Helga Feddersen
| Helga Feddersen | |
|---|---|
| Born |
14 March 1930 Hamburg, Germany |
| Died | 24 November 1990 (aged 60) Hamburg, Germany |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1960s, 1970s |
Helga Feddersen (14 March 1930, Hamburg - 24 November 1990, Hamburg) was a popular German actress, comedian, singer, author, and theater director.
Feddersen was born in Hamburg. She took up acting early in her life, first being cast for minor parts such as maids, cooks and cleaning ladies. After her first successes she moved up major rôles such as naive heroines, young mothers and young ladies of noble heritage.
After a cancer operation in 1955, which resulted in a slight disfiguration of her face, directors shied back from casting her as romantic heroine. Shrewdly recognizing the hint given to her by the fates, she decided to change genres, now appearing most successfully in comedies. Being of Northern German origin with a strong but likeable Northern German accent, Feddersen was mostly cast for productions set in Northern Germany. She often played women of slightly naive but gentle and likeable characters.
Despite her success in comedies, Feddersen still remained popular as a serious actress. Among her most notable appearances on the silver screen was the part of Klothilde in the 1959 cinema adaptation of Thomas Mann's classic novel Buddenbrooks.
In 1963, Feddersen played a small part as a witness in Das Haus an der Stör (The house near river Stör) an episode of Stahlnetz, the German adaptation of the US-format Dragnet. This particular episode became the most successful of the whole series and remains to this day as the episode which saw the most re-runs.
In the late 1960s, Feddersen discovered her writing talent, and over the next fifteen years she wrote the scripts for several successful made-for-TV movies and mini series, most of them portraying the hard but hopeful lives of sailors, shipyard workers, fisher men and their families in the port of Hamburg and along the river Elbe as well as the German North Sea Coast.
In 1971, Feddersen - who was also a highly acclaimed stage actress - was invited to Hamburg's famous Ohnsorg Theater. The Ohnsorg Theater remains to this day as the most popular theater in Germany, and each of its productions (usually 4 to 6 per year) is videotaped for a subsequent TV airing after the end of a play's scheduled run. Feddersen's 1971 guest appearance at the Ohnsorg Theater as the nosy, fussy middle-aged spinster Bertha Bliesemann in the play Der möblierte Herr (loosely translated The Gentleman lodger) resulted in one of the most popular broadcasts ever from the Ohnsorg Theater. Der möblierte Herr is regularly re-run on German TV.
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