Ruth Glöss

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Ruth Glöss (born August 2, 1928 in Dresden ; † December 7, 2014 in Berlin ) was a German actress and radio play speaker .

Life

Ruth Glöss took acting lessons in the drama studio "Max Eckhart and Alfons Mühlhofer" in Dresden. She began her artistic work as a cabaret artist . As a theater actress , she had engagements at the Greiz Theater, the Cottbus State Theater , the Gera Theater and the Karl-Marx-Stadt theaters . Then she played from 1964 to 1983 at the Volksbühne Berlin . There she appeared as Queen Anna in the salon comedy Das Glas Wasser (1966), as Lady Milford in Kabale und Liebe (1967), and later as the old porter in Macbeth (1982, director: Heiner Müller ; with Corinna Harfouch as Lady Macbeth ) on.

For her portrayal of Miss Gilchrist in the play Die Geisel by Brendan Behan at the Maxim Gorki Theater , she received the 1966 Critics' Prize for "Best Actress". In 1982 she received the Critics' Prize for "Best Actress of the Season".

Since the 1986/87 season she was a member of the Berliner Ensemble , to which she belonged until her death. There she embodied mainly tragic roles in the role of the elderly. Her roles there included: Bloody Woman in Arturo Ui , the lady-in-waiting in Leonce and Lena , old whore in The Threepenny Opera , the old woman in dance of death , the housekeeper Brigitte in Das Käthchen von Heilbronn and the fool in one Stage version of the Shakespeare sonnets in a production by Robert Wilson .

Glöss played in a total of over 100 television and cinema films. Her important television roles included Mrs. Wittenberger in the multi-part television series Die Bilder des Zeugen Schattmann (1972), Josefina in the play Tomorrow I'll Wear a Sombrero (1981) and the widow Bimm in the literary film adaptation Old Heart Goes on a Journey (1987) , based on a novel by Hans Fallada . She also starred in several episodes of the crime series Polizeiruf 110 and The Public Prosecutor has the floor .

After the fall of the Berlin Wall , Glöss occasionally took on roles in the television series Wolffs Revier (2004), Bella Block (2005), KDD - Kriminal Long Service (2008) and Turkish for Beginners (2009).

In 2011, she played the role of the old woman in the fairy tale film The Dancing Shoes .

Ruth Glöss died on December 7, 2014 in Berlin at the age of 86.

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Radio plays (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Actress Ruth Glöss died. In: Courier of December 9, 2014 (accessed December 10, 2014).
personal data
SURNAME Glöss, Ruth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gloess, Ruth; Glöß, Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 2014
Place of death Berlin