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Jenny Gröllmann

Date of Birth
02/05/1947 - 12:00
Geburtsort
Hamburg
Sterbedatum
08/09/2006 - 12:00
Sterbeort
Berlin
Biography

Jenny Gröllmann was born February 5, 1947, in Hamburg, as the daughter of the production designer Otto Gröllmann and his wife Gertrud, a theatre photographer. In 1949, the family relocated to Schwerin, and in 1955 further moved to Dresden. While still at school, the 14-year old Gröllmann played the title role in Brecht's "Die Gesichte der Simone Machard". From 1963 to 1966, she studied at Staatliche Schauspielschule Berlin and became a member of the cast of Maxim Gorki Theater in 1966.

From 1966 on, Gröllmann also worked for film and TV productions. After her movie debut as a student in Ulrich Thein's part "Die Prüfung" for the episodic film "Geschichten jener Nacht", Konrad Wolf cast her in a supporting role as a shy German girl in "Ich war neunzehn" ("I Was Nineteen"). In contemporary DEFA and TV productions, Gröllmann most often portrayed confident, cheerful, and sometimes snappish young women.

Gröllmann played her first leading role in Ingrid Reschke's "Kennen Sie Urban?" based on Ulrich Plenzdorf's screen play. She also played the leading role of Betty Lienau in the third part of the TV series "Eva und Adam": Betty, a girl from a broken home, comes out on top against adverse conditions though suffering several setbacks. In Ulrich Thein's TV multi-part TV movie "Broddi", Gröllmann starred as Christine, the female counterpart to the title hero Jochen Brodalla (Christian Grashof), a confident, yet needy girl that falls in love with the social outcast without prejudice.

In 1981/82, Ulrich Weiß cast her as Renate for his unconventional film version of Willi Bredel's German resistance novel "Dein unbekannter Bruder" ("Your Unknown Brother"). In Herrmann Zschoche's romantic Hölderlin portrait "Hälfte des Lebens", Gröllmann played Susette Gontard, the poet"s married lover. She also caused a stir with her urgent portrayal of an alcoholic in Helmut Krätzig's "Polizeiruf 110" crime series episode "Unheil aus der Flasche".

During the following years, Gröllmann mainly appeared in TV movies and series and became famous for her part as attorney Isenthal in the TV series "Liebling Kreuzberg" and as Iris in the popular series "Iris & Violetta". She also regularly appeared in "Tatort" episodes and in the TV series "Unser Lehrer Doktor Specht".

From 1984 to 1990, Jenny Gröllmann, the mother of Jeanne Gröllmann and Anna Maria Mühe, was married to actor Ulrich Mühe, who later accused her that she had been a collaborator of the Stasi, the East German secret police, and had been spying on him. In 2006, Mühe was prohibited to further express his allegations because there was no authoritative evidence of Gröllmann's collaboration.

Gröllmann had suffered from cancer already in 1999 but was able to temporarily fight off the disease. But on August 9, 2006, Jenny Gröllmann died in Berlin from cancer.

Filmography
2004-2008
Ich will da sein - Jenny Gröllmann
  • Participation
2005
Leiden wie ein Tier
  • Cast
2003/2004
Erbsen auf halb 6
  • Cast
1999/2000
Verzweiflung
  • Cast
1996-1999
Nur für eine Nacht
  • Cast
1997
Mord für eine Schlagzeile
  • Cast
1995
Unschuldig verurteilt?
  • Cast
1995
Der Killer im Nachtexpreß
  • Cast
1995
Zeuge der Anklage
  • Cast
1993/1994
Iris & Violetta
  • Cast
1993
Wer zweimal lügt
  • Cast
1992/1993
Rache
  • Cast
1992/1993
Berlin - Beste Lage
  • Cast
1990
Der kleine Herr Friedemann
  • Cast
1990
Die Ritter der Tafelrunde
  • Cast
1988
Flüssige Waffe
  • Cast
1987
Die erste Reihe. Bilder aus dem Berliner Widerstand
  • Cast
1986/1987
Künstler, König und Modell
  • Cast
1985/1986
Das Buschgespenst
  • Cast
1984/1985
Hälfte des Lebens
  • Cast
1983/1984
Heiße Ware in Berlin
  • Cast
1983/1984
Isabel auf der Treppe
  • Cast
1983/1984
Draußen am See
  • Cast
1982/1983
Es geht einer vor die Hunde
  • Cast
1982/1983
Die Spur des 13. Apostels
  • Cast
1982
Dein unbekannter Bruder
  • Cast
1979/1980
Ernste Spiele
  • Cast
1979
Natalja dir, dir Isaak
  • Cast
1977/1978
Bonnys Blues
  • Cast
1976/1977
Die Flucht
  • Cast
1973-1975
Sei sauber, wenn Du ankommst
  • Cast
1973-1975
Glück auf - Glück ab
  • Cast
1973-1975
Der Tischherr
  • Cast
1973/1974
Ich bin ein junger Pionier
  • Voice
1973
Eva und Adam oder Drum prüfe!
  • Cast
1971/1972
Die Maske
  • Cast
1971
Filmemacher
  • Cast
1970/1971
Kennen Sie Urban?
  • Cast
1970
Netzwerk
  • Cast
1967/1968
Ich war neunzehn
  • Cast
1966/1967
Geschichten jener Nacht. EP 2: Die Prüfung
  • Cast
1967
Der Augenzeuge [Jg. 1967 / Nr. 021]
  • Participation
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