Hedwig Wangel

Hedwig Wangel
Born	Amalie Pauline Hedwig Simon September 23, 1875 Berlin, German Empire
Died	March 12, 1961 Rendsburg, West Germany
Occupation	Film actor
Years active	1926 - 1958

Hedwig Wangel (1875–1961) was a German stage and film actress.

Life and career

Born as Amalie Pauline Hedwig Simon on September 23, 1875 in Berlin in the German Empire, Hedwig Wangel was the daughter of a music publisher. After studying acting with Max Grube, she made her theatrical debut in 1893 in Urania. Following performances for the remainder of the decade in theaters across Germany, during which she was a member of Max Reinhardt's Deutches Theater, she then toured England during 1901 and 1902 and the Netherlands during 1902 and 1903, when she retired suddenly, began to provide care for homeless men and women, and assisted the Salvation Army and the Berliner Prisoner Association. Launching her own production company in 1925, she returned to films with the studio UFA the following year. That same year, she also founded the Gate of Hope, an asylum for women who had recently been freed from prison. Ultimately establishing a charitable foundation which bore her name, she recruited fellow artists and leaders in the scientific community to assist with her work and join her organization's leadership board. Among those who volunteered their services were Albert Einstein, Kaethe Kollwitz, and the poet Else Lasker-Schüler.

Selected filmography

• The Woman's Crusade (1926)
• State Attorney Jordan (1926)
• The Priest from Kirchfeld (1926)
• Superfluous People (1926)
• The Last Horse Carriage in Berlin (1926)
• A Modern Dubarry (1927)
• The Sporck Battalion (1927)
• The Convicted (1927)
• Give Me Life (1928)
• Queen Louise (1927)
• Rasputin (1928)
• Flachsmann the Educator (1930)
• Pension Schöller (1930)
• Who Takes Love Seriously? (1931)
• The Office Manager (1931)
• Gloria (1931)
• The Testament of Cornelius Gulden (1932)
• Spell of the Looking Glass (1932)
• Frederica (1932)
• Three from the Unemployment Office (1932)
• The Escape to Nice (1932)
• Travelling People (1938)
• Liberated Hands (1939)
• Enemies (1940)
• Uncle Kruger (1941)
• Comrades (1941)
• What Does Brigitte Want? (1941)
• Beloved World (1942)
• Violanta (1942)
• The Endless Road (1943)
• Die Feuerzangenbowle (1944)
• Amico (1949)
• Love '47 (1949)
• Doctor Praetorius (1950)
• Royal Children (1950)
• Mathilde Möhring (1950)
• Hanna Amon (1951)
• Roses Bloom on the Moorland (1952)
• Everything for Father (1953)
• Ave Maria (1953)
• The Village Under the Sky (1953)
• Rosen im Herbst (1955)
• Without You All Is Darkness (1956)
• The Cheese Factory in the Hamlet (1958)

Bibliography

• Shandley, Robert R. Rubble Films: German Cinema in the Shadow of the Third Reich. Temple University Press, 2001.

External links

• Hedwig Wangel at IMDb
• Newspaper clippings about Hedwig Wangel in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW