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Viola Wahlen , also known as Viola Rieschel , (born March 15, 1917 in Hamburg ; † January 4, 2018 ) was a German actress and voice actress .

family

Viola Wahlen was the daughter of the consul Heinrich Rudolph Wahlen and his wife Thyra. Her sister was the psychologist Ingeborg Edle und Freifrau von Plotho. Viola Wahlen was married to the director, presenter, theater manager and later administrative director of the Frankfurt City Theaters, Hanspeter Rieschel . Of the daughters, Susanne Rieschel became known as a television announcer, Claudia Rieschel as an actress.

Education and career

Viola Wahlen has been a dancer at the Hamburg State Opera since 1937 . A little later she received her artistic training from Helmuth Gmelin and Eduard Marks in Hamburg. At the same time Wolfgang Borchert also took acting lessons from Gmelin . In the late war years, 1942 to 1944, she worked in Innsbruck . Together with Borchert, the actress Lotte Manzart and the radio editor Ruth Malchow, she founded the backyard theater "Die Komödie" on November 1, 1945, which had to close again just under a month later. Nevertheless, the theater remained the center of her artistic work. For example, Viola Wahlen took part in the 1947 world premiere of Hans Henny Jahnn's Armut, Wichtum, Mensch und Tier at the Altona House of Youth. At the beginning of the 1950s she also appeared at other Hamburg venues such as the Theater im Zimmer .

Occasionally she took on roles in television productions by well-known directors such as Thomas Engel ( My Niece Susanne ), Oscar Fritz Schuh ( Adrienne Mésurat ) and Wolfgang Liebeneiner ( A consistent woman ).

In addition, she worked extensively as a speaker for radio and film dubbing . For example, in 1949 she worked as Dr. Kay Wiseman starred in the now-lost NWDR adaptation of Francis Durbridge's Paul Temple and the Gregory affair . As a voice actress she lent her voice and a. Dulcie Gray in Strong Hearts , Anne Crawford in That's Life, and Kim Hunter in The Mask Down .

In March 2017 she celebrated her 100th birthday.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1964: My niece Susanne
  • 1969: Adrienne Mésurat
  • 1969: Isn't that all of us?
  • 1969: theft
  • 1971: a consistent woman
  • 1975: The mouse

Radio plays (selection)

  • 1946: The Worpsweder Hirtenspiel - Director: Günther Schnabel ( NWDR Hamburg )
  • 1947: The Lost - Director: Ludwig Cremer (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1947: Also a small town - Director: Gottfried Lange (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1947: A day like tomorrow: January 29, 1947 - Director: Ludwig Cremer (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1948: The San Luis Rey Bridge - Author: Thornton Wilder ; Director: Gustav Burmester (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1948: Purge in Ithaka - Director: Hans Quest (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1949: fully paid - director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1949: Goethe tells his life ; Part 3: Student in Leipzig - Director: Ludwig Cremer (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1949: The Strange Adventure of Mr. Bichel - Director: Kurt Reiss (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1949: Women without a Harbor - Director: Gustav Burmester (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1949: Paul Temple and the Gregory affair - directed by Eduard Hermann and Fritz Schröder-Jahn (NWDR Cologne / Hamburg)
  • 1950: The Desolate Virtue - Director: Kurt Reiss (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1950: is it you? - Director: Hans Gertberg (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1950: 10th wedding anniversary - Director: Detlof Krüger (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1950: Caliban - Director: Otto Kurth (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1950: The Odyssey of Johnny Wren - Director: Kurt Reiss (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1951: Stroll through January - Director: Curt Becker (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1951: Call me - Director: Hans Gertberg (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1952: Fahrwohl, Benjowsky - Director: Gert Westphal (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1953: The appointment calendar - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1953: Four moons of the fool - directed by Wilhelm Semmelroth (NWDR Cologne)
  • 1953: Me and my boss - Director: Günter Siebert ( RB )
  • 1954: The court withdraws to deliberate ; Episode: The bin with the frogs - Director: Gerd Fricke (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1955: The Wega company - Author: Friedrich Dürrenmatt ; Director: Kurt Reiss (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1955: The court withdraws to deliberate; Episode: Without Witnesses - Director: Gerd Fricke (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1955: Vampire case file; 3rd part: Mr. Kaminski tells: The glamor and misery of the Traute Finow - Director: Hans Gertberg (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1955: The court withdraws to deliberate; Episode: The Deadly Syringe - Director: Gerd Fricke (NWDR Hamburg)
  • 1957: We are in the middle of the operation - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn ( NDR )
  • 1959: Brigade mediation - Director: Kurt Reiss (NDR)
  • 1968: The Moon Clock - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn (NDR)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to the theater archive Kay Less
  2. ^ Viola Rieschel: Obituary notice. In: trauer.abendblatt-verbindungen.de. Hamburger Abendblatt , January 20, 2018, accessed on January 20, 2018.
  3. ^ Gordon JA Burgess: The Life and Works of Wolfgang Borchert , Camden House 2003, p. 116
  4. ↑ For the family relationships, see the entry in the Hamburg University Library [1]
  5. ↑ http://allegro.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hans-cgi/hans.pl?t_allegro=x&v_0=IDN&q_0=p27424
  6. ↑ Peter Rühmkorf : Wolfgang Borchert in personal testimonies and photo documents. Rowohlt 1961, p. 114
  7. ↑ Four hours of slow motion. The poet sat on coals , in: Der Spiegel No. 27, 1949, p. 21 f.
  8. ↑ 100 years old
personal data
SURNAME Elections, viola
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rieschel, Viola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and voice actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 2018