Evelyn Hamann
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Evelyn Hamann (born 6 August 1942 in Hamburg, Germany) is a well-known German actress.
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[edit] Life
Evelyn Hamann was born into a family of musicians: her father Bernhard Hamann was a violinist, the concertmaster of the NDR television company's symphony orchestra and founded the Hamann Quartet; her mother was a singer and music teacher, and her brother Gerhard was a professor of cello at Trossingen School of Music. Evelyn Hamann liked to keep her private life out of the public eye, so little is known about her life off-camera. She was divorced once and lives in Hamburg.
[edit] Education and first work
After an acting course at Hamburg University of Music and the Performing Arts, where she was taught by Eduard Marks, among others, Hamann started a career on the stage. She took on small roles at the Thalia Theater, and from 1968 her stage career took her to Göttingen, Heidelberg and Bremen, where she played Marthe Schwertlein in Goethe's Urfaust.
[edit] Breakthrough
In 1976, Evelyn Hamann first became known to a wide television audience by acting with Loriot in a large number of comedy sketches. With her straight face and dry Hanseatic humour, she wrote television history as "Fräulein Hildegard" battling for love with her stuffy boss, or as "Frau Hoppenstedt" proud of her "yodelling degree" which would give her something to build a career on when the children left home.
In one famous scene, Die Englische Ansage ("The English Announcement") [1], Hamann plays a television presenter describing the plot of an English television series with a plethora of English "th"-sound names she becomes less and less able to pronounce as the sketch progresses - "North Cothelstone Hall" "Lord und Lady Hesketh-Fortescue" etc.
Hamann also had supporting roles in the Loriot films Ödipussi (1987) and Pappa ante Portas (1991).
Hamann remained popular into the 1980s, playing the part of housekeeper Karsta Michaelis in the television series Die Schwarzwaldklinik (The Black Forest Clinic) and later playing "Thea" in the weekly medical drama Der Landarzt (The Country Doctor).
Since 1992 she has acted in the title role of the successful ARD television series Adelheid und ihre Mörder (Adelheid and her murderers) along with Heinz Baumann.
[edit] Literary readings
Evelyn Hamann has also made a name for herself by reading authors' works at literary readings and for audiobooks, including Patricia Highsmith's crime thrillers.
[edit] Some roles
[edit] Television
- 1985-1989 - Die Schwarzwaldklinik
- 1987 - Evelyn und die Männer
- 1989/1991/1992 - Der Millionenerbe
- 1989/1991/1992 - Kein pflegeleichter Fall
- 1991 - Glückliche Reise
- 1992 - Vater braucht eine Frau
- 1992-1999 - Evelyn Hamann Specials
- 1993-2005 - Evelyn Hamanns Geschichten aus dem Leben
- 1992-2006 - Adelheid und ihre Mörder
- 1995 - Das Traumschiff
- 1998 - Wut im Bauch
- 1999 - Ehe-Bruch
[edit] Film
[edit] Awards
- 1977 - Goldene Kamera ("Best supporting role" with Loriot)
- 1987 - Goldene Kamera (3rd place for "Best Comedy" for "Evelyn und die Männer")
- 1993 - Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1997 - Telestar "Best actress in a series" for "Adelheid und ihre Mörder"
- 1997 - Bayerischer Fernsehpreis "Best actress in a series" for Beste "Adelheid und ihre Mörder"
- 1997 - Goldene Kamera
- 1998 - Honorary Superintendant of the Bavarian Police Force
- 2000 - Deutscher Videopreis (with Loriot)
- 2002 - Münchhausen-Preis
- Goldener Löwe
[edit] Source
- Much of this article was translated from the German Wikipedia article of November 14, 2006
