Hélène Güldenpfennig

Hélène Güldenpfennig. (19**-19*) Actress, director, teacher.

Training
Went abroad for further study in 1930.

Career
Went abroad in 1930, returned to Pretoria as a teacher of elocution and voice.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Performed in Stephanie Fauré's Ampie (Jochem van Bruggen, 1930).

Acted in Leonie Pienaar and Company's Die Veroweraar (Simons-Mees, 1933/4).

Active in the formation of Ons Teatertjie (later the Volksteater) in Pretoria in 1935. Appeared for them in Ousus (H.A. Fagan, 1936), *

Directed Katrina (P.W.S. Schumann, 1937), Die Meul Dreun (1939).

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