Ursula Bode (actress)

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Ursula Bode , also Ursula Rudolph-Bode , (born February 1, 1922 in Dresden ; † August 18, 2018 in Munich ) was a German actress and teacher .

Life

Ursula Bode grew up in the Sudetenland . After the family moved to Dresden, she first graduated from high school in her hometown of Dresden. She then took acting lessons from the well-known actress and acting teacher Lucie Höflich .

For the 1944 season she was hired as a beginner at the Stadttheater Freiberg , but could no longer take up her engagement due to the closure of all German theaters for the summer of 1944 ordered by Joseph Goebbels . She was then committed to general war action in a Dresden printer. After the air raids on Dresden , she fled to her sister in Tábor in Bohemia in the spring of 1945 , in what was then the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , and later to relatives in Linz on the Danube .

After the Second World War she started as an actress. She received her first engagement at the Schiller Theater in Ludwigsburg . She played there u. a. 1947 the title role in Kleist's play Das Käthchen von Heilbronn . When the theater had to close after the currency reform , Bode went to Munich with her husband, the actor and director Manfred Rudolph , with whom she was engaged in Ludwigsburg, to start a new professional life . Rudolph got a position as assistant director at the Bavarian State Theater . In the following years, Bode had stage engagements in Munich, at the Landestheater Coburg and at the Stadttheater Würzburg . Her big stage roles included u. a. also Luise in Cabal and Love .

At the Bavarian State Theater she was seen in several, mostly smaller roles. In the 1951/52 season she appeared at the Bavarian State Theater in October 1951 in the first performance of the play Santa Cruz by Max Frisch . She had other roles there as the chambermaid Rose in The Conspiracy of Fiesco in Genoa (premiere: October 1951), as the sister of St. Charles in The gifted fear by Georges Bernanos (premiere: November 1951), as Yvonne in the play The Great Abc by Marcel Pagnol (premiere: January 1952) and as a lady-in-waiting in A Winter's Tale (premiere: March 1952). In the 1952/53 season she played the role of Fanny Mell in the comedy The Concert by Hermann Bahr (July 1953) at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel . In the 1959/60 season she appeared again in Shakespeare's late work Ein Wintermärchen at the Bavarian State Theater ; this time she took on the role of chambermaid Emilia in a new production of the play by Günther Lüders , which premiered in October 1959 at the Cuvilliés Theater .

Bode played, among others, in the films On the subject, Schätze (1968), The job (1971) and Paragraph 218 - We have an abortion, Mr. Public Prosecutor (1971). In the pseudo-documentary sex film interspersed with interviews, Erotik im Beruf - What every HR manager likes to conceal (1971), she was seen as "Miss Spannholz".

In 1957 she also took part in the radio play Der veruntreute Himmel based on the novel by Franz Werfel and directed by Heinz-Günter Stamm, produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk .

Bode worked as a stage and film actress in Munich until the 1960s. At the age of 50 years, Bode, started after her husband had lost his job at the Bavarian State Theater, a teaching degree in German and English . She taught as an English teacher in public schools, first near Augsburg , later in Maisach . At the same time, she supervised secondary school Abitur courses at the Adult Education Center in Munich . From 1975 she taught in the then newly offered senior citizens' program at the VHS Munich. At the age of 90, she still taught three senior courses at the VHS Munich and also gave private lessons. In 2015, at the age of 93, she was still teaching at the VHS Munich. At the time she was the oldest lecturer at the VHS Munich.

Her husband Manfred Rudolph, who later headed the Munich drama studio, formerly Zinner Studio, until 2002 , died on November 29, 2010 in Munich. The marriage had two children. Bode lived in her own apartment in Munich until she was 92 . In 2015, at the age of 93, she moved to a senior citizens' home in Munich.

Radio plays

  • 1950: Prince Friedrich von Homburg
  • 1957: The misappropriated sky

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In printed reference works, the incorrect year of birth 1928 is given several times. a. Piet Hein Honig, Hanns-Georg Rodek : 100001. The show business encyclopedia of the 20th century. Showbiz-Data-Verlag, Villingen-Schwenningen 1992, ISBN 3-929009-01-5 , p. 107, also Paul S. Ulrich: Biographical Directory for Theater, Dance and Music / Biographical Index for Theater, Dance and Music . Berlin publishing house. Arno Spitz GmbH. 1997. p. 194. ISBN 978-3-87061-479-9
  2. ↑ Obituary notice Ursula Rudolph-Bode , Süddeutsche Zeitung of September 22, 2018
  3. ↑ a b c d Foreign languages ​​as a fitness program . Internet presence of Bavarian television . Article dated May 24, 2015. Retrieved October 15, 2016
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n 92-year-old English teacher Ursula Rudolph Don't worry be happy . In: Berliner Zeitung of October 30, 2014. Retrieved October 15, 2016
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l The age of 92 is far from over. In: Donaukurier from August 20, 2014. Retrieved October 15, 2016
  6. ↑ ... then they played again. The Bavarian State Theater 1946–1986 . Page 188/189. Munich 1986. ISBN 3-765-42059-X
  7. ↑ To the point, sweetheart review
  8. ↑ To the point, sweetheart entry for the film on www.cineman.de
  9. ↑ The misappropriated heaven HörDat (No. 9)
  10. ^ Prince Friedrich von Homburg ARD Radio Festival
  11. ^ The embezzled sky production BR 1957; Fischer Theater Verlag
personal data
SURNAME Bode, Ursula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rudolph-Bode, Ursula (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 18th August 2018
Place of death Munich