Dinah Pfaus-Schilffarth

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Dinah Alice Pfaus-Schilffarth (born May 19, 1973 in Augsburg ; † January 21, 2019 in Greiz ) was a German actress and musical artist .

Life

Dinah Pfaus-Schilffarth went through extensive singing, ballet, jazz dance and acting training, which she completed at the Theater an der Wien . She became known for the role of Cleo Winter , which she played in the ARD series Verbotene Liebe from 1996 to 1998 . She had other television appearances in series such as SOKO or Commissioner Rex .

She was also engaged in leading roles as a musical performer in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. She celebrated great success with productions such as Édith Piaf , the Rocky Horror Show and the European premiere of Verschlingt Raoul at the St. Pauli Theater in Hamburg.

Dinah Pfaus-Schilffarth was married to her acting colleague Roland Pfaus , whom she met while filming Verbotene Liebe in Cologne - this is where they first fell in love in front of the camera. The couple founded the “First Stage Club”, a drama and musical school, in Augsburg. The facility only existed for a few years. In 1998 they produced the feature film Lava and founded "Lavaluna Filmproduktion". From 2010 Schilffarth was a practicing shaman and also wrote her own texts and songs. She lived in Potsdam with her husband and their two twin sons .

After Schilffarth had to interrupt her career for health reasons in 1997 when she was diagnosed with lymph gland cancer, the disease returned in spring 2018, to which she finally succumbed on January 21, 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Death at 45! Mourning the "Forbidden Love" star , on: Stern.de , published on January 24, 2019.
  2. Augsburg actress Dinah Schilffarth (45) is dead , on: AugsburgerAllgemeine.de , published on January 24, 2019.