Roswitha Schmalenbach

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Roswitha Schmalenbach , also Roswitha Selmuth ( pseudonym ), (born July 7, 1923 in Göttingen (D); died March 11, 2002 in Riehen BS) was a Swiss actress , radio drama speaker , radio presenter and editor .

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Roswitha Schmalenbach was the daughter of the philosophy professor Herman Schmalenbach , who was appointed to the University of Basel in 1931. Having lived in Basel since 1932, she studied with Gustav Hartung at the Basel Conservatory and took acting lessons from Paul Kalbeck in Bern. She married the composer Philipp Eichenwald, so her real name was Roswitha Eichenwald-Schmalenbach. Under the artist name Roswitha Selmuth she performed regularly at the Stadttheater Basel until 1949 , under the direction of Franz Schnyder and Ernst Ginsberg , among others . She was on tour with the collective of young stage artists Die Szene, founded in 1945, and with the grandstand . In addition, she was heard in numerous radio play roles on the radio.

In the years 1956–1986 Roswitha Schmalenbach was employed as a presenter and editor at the Radio Studio Basel . Among other things, she hosted the popular program « Music for a guest » there for thirteen years . In 1971 she published the book Music for a Guest: Review of a radio series with prominent contemporaries . She interviewed Karl Barth (1968), Paul Sacher (1967) and Erika Mann (1968) among many others .

Fonts

  • Music for a guest: review of a radio series with prominent contemporaries. F. Reinhardt, Basel 1971, ISBN 3-7245-0030-0 (table of contents as PDF )

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Blubacher, Thomas: Roswitha Selmuth . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1673 f.
  2. ↑ a b Union catalog UB Basel. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Roswitha Schmalenbach: Music for a guest: review of a radio series with prominent contemporaries. F. Reinhardt, Basel 1971, ISBN 3-7245-0030-0 .
  4. ^ Radio interview from September 17, 1968, conducted by R. Schmalenbach
  5. ↑ Printed in: Erika Mann: My father, the magician. Edited by Irmela von der Lühe and Uwe Naumann. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1998, ISBN 3-499-22282-5 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmalenbach, Roswitha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eichenwald-Schmalenbach, Roswitha (full name); Selmuth Roswitha (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actress and radio presenter
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 2002
Place of death Riehen