Tilly Lauenstein

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Tilly Lauenstein (born July 28, 1916 in Bad Homburg before the height , † May 8, 2002 in Potsdam ; actually Mathilde Dorothea Lauenstein ) was a German stage and film actress and voice actress .

Life

stage

After attending school in Bad Homburg, Tilly Lauenstein went to Berlin and completed an acting course there. She received her first theater role at the age of 18 in Stuttgart . She played in numerous theaters and cities in Germany, including the Staatstheater Stuttgart and the Schillertheater . Mainly, however, it operated in Berlin. After the Second World War , she was given her first major role there again, Marie in Georg Büchner's Woyzeck , directed by Wolfgang Langhoff at the Deutsches Theater .

Screen and television

Director Arthur Maria Rabenalt discovered them in 1948 for the film. First she shot Chemistry and Love , an anti-capitalist tabloid piece in the style of screwball comedy , and Das Mädchen Christine for the East German DEFA . Offers for West German productions followed. Here she took on roles in dramas, comedies, crime, mystery and horror films . She is best known to television viewers in the 1960s from the series Der Forellenhof and All my animals . She later worked in the series Ravioli, among others .

synchronization

For decades, Tilly Lauenstein was the dubbing voice of Katharine Hepburn and Ingrid Bergman . Since she began dubbing in 1949, her voice has appeared in over 350 feature films. Well-known actresses such as Simone Signoret , Barbara Stanwyck , Deborah Kerr , Susan Hayward , Lauren Bacall and the English-speaking Marlene Dietrich were spoken by her as well as Lupus , the housekeeper Cornelius Buttons, in the children's series The Grasshopper Island , and Miss Rottenmeier in the anime -Series Heidi and Mania , the ancient witch in the popular Bibi-Blocksberg radio plays and the owl Ula in the radio play series Xanti. In the 1939 film shot but dubbed version first shown in Germany only in December 1953 Gone with the Wind , said Olivia de Havilland with the voice of Tilly Lauenstein. In 1985 she voiced Giulietta Masina in Mrs. Holle and in 1987 Billie Bird as Mrs. Feldman in Police Academy IV. She also spoke the owl on the series When the Animals Left the Forest . One of her last assignments was the dubbing of Gloria Stuart in Titanic .

Other roles:

Movies

Series

Private

Tilly Lauenstein was divorced and had a son, Detlef Lauenstein. Her grandson Jonas Lauenstein is also an actor. After two strokes , she still appeared in stage plays as an 80-year-old. "I'll retire after my death," she said on her 80th birthday. Tilly Lauenstein found her final resting place in the Wilmersdorf cemetery in Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Radio plays

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Actress Tilly Lauenstein passed away at Spiegel Online on July 19, 2002
  2. ↑ https://www.freunde-der-stiftsruine.de/hersfeldpreistraeger.html accessed on August 25, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Lauenstein, Tilly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lauenstein, Mathilde Dorothea (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stage and film actress as well as voice actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 2002
Place of death Potsdam