Eveline Braun, commonly known as Evelyn Hamann, was a German actress best known for her work with popular German comedian Loriot as well as for her appearances in television series such as The Black Forest Clinic and Adelheid und ihre Morder.
11 Facts About Evelyn Hamann
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Evelyn Hamann was born into a family of musicians in Hamburg, Germany.
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Evelyn Hamann's father Bernhard Hamann was a violinist, the concertmaster of the NDR symphony orchestra, and founder of the Hamann Quartet; her mother was a singer and music teacher, and her brother Gerhard was a professor of cello at the Trossingen School of Music.
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Evelyn Hamann liked to keep her private life out of the public eye, so little is known about her life off-camera.
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Evelyn Hamann died from lymphoma during the night of 28 to 29 October 2007 in Hamburg.
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Evelyn Hamann took on small roles at the Thalia Theater, and from 1968 her stage career took her to Gottingen, Heidelberg and Bremen, where she played Marthe Schwertlein in Goethe's Urfaust.
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From 1976 Evelyn Hamann featured in many comedy sketches in Loriot's television programmes, for example as TV announcer in Englische Ansage.
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Evelyn Hamann acted in Loriot's films Odipussi and Pappa Ante Portas.
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Evelyn Hamann appeared in the film Piratensender Powerplay starring famous German entertainers Thomas Gottschalk and Mike Kruger.
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Evelyn Hamann appeared as housekeeper Karsta Michaelis in the television soap opera The Black Forest Clinic in the 1980s and later as Thea in medical drama Der Landarzt.
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Evelyn Hamann read authors' works aloud at literary readings and narrated audiobooks, including Patricia Highsmith's crime thrillers.