Gudrun Ritter

Gudrun Ritter (2000)

Gudrun Ritter (born November 16, 1936 in Marienberg ) is a German film and theater actress and radio play speaker .

Life

She studied from 1956 to 1959 at the theater college in Leipzig. Her first engagement took her to the Deutsches Theater Berlin . Here and at the Berliner Ensemble she was seen in a large number of productions. She played the title roles in Miss Sara Sampson and Elektra , Elisabeth in Maria Stuart and Minna Scholz in Das Friedensfest .

In addition to the theater, she played in numerous cinema and television productions such as the Christmas classic Die Weihnachtsgans Auguste and the feature film Verbotene Liebe . In 2006 she was nominated for the German Television Award in the category Best Supporting Actress for her role in the episode The Happiness of Others in the ZDF series Bella Block . In 2010 the film Boxhagener Platz by Matti Geschonneck with Gudrun Ritter in the leading role came to German cinemas.

Her daughter Franziska Ritter is also an actress and theater director .

Filmography (selection)

• 1965: Parole
• 1965: Deep furrows
• 1967: The prosecutor has the floor: My sister (TV series)
• 1969: How do you marry a king?
• 1969: foggy night
• 1972: Florentine 73 (TV)
• 1972: Police call 110: The end of a moonlight journey (TV series)
• 1973: A little closer to the clouds (TV)
• 1973: The second life of Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow
• 1974: News from the Florentine 73 (TV)
• 1975: Police call 110: A case without witnesses
• 1975: Banquet for Achilles
• 1976: The prosecutor has the floor : Felix buys a horse
• 1978: Clavigo (TV studio recording)
• 1979: Encrypted to boss - failure no.5
• 1979: Wedding in Weltzow
• 1979: Ignition, the fire department arrives
• 1980: And next year at Lake Balaton
• 1981/1988: Jadup and Boel
• 1982: Romance with Amélie
• 1982: Sabine Kleist, 7 years ...
• 1983: Police call 110: A nice person
• 1983: The airship
• 1984: Compulsory publication
• 1985: Police call 110: Temptation
• 1986: Police call 110: I didn't mean that
• 1988: Police call 110: A restless night
• 1988: fool's wisdom
• 1988: The Christmas goose Auguste (TV)
• 1989: Coming out
• 1989: Late arrival (2 parts)
• 1990: Forbidden love
• 1990: Today only the others die
• 1992: Funeral of a Countess (TV movie)
• 1993: Police call 110: Blue Dream - death in the rain
• 1995: Police call 110: Jutta or The Children of Damutz
• 1993: Tatort : Burned Game (TV series)
• 1997/98: Spook from the crypt
• 1998: Tatort: ​​The Second Man (TV series)
• 2002: How do you fall in love with your father?
• 2002: Tatort: ​​Facts, Facts ... (TV series)
• 2005: antibodies
• 2005: In all friendship (episodes 277-279, TV series)
• 2006: Tatort: ​​The Second Face (TV series)
• 2006: At the end of silence (TV)
• 2006: Bella Block: The Happiness of Others
• 2007: Holidays
• 2009: Downhill is more relaxed
• 2009: A strong team - La Paloma (TV)
• 2009: House and Child (TV)
• 2010: Boxhagener Platz
• 2010: The secret in Transylvania
• 2010: Poll
• 2010: Foreign home
• 2011: Who is Hanna?
• 2012: Tatort: ​​Images of Death (TV series)
• 2012: The boss - unveiling
• 2012: The house of the crocodiles
• 2013: The last instance (TV)
• 2014: Commissioner Dupin: Breton conditions (TV)
• 2014: night light
• 2015: Tatort: ​​Freddy dances (TV series)
• 2015: In all friendship - The young doctors (TV series, one episode)
• 2015: he's back
• 2016: The Lotzmann family on the barricades
• 2017: Tatort: ​​Fear
• 2017: Germany 86 (TV series)
• 2017: Beat (TV series)
• 2018: It doesn't get any greener, said the gardener and flew away
• 2019: Police call 110: love of home
• 2019: Lara (movie)

Theater roles (selection)

• 1975 Leonore von Este in " Torquato Tasso " by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( Deutsches Theater Berlin , directed by Friedo Solter)

Radio plays

• 1968: Ilja Konstantinowski : limitation period (Wasja) - director: Helmut Molegg (radio play - radio of the GDR )
• 1969: Rolf Haufs : Harzreise (woman) - Director: Peter Groeger (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)

• 1969: Emil Koraloff : Perunika - Director: Helmut Molegg (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1970: Samuil Aljoschin : Der Diplomat (Wera) - Director: Hannelore Solter (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1971: Günther Rücker : Portrait of a fat woman (wife of the sculptor) - Director: Günther Rücker (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1974: Erich Schlossarek : Annette (Mrs. Michaelis) - Director: Hannelore Solter (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1975: Linda Teßmer : The case of Tina Bergemann (Eva Schöne) - Director: Hannelore Solter (radio play - Rundfunk der DDR)
• 1977: Juri Trifonow : Der Tausch (Lora) - Director: Joachim Staritz (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1977: James Thurber : Walter Mitty's Secret Life (sister) - Director: Achim Scholz (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1978: Ingrid Hahnfeld : Vom Aberheiner - Director: Achim Scholz (children's radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1978: Isaak Babel : Maria (Katja) - Director: Joachim Staritz (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1979: Joachim Goll : Der Hund von Rackerswill (secretary) - Director: Werner Grunow (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1980: Hans Christian Andersen : The steadfast tin soldier (rat) - Director: Heiner Möbius (children's radio play - Litera )
• 1982: Anton Chekhov : Herzchen - Director: Barbara Plensat (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1984: Bertolt Brecht : Fear and Misery of the Third Reich - Director: Achim Scholz (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1985: Hans Lucke : Stadelmann (Auguste Molnar) - Director: Werner Grunow (radio play artificial head - radio of the GDR)
• 1987: Lothar Günther : Großer Bahnhof - Director: Achim Scholz (radio play comedy - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1989: Gerhard Rentzsch : Scenes from the Country - Director: Karlheinz Liefers (Radio play series: Moments No. 1 - Broadcasting of the GDR)
• 1989: Bert Koß : And behind us the front man - Director: Peter Groeger (radio play - Rundfunk der DDR)
• 1991: Alexander Wolkow : The Magician of the Emerald City (Bastinda, Sorceress) - Director: Dieter Scharfenberg (radio play - LITERA junior )
• 1991: Jacob Grimm / Wilhelm Grimm : Sex-Märchen zur Nacht (grandmother) - Director: Barbara Plensat (fairy tales for adults - Funkhaus Berlin )
• 1993: Tankred Dorst : Merlin or the desert land (Herzeloide) - Director: Walter Adler (radio play - MDR )
• 1993: Friedrich Wolf : The story of Pit Pikus, the woodpecker, and the seagull Leila (Checinka) - Director: Werner Buhss (children's radio play - DS Kultur )
• 1996: Holger Böhme : Still life with village and corpses - Director: Joachim Staritz (radio play - ORB / RB )
• 2003: Dylan Thomas : Unter dem Milchwald (Mrs. Pugh) - Director: Götz Fritsch (radio play - MDR)
• 2013: Ricarda Bethke : Who goes first - Director: Steffen Moratz (radio play - DKultur )
• 2015: Astrid Litfaß : From the life of the night mole (Lin) - Director: Andrea Getto (radio play - RBB )
• 2018: Gabriele Kögl : Höllenkinder - Director: Elisabeth Weilenmann (radio play - ORF )

Awards

• 1978: Art Prize of the GDR
• 1979: Critics' award of the Berliner Zeitung for the role of Sara in Miss Sara Sampson by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing at the Deutsches Theater Berlin
• 1981: National Prize of the GDR III. class
• 1990: 6th National Feature Film Festival of the GDR : Best supporting role in Verbotene Liebe

Web links

• Literature by and about Gudrun Ritter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography on the website of the Deutsches Theater Berlin
• Gudrun Ritter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Gudrun Ritter at filmportal.de
• Still from today only the others die (right)

Individual evidence

1. ^ First broadcast in Ö1 , March 24, 2018. ORF synopsis , ORF radio play database
2. ^ GDR Art Awards 1978 , In: Neues Deutschland , May 24, 1978, p. 4
3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of September 29, 1979, p. 10
4. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of October 8, 1981, p. 4.
5. ↑ F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films. The complete documentation of all DEFA feature films from 1946 to 1993. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , p. 653.