Elma Potgieter

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Elma Potgieter (19**-) Stage, film and TV Actress.

Biography

She is married to the actor Schalk Jacobsz.

Youth

Training

Studied at the University of Pretoria.

Trained as a singer with Otto Albrecht Lewald, a young German musician who later immigrated to South Africa and played an important role in South African music circles, then with Sylvia Factor.

Career

After her studies she worked as a journalist and then joined CAPAB.

In 1980 she and Schalk Jacobsz founded an Afrikaans production company called Die Bywoners ("The share-croppers") in Johannesburg, which aimed at producing independent, indigenous works in Afrikaans.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

She starred in the Die Bywoners production of the first translation of the Athol Fugard play Hello and Goodbye called Hallo en Koebaai, directed by Jan Engelen and also starring Schalk Jacobsz at Upstairs at the Market in 1981.

Other productions include Die Eensame Vlug, Darling Blossom, the radio drama Die Beskermengel and Voete van Goud,

They did Hallo & Koebaai for TV with Bill Flynn & Yvonne Bryceland.

She adapted Die Jaar Toe my Ma begin Sing het for the stage entitled Moervrug. She translated and adapted The Typists into Afrikaans.

Had a singing role in Jacques Brel for Taubie Kushlik.

Sources

Tucker, 1997. 400.

SACD 1977/78; SACD1979/80.


Awards, etc

Nominated for Rapport Oscar in 1979.


Sources

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