Traute Richter (actress)

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Edeltraut Antonia Richter (born March 30, 1924 in Alt-Rohlau , Czechoslovakia , † September 15, 1986 in Dresden ) was a German actress. She is one of the 100 important Dresden personalities identified by the Dresdner Neuesten Nachrichten at the end of 2000.

Life

She attended the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna from 1940 to 1942 and received her first engagement at the Dresden State Theater in 1942 . After the theater was closed in 1944, she had to work as an armaments worker in a locksmith's shop. From 1945 to 1946 she helped clear the ruins of the Dresden theater as a rubble woman. - On the night of the bombing on February 13, 1945, she lost her home in Dresden-Altstadt, Lüttichaustraße.

From 1946 to 1949 she worked at the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater in Zittau , from 1949 until her death she was a member of the Dresden State Theater , where she had been an honorary member since 1984.

Richter saw himself as the heiress of Madame de Stael , Caroline Schlegel , Louise Labé and Elizabeth Barrett Browning . She vigorously advocated women's rights based on the principle of "equal pay for equal performance". Since the state power of the former GDR did not comply, it refused z. B. participation in a meeting of the Dresden State Theater on the occasion of May 1, 1972.

In addition to her acting training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar, she received musical training. Her greatest wish was to be on stage in this subject. The Rusalka in Czech by Antonín Dvořák was denied her, only once as Countess von Naschmarkt in the musical of the same name was she able to shine.

For the Dresden painter Ernst Hassebrauk , in the mid-1950s, it stood for a chalk drawing portrait.

In 2000, she was voted one of the “100 Dresdeners of the 20th Century” in the daily newspaper “ Dresdner Latest News ”. - In 2006, Traute-Richter-Strasse ( Lage ) in Dresden-Klotzsche was named after her.

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Her most important stage role, which she played over 300 times, was Mrs. Charlotte von Stein in " A conversation in the Stein house about the absent Herr von Goethe " by Peter Hacks . She embodied this figure in the world premiere on March 20, 1976 in the Small House of the Dresden State Theater .

Other roles were:

Other of the more than 100 roles in her 40 or so years on stage include:

Filmography

Lecturing

She became known in German-speaking countries through her lectures on literary topics, particularly with regard to classical female characters. This includes the lecture series Jewels of World Literature from 1957 to 1970, which she organized and carried out on her own responsibility. The following topics should be mentioned: The Song of Solomon , The Swallow Book by Ernst Toller , the friendship of Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna , The Earthquake in Chili by Heinrich von Kleist , Gaspara Stampa , Marianna Alcofondo , The Plowman and the Death of Johannes von Saaz , Aucassin and Nicolette , the sun song of Akhenaten by Franz von Assisi and finally Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . This episode was ideological censorship of the SED -Stadtleitung Dresden and the concert agency because of a fist quotation from the Easter walk with respect to the Vietnam War ended. Another episode was called Poets' Words - Language of the World . She also held (celebratory) lectures on the occasion of the big birthdays of prominent Germans, for example for Johannes Kepler on the 350th anniversary of his death, for Heinrich Schütz on the 400th birthday, for Georg Friedrich Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach on the 300th birthday. She had to cancel the agreed events for Keppler and Schütz in major West German cities due to a short-term ban on leaving the country. She also gave a commemorative speech for the Neuberin on her 225th birthday at the monument in Dresden-Laubegast.

She also moderated events.

musical

Radio plays

literature

  • Peter Biele : Yes, it has now happened. Trust judges. The Dresden actress in her letters. Volume 1. Dingsda-Verlag, Querfurt 1996, ISBN 3-928498-48-7 .
  • Peter Biele: That's it, my friends. Trust judges. The Dresden actress in her letters. Volume 2. Dingsda-Verlag, Querfurt 1999, ISBN 3-928498-65-7 .
  • Genia Bleier: Unforgettable in most of her 100+ roles. In: Dresdner Latest News . September 26, 2000, p. 13.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Biele: That's it, my friends. Trust judges. The Dresden actress in her letters. Volume 2. Dingsda-Verlag, Querfurt 1999, ISBN 3-928498-65-7 , p. 106 .
  2. ^ Ernst Hassebrauk: Portrait of the trusty judge. 1958, Retrieved June 13, 2018 .
  3. ↑ 100 Dresden residents of the 20th century . In: Dresdner Latest News . Dresdner Nachrichten GmbH & Co. KG, Dresden December 31, 1999, p. 22 .
  4. ↑ Women on the streets (-) signs. Dresden 2007, p. 6 and p. 20
  5. ↑ Peter Biele: That's it, my friends. Trust judges. The Dresden actress in her letters. Volume 2. Dingsda-Verlag, Querfurt 1999, ISBN 3-928498-65-7 , p. 108 .
  6. ↑ Peter Biele: That's it, my friends. Trust judges. The Dresden actress in her letters. Volume 2. Dingsda-Verlag, Querfurt 1999, ISBN 3-928498-65-7 , p. 100 .
  7. ↑ Peter Gunold: 50 years of the Dresden State Operetta - 225 years of musical folk theater in Dresden . Läzer, Weimar 1997, p. 246 .
personal data
SURNAME Judge, dear
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Richter, Edeltraut Antonia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Alt-Rohlau , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1986
Place of death Dresden