Agnes Kraus

The people of Berlin actress receives her artistic education in the 20s with Leopold Jessner at the state theater, sees it erroneously as a future tragic actress. From 1936, she is seen in small roles at the volksbühne under Eugen Klöpfer to. In the second world war, she worked at the kammerspiele in Munich, before she leaves the stage and to the Main-Franconian puppet theatre changes. The puppet Agnes Kraus, henceforth a few years. After the war she operates together with her sister and a private puppet theatre, performing with self-made dolls to events and in schools. In Parallel, she continues her acting career in the theatre in Brandenburg. Later, she is engaged in Potsdam, where she has as a performer in the classics, with little success. Since the mid - ' 50s, you heard a long year for the Berliner Ensemble, you can make your change to prove. An early appearance in the film Agnes Kraus completed, at that time under the name Irmgard Krause, already in the 30s: For the Ufa production "escapade" (1936), it stands for the first time in front of the camera. However, almost two decades pass before the artist is back in the Babelsberg Studio, initially small Parts in DEFA-takes strip. With time, your tasks will be slightly larger, but the final breakthrough Agnes Kraus succeeds only at the end of the ' 60s on the TV screen. So you know the audience from light-hearted fabrics such as "Great family album" (TV series, 1969), or "Florentiner 73" (TV, 1972), in which she embodies the aunt of Minna and the mother Klucke. In the following years, they designed always aptly to such characters due to their good-natured-feisty, quirky style, coupled with the inimitable quengeligen, laments the tone of the actress to the "Original Berlin with heart and soul" and the audience will remain unforgotten. Whether as a parish sister Agnes, or animal doctor's wife, Alma, whether as a mother, grandmother or aunt enthusiastically Agnes Kraus impresses people until the mid-80s in a variety of comedies, plays and Schwänken through your ungekünsteltes game. Finally, the popular artist, which is eight times elected to the TV darling of the "FF" on it pulls back, due to an allergic disease, largely from your professional. The last Time she has appeared in 1993/94 at the Berliner Ensemble. On the occasion of its 100. Birth day is on 16. February 2011, the Agnes-Kraus-Weg in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde, named after the artist.