Walburga Gmür
Ida Marianne Walburga Gmür (born April 23, 1902 in Weimar , † December 9, 1974 in Zurich ) was a Swiss actress .
Career
Walburga Gmür was the daughter of the St. Gallen painter, singer and actor Rudolf Gmür (1857–1921). Walburga made her debut as a stage actress at Elisabeth Bergner's side and was a. a. under contract with Erwin Piscator . Guest tours have taken her to Germany, the Balkans and the Soviet Union . Having become unemployed due to the difficult political situation in Germany, she went to Switzerland.
She continued her theater career there with guest performances at the Schauspielhaus Zurich , the Stadttheater Luzern and the Bernhard Theater in Zurich, as well as with other guest tours. Films in Swiss dialect films followed. It was mostly cast in small and supporting roles. The engagement at the Landestheater Darmstadt and at the Städtische Bühnen Dortmund led to the return to Germany.
Walburga Gmür had been Max Haufler's partner from 1935 , whom she married in 1951. The marriage lasted until 1964.
Filmography
- 1931: enemy in blood
- 1939: Farinet or the wrong money (in Germany: Farinet - the gentle and the wild freedom ; OT: Farinet ou l'or de la montagne )
- 1941: The little human Matthias
- 1941: Extra train - Chum lueg d'Heimet a
- 1941: Me mues stop talk to me, Emil!
- 1941: Romeo and Juliet in the village
- 1941: De Hotelportier
- 1942: De Chegelkönig (in Germany: The Cone King )
- 1942: The shot from the pulpit
- 1944: Poste restante 212
- 1944: Marie-Louise
- 1947: Matto rules (in Germany: § 51 - Psychiatrist Dr. Laduner )
- 1948: After the storm
- 1951: Truth or Fraud?
- 1951: The spirit of Allenwil
- 1952: Palace Hotel (in Germany: Palast-Hotel )
- 1952: Heidi
- 1953: The Venus from Tivoli
- 1953: M Junior family
- 1955: Heidi and Peter
- 1955: Police Wäckerli
- 1956: S'Waisechind from Engelberg
- 1959: Behind the seven tracks
- 1960: The gentleman with the black bowler hat
- 1960: Anne Bäbi Jowäger - Part I: How Jakobli comes to a woman
- 1961: Anne Bäbi Jowäger - Part II: Jakobli and Meyeli
- 1962: The roof over the Chopf
- 1972: the case
literature
- Hervé Dumont : History of Swiss Film - Feature Films 1896–1965 . Swiss Film Archive / Cinémathèque suisse, Lausanne 1987, ISBN 2-88267-001-X .
- Thomas Blubacher : Walburga Gmür . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 725 f.
Web links
- Walburga Gmür in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Walburga Gmür at filmportal.de
- Biography with picture at cyranos.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth register StA Weimar, No. 244/1902
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gmür, Walburga |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gmür, Ida Marianne Walburga |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weimar |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 1974 |
| Place of death | Zurich |