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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. A violinist is an instrumentalist who plays the violin. ... Concert-master. ... Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) covers the 5 northernmost states of Germany. ... Orchestra at City Hall (Edmonton). ... Ercole de Roberti performing the song Freinds Of P: Concert, c. ... The violoncello, almost always abbreviated to cello, or cello (the c is pronounced as the ch in cheese), is a stringed instrument and a member of the violin family. ... Trossingen is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ...

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. The Thalia Theater is one of the three state-owned theatres in Hamburg, Germany. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Göttingen ( ) is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany. ... A view of the city from the castle (Schloss) The castle (Schloss) above the town Shopping district Heidelberg and the other cities of the Neckar valley View from the so called alley of philosophers (Philosophenweg) towards the Old Town, with Heidelberg Castle, Heiliggeist Church and the Old Bridge Heidelberg is... Bremen may mean: Bremen (city), the city in Germany itself Bremen Airport Bremen (state), which comprises the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven Archbishopric of Bremen, a historical state to the north of the city Duchy of Bremen, a historical state created on the secularization of the archbishopric in 1648 Bremen... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. ...

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. 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Bernhard Victor Christoph Carl von Bülow (short: Vicco von Bülow, born November 12, 1923), more commonly known under the pseudonym Loriot, is a German humorist, graphic artist and director. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

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. Th is a digraph in the Roman alphabet. ...

Hamann also had supporting roles in the Loriot films Ödipussi (1987) and Pappa ante Portas (1991). 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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. 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Current logo ARD (Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland – the Consortium of public-law broadcasting institutions of the Federal Republic of Germany), is a joint organization of Germanys regional public broadcasting agencies. ...

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. An audio book is a recording of the contents of a book read aloud. ... Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 - February 4, 1995) was an American novelist who is known mainly for her psychological crime thrillers. ...

Some roles

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

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Film

• 1987 - Ödipussi
• 1990 - Pappa ante Portas

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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

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Source

Much of this article was translated from the German Wikipedia article of November 14, 2006

See also

• Loriot
• German television comedy
• List of German language comedians

Bernhard Victor Christoph Carl von Bülow (short: Vicco von Bülow, born November 12, 1923), more commonly known under the pseudonym Loriot, is a German humorist, graphic artist and director. ... German television comedy: Germany has a long tradition of television comedy stretching as far back as the 1950s, and with its origins in cabaret and radio. ... This is a list of German language comedians. ...

External links

• Works by and about Evelyn Hamann in the German National Library catalogue
• Short biography in German