Ruth Hellberg

Ruth Hellberg, native Ruth Holl, ( born November 2, 1906 in Berlin, † 26 April 2001 Feldafing ) was a German actress and voice actress.

Life

The daughter of the director and theater director Fritz Holl and the actress and theater high school teacher Margit Hellberg was in 1923 after attending drama school her debut at the State Theatre Meiningen. Then she went as a stage actress for theater troupe Holtorf, where it first as Viola in Shakespeare's Twelfth occurred. In the same year she became a member of the cooperative German Stage Workers ( GDBA ). This was followed theatrical engagements among others, Erich brick at the Hamburg Chamber of games ( where she met her colleagues of Gustaf ), with Otto Falkenberg at the Munich Chamber games, in Königsberg, Leipzig, Vienna, and from 1938 to 1945 under the direction of Gustaf at the Berlin State Theatre. She was married first husband Fritz Landshoff ( in 1936 in the Amsterdam exile the novel Mephisto moved in which Klaus man his ex- brother- Gustaf portrayed ), in a second marriage with the actor and director Wolfgang Love One who separated from Ruth Hellberg to marry the actress Hilde Krahl.

1933 was Ruth Hellberg her debut as a film actress in the production What is it to know men. In the same year she married the actor and director Wolfgang Liebeneiner meanwhile directing them with Yvette should have their greatest success six years later. In the following years she starred alongside Zarah Leander (home ), Henry George ( The Postmaster ) and Paul Hartmann ( Bismarck ). 1943, the marriage ended in divorce with love one, and film appearances were rare.

After the Second World War Ruth Hellberg was mainly only worked as a theater actress, including Stuttgart, Wiesbaden and Hamburg. Your last film role was 1991, and Karin Baal in In the circle of loved ones.

In addition, she has worked since 1948 also extensively in the synchronization and lent her voice internationally renowned colleagues such as Vivien Leigh (including in Caesar and Cleopatra and Anna Karenina ), Myrna Loy ( Midnight Lace ), Elisabeth Bergner (including Catherine the Great and the Big Lie ) ( Must be women? ) Helen Hayes ( in her Oscar-winning role in Airport ), Jeanne Moreau and Martha Scott in Ben Hur. Your tomb is located in the cemetery of St. Anne in Berlin- Dahlem.

Filmography (selection)

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