Winnie Markus
Winnie Markus , actually Winifred Maria Eveline Markus (born May 16, 1921 in Smíchov , Czechoslovakia ; † March 8, 2002 in Munich ), was a German film actress .
Life
Winifred Markus grew up in Prague in a bourgeois family that belonged to the German-speaking population group. She lived in Prague until she was 14 , where her father worked as an export merchant. After attending the English school and taking ballet lessons in Prague, she moved to Vienna , where at the age of 16 she was accepted into the Max Reinhardt Seminar , which she attended for two years. From 1939 to 1945 she was engaged at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna, then in Berlin , where she had brought Heinz Hilpert , and in Munich .
In 1939 she got her first film role in Gustav Ucicky's melodrama Mutterliebe due to Paula Wessely's advocacy. In numerous productions of all genres of the war and post-war period she embodied the distinctive woman, mostly in the leading role. Rudolf Prack and Curd Jürgens were her film partners several times . Subsequently, she shot with greats like Paul Hörbiger , Hans Holt , Willy Birgel , Erich Ponto , OW Fischer , Dieter Borsche or Josef Meinrad .
Shortly before the end of the war, she suffered a serious gunshot wound to her left leg, which a drunk Russian soldier accidentally caused. In 1946 she married the Berlin hotelier Heinz Zellermayer and had a son, Alexander († 1982). After her second marriage in 1959 to the entrepreneur Carl Adolf Vogel (1906-1993), the actress had daughter Diana in 1961. In 1959 she withdrew from the film business and was only seen again on television and in theater guest performances from 1980 after the collapse of her husband's company. During the 1990s she stepped up again as a television actress. She owes her late fame to television series such as Zwei Münchner in Hamburg or Der Bergdoktor .
Winnie Markus died of pneumonia and was buried next to her husband in the cemetery in Tegernsee ( Bavaria ). Two of her closest friends were her fellow actors Mady Rahl and Ilse Werner .
Awards
- Filmband in Gold for many years of excellent work in German film (1986)
- Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (October 6, 1982)
Filmography
- 1939: Mother's love
- 1939: Dismissed without notice (short film)
- 1939: Fire in the ocean
- 1940: The Geierwally
- 1940: Herz drops anchor
- 1940: In the shadow of the mountain
- 1941: The waitress Anna
- 1941: The sold grandfather
- 1941: Brothers fine
- 1941: Small residence
- 1942: Who the gods love
- 1942: Summer love
- 1942: Journey into adventure
- 1943: Tonelli
- 1943: Dangerous spring
- 1944: The Enchanted Day
- 1944: for your sake
- 1945: The old song
- 1944: The strange life
- 1944: Philine
- 1945: love marriage
- 1947: In those days
- 1947: between yesterday and tomorrow
- 1948: Morituri
- 1948: I'll never forget this night!
- 1949: The Bagno convict
- 1950: This man is mine
- 1951: It started at midnight
- 1951: desire
- 1952: A thousand red roses bloom
- 1953: It's called love
- 1953: Kaiserwalzer
- 1953: love awakening
- 1953: come back !
- 1954: The sun in St. Moritz
- 1954: Imperial maneuvers
- 1954: Great parade of stars
- 1954: novel by a gynecologist
- 1955: You my silent valley
- 1955: devil in silk
- 1955: Crown Prince Rudolf's last love
- 1956: love that loses its head
- 1956: Forget it if you can
- 1956: The girl Marion ( Prize of Nations )
- 1956: Nothing but trouble with love
- 1956: Made in Germany
- 1957: Gynecologist Dr. Bertram
- 1958: You're only young twice
- 1958: The Radetzky March sounds high
- 1958: The priest and the girl
- 1958: What a woman dreams in spring
- 1959: melody and rhythm (guest appearance)
- 1960: a heart needs love
- 1972: Diana - passion and adventure
- 1983: Lady Frederick (TV movie)
- 1989: Two people from Munich in Hamburg
- 1992–1995: The mountain doctor
- 1998: The dream ship - Namibia
- 2001: Rosamunde Pilcher - Flowers in the Rain
Web links
- Winnie Markus in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Winnie Markus at filmportal.de (with photo gallery)
- Pictures by Winnie Markus In: Virtual History
- Audio interview with Winnie Markus from 1972 in the online archive of the Austrian Media Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Winnie Markus
- ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Markus, Winnie |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Markus, Winifred Maria Eveline (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film actress |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1921 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Smíchov , Czechoslovakia |
DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 2002 |
Place of death | Munich |