Ellen Widmann

She was the daughter of the writer Max Widmann and granddaughter of the writer Joseph Viktor Widman. Her theatrical career began in 1914 in Germany. Back in Switzerland she played from 1939, twenty years at the Schauspielhaus in Zurich. She founded in 1951, the Kammersprechchor Zurich, is also on the European tour, went and was for the Radio to operate. Her first two film roles, she played in Germany, directed by Fritz Lang and Erwin Piscator. In the Swiss dialect film was from 1939 to see. Between 1939 and 1942, she was three times with her husband in front of the camera. After 1963 increased their television broadcasting activities. Ellen Widmann was since 1924 with Adolf Manz married. After her was in 1996 at the Zurich Oerlikon Ellen-Widmann-Weg and in the year 2000, in the Swiss quarter in Berlin, Ellen-Widmann-Pfad named.