Susanne Wisten

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Susanne Ruth Wisten (born September 22, 1924 in Stuttgart ) is a German actress .

Life

Susanne Wisten was born as the daughter of the Jewish actor, director and theater director Fritz Wisten and his non-Jewish wife, the actress Trude Widmann . Another, younger daughter emerged from the marriage, Eva Stahl-Wisten (* 1930), later a writer and theater scholar at the Berlin Academy of the Arts . Susanne Wisten initially took private acting lessons from the actor and director Ernst Legal from 1945 to 1946 . From 1946 to 1948 she attended the drama school of the Deutsches Theater Berlin , where she was trained by Agnes Windeck , Wolf Trutz and Gerda Müller .

She made her stage debut in 1949 as Fortuna in the Nestroy -Posse Lumpazivagabundus at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm . From 1949 to 1954 she was a permanent member of the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm. In 1949 she worked there alongside Marga Legal in the world premiere of the play Der Fall Paul Eszterag by Alexander Gergely . Other roles there were initially in the 1949/50 season, the woman Grumbach in Hauptmann's revolutionary drama Florian Geyer and the satisfaction in Raimund's magic tale The Farmer as a Millionaire . In 1950 she appeared as Princess Eboli in Don Karlos at the Städtische Bühnen Bonn . In the 1952/53 season she was Berta, the daughter of the Republican Verrina, under the direction of her father in Schiller's early work The Fiesco Conspiracy in Genoa alongside Rüdiger Renn and Lothar Firmans .

From 1954 to the beginning of the sixties (1960/61) she then had an engagement at the Berliner Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz . In April 1954 she played the role of Gertrud Stauffacher in Schiller's Wilhelm Tell in the opening performance of the Volksbühne after the reconstruction. This was followed by Adelina in Schiller's Turandot (premiere: February 1955, director: Rochus Gliese ) and Julia in The Fiesco Conspiracy in Genoa (premiere: November 1955, director: Fritz Wisten). In the 1957/58 season she took part in a new production of the Hauptmann drama Die Weber . In the 1959/60 season she was Lady Macbeth in a production by Ernst Kahler . During the season, productions of the Lumpazivagabund and Die Troerinnen with Wisten in the leading roles followed.

She also performed with partners such as Alexander Hegarth , Armin Mueller-Stahl and Harry Hindemith on the stage of the Theater im III. Stock up in various musical and literary programs dedicated to jazz , the singer Billie Holiday and what was then known as "Neger lyric".

At the end of the sixties / beginning of the seventies, Wisten made several guest appearances at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin under the direction of Kurt Hübner . a. as mother Riekchen in the world premiere of Reinhard Baumgart's play Jettchen Gebert's story (1977/78 season), with which she also appeared at the Mülheimer Theatertage , and in Rolf Hochhuth's drama Ärztinnen (1980/81 season).

Wisten also worked for television since the early 1960s. On television in the GDR she was seen in TV series ( Blaulicht , 1961) and TV films, such as the bear tamer Senta in the circus comedy Die Salinis (1961). Later she also worked in numerous West German TV productions, TV plays , literary films and crime series .

In the 28th episode of the ZDF crime series Der Kommissar (December 1970), she made a guest appearance alongside Herbert Steinmetz as the wife of a shot florist. In the Austrian TV production Before Sunset (1980) based on the play of the same name by Gerhart Hauptmann, she played the mother of the main female character Inken Peters. Wisten also worked for radio and dubbing.

Susanne Wisten was married to the stage and production designer Roman Weyl († 2011). In June 2014, in the presence of Susanne Wisten-Weyl and her sister Eva Wisten, a memorial plaque was unveiled at the house of her father Fritz Wisten in the Berlin district of Berlin-Nikolassee . Wisten and her sister live together in their parents' house in Berlin- Schlachtensee (as of June 2015).

Filmography

  • 1957: The rats (theater recording, Volksbühne Berlin)
  • 1961: Blaulicht : Splitter (TV series, an episode)
  • 1961: The Salinis (TV movie)
  • 1965: Daydreams (TV play)
  • 1966: Bethanien (TV play)
  • 1966: Rasputin (two-part TV series)
  • 1966: I was Schlemihl (TV movie)
  • 1968: Anna Böckler (TV movie)
  • 1969: Peter Brauer (TV movie)
  • 1970: The Commissioner : Three dead travel to Vienna (TV series, one episode)
  • 1971: His Guardian Angel (TV movie)
  • 1973: A Case for Goron (TV Movie)
  • 1975: Tadellöser & Wolff (two-part TV series)
  • 1975: Kommissariat 9 : Debt has short legs (TV series, an episode)
  • 1978: The Two Friends (TV movie)
  • 1980: Before sunset (TV movie, Austria)
  • 1988: Spreepiraten : (TV series, series role)
  • 1998: Game of the day (short film)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c They learned that from Papa: A bust for Fritz Wisten . In: Tagesspiegel from December 11, 2006. Retrieved January 11, 2019.
  2. ^ Theater am Schiffbauerdamm Berlin: "The Paul Eszterag Case" . German photo library . Record 88930941. Retrieved January 11, 2019.
  3. ^ Lothar Firmans . Biography. Retrieved January 11, 2019.
  4. ↑ Season chronicle 1953 to 1960 . Official website of the Volksbühne at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz . Schedule archive. 1953/54 season. Retrieved January 11, 2019.
  5. ↑ Season chronicle 1953 to 1960 . Official website of the Volksbühne at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz . Schedule archive. 1954/55 season. Retrieved January 11, 2019.
  6. ↑ Season chronicle 1953 to 1960 . Official website of the Volksbühne at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz . Schedule archive. 1955/56 season. Retrieved January 11, 2019.
  7. ↑ Season chronicle 1953 to 1960 . Official website of the Volksbühne at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz . Schedule archive. 1957/58 season. Retrieved January 11, 2019.
  8. ↑ Season chronicle 1953 to 1960 . Official website of the Volksbühne at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz . Schedule archive. 1959/60 season. Retrieved January 11, 2019.
  9. ^ Season chronicle 1960 to 1970 . Official website of the Volksbühne at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz . Schedule archive. 1960/61 season. Retrieved January 11, 2019.
  10. ↑ Free Volksbühne Berlin 1980/81. DOCTORS from Hochhuth . Program booklet. Retrieved January 11, 2019.
  11. ↑ Reinhard Baumgart . Official website of the Mülheimer Theatertage. Retrieved January 11, 2019.
  12. ↑ Salinis, THE (1961) . Television of the GDR. Online lexicon of GDR television films, television games and TV productions. Retrieved January 11, 2019.
  13. ↑ classics of German TV game: BETHANY . Production details. Retrieved January 11, 2019.
  14. ↑ Classic of the German television game: RASPUTIN . Production details. Retrieved January 11, 2019.
  15. ^ A classic of the German television game: Ich war Schlemihl . Production details. Retrieved January 11, 2019.
  16. ↑ The crime thriller homepage | The German-language television crime game: A case for Goron . Production details. Retrieved January 11, 2019.
  17. ↑ Classic of the German television game: Before sunset . Production details. Retrieved January 11, 2019.
  18. ↑ a b "Courage and Humanity": Memorial plaque for Fritz Wisten in Nikolassee unveiled . Outskirts News. Online newspaper of the Steglitz district center. Accessed on January 11, 2019.
  19. ^ Fritz Wisten : memorial plaques in Berlin. Retrieved January 11, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Wisten, Susanne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wisten, Susanne Ruth (full name); Wisten-Weyl, Susanne (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart