Jenny Gröllmann (5 February 1947 – 9 August 2006) was a German actress, best known for her work on films ''

I Was Nineteen ''I Was Nineteen'' (german: Ich war neunzehn) is a 1968 East German film produced by Konrad Wolf for the DEFA studio. The film tells the story of a young German, Gregor Hecker (Jaecki Schwarz), who fled the Nazis with his parents to Moscow and ...

'' (1968), '' Peas at 5:30'' (2004) and her recurring role on the show ''

Polizeiruf 110 ''Polizeiruf 110'' ("Police call 110") is a long-running German-language detective television series likened to Poirot. The name links to the emergency telephone number of the ''Volkspolizei''. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the ...

''. She won an Ernst Zinna Prize of the city of Berlin in 1974."Ich muss das zu Ende bringen - meinetwegen bis zum Tod"
(in German)

Biography

Gröllmann was born in

Hamburg (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgian(s) , timezone1 = Central (CET) , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = Central (CEST) , utc_offset1_DST = +2 , postal ...

, the daughter of Gertrud, a theater photographer and Otto,

stage designer Scenic design (also known as scenography, stage design, or set design) is the creation of theatrical, as well as film or television scenery. Scenic designers come from a variety of artistic backgrounds, but in recent years, are mostly trained ...

. In 1949, the family moved to the Soviet zone of occupation in

Schwerin Schwerin (; Mecklenburgisch dialect, Mecklenburgian Low German: ''Swerin''; Latin: ''Suerina'', ''Suerinum'') is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Germany, second-largest city of the northeastern States of Germany, German ...

and in 1955 they moved to

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...

, where the father had been given a new job. In 1961, she played the main role in

Bertolt Brecht Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a pl ...

's play

The Visions of Simone Machard ''The Visions of Simone Machard'' (german: Die Gesichte der Simone Machard, links=no) is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. Written in 1942, the play is the second of three treatments of the Joan of Arc story that Brecht crea ...

Death

Gröllmann died of

breast cancer Breast cancer is cancer that develops from breast tissue. Signs of breast cancer may include a lump in the breast, a change in breast shape, dimpling of the skin, milk rejection, fluid coming from the nipple, a newly inverted nipple, or a re ...

on 6 August 2006 in Berlin. She was 59 years old.

Selected filmography

*'' Netzwerk'' (1970) *'' Peas at 5:30'' (2004) Broddi 1975

References

External links

* 1947 births 2006 deaths 20th-century German actresses Actresses from Hamburg German film actresses German television actresses Deaths from cancer in Germany Deaths from breast cancer {{Germany-actor-stub