Biography
Ida Ehre (German: [iː.da ˈeː.ʁə] ; 9 July 1900 in Přerov, Moravia – 16 February 1989 in Hamburg) was an Austrian-German actor, theatre director, and manager. Ehre's father was a hazzan. She learned acting at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. She made her acting debut at the Stadttheater in Bielitz, and appeared in theatres in Budapest, Cottbus, Bonn, Königsberg, Stuttgart and at the National Theatre Mannheim. From 1930, she appeared at the Lessing Theater in Berlin.
In Nazi Germany, she was not allowed to work in acting because she was Jewish, and so she helped in the gynaecolological practice of her husband, Dr. Bernhard Heyde (1899–1978), in Böblingen. After the Kristallnacht, she planned to emigrate to Chile with her husband and her daughter Ruth (born 20 October 1927 in Mannheim), but the ship they were on was ordered to return to Hamburg because of the outbreak of World War II. She was later arrested by the Gestapo and interned in the concentration camp Fuhlsbüttel for six weeks.After the war, on 10 December 1945 she opened the Hamburger Kammerspiele theatre in the Hartungstraße in Rotherbaum in a theatre building that had been used by the Jüdischer Kulturbund until 1941. In addition to modern German drama such as Wolfgang Borchert‘s ‘’The Man Outside’’ (German: ‘’Draußen vor der Tür’’), she brought modern pieces by playwrights from other countries for the first time in Germany, including plays by Jean Anouilh, T. S. Eliot, Jean Giraudoux, Jean-Paul Sartre and Thornton Wilder. She continued managing the theatre until her death from a heart attack in 1989.
After her death, she was given an honorary grave in Ohlsdorf Cemetery next to Gustaf Gründgens.
Filmography
all 44
Movies 35
TV Shows 9
self 7
Director 1
Das Jahrhundert des Theaters (2002)
Bei Thea (1988)
Schloßherren (1986)
A Case For Two (1981)
Alberta und Alice oder Die Unterwerfung (1981)
Madame Princesse (1975)
Der Kreidegarten (1973)
Eine konsequente Frau (1971)
Scene of the Crime (1970)
Das Kuckucksei (1970)
Tartuffe oder Der Betrüger (1970)
Die Auferstehung (1970)
Die Klasse (1968)
Valentin Katajews chirurgische Eingriffe in das Seelenleben des Dr. Igor Igorowitsch (1967)
Verbotenes Land (1967)
The Investigation (1966)
Herodes und Mariamne (1965)
Wölfe und Schafe (1964)
Die höhere Schule (1964)
Don Juan kommt zurück (1963)
Leben des Galilei (1962)
Mary Rose (1961)
Dead Eyes of London (1961)
Macht der Finsternis (1959)
Die begnadete Angst (1958)
Schwarze Seide (1958)
So süß ist kein Tod (1956)
Thérèse Raquin (1956)
Heimkehr des Helden (1955)
Der Bagnosträfling (1949)
In Those Days (1947)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1900-07-09
Deathday1989-02-16 (88 years old)
Birth PlacePrerau, Austria
CitizenshipsGermany, Austria
AwardsMedaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft (Hamburg), Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Schillerpreis der Stadt Mannheim
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