Winnie Markus

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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

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Winnie Markus
  2. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
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