Angelika Hurwicz

Angelika Hurwicz ( born April 22, 1922 in Berlin, † November 26, 1999 in Bergen ( North Holland ) ) was a German theater actress and director.

Life

Angelika Hurwicz was born as the daughter of the writer Elias Hurwicz in Berlin. Because of Jewish descent could not attend theater school, instead being given to the actress Lucie Polite 1939-1941 private lessons. From 1942 to 1943 she was engaged at a private traveling theater. Following the closure of all theaters through the total mobilization in 1944, she worked in an auto repair shop. Her father survived the Holocaust thanks to the marriage with a non-Jewish woman.

In 1945, she returned to Berlin and was engaged at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm and at the Deutsches Theater. Bertolt Brecht in 1948 she took the role of silent Kattrin in the play Mother Courage and Her Children at the Berliner Ensemble. Hurwicz was awarded the National Prize of the GDR in the following year. In 1954, Brecht wore her the role of Grusche in The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and she performed the woman Sarti in the Life of Galileo until they left the ensemble in 1958 and went to West Germany.

Later she was in Hanover, Frankfurt am Main, Wuppertal, Cologne, Zurich, London, and at the Vienna Burgtheater (where the first wife ) worked as a director.

Filmography

Writings

  • Windflüchter. Folk and World, Berlin 1957.
  • Gerda Goedhart, Wolfgang Pintzka: The actress Angelika Hurwicz: A photo book. Henschel, Berlin 1960.
  • Brecht staged: The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Friedrich, Velber b. Hannover 1964.
  • We welcome you in hope: Renate Seydel (Ed. ): ... lived for all times. Actors about themselves and others. Henschel, Berlin 1978.
  • Legends of the time. Variations on a hopeless situation. Merlin, Berlin 1998.
  • The niche of the insect. Fouqué literature publisher, Egelsbach 1999.
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