Suse Graf
Suse Graf , also Suse Graf-Bender (born February 21, 1915 in Nuremberg ; † October 2009 ) was a German actress .
Live and act
The civil servant's daughter grew up in Nuremberg and Berlin , where she attended school up to the lower level . Since her parents had initially denied her an acting career, Suse Graf used her talent for drawing and trained as a fashion illustrator. Her father, who had long rejected her wish to act, one day met the UFA production manager Karl Ritter , who tested Suse Graf for her film suitability. After a few language exercises and studying several roles, Suse Graf was finally brought in front of the camera in 1935.
She played the title role in her first film Hilde Petersen poste restante . In the same year, the young female actress appeared alongside Heinrich George in the Ibsen film adaptation of pillars of society . In 1943 Ritter gave her the female lead in his last Reich German film directors, the propaganda film Besatzung Dora and the comedy Sommernächte . Suse Graf was also cast in the almost simultaneously produced Ritter production Love Letters .
Suse Graf has only rarely accepted a permanent theatrical engagement; a. in the last imperial German season 1943/44 as a member of the ensemble of the Berlin soldiers' stage (Theater im Wehrkreis III (Berlin) ). After the end of the war, the artist hardly appeared in public and lived temporarily as Suse Graf-Langenheim in Oberaudorf in Upper Bavaria . In the 60s and 70s she returned as Suse Graf-Bender two more times in front of the camera, including in the famous young film production Schonzeit für Füchse , where she played Christian Doermer's mother. Her death in autumn 2009 went almost completely unnoticed.
Filmography (complete)
- 1935: Hilde Petersen in poste restante
- 1935: Sustaining society
- 1935: Hangover lamp
- 1936: Uncle Bräsig (1936)
- 1937: When you have a mother-in-law
- 1937: With a sealed order
- 1938: The pious lie
- 1938: Prussian love story
- 1943: love letters
- 1943: Occupation of Dora
- 1943: summer nights
- 1965: Closed season for foxes
- 1973: Lemmi and the Schmöker . Episode: Haunted - Haunted?
Web links
- Short biography in the News-Welt-Blatt from 1936
- Report in Film Week No. 8 on February 22, 1939
- Suse Graf in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Suse Graf at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to Honig / Rodek: 100.001. The show business encyclopedia of the 20th century, Villingen-Schwenningen 1992 is her year of birth in 1912
- ^ Obituary by Rainer Heinz in: Filmdienst, No. 18, 2010, p. 17
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Count, Suse |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Graf-Bender, Suse (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg , German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 2009 |