Berlin is dead – Edith Hancke died – Berliner Kurier

Edith Hancke worked over 60 years as an actress.
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Berlin –

your large Berlin dialect – we will miss her. Edith Hancke, People actress, body and soul, struggled for years against the cancer. Yesterday morning she died with 86 years in a Zehlendorfer clinic.

She was Berlin, a real plant of this city. 65 years enchanted Edith Hancke with her charm the audience. On the theater stage in such plays as “Pension Schöller”, in films or TV series such as “Berliner Weisse mit Schuss”. Your scratchy, almost squeaky voice became her trademark. She owed it a botched tonsillectomy, as Edith Hancke was eight years old.

With the 20 native Charlottenburgerin went to drama school, fell in 1949 by because of talent. Three weeks later, the DEFA was her first film role in “The Beaver Coat”.

Numerous roles followed. Edith Hancke turned with Heinz Rühmann the “Captain of Koepenick” (1956). With great temperament she worked. So slapped Hancke Klaus Kinski when he “The strange countess” (1961) to very choked on the set of the Edgar Wallace thrillers. In TV she was with Harald Juhnke and Günter Pfitzmann to the big Berlin Stars.

But Hancke love was the theater, where she lived out her comedic talent to your heart, as in the comedy on the Kurfürstendamm , “With Edith Hancke we lose a valuable human being and a great actress,” said theater boss Martin Woelffer.

Berlin mourns its popular actress. “Edith was a large piece of real Berlin that is now gone from us forever,” said actress Brigitte Grothum (80) the courier. The Governing Mayor Michael Müller praised Hancke a Berliner with heart and mind: “The audience even beyond Berlin she loved”.