Edith Hancke

German actress

Edith Hancke
Born	(1928-10-14)14 October 1928 Berlin, Germany
Died	4 June 2015(2015-06-04) (aged 86) Berlin, Germany
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1949-2009

Edith Hancke (German: [ˈeː.diːt ˈhaŋ.kə] ^ⓘ; 14 October 1928 – 4 June 2015) was a German stage, film and television actress.^[1]^[2]

Life and career

Edith Hancke, daughter of a bank clerk, grew up in Berlin-Charlottenburg. She received an education at the Lettehaus and, at the age of 20, attended Marlise Ludwig's acting school at Wilmersdorfer Wilhelmsaue. She received her first engagements at Berlin theaters beginning in 1948. She made guest appearances at the Renaissance Theater, the Deutsches Theater, the Schlosspark Theater, the Schillertheater, the Theater am Kurfürstendamm and the Berliner Komödie, among others.^[3]

Her real profession remained the theater. Several times she received the Golden Curtain, the award for the most popular actress in Berlin. Edith Hancke also performed for two years as a member of the cabaret Die Stachelschweine. She appeared in 150 episodes of the popular radio entertainment series Pension Spreewitz on RIAS. Even at the age of 72, she starred in the play Fenster zum Flur for one year. From 1981 to 1987, she was the narrator in the RIAS radio play series Damals war's - Geschichten aus dem alten Berlin. She thus succeeded the narrator Ewald Wenck, who died in 1981.^[4]

Through her work as a dubbing artist, Hancke's voice (which was the result of a botched tonsillectomy as a child)[4] can be heard in many foreign films, such as the Czechoslovakian musical feature film Limonaden-Joe (1964). From 1991 to 1994, Hancke dubbed Baby Sinclair in the U.S. series The Dinos, which became famous for the recurring exclamation "Not the mommy!". She had been married since 1972 to fellow actor Klaus Sonnenschein, whom she had met at the Theater Tribüne in 1970, in their third marriage^[5] and lived with him in their home in Holstein and in Berlin-Schlachtensee.^[6] In the TV film Schaumküsse (2009), Hancke and Sonnenschein made a joint appearance as a married couple, which was their last role as actors for both of them.^[7]

Selected filmography

The Beaver Coat (1949) - Adelheid Wolff
Bürgermeister Anna (1950) - Grete Drews
The Merry Wives of Windsor (1950) - Lehrling bei Reich (uncredited)
Modell Bianka (1951) - Jungarbeiterin Inge Lang
We'll Talk About Love Later (1953) - Frau Pingel
The Abduction of the Sabine Women (1954) - Fräulein Müller-Muthesius
Sky Without Stars (1955) - Frau am Kontrollpunkt
Your Life Guards (1955) - Zofe
Urlaub auf Ehrenwort (1955) - Erna
A Thousand Melodies (1956)
The Captain from Köpenick (1956) - Sick girl
If We All Were Angels (1956) - Junge Animierdame
Ein Mann muß nicht immer schön sein (1956) - Frl. Zimmermann, Sekretärin
Spring in Berlin (1957) - Uschi Paulsen
Madeleine Tel. 13 62 11 (1958) - Edith - The Maid
Schmutziger Engel (1958) - Gerti
Schwarzwälder Kirsch (1958) - Jette Palm
The Muzzle (1958) - Billa
Ohne Mutter geht es nicht (1958) - Hausmädchen Elisabeth
My Ninety Nine Brides (1958) - Ruth
Kleine Leute mal ganz groß (1958) - Marie Maier
Court Martial (1959) - Frl. Wehner
Peter Shoots Down the Bird (1959) - Fräulein Lehmann
Of Course, the Motorists (1959) - Autofahrerin
Arzt aus Leidenschaft (1959) - Schwester Elvira
Boomerang (1960) - Woman in train
Als geheilt entlassen (1960) - Lore
I Learned That in Paris (1960)
Vertauschtes Leben (1961)
Bei Pichler stimmt die Kasse nicht (1961) - Emma
The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi (1961) - Lukretia
Am Sonntag will mein Süsser mit mir segeln gehn (1961) - Minna, die Köchin
The Strange Countess (1961) - Lizzy Smith
Beloved Impostor (1961) - Stewardess
So liebt und küsst man in Tirol (1961) - Ida Würzig
Dicke Luft (1962) - Fräulein Weierlein
Ohne Krimi geht die Mimi nie ins Bett (1962) - Mimi
Universo di notte (1962) - Self - Host German Version
Breakfast in Bed (1963) - Mrs. Müller
Holiday in St. Tropez (1964) - Friedericke Kussmaul
Don't Tell Me Any Stories (1964) - 'Veilchen' (NSU Prinz) (voice)
Black Eagle of Santa Fe (1965) - Alice
Tausend Takte Übermut (1965) - Ernestine Glücklich
Das große Glück (1967) - Mrs. Kleinschmitt
Midsummer Night [de] (1967) - Miss Nilsson
Paradies der flotten Sünder (1968) - Grete
Otto ist auf Frauen scharf (1968) - Garderobenfrau
Charley's Uncle (1969) - Helga
Heintje: A Heart Goes on a Journey (1969) - Lieschen
Why Did I Ever Say Yes Twice? (1969) - Hausmädchen
Our Willi Is the Best (1971) - Elsetraut Knöpfke
Old Barge, Young Love (1973) - Eleonore Strunz
Unsere Tante ist das Letzte (1973) - Sieglinde Hirsekorn, Otto-Wilhelms Frau
Meister Eder und sein Pumuckl (1982) - Frau Bauer

References

^ Cowie p.32
^ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg, Germany (4 June 2015). "Schauspielerin Edith Hancke ist tot". SPIEGEL ONLINE (in German).
^ "Edith Hancke". www.steffi-line.de. Retrieved 2022-09-26.
^ "Damals wars - Geschichten aus dem alten Berlin". www.damals-wars-geschichten.de. Retrieved 2022-09-26.
^ "Edith Hancke". www.steffi-line.de. Retrieved 2022-09-26.
^ Zeitung, Berliner. "Edith Hancke wird 80 Jahre alt und klingt jung wie immer: Die ewige Berliner Jöre". Berliner Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2022-09-26.
^ Limbach, Rabea (2020-11-30). "Ost- und West-Fernsehen der 1950er- und 1960er-Jahre in der ARD Mediathek". Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis. 44 (3): 416–424. doi:10.1515/bfp-2020-2044. ISSN 1865-7648.