Dorothea Wieck

Dorothea Wieck

Born: January 3, 1908
Died: February 20, 1986
in Davos, Switzerland
Dorothea Wieck, born Dora Bertha Olavia Wieck (3 January 1908 in Davos, Switzerland – 20 February 1986 in Berlin, West Germany), was a German theatre and film actress.

Wieck launched her acting career on stage in 1924 and made her screen debut in German films in 1926, appearing in several silent films. She became widely known through her leading role in the 1931 film Mädchen in Uniform (Girls in Uniform). Her American film debut came in Cradle Song (1933).

Wieck appeared in around 50 films and played on the stages of many large theatres, notably at the Deutsches Theater and the Schillertheater, Berlin. She also worked as a theatre director. After World War II, she appeared in films only in supporting roles, and she withdrew from films almost entirely in the early 1960s. In 1973, Wieck received the Film Ribbon in Gold of the Deutscher Filmpreis for long and outstanding achievements in German film.

Movies for Dorothea Wieck...

Title: Der Kommissar
Character: Frau Born
Released: January 3, 1969
Type: TV
Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.
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Title: Der Kommissar
Character: Irene Tucha
Released: January 3, 1969
Type: TV
Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.
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Bäume sterben aufrecht
Title: Bäume sterben aufrecht
Character: Großmutter
Released: June 2, 1967
Type: Movie
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Die Revolution entläßt ihre Kinder
Title: Die Revolution entläßt ihre Kinder
Character: Frau Leonhard
Released: May 21, 1962
Type: Movie
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Brainwashed
Title: Brainwashed
Character: Gräfin
Released: September 16, 1960
Type: Movie
Werner von Basil (a Austrian intellectual) was captured by the Nazi in 1938. The want to break him to confess smuggling. Without any mental sustenance, the only thing left to keep his mind busy is an old tactics book for chess.
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Die Nacht in Zaandam
Title: Die Nacht in Zaandam
Character: Mary
Released: February 11, 1960
Type: Movie
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Morgen wirst Du um mich weinen
Title: Morgen wirst Du um mich weinen
Character: Äbtissin
Released: September 30, 1959
Type: Movie
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Grand Hotel
Title: Grand Hotel
Character: Suzanne
Released: September 23, 1959
Type: Movie
Based on a book by Vicki Baum, all of the action takes place in one day in a luxury hotel in Berlin. Grusinkaya is a ballerina staying at the hotel, other guests include Baron von Gaigern a sophisticated thief, Otto Klingelein a dying man, Preysing a businessman, and a stenographer. Events intertwine the lives of these strangers, bringing them together for some dramatic moments.
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Notes from a Gynecologist's Diary
Title: Notes from a Gynecologist's Diary
Character: Sabine Hennemann
Released: March 24, 1959
Type: Movie
After a carnival celebration, young Erika Hansen is offered a lift by two young men in a car. The men become abusive. Erika rushes out of the car and is seriously injured. She is brought to a gynecoligal clinic for an acute operation.
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Maß für Maß
Title: Maß für Maß
Character: Nonne Franziska
Released: July 17, 1958
Type: Movie
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A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Title: A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Character: Frau Lieser
Released: July 9, 1958
Type: Movie
A German soldier home on leave falls in love with a girl, then returns to World War II.
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Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter
Title: Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter
Character: Großfürstin Olga Romanow
Released: September 26, 1956
Type: Movie
In 1920, an unknown 24-year-old woman was fished out of Berlin's Landwehr kanal after a suicide attempt. Since she has no papers and no answers to any questions, they soon assign them to the insane asylum Dallendorf. A co-patient believes she recognizes the Czar's daughter Anastasia Romanowa - who apparently was the only one who survived the murder of the tsar's family in 1918.
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Roman einer Siebzehnjährigen
Title: Roman einer Siebzehnjährigen
Character: Frau Berndorff
Released: November 4, 1955
Type: Movie
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Das Forsthaus in Tirol
Title: Das Forsthaus in Tirol
Character: Dorothee Attinger, Försterwitwe
Released: November 3, 1955
Type: Movie
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Der Froschkönig
Title: Der Froschkönig
Character: Fürstin Taun
Released: December 25, 1954
Type: Movie
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Der Mann meines Lebens
Title: Der Mann meines Lebens
Character: Schwester Brigitte
Released: March 26, 1954
Type: Movie
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Elephant Fury
Title: Elephant Fury
Character: Hella Thiele
Released: October 12, 1953
Type: Movie
German big game hunter brings elephants back from Africa safely through enemy lines, but they go on a stampede in Berlin. Filming began during WWII in Germany, but production was stopped because story showed Third Reich police and military having problems coping with an elephant stampede; after the War, it got completed by its originator, and exported to the US with English dubbed, while removing all references to its 1940s German origins!
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Behind Monastery Walls
Title: Behind Monastery Walls
Character: Subprioress
Released: April 21, 1952
Type: Movie
Thomas Holinka has returned home from war and captivity. In the absence of a suitable home, he finds himself in what seems to be an abandoned monastery. When the nuns return, a conflict is inevitable because Holinka is addicted to alcohol and gambling .
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No Greater Love
Title: No Greater Love
Character: Therese von Gobat
Released: February 29, 1952
Type: Movie
Directed by Harald Braun and told from the perspective of Bertha von Suttner, the first female to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, The Alfred Nobel Story - No Greater Love chronicles the life of scientist, inventor, and businessman Alfred Nobel. Nobel built a massive fortune throughout his life, and while much if it was amassed by his inventions--dynamite being perhaps the most notable--he was also revered for his discoveries within the fields of science and economics. Upon his death, Nobel decided that his fortune was simply too great to continue in the form of an inheritance or single charitable donation, opting instead to use the money as reward for the greatest contributors to physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and, of course, peace.
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Das seltsame Leben des Herrn Bruggs
Title: Das seltsame Leben des Herrn Bruggs
Character: Fräulein Holder
Released: August 9, 1951
Type: Movie
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Title: Deutscher Filmpreis
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: TV
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City in the Fog
Title: City in the Fog
Character: Mrs. Berling
Released: March 3, 1950
Type: Movie
In the Danish port city of Belgesund, the caretaker of a private high school has fallen victim to murder. Detective Thomsen takes on the case and finds that behind the clean facade there are abysses. He has five suspects in mind: the teacher Berling, who is having a relationship with a student, the twin brother and sole heir of the murdered man, the murdered man's shady roommate, the primary school teacher Klaus Erikson and his brother Jakob.
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Mordprozeß Dr. Jordan
Title: Mordprozeß Dr. Jordan
Character: Constanze Jordan
Released: October 26, 1949
Type: Movie
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Leb’ wohl, Christina
Title: Leb’ wohl, Christina
Character: Julia von Gallas
Released: January 1, 1945
Type: Movie
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Inviati speciali
Title: Inviati speciali
Character: Lidia Warren
Released: April 27, 1943
Type: Movie
An Italian film from 1943.
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Andreas Schlüter
Title: Andreas Schlüter
Character: Kurfürstin Charlotte
Released: September 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Historical drama portraying the life of German baroque architect Andreas Schlüter.
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Kopf hoch, Johannes!
Title: Kopf hoch, Johannes!
Character: Julieta Merck
Released: March 11, 1941
Type: Movie
The exploits of a young German youth during World War II in Argentina.
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Dein Leben gehört mir
Title: Dein Leben gehört mir
Released: October 31, 1939
Type: Movie
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Der Vierte kommt nicht
Title: Der Vierte kommt nicht
Character: Dr. med. Irene Andersen
Released: March 9, 1939
Type: Movie
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Die gelbe Flagge
Title: Die gelbe Flagge
Character: Krankenschwester Dolores
Released: October 11, 1937
Type: Movie
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Liebe kann lügen
Title: Liebe kann lügen
Character: Sigrid Mallé
Released: August 2, 1937
Type: Movie
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Die unmögliche Frau
Title: Die unmögliche Frau
Character: Ileana Manescu
Released: April 2, 1936
Type: Movie
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The Student of Prague
Title: The Student of Prague
Character: Julia Stella, Opernsängerin
Released: December 10, 1935
Type: Movie
Prague in the 1860s: Balduin is a popular, handsome student, the best fencer in town, in amicable rivalry with his friend Dahl for the affections of Lydia, the innkeeper's niece. While the students are celebrating Lydia's birthday, the opera singer Julia Stella arrives at the inn - and Balduin's life begins to unravel. He is immediately infatuated with the glamorous singer - but she is already kept by an admirer, the wealthy and foppish Baron Waldis. How can a poor student hope to compete? The mysterious Dr. Carpis, who also has ties to Julia and is jealous of the Baron, intervenes. But the price will be higher than Balduin can ever imagine. He risks his sanity and his life - perhaps his very soul - haunted by his own reflection.
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Der stählerne Strahl
Title: Der stählerne Strahl
Character: Enja
Released: January 29, 1935
Type: Movie
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Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Title: Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Character: Miss Madeline Fane
Released: January 12, 1934
Type: Movie
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.
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Cradle Song
Title: Cradle Song
Character: Joanna
Released: November 19, 1933
Type: Movie
In a deeply cloistered convent, nun Dorothea Wieck (Mädchen in Uniform) raises a foundling to be Evelyn Venable. But at 17, what if, guided by a kindly doctor, she sees the world and finds love?
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Anna and Elizabeth
Title: Anna and Elizabeth
Character: Elisabeth, Gutsherrin von Salis
Released: April 12, 1933
Type: Movie
The two main people in the story are Anna, a young girl, who is thought of having the ability to heal people mysteriously. Elisabeth is a young - middle aged aristocratic woman, that is disabled and puts all her hopes in meeting Anna and having her disability heal by her. A strange ambivalent relationship develops between the two women.
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Trenck - Der Roman einer großen Liebe
Title: Trenck - Der Roman einer großen Liebe
Character: Amalie, Prinzessin von Preußen
Released: October 27, 1932
Type: Movie
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Theodor Körner
Title: Theodor Körner
Character: Toni Adamberger
Released: October 3, 1932
Type: Movie
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Countess Mariza
Title: Countess Mariza
Character: Gräfin Mariza
Released: September 15, 1932
Type: Movie
When Gräfin Mariza visits her country estate it is certainly an event. She gives a party to celebrate her engagement to a certain Koloman Zsupan, who unexpectedly shows up. Her authoritarian ways collide with Török, her manager. Based on Emerich Kálmán operetta.
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Teilnehmer antwortet nicht
Title: Teilnehmer antwortet nicht
Character: Doris
Released: August 18, 1932
Type: Movie
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A Mad Idea
Title: A Mad Idea
Character: Mabel Miller
Released: May 12, 1932
Type: Movie
A series of stupid coincidences causes the young Munich painter Paul to convert his uncle's castle into a hotel for four weeks. But he can't complain: business is good and he has plenty of guests. For exmple, there's Theo Muller with his revue troupe. For reasons of "sound", Muller calls himself "Miller", which, of course, causes more confusion. His daughter, the beautiful Evelyn, is confused with Mabel Miller, who has come to the hotel on a mission for her filthy rich father ... namely, to estimate the worth of the castle.
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Mädchen in Uniform
Title: Mädchen in Uniform
Character: Erzieherin Fräulein von Bernburg
Released: November 27, 1931
Type: Movie
A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers.
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Der Fremdenlegionär
Title: Der Fremdenlegionär
Character: Lore
Released: March 1, 1928
Type: Movie
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Hast Du geliebt am schönen Rhein?
Title: Hast Du geliebt am schönen Rhein?
Character: Lieselotte
Released: November 7, 1927
Type: Movie
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Sturmflut
Title: Sturmflut
Released: September 29, 1927
Type: Movie
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I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg
Title: I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg
Character: Klärchen
Released: July 13, 1926
Type: Movie
The title alludes to the popular 1925 song I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg composed by Fred Raymond with lyrics by Fritz Löhner-Beda and Ernst Neubach. The film taps into the nostalgic reputation of Old Heidelberg.