Wera Blanke (née Paintner) is a German actress and Esperantist. Born in 1933 to a pair of actors, she acted both on stage and for television throughout her career. Blanke began activity in the Esperanto community in 1976, writing several books about Esperanto-language terminology.
Wera Blanke | |
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 Blanke in 2010 | |
| Born | Wera Paintner March 2, 1933 |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, Esperantist |
| Spouse(s) | Wolfgang Dehler (married 1960-1969); Detlev Blanke (married 1986) |
Early life
editBlanke was born in Leipzig on 2 March 1933, to actors Martin Flörchinger and Ruth Trumpp.[1] She made her theatre-debut at the age of six, as a child actor at a theatre in Bochum. She often moved cities through her childhood according to where her parents were acting: she would often appear on stage with her parents, for example in theatres in Königsberg and Munich.[2]
Career
editAfter graduating in 1951 in Schondorf, Bavaria, Blanke worked as a technician at Bavaria Film[1] and Aktiengesellschaft für Filmfabrikation, before applying to study theatre at the Staatlichen Schauspielschule Berlin (known today as the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts) in Berlin. In 1956, she moved from Munich to Leipzig in East Germany, where her father was acting.[3] During her studies, she worked as an actress at the Volksbühne theatre in Berlin, and from 1958 the Young World Theatre in Leipzig, the Landestheater Altenburg, and the Nationaltheater Weimar.[1] Blanke also worked as an actress in productions by Deutscher Fernsehfunk, such as Maria Diehl's Daring (Das Wagnis der Maria Diehl), several episodes of the detective series Polizeiruf 110, and Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort.
Around 1967, after acting in Bitterfelder Weges, Blanke went to the East German agricultural cooperative Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaft, where she worked as a chicken keeper; she kept a journal during this time, which appeared as a manuscript under the title Of Chickens and Humans (Von Hühnern und Menschen).[4] From 1967 to 1971, Paintner worked as a lecturer at the Staatlichen Schauspielschule Berlin (where she had previously studied), from 1972 to 1982 and worked as an occupational and expressive therapist[1] at the Wilhelm Griesinger Hospital. Blanke continued acting roles during her time as a teacher; she played roles in televised films, radio dramas, and dubbed foreign media into German. Blanke also presented a program about literature, in which she presented some of her own fables and poems[3]
Blanke married fellow actor Wolfgang Dehler in 1960, having three children with him during a nine-year marriage; their son Thomas Dehler, is also an actor. In 1986, she married the interlinguist and Esperantist Detlev Blanke (died 2016), who was a lecturer at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
Esperanto
editBlanke began working with the International auxiliary language Esperanto in 1976, becoming convinced of its potential after visiting the 1978 World Esperanto Congress in Varna, Bulgaria.[5] Starting work on issues of terminology in Esperanto in the early 1980s,[6] in 1985, Blanke (then under the name of Wera Dehler)[3] proposed an Esperanto terminological centre, together with Humphrey Tonkin,[3] in a report entitled Terminologia Esperanto-Centro: Spertoj, Problemoj, Perspektivoj (Esperanto Terminological Centre: Experiences, Problems, Perspectives), leading to the Terminologia Esperanto-Centro being established and funded by the Universal Esperanto Association in 1987.
Together with her second husband, Detlev Blanke, Blanke has published several books and articles in and about Esperanto, and given lectured about Esperantists in the field of terminology, such as Eugen Wüster, Ernest Drezen, and Alfred Werner. In 2006, Blanke was awarded the Eugen-Wüster-Sonderpreis by Infoterm, and was made an honorary member of the German Esperanto Association in 2018.[citation needed]
Bibliography
editBooks
edit- Blanke, Wera; Blanke, Detlev (2013). Pri terminologia laboro en Esperanto: elektitaj publikaĵoj. Nov-Jorko [New York]: Mondial. ISBN 978-1-59569-257-3.
- Blanke, Wera (2008). Esperanto: Terminologie und Terminologiearbeit. New York: Mondial. ISBN 978-1-59569-077-7.
- Blanke, Wera (1989-01-31), Schubert, Klaus (ed.), "Terminological standardization – its roots and fruits in planned languages", Interlinguistics, Berlin, New York: DE GRUYTER MOUTON, doi:10.1515/9783110886115.277, ISBN 978-3-11-088611-5, retrieved 2023-08-21
Articles
edit- Blanke, Wera (1990-01-01). "Terminologio en Esperanto". Language Problems and Language Planning. 14 (1): 64–65. doi:10.1075/lplp.14.1.06ter. ISSN 0272-2690.
Filmography
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Das Wagnis der Maria Diehl | ||
| 1962 | Aufruhr in der Scymore-Street | ||
| 1964 | Das Doppelzimmer | ||
| 1967 | Das Mädchen an der Orga Privat | ||
| 1968 | Der Kristallspiegel | ||
| 1968 | Das Vertrauen | ||
| 1969 | Hans Beimler, Kamerad | ||
| 1970-1990 | Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort | Six episodes | |
| 1970 | Ich – Axel Cäsar Springer | ||
| 1971 | Salut Germain | ||
| 1972 | Täter unbekannt | ||
| 1972 | Meine Schwester Tilli | ||
| 1972 | Weimarer Pitaval: Um den Tod eines Justizobersekretärs | ||
| 1972 | Die Bilder des Zeugen Schattman | ||
| 1973 | Aller Liebe Anfang | ||
| 1973 | Zement | ||
| 1974 | Spätsaison | ||
| 1976 | Requiem für Hans Grundig | ||
| 1984 | Mit 40 hat man noch Träume | ||
| 1984-1988 | Polizeiruf 110 | Five episodes | |
| 1986 | Rund um die Uhr | Two episodes | |
| 1987 | Kiezgeschichten | ||
| 1988 | Der Vogel | ||
| 1988 | Zahn um Zahn | ||
| 1988 | Ein besserer Herr | ||
| 1988 | Fallada – Letztes Kapitel | ||
| 1990 | Silberdistel | ||
| 1990 | Alter Schwede | ||
| 1991 | Feuerwache 09 | ||
| 1991 | Mit Herz und Robe | ||
| 1991 | Agentur Herz | ||
| 1993 | Fraktur |
References
editCitations
edit- ^ a b c d Kosch & Bigler-Marschall 2016, p. 367.
- ^ Blanke 2013, p. 4.
- ^ a b c d Blanke 2013, p. 5.
- ^ "Bücher gegen das Vergessen". www.erinnerungsbibliothek-ddr.de. Retrieved 2023-08-21.
- ^ Blanke 2013, p. 6.
- ^ Fiedler 2008, p. 8.
Sources
edit- Habel, Frank-Burkhard; Wachter, Volker; Kretzschmar, Harald (2002). Das grosse Lexikon der DDR-Stars: Schauspieler aus Film und Fernsehen (Überarb. und erw. Neuausg ed.). Berlin: Schwarzkopf und Schwarzkopf. ISBN 978-3-89602-391-9.
- Kosch, Wilhelm; Bigler-Marschall, Ingrid (2016). Deutsches Theater-Lexikon: biographisches und bibliographisches Handbuch (in German). Berlin: De Gruyter. p. 367. ISBN 978-3-11-036175-9.
- Blanke, Detlev (2013). "La biografio" [The biography]. Pri terminologia laboro en Esperanto: elektitaj publikaĵoj (in Esperanto). Nov-Jorko [New York]: Mondial. pp. 4–6. ISBN 978-1-59569-257-3.
- Fiedler, Sabine (2008). "Vorwort" [Forword]. Esperanto: Terminologie und Terminologiearbeit (in German). New York: Mondial. pp. 7–9. ISBN 978-1-59569-077-7.
External links
edit- Blanke's report outlining the need for a terminological centre for Esperanto.