Vera Chekhova

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Vera Chekhova (actually Vera Rust; born July 22, 1940 in Berlin ) is a German actress , director and producer .

Life

Vera Chekhova is the daughter of the actress Ada Chekhova and the doctor Wilhelm Rust. Her grandmother was the actress Olga Chekhova , her great-grand-uncle the Russian writer Anton Chekhov . She grew up in Berlin.

Career

After finishing school, Chekhova attended the art academy for a short time to become a stage designer . However, she then decided to become an actor and took lessons with Anne-Marie Hanschke and Ernst Fritz Fürbringer in Munich and with Marlise Ludwig in Berlin. In 1957 she made her debut in the Heinz Erhardt film Witwer with five daughters . She had the first leading role in the film The Girl with the Cat's Eyes . By the 1990s, around 50 other roles followed in film and television.

From 1959, Chekhova played theater at the Free Volksbühne Berlin . Other stage stations included the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and the Basel Theater .

In 1980 she founded Atossa film production together with Vadim Glowna. The company produced Desperado City , which Glowna also directed and which won the Caméra d'Or for best debut film at the Cannes Film Festival in 1981 , and the 1984 documentary Chekhov in my life about the Chekhov artist dynasty.

From the beginning of the 1990s, Chekhova worked primarily as a director of documentaries. She created portraits of Eduard Schewardnadse , Václav Havel , Hans-Dietrich Genscher , Klaus-Maria Brandauer , Katja Riemann , Armin Mueller-Stahl , Anthony Quinn , Michael Ballhaus , as well as of the Taiwanese director Ang Lee and the Iranian filmmakers for various TV stations . Makhmalbaf family .

Private

In the house Freseniusstr. The young Vera Chekhova lived in Munich-Obermenzing in 40 and was visited by Elvis Presley in early March 1959.

When Elvis Presley was stationed in Germany in 1959, the young actress was seen several times together with the singer. In 1960 she had a relationship with Hartmut Reck , from whom her son, the film composer Nikolaus Glowna, comes. She tried in vain to force Reck to marry by court order .

Her mother Ada was killed in a plane crash in Bremen in 1966 . In 1967 Vera Chekhova married her colleague Vadim Glowna ; after more than twenty years, the marriage ended in divorce in the early 1990s. Their son was adopted by Vadim Glowna. In 1971 she participated in the by Alice Schwarzer initiated media campaign " We had an abortion! ". Vera Chekhova is married to the manager and producer Peter Paschek . She lives in Berlin.

Honors

In 1962 she received the Federal Film Prize for best actress for her portrayal of Ulla Wickweber in the film Das Bread of the Early Years and, in 1977, the Golden Camera for her role in the ZDF production Zeit der Senssamkeit .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

literature

  • Renata Helker / Deutsches Theatermuseum Munich: The Chekhovs. Paths to modernity. Henschel Verlag, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-89487-502-X .
  • Renata Helker / Claudia Lenssen: The Chekhov Clan. History of a German-Russian family of artists. Parthas Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-932529-81-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Roth: The ultimate ELVIS IN MUNICH book . Munich 2004, pp. 23, 33. ISBN 3-00-014671-7
  2. ^ Chronicle of Elvis Presley's stay ( memento of July 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) in Germany at www.elvisforever.de; Retrieved June 12, 2011
  3. ^ Elvis in Germany ; Retrieved June 12, 2011
  4. ↑ derwesten.de of July 21, 2015: Vera Chekhova 75 - The woman with cat eyes , accessed on July 22, 2015
  5. ↑ Vera Chekhova in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
personal data
SURNAME Chekhova, Vera
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , German Empire