.

Live and act

Schäfer received her acting training in Düsseldorf shortly after the end of World War II and began her career at the age of 21 at the Rheinisches Landestheater in Solingen. She stayed there until 1949, before moving to the Schauspielhaus Bochum that year. In Bochum she not only played Gretchen in Goethe's Faust , Polly Peachum in Brechts / Weill's " Die Dreigroschenoper ", Franziska in Lessing's " Minna von Barnhelm ", Luise in " Kabale und Liebe " and several Shakespeare roles (Katharina in " The Taming of the Shrew ", Viola in " Was ihr wollt " and Rosalinde in " As You Like It "), but she also got to know her future husband Hannes Messemer on site . In 1957, both followed a call to the Kammerspiele in Munich and in the same year they appeared together in front of the camera for the first time in the crime drama " Nachts, Wenn der Teufel Came " , set at the time of the Second World War . Despite further Schäfer-Messemer collaborations on the big screen (" People on the Net , Stage Fright , The Bridge of Fate , You Don't Shoot Angels ") , Rosl Schäfer remained primarily connected to the theater.

Further stage stations were the Berlin Schiller Theater, the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, the Schauspielhaus Zurich and immediately afterwards, from 1968 to 1977, several stages in Basel. Here she was seen, for example, as Marie in Büchner's " Woyzeck ", as Dorine in Molière's " Tartuffe ", as Meg in Pinter's " The Birthday Party ", as Julie in Büchner's " Dantons Tod ", as Ranjewskaja in Chekhov's " The Cherry Orchard " and as Arkadina in " Die Möwe " from the pen of the same author. In 1977 Rosl Schäfer returned to the Zürcher Schauspielhaus for another five years, where she a. a. 1977 when Rosagrande could see in the world premiere of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's " Die Frist ". She also appeared again in "Die Möwe", but this time in the role of Polina Andrejewna (1980).

Between 1961 and the early 1970s, the woman from Wuppertal was a welcome guest in television games. There she mainly appeared in adaptations of literary models, less often in profane entertainment. Rosl Schäfer was killed near Parma in a car accident with her Swiss colleague Wernher Buck in the summer of 1982.

Filmography

literature

  • Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 635.
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1476.

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personal data
SURNAME Schäfer, Rosl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shepherd, Rosel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress on stage, film and television
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Area of ​​the later Wuppertal
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1982
Place of death near Parma , Italy