Sonja Ziemann

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Sonja Ziemann, 2006

Sonja Alice Selma Toni Ziemann (born February 8, 1926 in Eichwalde ; † February 17, 2020 in Munich ) was a German actress , dancer and singer . In the 1950s she was one of the most popular actresses in Germany , often cast alongside her colleague Rudolf Prack . The homeland films Schwarzwaldmädel and Grün ist die Heide are among her greatest successes .

life and work

Sonja Ziemann was born as the daughter of the tax advisor Otto Ziemann. At the age of ten she began studying dance at Tatjana Gsovsky's dance school in Berlin, and in 1941 she made her first appearances as a ballerina . At about the same time she began training at the UFA drama school. From 1942, Ziemann, who had been discovered by the director Peter Paul Brauer , took on her first small film roles. Her first films were A Gust of Wind (1942) and The Jungfrau von Babelsberg (1941/1942). She made other films during the Second World War. After the end of the war, she was able to continue her career with films such as Sag 'die Truth (1946) and Herzkönig (1947), both directed by Helmut Weiss .

Ziemann became known through numerous film successes in the 1950s, above all the operetta adaptation Schwarzwaldmädel (1950) and the home film Grün ist die Heide (1951). Both films each attracted over 15 million viewers to the cinemas and shaped the style of the homeland film genre, which was popular during this period. Ziemann herself never wanted to be committed to the role of the Black Forest girl because she valued other of her films more.

For a while, Ziemann and her fellow actor Rudolf Prack , at whose side she appeared in 10 films, were considered a dream couple in German film. Sonja Ziemann's fame was so high that she embodied herself in Helmut Käutner's film Die Zürcher Verlobung in 1957 . In order to break away from the image of the “nice girl next door”, Ziemann played a more serious role in the Polish-German film drama The Eighth Day of the Week by Aleksander Ford in 1958 . This was followed by character roles for Ziemann in films like dogs, do you want to live forever and people in the hotel . Occasionally she also appeared in international productions, for example alongside Richard Widmark in the spy film Geheimewege (1960) and in the star-studded war film Die Brücke von Remagen (1969). After 1970, Ziemann was only seen occasionally in front of the television camera, most recently in 1997 in two episodes of the television series Park Hotel Stern . She also had theater appearances in plays by Frank Wedekind and Tennessee Williams .

Ziemann family grave

Private life

Ziemann was married three times. The first marriage between 1953 and 1956 with the Wiesbaden stocking manufacturer Rudolf Hambach had a son named Pierre, who died of a tumor in 1970 at the age of only 16 . From 1961 to 1968 she was married to the Polish writer Marek Hłasko , who died of an overdose of sleeping pills shortly after the divorce. Her third marriage to actor and director Charles Regnier lasted from 1989 until his death in 2001.

Sonja Ziemann lived for many years at Tegernsee in Bavaria , in Lugano and St. Moritz . In 2006 she appeared again on a talk show , the ARD broadcast Beckmann , for the first time in a long time . In 2011 she was interviewed for the documentary Germaine Damar - Der tanzende Stern . She died in February 2020 at the age of 94 in a senior citizens' home in Munich, where she last lived. Her grave is on the forest cemetery Zehlendorf in the Berlin district of Nikolassee (field 013–153).

Filmography

movie theater

watch TV

  • 1958: The Defendant (TV movie)
  • 1963: Curd Jürgens tells ... (The woman by my side)
  • 1965: Madeleine and Manouche (TV movie)
  • 1965: The Life of Horace AW Tabor (TV movie)
  • 1967: Josephine (TV movie)
  • 1967: Love Stories (TV series, an episode)
  • 1970: Everyone had turned away (TV movie)
  • 1970: Merry Christmas (TV movie)
  • 1971: the knife
  • 1973: The Commissioner (TV series, episode 61: The violin player)
  • 1977: The Beast (TV movie)
  • 1996: Good Morning, Mallorca (TV series, one episode)
  • 1997: Park Hotel Stern (TV series, two episodes)
  • 2011: Germaine Damar - The dancing star (DVD documentation)

Theater roles (selection)

Books

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rüdiger Klausmann: The youth prevail. In: Bambi.de. October 4, 1950, archived from the original on March 28, 2019 ; accessed on April 27, 2020 .
  2. ^ Sonja Ziemann - Munzinger biography. Retrieved June 11, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Sonja Ziemann. In: Steffi-Line.de. August 2018, accessed April 27, 2020 .
  4. ^ Sonja Ziemann - Munzinger biography. Retrieved June 11, 2020 .
  5. ^ A b Lena Zander, Daniel Cremer: "Black Forest Girl" died in Munich. Sonja Ziemann is dead. In: Bild.de. February 18, 2020, accessed April 27, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Sonja Ziemann. In: Prisma.de. Retrieved April 27, 2020 .
  7. ↑ a b Sonja Ziemann. The “Black Forest Girl” turns 90. In: Stern.de. February 7, 2016, accessed April 27, 2020 (90th birthday biography).
  8. ^ Mourning the "Black Forest Girl". Sonja Ziemann died. In: Tagesschau.de. February 19, 2020, accessed April 27, 2020 .
  9. ^ The grave of Sonja Ziemann. In: knerger.de. Klaus Nerger, accessed on April 27, 2020 .
  10. ^ Theater program Tourneetheater Basel, April 1969.
personal data
SURNAME Ziemann, Sonja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ziemann, Sonja Alice Selma Toni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, dancer and singer
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Eichwalde , Germany
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 2020
Place of death Munich , Germany