Dorothea Wieck

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Dorothea Wieck, in Gohlis, Leipzig (1946)

Dorothea Wieck (3 January 1908, Davos, Switzerland – 19 February 1986, Berlin, West Germany) was a German theatre and film actress.

Career

Wieck made her debut in 1926 and appeared in several silent films. She became widely known through her leading role in the 1931 film Mädchen in Uniform (Girls in Uniform).

Wieck has appeared in around 50 films and played on the stages many large theatres, notably at the Deutsches Theater and the Schillertheater, Berlin. She also worked as a theatre director. After World War II, she appeared in films only in supporting roles and withdrew from films almost entirely in the early 1960s.

In 1973, Wieck received the Film Ribbon in Gold of the Deutscher Filmpreis for long and outstanding achievements in German film.

Wieck is buried at the cemetery Friedhof Heerstraße in Berlin.

Selected filmography

• I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg (1926)
• My Heidelberg, I Can Not Forget You (1927)
• Valencia (1927), directed by Jaap Speyer
• Mädchen in Uniform (1931), directed by Leontine Sagan
• Ein toller Einfall (A Fantastic Idea) (1932), directed by Kurt Gerron
• Teilnehmer antwortet nicht (Party Doesn't Answer) (1932), directed by Rudolf Katscher and Marc Sorkin
• Trenck (1932) directed by Heinz Paul and Ernst Neubach
• Anna und Elisabeth (1933), directed by Frank Wisbar
• Cradle Song (1933), directed by Mitchell Leisen
• Theodor Körner (1933), directed by Carl Boese
• Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen (1934), directed by Alexander Hall
• The Student of Prague (1935), directed by Arthur Robison
• The Private Life of Louis XIV (1935), directed by Carl Froelich
• The Impossible Woman (1936)
• The Yellow Flag (1937), directed by Gerhard Lamprecht
• Kopf hoch, Johannes! (1941), directed by Viktor de Kowa
• Andreas Schlüter (1942), directed by Herbert Maisch
• The Green Salon (1944), directed by Boleslaw Barlog
• The Murder Trial of Doctor Jordan (1949)
• Five Suspects (1950)
• Das seltsame Leben des Herrn Bruggs (1951), directed by Erich Engel
• No Greater Love (1952), directed by Harald Braun
• Man on a Tightrope (1953), directed by Elia Kazan
• Elephant Fury (1953)
• The Story of Anastasia (1956), directed by Falk Harnack
• A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958), directed by Douglas Sirk
• Menschen im Hotel (1959), directed by Gottfried Reinhardt
• Schachnovelle (Brainwashed) (1960), directed by Gerd Oswald
• Die Revolution entlässt ihre Kinder (The Revolution Dismisses its Children or Child of the Revolution) (1962, TV), directed by Rolf Hädrich

External links

• Dorothea Wieck at the Internet Movie Database
• Dorothea Wieck at AllMovie
• Dorothea Wieck at steffi-line.de (German)
• Profile at Cyranos (German)
• Images, filmography and bibliography at Virtual Film History
• Biography at FemBio (German)