Ruth Baldor

Ruth Baldor (born November 1, 1899 in Grasleben , † November 16, 1988 in Bad Sooden-Allendorf ; actually Hedwig Emma Meta Heinrich ) was a German actress and voice actress .

Life

After her acting training at the State Theater in Braunschweig, engagements followed in Halberstadt, Königsberg, Breslau, Gera, Zurich, Gera, Magdeburg and Hamburg. After 1945 Baldor worked as a freelance actor in Freiburg when she was hired by theater director Wolfgang Langhoff for the German Theater in East Berlin in 1951 .

In addition to her acting work on stage, she also appeared in various DEFA and DFF films. Her husband at the time, the actor and DEFA director Martin Hellberg also directed some of her films, such as The Millions of Yvette from 1956. With the construction of the Berlin Wall , access to the East German film production facilities was made impossible for her the actress concentrated on her theater work again.

Filmography (selection)

• 1951: Spike 023: The grape
• 1952: The condemned village
• 1956: Thomas Müntzer - A film of German history
• 1956: The Yvette's millions
• 1956: The captain of Cologne
• 1957: The people on Dangaard
• 1958: only one woman
• 1959: Maria Stuart (studio recording)
• 1959: white blood
• 1960: The barbed animal : the woman of his dreams
• 1960: TV apprenticeship : The Annemarie Haller case
• 1960: morality
• 1963: the parasite

theatre

• 1952: Maxim Gorki : Yegor Bulytschow and the others - Director: Hans Jungbauer ( Deutsches Theater Berlin )
• 1952: Friedrich Schiller : Don Carlos (Olivarez) - Director: Wolfgang Langhoff (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
• 1953: Konstantin Issajew / Alexander Galitsch : Fernamt ... Please report (Kirpitschnikowa) - Director: Rudolf Wessely (Deutsches Theater Berlin - Kammerspiele)
• 1953: Julius Hays : The Turkey Shepherd (landowner) - Director: Fritz Wendel (Deutsches Theater Berlin - Kammerspiele)
• 1954: Maxim Gorki: Ssomow and others (Ssomow's mother) - Director: Wolfgang Heinz (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
• 1955: Federico García Lorca : Bernarda Albas Haus (Bernarda Alba) - Director: Hannes Fischer (Deutsches Theater Berlin - Kammerspiele)
• 1956: Oscar Wilde : Bunbury (Augusta) - Director: Herwart Grosse (Deutsches Theater Berlin - Kammerspiele)
• 1960: Ludwig Thoma : Moral - Director: Ernst Kahler ( Volksbühne Berlin )
• 1960: Hans Pfeiffer : Two Doctors (Congress Chairwoman) - Director: Thomas Ruschin (Volksbühne Berlin - Theater on the 3rd floor)

Radio plays

• 1953: Carl Sternheim : Die Kassette (Aunt Elsbeth) - Director: Werner Wieland (radio play - Berliner Rundfunk )
• 1955: Lieselotte Gilles / Gerhard Düngel : The Doctor of the Poor (Princess Ferdinand) - Director: Willi Porath (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR )
• 1956: Herbert Burgmüller / Manfred Schäffer : his song was German (mother Lortzing) - director: Hans Busse (radio play - radio of the GDR)
• 1956: Robert Ardrey : Leuchtfeuer (Anne Kurtz) - Director: Gerhard Rentzsch (Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1958: Peter Erka : Cars make people (Madame Devivier) - Director: Werner Wieland (Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1960: Hans Pfeiffer : Two Doctors (Frau Dr. Weißenberg) - Director: Richard Hilgert (detective radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 2002: Marianne Weil / Stefan Dutt : Legionaries, guerrillas, saboteurs - Director: Marianne Weil / Stefan Dutt (A socialist overall radio play (compilation) - DLR )

literature

• Thomas Blubacher : Ruth Baldor . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 104.
• Frank-Burkhard Habel , Volker Wachter : The great lexicon of the GDR stars. The actors from film and television. Extended new edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89602-391-8 .

Web links

• Ruth Baldor in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Ruth Baldor at filmportal.de