Agnes Windeck

Agnes Windeck ( born March 27, 1888 in Hamburg, † September 28, 1975 in Berlin, born Agnes Sophie Albertine diaper ) was a German stage, film and television actress and voice actress.

Life

Agnes Sophie diaper, daughter of a Hamburg merchant, began her acting career in 1904 as " Anni diaper. " Her theater venues were the German Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, the Royal Court Theatre Hannover and various theaters in Berlin.

Already in 1915 she gave in her marriage to the profession in which they returned only in 1938, after her husband had died. She participated in the Youth Theatre in Berlin back on acting and worked until 1945 as a drama teacher at the Deutsches Theater, with their students were, among others Klaus Schwarzkopf, Thomas Engel and Hans -Joachim Kulenkampff. This work she put into old age in her apartment in Berlin, who had a studio attached, continued.

Greater attention she received for the first time in the fifties by the popular RIAS radio cabaret Islanders in Berlin.

From the late 1930s, she first played sporadically major and minor supporting roles in the film. It was not until the 1950s it was occupied regularly and was soon much in demand both in Edgar Wallace Mysteries and The Squeaker (1963 ), The Hunchback of Soho (1966) and The Monster of Blackwood Castle ( 1967) as well as in cheerful comedies Every morning at seven as the world is still in order ( 1968) and the Men in the white waistcoat (1969).

She also worked with her distinctive and recognizable voice as synchronous and radio spokesperson; among other things, they synchronized Margaret Rutherford (16 clock 50 from Paddington, Hotel International, The little ones want to move up ).

On stage she appeared in 1961 in the German premiere of the musical My Fair Lady as Mrs. Higgins. In 1967, she played together with Käthe Haack in crime comedy Two unsuspecting angels. In 1973, she appeared in the Berliner resumption of My Fair Lady again in a single idea as Mrs. Higgins on; they replaced the short term ill because of an accident Käthe Haack.

Great popularity it reached with the TV series The Family diehards (1966-1971), in which she played the role of Grandma Köpcke on the side of Inge Meysel.

Agnes Windeck established herself as a character actress, and became one of the most well-known older actresses in Germany. She embodied an example of the type of the comic old men who can be amiable and annoying in equal measure. Several large theater, film and television roles brought her nationwide popularity and made ​​it a crowd favorite.

Agnes Windeck died on 28 September 1975 at the age of 87 years. She is buried in the cemetery army in Berlin. Beginning of 2004 was the grave site just prior to leveling. By Senate resolution of May 25, 2004, the State of Berlin declared its tomb to honor grave. The tomb is in the field 18K- 122.

Filmography

Movies

TV

Theater

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