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Rotraut Richter (born May 15, 1915 in Berlin , † October 1, 1947 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf ) was a German stage and film actress .

Theater and cabaret

In 1931, Rotraut Richter, who had previously had to leave the Lyceum because of insufficient performance and insufficient behavior and now continued her training in a state school home, took speaking lessons in order to then attend the State Drama School in Berlin . Only one year later, the then 17-year-old got her first engagement at the Landestheater in Darmstadt in the play Die Ratten by Gerhart Hauptmann . A little later Rotraut Richter also played on Berlin stages and gave guest performances and contributions in Trude Hesterberg's cabaret Die Musenschaukel and in the catacomb by Werner Finck and Robert Stemmle . During her time in film, she continued to play on stage, and Luca in George Bernard Shaw's play Heroes was one of her last roles.

Sound film

The film producer Joe May discovered the Berlin Jöre for the film and referred them to the director of the film The First Right of the Child (1932) Fritz Wendhausen . Ganovenehre (1932) and Hitlerjunge Quex (1933) were other feature films of this time in which she participated.

Rotraut Richter had her final breakthrough with the film Krach im Hinterhaus 1935, in the stage version of which she had thrilled the audience as Edeltraut Panse in one of the most famous taunts of the prewar years. Her greatest success, however, was Das Veilchen vom Potsdamer Platz (1936). Often it was called the same afterwards.

tomb

After the Second World War , Rotraut Richter made another film with Wozzeck for DEFA before she died in 1947 of complications from an appendix operation . Her grave of honor is located in the Dahlem cemetery in the Berlin district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf .

Her written estate is in the archive of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin.

Filmography

Honor

The district assembly of Berlin-Neukölln posthumously honored the actress by naming a place in front of the Wutzkyallee underground station in the Gropiusstadt district : Rotraut-Richter-Platz , name from May 15, 1969. Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 24.3 ″  N , 13 ° 28 '29.7 "  E

literature

  • Dorothee Perthes: Rotraut Richter, the unforgotten. Portrait of the young actress. Berlin: Hoffmann Verlag, 1957. 142 pages

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rotraut-Richter-Archiv Inventory overview on the website of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
  2. ↑ Rotraut-Richter-Platz at www.kauperts.de , accessed on May 31, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Rotraut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stage and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1947
Place of death Berlin-Wilmersdorf