Walfriede Schmitt

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Walfriede Schmitt (born March 9, 1943 in Berlin-Neukölln ) is a German actress .

Life

Schmitt is the daughter of the dramaturge Walter Schmitt and the actress Elfriede Florin . She is the grandmother of Ella Zirzow . Her professional career began in 1966 at the State Theater in Parchim. She is a prominent theater actress and was part of the Volksbühne Berlin ensemble , which she left in 1994 after 22 years. At the theater she worked with directors such as Brigitte Soubeyran , Horst Bonnet , Benno Besson , Fritz Marquardt , Heiner Müller , Matthias Langhoff , Frank Castorf , Christoph Schlingensief and Johann Kresniktogether. Numerous cinema and television films also testify to her versatility as an actress. Schmitt is a volunteer ambassador for the Children's Hospice Central Germany Nordhausen Foundation in Tambach-Dietharz.

For two years she was a member of the Independent Women's Association founded in December 1989 . During the turn of 1989 she was elected chairman of the art union in the FDGB . In 1989 she also played a key role in the emerging East Berlin women's movement and, as a member of the Volksbühne ensemble, ensured that on December 3, 1989 the founding event of the Independent Women's Association of the GDR with over 1000 women could take place there. At this event she read the “Manifesto for an autonomous women's movement” written by the cultural scientist Ina Merkel .

Schmitt lives in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Filmography

Radio plays

Honors

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See information on further activities in: Press release of the State of Berlin of March 7, 2003 about the awarding of the Berlin Women's Prize to her
  2. ↑ WHAT DOES. Walfriede Schmitt information about her life in the Berliner Zeitung from July 2009
  3. ↑ berlin.de
personal data
SURNAME Schmitt, Walfriede
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Neukölln