Ruth Hellberg
Ruth Hellberg , née Gribbohm (born November 2, 1906 in Berlin ; † April 26, 2001 in Feldafing ), was a German actress and voice actress .
Life
The illegitimate daughter of the director and theater manager Fritz Holl and the actress and theater college teacher Margit Hellberg (bourgeois: Margarethe Gribbohm) made her debut at the Landestheater Meiningen in 1923 after attending drama school . She then went to the Holtorf Theater Company as a stage actress , where she first appeared as the viola in Shakespeare's Was ihr wollt . In the same year she became a member of the German Stage Members' Cooperative (GDBA). This was followed by theater engagements with Erich Ziegel at the Hamburger Kammerspiele (where she met her colleague Gustaf Gründgens ), with Otto Falckenberg at the Münchener Kammerspiele, in Königsberg, Leipzig, Vienna and from 1938 to 1945 under the management of Gustaf Gründgens at the Berlin State Theater . Her daughter Christine, who died early, came from a liaison with the actor Oskar Homolka , and her son Andreas came from her connection with Fritz Landshoff (who published the novel Mephisto in 1936 in exile in Amsterdam , in which Klaus Mann portrayed his ex-brother-in-law Gustaf Gründgens). Her only marriage was in 1934 with the actor and director Wolfgang Liebeneiner , who divorced her in 1944 in order to marry the actress Hilde Krahl .
In 1933 Ruth Hellberg made her debut as a film actress in the production What do men know . She had her greatest success in 1938 under the direction of her husband Wolfgang Liebeneiner with Yvette . She played alongside Zarah Leander ( Heimat ), Heinrich George ( Der Postmeister ) and Paul Hartmann ( Bismarck ).
After the Second World War , Ruth Hellberg worked primarily as a theater actress, including in Stuttgart, Wiesbaden, Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Bochum and Munich. She played her last film role in 1991 alongside Karin Baal in In the Circle of Love .
In addition, she has worked extensively in dubbing since the mid-1930s and lent her voice to internationally known colleagues such as Vivien Leigh (including in Caesar and Cleopatra and Anna Karenina ), Myrna Loy ( midnight peaks ), Elisabeth Bergner (including Katharina the Great and The Great Lie ), Helen Hayes (in her Oscar- winning role in Airport ), Jeanne Moreau ( Do women have to be like that? ) And Martha Scott in Ben Hur .
Ruth Hellberg died on April 26, 2001 at the age of 94 in Feldafing. Her grave is in the Dahlem cemetery in Berlin (field 008-144).
Filmography (selection)
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Synchronous rollers (selection)
| actress | Film / series | role |
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| Alida Valli | Maturing girls | Anna Campolmi |
| Edith Evans | The pill was to blame for everything | Lady Roberta |
| Elisabeth Bergner | The tsar's courier | Marfa Strogoff |
| Helen Cherry | The night started in the morning | Helen Armstrong |
| Martha Scott | Ben Hur | Miriam |
Radio plays (selection)
- 1951: Günter Eich : Dreams - Director: Irmfried Wilimzig ( original radio play - HR )
- 1954: Dylan Thomas : Unter dem Milchwald (Miss Price) - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn (original radio play - NWDR Hamburg )
- 1966: Nathalie Sarraute : The Lie - Director: Heinz von Cramer (radio play - SDR / BR / RB )
literature
- Thomas Blubacher : "I don't complain, I scold". Ruth Hellberg. A century of theater . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen [2018], ISBN 978-3-8353-3254-6 ( review )
Web links
- Ruth Hellberg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ruth Hellberg at filmportal.de
- Ruth Hellberg in the German dubbing file
- Pictures by Ruth Hellberg In: Virtual History
- Literature by and about Ruth Hellberg in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.steffi-line.de |
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 569.
- ↑ German synchronous files. In: www.synchronkartei.de. Retrieved October 5, 2016 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hellberg, Ruth |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gribbohm, Ruth (maiden name); Hellberg-Liebeneiner, Ruth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress and voice actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 2, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 26, 2001 |
| Place of death | Feldafing |