Marianne Simson – Wikipedia Wikipedia

Marianne Lena Elisabeth Clara Simson (Born July 29, 1920 in Berlin, † July 15, 1992 in Füssen) was a German actress.

Marianne Simson was born in Berlin in 1920 as the daughter of the insurance employee John Eduard Simson (1885–1945) and his wife Frida, born Kühl (1888–1979). She is the sister of Wolfsburg Mayor Helmut Simson (1916–2013). In 1935 she joined the “Federation of German Mälle” (BDM). She received an apprenticeship in the classic dance from Victor Gsovsky and became a dancer in 1935 at the Nollendorftheater in Berlin. In 1936 she became a dancer at the German Opera House in Berlin and in 1939 at the State Theater under Gustaf Gründgens.

In the same year she embodied the Snow White in the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . Your best -known role should be that of the woman in the moon in Münchhausen (1943). In 1944 it stood in the Gottbeknadten list of the Reich Ministry for People’s Enlightenment and Propaganda. ^[first]

In 1943 Simson submitted an application for membership in the NSDAP, which was rejected. In July 1944, she showed Fritz Goes, a then major of the Wehrmacht, at the Gestapo because he had positively commented on Hitler in her presence. Goes was then abused in the Gestapo custody for three months. In the interrogation by the SS Obersturmbannführer Karl Radl (adjutant by Otto Skorzeny) and in the court hearing before a special court of the army, she held on to her statement, which was evaluated as unbelievable: statements, among others. by Victor de Kowa, Anneliese Uhlig, the film producer Herbert Engelsing and General Jesco von Puttkamer ensured the defendant’s acquittal. As a result, Simson complained to Joseph Goebbels that her denunciation was not believed.

In May 1945, Marianne Simson, together with her parents, was accused of being employed by Gestapo by the operational group of the NKWD Charlottenburg and brought to the Ketschendorf special camp. Her father died there in July 1945. In January 1947 she came to the Jamlitz special camp and in April 1947 in special camps No. 1 Mühlberg. In 1948 she was moved to special camps No. 2 Buchenwald. ^[2] In 1950 she was sentenced to eight years of prison as part of the Waldheim processes. In 1952 it was released prematurely in the course of a general amnesty. She moved to the Federal Republic, where her application for load compensation, for her time in captivity, was rejected by the courts (according to Fritz Goes).

In 1953 Marianne Simson received an engagement at the Württemberg State Bühne Esslingen and at the theater “Die Island” in Karlsruhe. Later she played in Oldenburg and as a guest in the Konstanz city theater. In 1971 she became head of the “Voluntary Social Year” project in the Parity Welfare Association Schwaben-Allgäu.

Marianne Simson was married to the director Wilhelm List-Diehl (1915–1992) and died in Füssen in the Allgäu in 1992.

• Gwendolyn von Ambesser: The rats enter the falling ship – the absurd life of Leo Reuss. Publish publisher AVI, Lich / Hip / HIFT 2005, ISBN 3-936049-47-57
• Anneliese Uhlig: Rosenkavalier’s child. Herbig Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-8118-4101-7
• Kay less: The big person lexicon of the film. The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film chitors, outfitters, costume designers, cutters, sound engineers, makeup artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Band 7: R – T. Robert Ryan – Lily Tomlin. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3, p. 334.

1. ↑ Simson, Marianne . In: Theodor Kellenter: The godwing: Hitler’s list of irreplaceable artists . Kiel: ARDTT, 2020 ISBN 978-3-88741-290-6, S. 407
2. ↑ Michael H. Kater: Weimar: From Enlightenment to the Present. , Yale University Press, 2014, S. 275, ISBN 978-0-300-17056-6