Sigrid Roth

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Sigrid Roth (* 6. September 1928 as Sigrid Ingeborg evil in Kiel ) is a German actress and writer .

Life

Sigrid Roth is the daughter of a Thuringian-born sack manufacturer and a Bulgarian-born mother as well as the granddaughter of the lawyer Ilija Balaktschieff (1863-1954), who was Minister of Justice under Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria before the First World War . She grew up in Hamburg and Würzburg , among others . Before graduating from school in Hamburg in March 1947, she took her first acting lessons from Karl Wüstenhagen , followed by private lessons from Wilhelm Kürten in April 1947 . The young artist passed her final exam on May 2, 1949. At this time she founded the theater without stage troupe with a few young actors and went on tour through northern Germany in 1949 with the play Scampolo by Dario Niccodemi , in which she played the title role. Another tour followed with the play Max and Moritz .

Through her young fellow actor Ulrich Thein, she made contact in 1950 with the director of the Deutsches Theater Berlin , Wolfgang Langhoff , who initially engaged her for the play The Surgeon by Alexander Kornejtschuk . In it she took on the role of Maja. The great success earned her a two-year contract, which has been extended several times. Overall, she belonged to this house from September 1, 1951 to August 31, 1955. During this time, Sigrid Roth, preferably employed in the field of sentimental and naive, played Marija Antonowna in Gogol's Der Auditor , Angélique in Molière's The Imaginary Sick , Dunja Baburina in Fernamt ... please report the Mela in The Moral of Frau Dulski, Clara in Shaw's Pygmalion, a bourgeois girl in Goethe's Faust , the Hero in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and the hyacinth in A hen party . Besides Langhoff, her directors also included Curt Bois , Rudolf Wessely and Ernst Legal .

At the same time, offers from DEFA were added. Sigrid Roth made her film debut in 1952 with the functionary's daughter Gerda Schramm in the tendentious crime film Secret Files Solvay . After a short film role , she received the offer in the summer of 1955 to take on the silent Kattrin at Helene Weigel's side in the film adaptation of Brecht's mother Courage and her children . Directed by Wolfgang Staudte . The film was not completed for various reasons (including artistic differences).

In August 1957 Sigrid Roth moved to Hamburg with her husband, the Austrian actor Hans Less , and their son Kay . There she received a follow-up engagement from the Junge Theater, later the Ernst Deutsch Theater , and appeared in the play The Fox and the Grapes based on the eponymous fable by Aesop . A little later she was hired by the then head of the radio play department of Radio Bremen , Oswald Döpke , for a radio play. After that, she devoted herself mainly to raising her two sons.

Since the beginning of the 1990s, Sigrid Roth has also distinguished herself as a book author. Released in 1993 ... and the flower has fallen off , a record of the death of her mother, in 2001 the neighborhood satire Street Festival in Poplar Avenue and in 2006 the children's book Flamme und Swatti .

Filmography

  • 1952: Solvay secret files
  • 1953: The King in Thule (short film, prickly animal production)
  • 1955: Mother Courage and her children (unfinished)

Works

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. 619.
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1439.

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personal data
SURNAME Roth, Sigrid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uebel, Sigrid Ingeborg (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel