Hélène Güldenpfennig
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Hélène Güldenpfennig. (19**-19*) Actress, director, teacher.
Contents
Biography
Youth
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).
Awards, etc
Sources
See Binge, 1969, Du Toit, 1988. [TH, JH]
Return to
Return to ESAT Personalities G
Return to South African Theatre Personalities
Return to The ESAT Entries
Return to Main Page
