Annemarie Wendl

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Annemarie Wendl

Annemarie Wendl-Kleinschmidt (born December 26, 1914 in Trostberg , † September 3, 2006 in Munich ) was a German actress .

Career

Annemarie Wendl came from a Bavarian merchant family who ran the Wendl iron shop in Trostberg. She learned her profession as a scholarship holder with Lucie Höflich in Berlin . She played a wide range of classical roles on many German stages, often as a " salon lady ". For a long time she played in Augsburg, Bamberg, Berlin, Bonn, Ingolstadt, Innsbruck, Meiningen, Munich, Salzburg and Wiesbaden. In the late 1960s and 1970s she took part in various German soft sex films, but mostly dressed in a modest way. In films like Dr. Even then, she gave Fummel and his playmates a taste of their repartee skills. In 1975 Rainer Werner Fassbinder gave her the role of mother in the television film I just want you to love me . In 1978 she starred in Wolfgang Petersen's television film Black and White Like Days and Nights ; In 1981 she played the role of the overseer in Rainer Wolffhardt's miniseries Die Rumplhanni . In the year mentioned, BR produced Die Rumplhanni as a radio play under the direction of Michael Peter . In it she spoke one of the main roles alongside Lisa Fitz (Rumplwabn).

From the beginning of the television series Lindenstrasse (1985) she played the role of the sharp-tongued caretaker Else Kling. In December 2005, twenty years after her first appearance, she announced that she was leaving the series for health reasons. On May 28, 2006 the last Lindenstrasse episode (No. 1069) with Else Kling was broadcast.

Annemarie Wendl's grave in the north cemetery in Munich.

Annemarie Wendl was married to the dramaturge Siegmar Kleinschmidt, who died after a short marriage in World War II . Her real name was therefore Wendl-Kleinschmidt, and her son Siegmar Kleinschmidt came from the marriage. Wendl last lived in Munich; since July 2006 she was in need of care and could no longer get out of bed. She died of heart failure on the afternoon of September 3, 2006 . On September 13, 2006, she was buried in the North Cemetery in Munich . Her Lindenstrasse colleagues Marie-Luise Marjan , Bill Mockridge , Franz Rampelmann , Hans W. Geißendörfer and Marianne Rogée also attended the funeral .

Others

Wolfgang Grönebaum and Annemarie Wendl at the open day for the 600th episode of Lindenstrasse in Cologne-Bocklemünd (1997)
  • Annemarie Wendl also appeared in advertising as Else Kling. In a buttermilk commercial for the Müllermilch company , she made the slogan “If it makes you feel good” into a popular phrase.
  • When Else Kling's life comes to an end in episode 1069 on Lindenstrasse , she is watching her favorite series on television, of course Lindenstrasse . Else goes, called by a voice (spoken by series inventor Hans W. Geißendörfer) to the apartment door, behind which there is a bright light. She approaches it, but not without also telling the good Lord her opinion: “My favorite series would at least have been watched through to the end kinna. Now I never know how it's going to end! ”“ But I know, Else. It will end well. "" Then I am happy. Mei, then I'm happy. "

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Web links

Commons : Annemarie Wendl  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report on Chiemgau Online