Andrea Rau
Andrea Rau (born October 31, 1947 in Stuttgart ) is a film actress and former photo model .
Life
She received dance training from John Cranko and was a dancer at the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart . She worked in the musicals Kiss me Kate and Can-Can, among others .
As the provocative "Anita" she first attracted attention from June to December 1968 in numerous picture stories in the satirical magazine pardon . In the same year she became known to a larger audience with the film Quartet in Bed . She played in it, mostly naked and stressedly casual, the mutual friend of the four members of the music group Insterburg & Co. Andrea Rau then became the first German sex star, a symbol for the sexual revolution . She left her contract with the magazine pardon at the end of 1968. From 1969 she was an extremely popular cover girl for illustrated magazines.
In the now massively shot sex films, she only appeared occasionally, but she was seen more often on television. However, she was not trusted to play major roles, she remained a supporting actress who eventually got undressed. In the last episode of the Fallada film A man wants to go up (1978), she played the variety singer Marina Molina.
In the eighties Andrea Rau was still active as a stage actress, especially in Munich. Then she withdrew from the public. She married the set designer and cameraman Gernot Köhler and has a son. In Vaterstetten near Munich, she and her husband run a video production company for local documentaries, for which she also speaks the voiceover.
On December 17, 2010, she was a guest at the retrospective of two of her films at Kino Filmclub 813 in Cologne.
Filmography (selection)
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Web links
- Andrea Rau at filmportal.de
- Andrea Rau in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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| SURNAME | Rau, Andrea |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film actress and sex actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart , Baden-Württemberg , Federal Republic of Germany |