Ida Ehre
Ida Ehre ( born July 9, 1900 in Prerau, Moravia, † February 16, 1989 in Hamburg) was an Austrian- German actress, director and theater director.
Biography
The daughter of a chief cantor was trained at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Vienna at the actress. Her career took her to her debut at the Stadttheater Bielitz to several Central European theater, among other things, to Budapest, Chernivtsi, Cottbus, Bonn, Königsberg, Stuttgart and at the National Theatre Mannheim. In 1930 she played at the Lessing Theater in Berlin.
During the period of National Socialism, was occupied as a Jew with prohibition and therefore worked in the practice of her husband, the woman Arzt Dr. Bernhard Heyde (1899-1978), in Böblingen as a medical assistant. A planned after Kristallnacht in 1938 emigration to Chile failed in 1939, as the ship on which the couple with the daughter Ruth was ( born October 20, 1927 in Mannheim) was recalled because of the outbreak of the Second World War back to Hamburg. Ida honor was later arrested by the Gestapo and was imprisoned in a concentration camp Fuhlsbiittel.
Ida Ehre has been increasingly from the mid-fifties in various film and television productions. Among them 1947 episode film was in those days of Helmut Käutner with Gert Karl Schaefer, Erich Schellow and Willy Maertens. In 1962, Ida Ehre embodied the character of Ella Ward in the Edgar Wallace film The Dark Eyes of London, directed by Alfred Vohrer with Joachim Fuchs Berger, Karin Baal and Dieter Borsche in the lead roles. 1972 played Ida in honor of the West German Radio (WDR) produced multi-part film adaptation of the crime novel The Red Scarf by Wilkie Collins woman Oldershaw.
Ida Ehre worked since 1945 also in many radio plays as a spokeswoman with. In the audio adaptation ( Production North West German Broadcasting ) of the play Our Town by Thornton Wilder, directed by Helmut Käutner with Dagmar Altrichter, Fritz Wagner and Harry Meyen she said the role of Mrs. Webb.
She also worked as a voice actor. So could Ida Ehre, among others in the Frank Capra film Is not life beautiful? hear the German voice of Beulah Bondi as Ma Bailey.
1970 awarded to the members of the Hamburg Volksbühne Ida honor the prize silver mask. 1971 Ida honor was awarded the Schiller Prize of the city of Mannheim. 1975, she was awarded by the Senate of Hamburg the title of professor. 1983 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, which also their political commitment to peace and freedom was appreciated. In 1985 she became the first woman honorary citizen of the City of Hamburg. In 1984 she was awarded the Silver Journal of the playwright Union. She was also in 1988 an honorary doctorate from the University of Hamburg. Until her death in 1989 was honorary head of the chamber games. She was buried in a grave of honor next to Gustaf in Hamburg in the main cemetery Ohlsdorf.
Naming
In 1992, the square in front of the Congress Hall in Böblingen was renamed after her in Ida- Ehre-Platz.
In 2001, the Jahn School in Hamburg- Harvestehude was renamed after her in Ida-Ehre -Gesamtschule, which bears the name Ida-Ehre - school since 2010.
In Hamburg's Old Town, there is a Ida- Ehre-Platz and in Brühl (near Cologne ) is a Ida-Ehre - road.
As of August 2010, the comprehensive school Bad Oldesloe was renamed Ida Ehre school.
In Hamburg, there is also an honor Ida Cultural Association.