German actor Hannelore Elsner

German actor Hannelore Elsner

Cork Film Festival, Hannelore Elsner, Germany

This is a black and white photo of the German actor Hannelore Elsner, wearing a heart-patterned dress, looking up at the camera smiling. Elsner’s long-standing career ended only with her death in 2019, age 77. In the early 1970s Elsner appeared in The Stuff That Dreams are Made Of (Alfred Vohrer, 1972) and the German drama film Trip to Vienna (Edgar Reitz, 1973) with the German actor Ferdy Mayne, who also came to the Cork Film Festival in 1972.

Elsner is best remembered in Germany for playing the title role of Inspector Lea Sommer, in a long-running German TV series Die Kommissarin (The Inspector) which ran from 1994 to 2006. She also played the lead role in the highly acclaimed black-and-white film Die Unberührbare (No Place to Go) (Oskar Roehler, 2000) based on the life of novelist Gisela Elstner, the mother of the director. The film went to the Cannes Film Festival and won Elsner the Deutscher Filmpreis (German Film Award) for Best Actress. In his review, The New York Times critic, A.O. Scott, notes that Elsner “holds the screen with the intensity of a silent-film goddess.” (Melissa Eddy, ‘Hannelore Elsner, Compelling German actor, is dead at 76,’ The New York Times, 10.05.2019.)

University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, Donal Sheehan

Cork Film Festival Collection

University College Cork

1972

Donal Sheehan

Photo
TIFF
JPEG

English, eng

1972
Cork, Ireland

Photo

202 x 256mm