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Ruth Hausmeister (born June 5, 1912 in Stuttgart , † February 1, 2012 in Munich ) was a German actress .

Life

Ruth Hausmeister attended a Waldorf school and received ballet lessons. As a ballet trainee , she had her first appearances at the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart . After training as an actor, she worked as an actress from 1933 to 1934 at the Stadttheater Nordhausen , from 1934 to 1935 at the Stadttheater St. Gallen and from 1936 to 1937 at the Münchner Kammerspiele and for the Munich cabaret Die Nachrichtener .

From 1937 to 1938 she worked at the Hamburg Thalia Theater , where she met her future husband Carl-Heinz Schroth . The two daughters Sabine (* 1940) and Katharina (* 1945) come from the marriage. The marriage ended in divorce.

From 1938 to 1939 she was employed at the Residenztheater Wiesbaden and from 1940 to 1942 again at the Thalia Theater. From 1943 to 1944 she performed at the Berlin soldiers' stage. From 1946 to 1949 she was engaged at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin and until 1950 at the Renaissance Theater . She made guest appearances at the Schiller Theater as well as at the Schlossparktheater and the Hebbel Theater . Guest performances have taken her to the Münchner Kammerspiele and the Schauspielhaus Bochum .

Her roles included August Strindberg's Fräulein Julie (1946, Renaissance theater), Emily in Marcel Achard's Die Zeit des Glücks (1947, Renaissance theater), Salvation Army sister in August Defresne's The Uninhabited Eiland (1950, Schlossparktheater), Anastasia in The Marriage of Mr Mississippi (1952, Schlossparktheater), Amalia in Das Schloss nach Kafka / Brod (1953, Schlossparktheater), Vera Stein in Stefan Barcava's The Prisoners (1953, Schiller Theater ), secretary in Camus ' The State of Siege (1953, Schiller Theater ) and Pia in Ugo Bettis The Goat Island (1954, Schlossparktheater). Later roles were the title character in Gorkis Wassa Schelesnowa , Mrs. John in Hauptmann's Die Ratten , Mrs. Venable in Tennessee Williams ' Suddenly Last Summer , Mrs. Vockerath in Hauptmann's Lonely People , the old woman in Thomas Bernhard's A Feast for Boris and the title character in Sternheims The Marquise of Arcis .

In addition, caretaker worked in feature films, television games and series, most recently in the ZDF crime series Zwei Brüder . Caretaker was also a radio play speaker at RIAS Berlin. She lived in Munich.

Her urn was buried in the grave of her ex-husband Carl-Heinz Schroth in the north cemetery in Munich.

Filmography

theatre

Radio plays (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth according to the obituary notice in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of February 4, 2012 ; other sources incorrectly state June 12 or 1910 as the year of birth.
  2. ↑ Actress Ruth Hausmeister died on rbb online, accessed February 4, 2012: The actress Ruth Hausmeister is dead. As it became known on Friday, Hausmeister died on Wednesday at the age of 99 in Munich, where she last lived.
  3. ↑ This information according to Kürschner's Biographical Theater Handbook (1956) is opposed to the information on her vita according to agentur-dietrich.de. Accordingly, as a non-Aryan, she was banned from performing in Germany from 1939 to 1945 and went to St. Gallen in Switzerland to survive.
personal data
SURNAME Caretaker, Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 2012
Place of death Munich