Ursula Herking

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Resting place in Dessau

Ursula Herking (born January 28, 1912 in Dessau ; † November 17, 1974 in Munich ; actually: Ursula Natalia Klein ) was a German actress and cabaret artist .

Life

Ursula Herking was the daughter of the theater actress and singer Lily Herking , who died in the fire of the court theater (today: Altes Theater ) in Dessau on 25/26. January 1922 was killed. After first appearances in Dessau, she went to Berlin in 1928 , but did not pass the entrance examination at the State Drama School . She then took lessons at Leopold Jessner's drama school until 1930 .

She then began her career at the Friedrich Theater in her hometown of Dessau, where she played the pirate Jenny in The Threepenny Opera and the grandmother in Emil and the detectives . In 1933/34 she played at the Staatstheater Berlin and worked in Werner Finck's cabaret Die Katakombe until it was closed in 1935 .

In addition to the tabloid theater , she received numerous film roles from 1933. In her often short, but incisive appearances, she embodied friendly, quick-witted women from the people. After the theater was closed in autumn 1944, she was forced to work in an armaments factory.

After the war she went to Munich and from 1946 was the star in Rudolf Schündler's Munich post-war cabaret Die Schaubude , where Erich Kästner , Axel von Ambesser and Herbert Witt were among the in-house authors. She achieved fame among other things with her interpretation of Kästner's March song in 1945 ( ... | My shoes' are without soles, | and my backpack is my closet, | my furniture is from Poland | and my money is from Dresdner Bank. | ... )

In 1948 she co-founded the theater Die Kleine Freiheit , and in 1956 she belonged to the first generation of the Munich laughing and shooting society . Further stations were, among others, the Kom (m) ödchen in Düsseldorf and the Berlin cabaret Der Rauchfang and Die Hinterbliebenen . She made a name for herself not only in cabaret, but also as a diseuse . Among other things, she can be heard on the record Frivolitäten - 10 Diseusen - 10 Chansons by Polydor. She founded the Nuremberg funnel with Wolfgang Neuss and Wolfgang Müller .

In addition, her film work with batch roles continued unabated, especially as a resolute, often somewhat quirky lady; the only significant role she got in 1955 in the anti-war film Children, Mothers and a General as a courageous mother who in 1945 wants to save her teenage boy who was enthusiastic about the war.

At the theater she played the president in Jacques Deval's A Venus for Milo in 1966 and June Buckridge in Frank Markus' Sister George Must Die in 1967 at Kleine Freiheit . At the Westphalian State Theater in Castrop-Rauxel , she took on the title role in Die Mutter in 1968 and in Rolf Hochhuth's Die Midwife at the Junge Theater Hamburg in 1972 . In 1973/74 she played Winnie in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days in Bern . She had other appearances at the Komödie Berlin and, since the early 1970s, at the Landestheater Tübingen and at the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater in Hamburg. She also appeared in the successful television show Rudi Carrell .

In 1967 she received the Schwabing Art Prize . She was also given a star in the Cabaret Walk of Fame .

In her first marriage, Ursula Herking was married to the industrial manager and later CSU co- founder Johannes Semler . The two children Susanne Hess (1937–2020) and Christian Semler (1938–2013) came from this marriage .

The actress was buried in Munich's Westfriedhof . In 2012, at the instigation of her son Christian, the urn from the grave that had been abandoned in Munich was reburied in the grave of her parents Lily Herking and Willy Klein in Cemetery III in Dessau.

Filmography

Radio plays

Autobiography

  • Ursula Herking, thank you for the flowers. Memories . Heyne, Munich 1973, ISBN 3-453-00473-6 ( Heyne book 5135).

literature

  • Gwendolyn von Ambesser : Show booth magic. History and stories of a legendary cabaret . Verlag Edition AV, Lich / Hessen 2006, ISBN 3-936049-68-8 .
  • Edmund Nick : The literary cabaret. The “Schaubude” 1945–1948. His story in letters and songs . Edited and commented by Dagmar Nick . Allitera Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-86520-026-5 ( edition monacensia ).
  • C. Bernd Sucher (Ed.): Theater Lexikon . Authors, directors, actors, dramaturges, stage designers, critics. By Christine Dössel and Marietta Piekenbrock with the assistance of Jean-Claude Kuner and C. Bernd Sucher. 2nd Edition. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-423-03322-3 , p. 289 f.
  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, cutters, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 3: F - H. John Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 643 f.

Web links

Commons : Ursula Herking  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schwabinger Art Prize on München.de (accessed on July 26, 2011)
  2. ↑ Photographs of both graves of Ursula Herking on knerger.de
personal data
SURNAME Herking, Ursula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klein, Ursula Natalia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and cabaret artist
BIRTH DATE January 28, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 1974
PLACE OF DEATH Munich