Dorothea Wieck

Dorothea Wieck, in Gohlis, Leipzig (1946)

Dorothea Wieck (3 January 1908, Davos – 19 February 1986, Berlin) 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 amlmost 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 on the cemetery Friedhof Heerstraße in Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

• 1931: Mädchen in Uniform, directed by Leontine Sagan
• 1932: Ein toller Einfall (A Fantastic Idea), directed by Kurt Gerron
• 1932: Teilnehmer antwortet nicht (Party Doesn't Answer), directed by Rudolf Katscher and Marc Sorkin
• 1932: Trenck (Trenck, the Story of a Favorite), directed by Heinz Paul and Ernst Neubach
• 1933: Anna und Elisabeth, directed by Frank Wisbar
• 1933: Cradle Song, directed by Mitchell Leisen
• 1933: Theodor Körner, directed by Carl Boese
• 1934: Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen, directed by Alexander Hall
• 1935: Der Student von Prag, directed by Arthur Robison
• 1936: Liselotte von der Pfalz, directed by Carl Froelich
• 1937: Die Gelbe Flagge (The Yellow Flag), directed by Gerhard Lamprecht
• 1941: Kopf hoch, Johannes!, directed by Viktor de Kowa
• 1942: Andreas Schlüter, directed by Herbert Maisch
• 1944: Der grüne Salon, directed by Boleslaw Barlog
• 1951: Das seltsame Leben des Herrn Bruggs, directed by Erich Engel
• 1952: Herz der Welt (No Greater Love, directed by Harald Braun
• 1953: Man on a Tightrope (uncredited), directed by Elia Kazan
• 1956: Anastasia, die letzte Zarentochter (Anastasia: The Czar's Last Daughter), directed by Falk Harnack^{[N 1]}
• 1958: A Time to Love and a Time to Die, directed by Douglas Sirk
• 1959: Menschen im Hotel, directed by Gottfried Reinhardt
• 1960: Schachnovelle (Brainwashed, directed by Gerd Oswald
• 1962: Die Revolution entlässt ihre Kinder (The Revolution Dismisses its Children or Child of the Revolution) (TV), directed by Rolf Hädrich

1. ^ Anastasia, die letzte Zarentochter (1956) is not to be confused with Anastasia, also from 1956.

External links

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

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Name	Wieck, Dorothea
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Date of birth	3 January 1908
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Date of death	19 February 1986
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