Ruth Piepho

Ruth Piepho , actually Ruth Margarete Gerda Piepho (born May 21, 1920 in Dresden ; † August 2, 1996 ) was a German actress , voice actress and radio play speaker .

Life

Piepho received her training from 1941 to 1943 at the Academy for Theater at the Dresden State Theater . She also made her debut in Rose Bernd at the Dresden Academy . As a youthful heroine, lover and character player she worked in Gablonz from 1943 to 1944 , from 1944 to 1945 in Kattowitz / Königshütte , 1945 at the Zehlendorfer Theater Berlin, 1947 to 1948 at the Renaissance theater as well as on the grandstand , the stage of the youth and at the Berlin Volksbühne , 1948 to 1949 exclusively at the Volksbühne, in 1950 again at the stands, from 1953 to 1954 at the Schillertheater and 1954 at the Hebbel Theater and the stands.

She impersonated Adriana in The Comedy of Errors (1948), Vivie in Shaw's wife Warren's trade (1953) and Erie in Kirst's Galgenstrick (1954). She took on an important film role in the DEFA feature film Quartet of Five . For radio she was active in book reviews, school radio , radio plays and readings ( RIAS , NWDR , SFB ). As voice actress, she voiced Gail Russell in Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948), Kathleen Hughes in Outer Space (1953), Virginia Gray in What Heaven Allowed (1956) and Jane Wyatt in The Last Chord (1957).

Filmography

• 1949: Quartet of five
• 1954: my sister and me
• 1954: Lord of life and death
• 1971: Right or Wrong : The Meinberg Case
• 1976: City Directorate: Nocturnal interview

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. 556.

Web links

• Ruth Piepho in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Ruth Piepho at filmportal.de
• Ruth Piepho in the German dubbing file