Vilma Bekendorf

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Vilma Bekendorf , also Wilma Bekendorf and Wilma Reimann-Bekendorf (born July 26, 1910 - † June 5, 2005 in Bad Pyrmont , Lower Saxony ), was a German dancer , actress and author .

Life

Vilma Bekendorf received her dance training in the 1920s and from 1930 appeared as a singer and actress at Hamburg theaters for three years: at the Thalia-Theater (also in the choir), the Richter-Bühnen and at the Hamburg Volksoper. At that time she lived in Hamburg's Eimsbütteler Strasse 19. In 1933 she got an engagement at the Hamburg Operettenhaus . In 1933, Vilma Bekendorf moved to Berlin, where she made her film debut in the same year, directed by Gustaf Gründgens in the comedy The Finances of the Grand Duke . By 1939 she appeared in at least 16 films, mostly for UFA and mostly in supporting roles. In 1939 she married the writer Hans Reimann , ended her film career and moved with him to Bernried in Upper Bavaria . In 1952 she moved with him to Großhansdorf-Schmalenbeck near Hamburg and participated as a co-author on several new publications.

Filmography

  • 1933: The Grand Duke's finances
  • 1934: ... with me this evening
  • 1934: master or servant?
  • 1934: Vacation from me
  • 1934: I don't know you and I love you
  • 1934: Old comrades
  • 1934: Charley's aunt
  • 1935: Amphitryon - happiness comes from the clouds
  • 1936: Boccaccio
  • 1936: The Ugly Duckling (short film)
  • 1936: It's about my life
  • 1936: Men before marriage
  • 1936: The shy Casanova
  • 1936: Smutje's sister
  • 1937: The beloved voice
  • 1939: Miss
  • 1939: The hundred marks are gone

Books (selection)

  • The ones from the movie. A stroll through the German film world, as it has been offering since 1948 . Stuttgart 1948/49. (Cooperation)
  • Alexander Lernet-Holenia : Novellas . Gauting: Bavaria-Verlag, 1948. Therein: Vilma Bekendorf-Reimann: The poet Lernet-Holenia
  • Hans Reimann and Kurt Wolff with Ullstein, Otto Wallburg, Doktor Wurm (Die Schmiede), Paul Steegemann, Siegfried Jacobsohn . Private print 1970

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the German Stage Yearbook: Theater History Year and Address Book, Volume 44, (1933)