Grit Boettcher

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Grit Boettcher (born August 10, 1938 in Berlin-Spandau ) is a German actress . She became known through numerous roles in the genre of tabloid theater as well as in feature films , television productions and series.

Life

The daughter of a professional soldier was born in Berlin-Spandau in 1938. She spent her early childhood in Gablonz , from where her family had to flee back to Berlin at the end of the war in 1945. In her youth she gained her first experiences as a ballet dancer and photo model on stage and in front of the camera. Boettcher completed her acting training at the UFA junior school after director Rolf Thiele noticed her acting talent at the model demonstrations. She was engaged by Viktor de Kowa for her first stage role in the play Ehekarussell and then went to Vienna to the theater in the Josephstadt .

As a theater actress, she played over forty different roles in the course of her career, mainly in the Komödie am Kurfürstendamm in Berlin and the Kleine Komödie in Munich , but also gave guest appearances in other theaters. She played some pieces again and again in the course of her career, for example Ingeborg von Curt Goetz (1961, 1978, 1979) or Die Kaktusblüte by Neil Simon (1966, 1991). She took over the staging of Bleib, wie du bist by Peter Yeldham in Munich in 1987 and also played the leading role in the play.

From the late 1950s she was also hired for film roles. After a few supporting roles such as in Die Fastnachtsbeichte (1960), she soon cast leading roles alongside film greats at the time such as Heinz Rühmann (in He Can't Leave It , 1962) or in The Black Abbot and The Monk with the Whip (both strips from Edgar-Wallace Films , each at the side of Joachim Fuchsberger ). The last major role in a movie she played in 1974 in the comedy Three Men in the Snow , an albeit only moderately successful remake.

With the spread of television in the 1960s, Boettcher increasingly received offers for television productions. The first leading role in a television series (in Such a Sweet Little Beast ) was followed by a few television films. Boettcher experienced the peak of her career in the years from 1977, when she became known to a wide audience as a partner of Harald Juhnke in the ZDF series Ein crazy couple . The series, which ran until 1980 and is now considered a classic of sketch comedy , both Boettcher and Juhnke became audience favorites during these years. In 1980 Grit Boettcher was awarded the Golden Camera television prize.

In 1981 she shot the television comedy Two Men for Breakfast with Peer Augustinski and in 1983 with Harald Juhnke Der Mustergatte . A number of other television productions and series followed such as B. Hotel Paradise . Grit Boettcher's own program ( Fun with Grit , 1991) was less well received by the audience and critics. In the 1990s, the number of her roles and appearances decreased; Family series like Immer wieder Sonntag and Titus der Satansbraten followed, as well as a few television films and appearances in series such as Streit um drei . Most recently she had a role in the feature film Der WiXXer and in 2006 she was in front of the camera for television productions.

In addition to her career on stage and in front of the camera, Grit Boettcher wrote a life guide in 1982 ( Mein Buch. Mach ein Selbst aus Deinem Ich ISBN 3-7962-0084-2 ), and in June 1986 she read from her poems in the Munich “Filmcafe” which she had written under the pseudonym Tirg Rechtteob (her name written backwards) in the time after the death of her husband Wolfgang Belstler (1927–1969). Inspired by the television series Hotel Paradies , she also wrote a travel guide for Mallorca in 1990 ( The new Mallorca. A very personal travel companion. ISBN 3926224207 ). In addition, she has been involved in the campaign against osteoporosis since a friend had suffered from the bone disease.

Since February 3rd, 2010 she was in the telenovela Alisa - Follow Your Heart . After the telenovela was renamed (February 25, 2010) to Hanna - Follow Your Heart , she continued to play in the same role as Gitti Sommer until the series was discontinued in September 2010.

Grit Boettcher was married to the television editor Wolfgang Belstler for the second time. The son Tristan and the daughter Nicole Belstler-Boettcher , who is also an actress ( Marienhof , Gute Zeiten, Bad Zeiten , Tatort ) come from this marriage .

Grit Boettcher now lives in Ismaning near Munich.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Grit Boettcher in conversation with Christoph Lindenmeyer PDF file.
  2. Grit Boettcher: "A new love? So please! I'm 80 now" at abendzeitung-muenchen.de, accessed on February 21, 2019.
  3. About life with daughter Nicole and son Tristan: "I have the reins in my hand" at Bunte.de, accessed on February 21, 2019.