Ruth Nimbach

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Ruth Nimbach (born September 15, 1916 in Berlin , † 2011 in Berlin) was a German actress .

Live and act

The daughter of the business graduate Adolph Nimbach attended a lyceum and then, in the mid-1930s, trained at the Stern Conservatory and at the drama school of Julia Serda -Junkermann. Ruth Nimbach began her stage career in 1936 at the Alten Theater Leipzig . In 1938 she came to the Kassel State Theater via Osnabrück . From 1940 to 1942 Nimbach played at the Nuremberg City Theater , after which she remained without a permanent engagement until the end of the war in 1945. In 1947 Ruth Nimbach resumed her theater work with a commitment to Berlin's comedy. Since then, the artist has played on various stages in her hometown, including the Hebbel Theater, the Tribune and the Theater am Kurfürstendamm.

In the film, in which Ruth Nimbach made her debut in 1937, which remained largely isolated until the end of the war, the artist did not appear regularly until the beginning of the 1950s. She played all kinds of supporting roles, from the housemaid (in Fahrt ins Glück ) to the princess (in Der Froschkönig ). In the early 1960s, television began to gain importance in Ruth Nimbach's career. Since the mid-80s she had continuous supporting roles in popular ZDF series such as Ein Heim für Tiere , How good that there is Maria and These Drombuschs .

Ruth Nimbach has also worked as a voice actress; Among other things, she was the German voice of Giulietta Masina in the Fellini classics La strada and Die Nights der Cabiria . In the early post-war years she also appeared in radio productions, both in Hamburg (for the NWDR ) and in Berlin (for the RIAS ).

Ruth Nimbach was married to the lawyer Wilhelm Glaubrecht; The actor Frank Glaubrecht emerged from both marriage . She died in 2011 and is buried in the Berlin Zehlendorf cemetery.

Filmography

Radio plays (selection)

  • 1957: Paul Schaaf: For two marks fifty luck. Cheerful little game by Paul Schaaf (Carola) - composition: Heinrich Riethmüller , director: Ivo Veit ( RIAS Berlin)
  • 1962: Thierry : Pension Spreewitz ( Mr. Dünnbier, der Schläger , episode 116, first broadcast July 7, 1962) (Fräulein Krell) - Director: Ivo Veit (RIAS Berlin)
  • 1975: Erich Jakob: Bruno Briese's brides. Back then it was - Stories from old Berlin (Bruno Briese) (Story No. 23 in 10 episodes) (Waitress Wanda) - Director: Ivo Veit (RIAS Berlin)

literature

  • Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 524.
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 1211.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to the film archive Kay Less; other sources give the year 1918
  2. ↑ Private journalistic research
  3. ↑ Thomas Bräutigam: Stars and their German voices. Lexicon of voice actors, Schüren Verlag 2009, p. 105
personal data
SURNAME Nimbach, Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH 2011
Place of death Berlin , Federal Republic of Germany