Barbara Ratthey

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Barbara Ratthey

Barbara Ratthey (born April 3, 1940 - October 18, 2009 in Berlin ) was a German actress , radio play and voice actress . She became particularly well-known for her work as a voice actress, e.g. B. as the German voice of actress Estelle Getty in Golden Girls or Stop! Or my mommy shoots!

Life

Barbara Ratthey received her training in Berlin at the Max Reinhardt Drama School . The city was also the focus of their theatrical activity; In particular, she played at the Schiller Theater, the Theater am Kurfürstendamm, the Vaganten Stage and the Small Theater on the South West Corso. In film and television she was seen in the movie Rockys Messer in 1967 (written and directed by Joachim Mock ), in 1987 in the TV series An elegant dog (alongside Rita Russek and Helmuth Lohner ) and in sketches on the television show Dalli Dalli . However, a large audience is less aware of her appearance than her voice. She spoke roles in numerous radio plays and books for NDR , WDR and Radio Bremen as well as Deutsche Grammophon, among others . From 1966 she worked as a voice actress.

Barbara Ratthey died on October 18, 2009 after a long illness in a Berlin hospice.

Work as a voice actress

Barbara Ratthey and her deep, mostly hoarse-sounding voice achieved particular popularity through the dubbing of the American actress Estelle Getty , whom she voiced for the first time for the sitcom Golden Girls . In the course of the great success of this series, Barbara Ratthey appeared in various television shows and specials together with the voice actors of the other main characters - Verena Wiet , Beate Hasenau and Ursula Sieg .

Barbara Ratthey was the German spokesperson for internationally known actresses such as Anne Bancroft ( Jesus von Nazareth ), Eartha Kitt , Eileen Brennan , Anne Francis (in her leading role in Honey West ), Beatrice Winde , Lee Grant ( shampoo , Lost in the Bermuda Triangle ), Cloris Leachman ( Mel Brooks ' Höhenkoller ), Rosetta LeNoire ( mother Estelle Winslow in the TV series All Under One Roof ), Ingrid Pitt ( Crypt of the Vampires ), Katy Jurado ( Under the Volcano ), Helene Udy ( Ferengi Pel in the TV series Star Trek : Deep Space Nine ), Grace Jones ( Conan the Destroyer ), Dionne Warwick , Miranda Richardson ( Merlin ), Diana Ross ( Billie Holiday in Lady Sings The Blues ) and Kathryn Hunter ( Mrs. Figg in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ) .

She also lent her voice to various cartoon characters, such as B. Mrs. Tweedy in Chicken Run , Grandma Knack in DuckTales , Molly in The Last Unicorn , Rosa in Die Monster AG , Ms. Bitters in Invader Zim and the Witch in Howl's Moving Castle (2005). She also lent her voice to dolls: In the television film Only about my corpse , she spoke the turkey, which represents the reincarnation of the protagonist's mother, and in the series Die Dinos she dubbed Grandma Ethyl.

Work as a radio play speaker

In addition to her dubbing work, Barbara Ratthey was also often featured in radio plays , such as B. as Aunt Amanda with Bibi Blocksberg . Since the beginning of 2007 she can be heard in the role of Lady Bedfort in the series of the same name, in which she was also involved as a co-director. In the radio play series The Three Question Marks she was heard as Mrs. Silverstone in the episode Spuk im Hotel . In the radio play series Gabriel Burns she appeared in several episodes as Dr. Phillips up.

She also appeared on the 1991 album Martin, ne ... ?! von Diether Krebs as singer in the song Tango Infernal .

Work as an actress

In 2008 she appeared in the KIKA show Toll Tom as the grandma of Tom Lehel . The special thing about it: She slipped into the role of Sophia Petrillo ( Golden Girls ).

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personal data
SURNAME Ratthey, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and speaker
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1940
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 2009
Place of death Berlin