Christel Bodenstein

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From left to right: Frank Beyer , Christel Bodenstein, Christine Laszar , Konstantin Simonow and Günter Witt at the 14th  Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 1964

Christel Bodenstein (born October 13, 1938 in Munich ; actually Christa Bodenstein ) is a German actress who worked mainly in the GDR .

life and work

Bodenstein moved with her mother to Leipzig-Marienbrunn in 1949 . She first attended the Leipzig Opera Ballet School and graduated from the Berlin State Ballet School in 1955 . In 1955 she then got an engagement as a dancer at the Landestheater Halle . The then 17-year-old met at the Baltic Sea beach the DEFA director Kurt Maetzig , her suggested studied acting and to screen test for his DEFA strip Annegrets homecoming brought to Berlin. Although Bodenstein did not get the film role, she studied acting at the University of Film and Television Potsdam until 1959 .

She made her film debut as a student in Dudow's film Der Hauptmann von Köln (1956), followed by the fairy tale films The Brave Little Tailor and The Singing, Sounding Tree . The latter film made her known through her first leading role as the haughty princess Tausendschön. Even as a student she was often engaged in mostly cheerful DEFA films.

In 1960 she was voted the most popular actress in the GDR by the youth magazine New Life . Due to her popularity she became a member of the DEFA actor ensemble from 1959 to 1973 and worked with well-known film directors such as Frank Vogel , Herbert Ballmann and Martin Hellberg . In the 1960s she also appeared in some music and revue films , such as Revue at midnight on the side of Manfred Krug . This was followed by the fairy tale film The Little Prince (1966) directed by her then husband Konrad Wolf .

In the 1970s there were no good and interesting film roles from DEFA and GDR television , and she went back to the stages. From 1973 to 1976 she performed as a freelance artist and was a chanson singer as well as occasional guest actress at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater in Berlin and at the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam. In 1976 she became an actress in the small theater "Das Ei" in Friedrichstadt-Palast Berlin. After the fall of the Wall in 1990, she was assistant director and since 1994 director at Friedrichstadt-Palast Berlin.

In the 2016 remake of the fairy tale The Singing, Sounding Tree by director Wolfgang Eißler, now with the Hamburg actress Jytte-Merle Böhrnsen as the haughty princess, Bodenstein, the former princess of the DEFA fairy tale film from 1957, took on the role of a herb woman. Next to it is a picture of her from the old film as a portrait of the queen.

Christel Bodenstein was married to the director Konrad Wolf from 1960 to 1978 . Their son Mirko, born in 1961, comes from this relationship. Today she is married to the actor and dramaturge Hasso von Lenski for the second time .

Filmography (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Christel Bodenstein  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ rbb: rbb and SR film "The singing, sounding tree" rbb, accessed on July 26, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Bodenstein, Christel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bodenstein, Christa (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich