Friederike Frerichs

Friederike Frerichs (* 1944 in Rodenkirchen ) is a German actress .

Life

Education and theater

Frerichs was born in Rodenkirchen near Oldenburg . She initially worked as a bookseller in Marburg , Berlin , Konstanz and Munich . From 1970 to 1973 she completed an acting and singing training at the New Munich Drama School in Munich .

She then had festival and guest engagements at the TamS Theater in Munich, the Schnawwl Children's and Youth Theater in Mannheim , the Heidelberg City Theater , the Badische Landesbühne Bruchsal , the Theater Oberhausen , the Schauspiel Frankfurt , the Staatstheater Kassel , the Staatstheater Karlsruhe and at the Nationaltheater Mannheim . She also worked regularly in independent theater productions. In 1994 she staged the play "Late Region" by Lida Winiewicz together with actress Elisabeth Auer (Neues Ensemble Mannheim) .

From 1997 to 2005 Frerichs was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Ulm Theater . Her roles there included Grete in “The Presidents” by Werner Schwab , Ann-Agathe in “Das Erbe” by Bernard-Marie Koltès , Abby Brewster in Joseph Kesselring's crime comedy “ Arsen und Spitzenhäubchen ”, Spelunken-Jenny in Brecht / Weills “ The Threepenny Opera ”, Daja in “ Nathan the Wise ” and Ella Rentheim in “ John Gabriel Borkman ”.

In 2007 she was a guest at the Koblenz City Theater as Abby Brewster in "Arsen und Spitzenhäubchen". In 2009 she took on the role of Claire Zachanassian in " The Visit of the Old Lady " at the Wilhelmshaven City Theater . In 2013 she played at the Berlin State Opera together with Hans Hirschmüller in Salvatore Sciarrino's music theater "Vanitas". In the summer of 2015 she played in the Kühlhaus am Gleisdreieck in Berlin in “Inanna in the Catacombs” based on motifs from the novel by Olga Tokarczuk ; The director was Elzbieta Bednarska .

Movie and TV

Frerichs was regularly seen in film and television roles since the mid-1990s, where she was mostly used as a supporting actress. As early as 1979 she lent her voice to the characters Lulu, Mona and Hans-Otto in the puppet show series Hallo Spencer . Since then, Friederike Frerichs has also appeared in various films.

In Tom Tykwer's film Der Krieger und die Kaiserin (2000) she played the head nurse Corinna. In the television film Arnie's World (2005) she was seen as neighbor Rita Frings. In 2010 she played the role of grandma Inge in the ARD television series Liebe am Fjord . In the short film Wie Immer (2010) by Zubin Sethna she played Gerda Beckert, an old woman suffering from dementia . In the television film Am Kreuzweg (2011) she played Aunt Luise at the side of Harald Krassnitzer .

In the feature film Lore (2012) she played the role of the old widow; She received the audience award for “Best Supporting Actress” at the Locarno International Film Festival . In the film Das Mädchen und der Tod (2012) she played the role of the old nurse Olga, directed by Jos Stelling . In the fairy tale film Little Red Riding Hood (2012) she was old Trude. The short film Martha & Karl (2012) by the director Julia Walter , in which Frerichs played the lead role, was awarded the Blue Flower Award for the most beautiful romantic short film. In 2014, she appeared in the ZDF crime series Friesland as Mrs. Riefenberg; she played the mother of the woman murderer.

In the ARD crime series Murder with a View , she took on a recurring supporting role as a delicatessen retailer Ms. Runkelbach from 2010 to 2014. She also had episode roles and a. in the series SOKO Leipzig (2011; as the mother of the dead Jens Marquard), Die Draufgänger (2012), Notruf Hafenkante (2012; as housekeeper Elfi Schmidt), About: Kate (2013; as a kiosk seller) and Josephine Klick - Alone Among Cops ( 2015; as a driver).

In September 2015 she was seen in a supporting role in the ZDF thriller series Blochin , she played the mentally confused witness Ms. Jacobi. In October 2015, she was seen in the ZDF crime thriller Das Dorf der Murder in the role of the mysterious old Esther, who provides information to the policewoman Sanela Beara ( Alina Levshin ) in the cemetery and in front of the abandoned homestead . In November 2015 she was seen in an episode role in the television series In All Friendship ; she played the 69-year-old patient and widow Waltraud Bürger, who blackened and harassed the nurse Kris Haas ( Jascha Rust ) among the nursing staff.

In December 2016, Frerichs appeared in two episodes of the television series In All Friendship - The Young Doctors ; she played the retired pilot Luise Graf, who had terminal cancer in the final stages, and who came to the clinic to die. In November 2017 she was seen in a leading role in the ZDF television series Notruf Hafenkante ; she played the neighbor Elvira Grün, who participates in a care fraud to supplement her small pension.