Ingeborg Hoffmann (July 1, 1921 – March 27, 1985) was a German actress and the first wife of the writer

Michael Ende Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende (12 November 1929 – 28 August 1995) was a German writer of fantasy and children's fiction. He is known for his epic fantasy '' The Neverending Story'' (with its 1980s film adaptation and a 1995 animated television ...

Life and career

Hoffmann was born in

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. She started her career on stage in her youth and performed at theatres in

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and

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during pre-war times. In 1940 she had her first character portrayal in Joe Stöckel's The Sinful Village. During World War II Ingeborg Hoffmann participated in plays which were part of the ''Truppenbetreuung'' (Engl.: troop welfare) and married an army doctor in 1942. One year later she gave birth to her only son, Michael. After her marriage had failed, she returned to

and picked up her career in theatres and

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s again. Other engagements led her to

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and Zürich. Furthermore, she worked as a dubbing actor for the channel ''Radio München''. In 1950 she starred in Paul Verhoeven's Heart of Stone. In 1952 she met Michael Ende, with whom she was in a relationship for the rest of her life. Hoffmann linked Ende to the booming Kabarett scene of Munich, for which he wrote sketches, e.g. for a theatre group called ''Die Kleinen Fische'' (English: The Small Fishes). They were married in 1960 and moved to Italy. Her influence on Michael Ende's artistic work and his children's and young people's classics, that are famous worldwide, is said to be immense. She died in

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of a

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, only a few days after she had seen

The NeverEnding Story ''The Neverending Story'' () is a fantasy novel by German writer Michael Ende, published in 1979. The first English translation, by Ralph Manheim, was published in 1983. It was later adapted into a film series and a television series. Plot T ...

in 1985.vgl. Boccarius, Peter: Michael Ende, Frankfurt/M 1995, S. 244

Audio books

* 1953:

Carl Zuckmayer Carl Zuckmayer (27 December 1896 – 18 January 1977) was a German writer and playwright. His older brother was the pedagogue, composer, conductor, and pianist Eduard Zuckmayer. His first two dramas were failures. In 1929, he wrote the script ...

: ''Ulla Winblad oder Musik und Leben des Carl Michael Bellmann'' (English: Ulla Winblad or the music and life of Carl Michael Bellmann) - directed by Walter Ohm

References

External links

Ingeborg Hoffmann
in the

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Article on the relationship between Michael Ende and Ingeborg Hoffmann
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hoffmann, Ingeborg German film actresses German stage actresses Audiobook narrators 1921 births 1985 deaths Actresses from Munich