Dinah Hinz

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Dinah Eleonora Hinz , married name Hinz-Weiss (born February 14, 1934 in Heidelberg ; † July 14, 2020 in Zurich , Switzerland ), was a German actress .

Life

Dinah Hinz was the oldest child of the actress Ehmi Bessel from her liaison with the aviator general Ernst Udet . Shortly before the birth, her mother married the actor Werner Hinz . Dinah Hinz was the half-sister of the actors Michael Hinz and Knut Hinz .

Hinz grew up in Berlin and Hamburg and originally wanted to be an archaeologist . But Fritz Kortner discovered the 15-year-old student for the stage. During her training (1950/1951) at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich , she also had engagements at the Residenztheater Munich and the Münchner Kammerspiele . Engagements in Hamburg, Hanover , Cologne , Berlin, Vienna and Zurich followed. Dinah Hinz has also been used on radio , radio play productions and often as a speaker for documentaries and features.

As a voice actress she lent her voice to Carroll Baker (Not with me) , Elizabeth Taylor (Hotel International, Telephone Butterfield No. 8) and Joanne Woodward (From the Terrace) . In 2009 she celebrated her 60th stage anniversary. In 2016 she was seen in the Quartetto by Ronald Harwood in a production by Hansgünther Heyme at the Hamburger Kammerspiele .

Her last major role was in 2018 that of Mathilde von Zahnd in the physicists of Friedrich Dürrenmatt in the theater “Die Färbe” in Singen , directed by Klaus Hemmerle .

Dinah Hinz lived in Zollikerberg near Zurich from 1962 ; she had a daughter and two grandchildren. She died in July 2020 at the age of 86 after a brief illness in Zurich.

Filmography

movie theater

Television (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

literature

  • Hermann J. Huber : Langen Müller's Actor Lexicon of the Present. Germany Austria Switzerland . Albert Langen • Georg Müller Verlag GmbH, Munich • Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7844-2058-3 , p. 399

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. sd: Actress Dinah Hinz died. Retrieved on July 17, 2020 (German).
  2. glonaabot.ch