Witta Pohl

Witta Pohl (2006)

Witta Pohl (born November 1, 1937 in Königsberg ( East Prussia ) as Witta Breipohl , † April 4, 2011 in Hamburg ) was a German actress . In addition to her stage career, she appeared in over 90 film and television roles from the mid-1960s. The role of mother Vera in the television series These Drombuschs earned her lasting fame .

Life

The daughter of the gynecologist Wilhelm Breipohl († May 1945) and his wife Marie-Luise grew up in Bielefeld with five siblings from 1941 . The father was last employed at the University Women's Clinic in Berlin and was shot by Soviet soldiers in the last days of the Second World War . The family then lived in poor conditions in Westphalia. Pohl trained as a beautician. She took acting lessons from Herma Clement in Berlin.

Witta Pohl's first engagement at the theater led her to the Staatstheater in Kassel in 1957 , where she took on the title role in Frances Goodrich's and Albert Hackett's Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank . Further engagements have taken her to the Münchner Kammerspiele , the Braunschweiger and Darmstadt theaters and the Schauspielhaus Zurich . In 1960, on the occasion of her portrayal of Hermia in the Shakespeare comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Bad Hersfeld Festival, she received the city's young actresses prize. From 1965 to 1973 Pohl was a member of the ensemble of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg . After that she was seen at the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater , the Hamburger Kammerspiele and again at the Bad Hersfeld Festival.

She made her television debut in 1960 in The Raft of Medusa and has since appeared in over forty television productions. She became known nationwide in 1983 in the role of the feisty Vera Drombusch in Robert Stromberger's family series These Drombuschs , which continued with great success until 1994. In four episodes of the crime series Schwarz Rot Gold she played the wife of customs investigator Zaluskowski . She also took on guest roles in Der Alte , Tatort and other television series.

Witta Pohl was married to Karl Maldeck for the first time. The second marriage to actor Charles Brauer , which lasted from 1966 to 1976, resulted in twins. In 1966 she and Brauer also appeared in front of the camera in the television film Geibelstrasse 27 . After that she was married to the dentist Ekkehart Franz.

In the 1980s, the actress sponsored children in Sri Lanka , the Maldives , Uganda and Poland . She organized stays in clinics and operations for sick children. In 1991 she founded the Hamburger Verein Kinder-Luftbrücke e. V. , who took care of social orphans. In the same year she became a UNESCO honorary ambassador for the Chernobyl aid program. She was later awarded the “Kind Award” by the Kinderlachen association .

Witta Pohl lived privately on Brabandstrasse in Hamburg-Alsterdorf . The former house has since been demolished. The children's airlift association she founded also had its headquarters in the street. After a breakdown in February 2011, Witta Pohl was diagnosed with leukemia . The actress has been under treatment at the Hamburg-Eppendorf University Medical Center since then . She died on April 4, 2011 as a result of the disease. She found her final resting place in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg.

Filmography

• 1960: The Raft of the Medusa (TV movie)
• 1966: The Stake (TV movie)
• 1966: The Hesselbach company - Mr. Hesselbach and the ward (TV series)
• 1966: Geibelstraße 27 (TV movie)
• 1968: A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV movie)
• 1968: On Obedience. Scenes from Germany
• 1969: A year without a Sunday (TV series, episode The Great Crash )
• 1969: Police radio calls - 13 minutes on the edge (TV series)
• 1970,1972: The Case Next Door (TV series, 4 episodes)
• 1973: Mink at night on the roadside (TV movie)
• 1973: Gabriel (TV movie)
• 1973: supermarket
• 1974: On the way (TV movie)
• 1975: Evas Rippe (TV movie)
• 1975: Silent Witnesses (TV movie)
• 1976: Horrific Stories (TV series, episode A Mysterious Departure )
• 1976: A Wonderful Day (TV Movie)
• 1976: The Shooting Day (TV movie)
• 1977: The Demons (four-part television film)
• 1977: group picture with lady
• 1978: Runaway! What now? (TV series)
• 1978: The driver's license (TV film)
• 1978: Dr. Katzenberger's Badereise (TV movie)
• 1978: Where are you, Kutti? (TV movie)
• 1978: Children's party (TV movie)
• 1978: Six million (three-part television film, episode 3: The new poverty of the family B. )
• 1978: The spirit of the mirabelle plum. Stories by Bollerup (TV movie)
• 1979: PS - Feuerreiter (four-part television film, episodes 1 and 4)
• 1979: Fantastics (TV movie)
• 1979: St. Pauli-Landungsbrücken (TV series, 2 episodes)
• 1979: a chapter of its own (three-part television series)
• 1979: The Old One (TV series, episode The Lie )
• 1979: Off to the fatherland with you (TV film)
• 1980: The Vacation (TV movie)
• 1980: A Man from Yesterday (TV Movie)
• 1980: The old man (S4 / E47 trust )
• 1981: Simply Lamprecht (13-part television series, 5 episodes)
• 1981: Yes and No (TV movie)
• 1981: Quartet with Claudia (TV romance)
• 1981: Woman Over Forty (twelve-part television series)
• 1981: Desperado City
• 1981: Kudenow or Weeping on Stranger Waters (TV movie)
• 1981: The Old One (S5 / E51 The Rat )
• 1981: I want to flee (TV movie)
• 1982: The Feeder (TV movie)
• 1982: Schwarz Rot Gold - Alles in Butter (TV series)
• 1983: Contact Please (TV series)
• 1983: Uta (TV series)
• 1983: Children of our People (TV movie)
• 1983: Köberle is coming (twelve-part television crime series, all 12 episodes)
• 1983–1994: These Drombuschs (39-part television series, all 39 episodes)
• 1984: On the Long Road (TV War Series)
• 1984: The Knight of Fortune (eight-part television series, episode The Adventures of Robert Curwich )
• 1984: The Lehmanns (13-part television series)
• 1984: The Old One (episode The Clairvoyant )
• 1984: Tatort - Rubeck's Dream (TV series)
• 1984: crime scene - fair game
• 1985: The Wedding Day (TV movie)
• 1985: Großer Bahnhof (TV movie)
• 1985: Happy Holidays - Vacation stories from Sri Lanka and the Maldives
• 1985: The Followers (TV movie)
• 1985: The dog in the computer (TV film)
• 1985: A Home for Animals (TV series, episode Comet )
• 1985: Black Red Gold - Don't shoot!
• 1986: The Black Forest Clinic (TV series S1 / E18 Wert des Lebens )
• 1986: A home for animals (S2 / E08 Angst um Lilli Blue )
• 1986: A pupil's love
• 1986: Hessian stories (TV series, S1 / E2 Forever and Forever )
• 1986: The Murder Menu (TV movie)
• 1986: North German Stories (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1987: Derrick (TV series, ep. 155 Night Patrol )
• 1987: A case for TKKG (TV series, episode 9, spy on the run )
• 1987: The Dream Ship - Brazil (TV series, episode 15)
• 1988: Black Red Gold - Black Coffee
• 1988: Black Red Gold - Sugar, Sugar
• 1988: Michas Flucht (TV movie)
• 1990: Mademoiselle Ardel (TV movie)
• 1990: The Broken Jug (TV movie)
• 1990: The Success of Her Life (TV Movie)
• 1992: The Photographer or the Eye of God (TV series)
• 1995: Kommissar Rex (TV series, S1 / E13 Unter den Straßen von Wien )
• 1995: In Doubt for the Defendant (four-part television series)
• 1997: Happy Birthday (39-part television series, all 39 episodes)
• 2000: All Children Need Love (TV Drama)
• 2000: The Dream Ship - Mexico (episode 39)
• 2001: Jenny & Co. (11-part television series)
• 2006: In all friendship (TV series, S9 / E15 Dark Stars )
• 2006: Typically Sophie (TV series, S2 / E17 At second glance )
• 2007: The ProSieben Fairy Tale Hour - The Princess and the Pea (TV series, episode 3)
• 2008: The Dream Hotel - Caribbean (TV series)
• 2009: Großstadtrevier (TV series, S23 / E10 Hafenpastor - Appearances are deceptive )

Theater roles (selection)

Witta Pohl's grave in the Ohlsdorf cemetery

• 1957: Diary of Anne Frank , Staatstheater Kassel
• 1961–1965: Bad Hersfeld Festival
• 1966: Iphigenie , State Theater Munich
• 1969/1970: "Clouds" - and "Birds" - and "Neck" - and "Sand" and "Beach" ; One act; in Hamburg
• 1987 ?: Good night mother , with Inge Meysel, Ernst-Deutsch-Theater , Hamburg
• 1991: Play Strindberg , comedy Winterhuder Fährhaus
• 2001: Aspirin and Elefanten , Theater am Kurfürstendamm , Berlin, Comedy Winterhuder Fährhaus
• 2003: Cabaret , Meppen open-air theater
• 2004: Oskar and the Lady in Pink , Ernst-Deutsch-Theater, Hamburg
• A lot of noise about nothing
• School of women

Radio plays / audio books

• 1980: Great Expectations - Charles Dickens as Mrs. Joe
• 1980: South of the Ruhr - Ernst Gethmann as Roswitha
• 1981: Nobility committed - David Wheeler
• 1981: Contacts: Sensitive - Sylvia Hoffmann
• 1981: Contacts: Successful - Sylvia Hoffmann
• 1981: Contacts 1: Joyful life - Sylvia Hoffmann
• 1981: Ralfi, Ralfi - Ingrid Malzer / Ingrid Mylo
• 1981: Ride on the Wartburg - Friederike Roth as Lina
• 1981: Path into the Unknown - John Owen / James Parkinson as Jean
• 1982: Hand-Carved Coffins - Truman Capote as Adelaide Mason
• 1982: Oliver - Werner Kofler as a reporter
• 1982: Late shift - Arnold E. Ott as Brigitte Steiner
• 1982: Xalú, the monster cloud from the other planet - Isolde Sammer as Xalú
• 1983: The Picasso store - Arnold E. Ott
• 1984: That Slipped Thing - John Graham
• 1984: A magical vacation - Arnold E. Ott
• 1985: Een Dag as elkeen Dag - Hermann Ott
• 1985: Trap - Tadeusz Rozewicz
• 1985: Death is through the stomach - Heinz Kulas as first assistant
• 1986: Call - Hans Kasper
• 1986: Auckland - Ilse Aichinger as Vau
• 1986: Dear parents, dear children, where are you? - Anne Dorn
• 1986: Levarottis Topf or The Sweet Meat - Ingomar von Kieseritzky as Ilone Gruber
• 1987: Horn's end - Christopher Hein
• 1987: Playroom - Marion Mosell
• 1987: Tom Courteys Zirkuswelt (= first part) - Gert Loschütz as mother
• 1987: Tom Courteys Benjamin Walz Schande (= second part) - Gert Loschütz
• 1998: In dulci jubilo - Witta Pohl and the New Boys Choir Hamburg
• 1999: The Decameron - Giovanni Boccacco as Katharina Nello
• 1999: baby boy and her dolls
• 2002: The Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse as an aunt
• 2005: Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte as Mrs. Fairfax
• 2007: Why You Left Me - Paul Ingendaay
• 2007: The Passion of the Human Resources Officer - Abraham B. Jehoshua

Awards

• 1960: Award for young talent for best young actress at the Bad Hersfeld Festival
• 1970: Island Prize from the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
• 1985: Third place in the readers' choice for the Golden Camera as the most popular series couple together with Hans-Peter Korff in These Drombuschs
• 1987: Golden Camera for These Drombuschs
• 1991: Appointment as honorary ambassador of UNESCO for the Chernobyl aid program
• 1993: Golden Camera for its exemplary commitment to children in need
• 1995: Portuguese citizens thank the Central Committee of Hamburg Citizens' Associations for unselfish, personal commitment to people in need, especially children in many countries
• 2005: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany, "for their relief efforts for people in Eastern Europe, Africa and Sri Lanka"

Web links

• Literature by and about Witta Pohl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Witta Pohl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Witta Pohls Kinderluftbrücke eV
• Night, mother. On the death of Witta Pohl , süddeutsche.de of April 5, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Witta Pohl is dead: Forever Vera Drombusch at stern.de, April 5, 2011 (accessed April 5, 2011)
2. ↑ ^{a b} cf. Witta Pohl . In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 38/2002 from September 9, 2002, supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 49/2005 (accessed on April 5, 2011 via Munzinger Online )
3. ^ "Drombusch" star Witta Pohl is dead, tagesschau.de, April 5, 2011 ( Memento from April 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ See stroke of fate: Witta Pohl suffers from cancer . focus.de, accessed on March 28, 2011.
5. ↑ Witta Pohl is dead , Spiegel Online, April 5, 2011
6. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Witta Pohl