Obituary of the actress Ruth Leuwerik: buddy and Queen – Tagesspiegel

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She was the ideal woman of the German post-war cinema: Go Death of actress Ruth Leuwerik.

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The facial features finely chopped , the voice of a little nasal and all heat always distanced. The aura – so freshly washed as with any other actress of the Adenauer era. Ruth Leuwerik who died on Tuesday in Munich at the age of 91 years, was the idol of the canvas aseptic German postwar cinema. The aristocrats who in 1957 played in 1953 in the Thomas Mann adaptation “Royal Highness”, in 1955 in “Ludwig II.” And “Queen Louise” are marked not extravagant, self-indulgent creatures, but by a hard-hitting, civil action Reason , And who embodied her professionals citizens, such as the school teacher in “Whenever the day begins” of 1957 and the mayor in “The ideal woman” from 1959 have an indomitable self-confidence and silent Noblesse. Coupled with the in his fifties very modern attitude, no longer wanting to be just loving wife and caring mother, but sovereign comrade of her husband, which gives the Star many admirers from the offices of the young republic.

Even famous Men such as Thomas Mann and Mao Tse-Tung they worshiped. The former is charmed by their Darstellkunst in “Royal Highness” and calls her a “woman of considerable respectability”. The latter manifests itself in relation to the former Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel as a fan of the world hit “The Trapp Family” in which Ruth Leuwerik 1956 played alongside Hans Holt starring. This has told during a visit to Berlin in 2004, the actress. At that time you dedicated the Film Museum at Potsdamer Platz on his 80th birthday, the exhibition “The ideal woman – Ruth Leuwerik and the cinema of the fifties.” The actress herself kept from her role of musical novice who mutates into a foster mother of seven children, not usually. You have the part in the movie home then only accepted in order to keep the career momentum: “Mothers who sit like clucking to their children, are not my thing.”

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Knef, Schell, Ziemann, Leuwerik – these are the divas

Born was Ruth Leuwerik on 23 April 1924 in Essen as a merchant’s daughter. In war you undertook it as Fräserin, later they attended only a trade school and worked as a stenographer before the extravagance afforded to take acting lessons. 1947 followed the first theater engagement in Bremen, and later played for several years at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. Jean Anouihls “Eurydice” was her acclaimed starring role

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The film career began in 1950 with the turbulent comedy ” 13 under a hat “, even without resounding success. “The little girl is indeed gifted, but absolutely unphotogenic” is the industry judgment as Leuwerik told later. Nevertheless, it asserts itself and will, together with Dieter Borsche one of Traumpaare fifties. The dazzling Hildegard Knef, the innocent Maria Schell who sprightly Sonja Ziemann, the noble Ruth Leuwerik are the divas of this tendency to Schablonisierung time

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eruptions from the pattern of pals and the Queen are a favorite as canvas Leuwerik reluctant allowed. So runs Helmut Käutner the style of Nouvelle Vague oriented drama “The Red” by Alfred Andersch namely 1962 at the Berlinale competition, but falls with critics and audiences through. The wild auteur the sixties and seventies can not do anything with Opas heroines. The thrice married Ruth Leuwerik withdraws into her private life discrete, occasionally turns television films, receives 1978 German Film Award for lifetime achievement. This retreat was her was not difficult, she says, 2004. While the acting was her lifelong dream. “But how to do it with the passions: Cool with time somewhat.” So the rational talks among the queens

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