Martina Mayne

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Martina Mayne
Martina Mayne as Millicent Channing in "The Case of the Greystone Inscription" (1955), an episode of the television series Sherlock Holmes.[1]
Born
Martina Schulof

1925
Berlin
Died2013 (aged 87–88)
NationalityGerman
Occupation(s)Actress, art therapist, poet and translator
Known forProduced the first published translation into English of the work of the German poet Paula Ludwig

Martina Thomson, stage name Martina Mayne, (c. 1925–2013) was a German actress, art therapist, poet and translator, active in England. In 2009 she produced the first published translation into English of the work of the German poet Paula Ludwig.

Early life and family

Martina Thomson was born Martina Schulof in Berlin around 1925 to Austrian parents.

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.[3]

Her first marriage was short. In 1964 she married, secondly, the BBC sound producer David Thomson with whom she had three sons, Tim, Luke and Ben. She had eight grandchildren and a great-grandchild at the time of her death.[3]

Career

Under the stage name of Martina Mayne, she acted in radio plays produced for the BBC by her husband and often played foreign roles in England and English ones on German radio.

One Minute Please, the forerunner to the BBC's long-running Just a Minute.[4] She later provided voices for erotic films.[3] In 1967 she appeared with Quentin Crisp as Marcella in the short surrealist film Captain Busby The Even Tenour of Her Ways based on a poem by Philip O'Connor.[5]

In the 1970s, she trained as an

art therapist under E. M. Lyddiatt[6] and in 1989 wrote On Art and Therapy. Her poetry was published in magazines and collected in Ferryboats in 2007. In 2009 she produced the first published translation into English of the work of the German expressionist poet Paula Ludwig, whom she remembered visiting her parents' home in Berlin.[2][3]

Death

Mayne died from pneumonia in 2013 at the age of 88 after suffering from bone cancer.[3]

Selected roles

Selected publications

  • On art and therapy: An exploration. Virago, 1989.
    ISBN 978-1-85381-045-9
  • Ferryboats. Hearing Eye, London, 2007. (Torriano Meeting House Poetry Pamphlet)
    ISBN 978-1-905082-36-0
  • Panther and gazelle: Poems of Paula Ludwig. Hearing Eye, London, 2012. (Translator)
    ISBN 978-1-905082-67-4
  • My life, you see. Hearing Eye, London, 2022.
    ISBN 978-1-905082-79-7

References

  1. ^ a b Martina Mayne. BFI Film Forever. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  2. ^ a b Martina Thomson. Hearing Eye. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Martina Thomson obituary. David Gentleman, The Guardian, 8 October 2013. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  4. ^ One Minute Please. BBC. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  5. ^ Captain Busby The Even Tenour of Her Ways. BFI Player. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  6. ISBN 978-1-134-77347-3
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