Erika Dannhoff
Erika Margot Dannhoff ( born December 2, 1909 in Berlin, † June 18, 1996 ibid ) was a German actress.
After leaving school at a secondary school in 1928 she was won by Olga Limburg for the acting profession and worked as early as 1929 in several films. Then she attended the Theatre School of Ilka Gruening.
She played at the Little Theater Unter den Linden, appeared as a cabaret artist on their own poems and worked with the radio, so in 1932 when radio play Cathy of Heilbronn. From 1934 to 1939 she was engaged at the Volksbühne Berlin, later she also acted at the Deutsches Theater under Heinz Hilpert. She took over the title role in Shaw's Saint Joan, Desdemona in Othello, Elisabeth in Don Carlos and Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew. In 1939, she moved to the State Theatre in Munich, from 1942 to 1948 she acted in Dresden at the theater of the people and the State Theatre. To this end, she appeared as a supporting actress in various films, in the fairy-tale adaptation of Cinderella (1931 ) she starred in the title role.
In 1948 she appeared in Halle, Nuremberg and Frankfurt, from the late 1950s, she was back on the Berlin stage, especially at the grandstand. Since 1951 she played again in a few films. In 1973 she had a recurring role in the television series The Nature Doctor as a housekeeper Marianne. Since 1966, she taught as a lecturer at the Max Reinhardt School of Acting. Dannhoff was temporarily married to his colleague Erik Schumann in a second marriage.