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Heide Keller (left) with Patrick Mölleken and Uwe Friedrichsen filming the Traumschiff episode San Francisco , 2007

Heide Keller (born October 15, 1939 in Düsseldorf , † August 27, 2021 in Bonn ) was a German actress and screenwriter . She became known to a wide audience primarily through the impersonation of the head hostess Beatrice von Ledebur in around 80 films in the ZDF series Das Traumschiff and in 27 episodes of the offshoot Cruise into Happiness .

Life

Heide Keller grew up in Düren , where she attended the commercial college. After her acting training in Düsseldorf, she got her first engagement in 1962 at the Theater am Niederrhein in Kleve , where she played Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet . By means of piece contracts or guest performances, she then appeared at numerous other stages such as the Wuppertaler Bühnen , the Comedy in Düsseldorf, the Theater am Dom in Cologne, the Small Comedy in Hamburg, the Contra-Kreis-Theater in Bonn, the Comedy in the Marquardt in Stuttgart , the Comedy Berlin, the Comedy in the Bayerischer Hof Munich and in the Berlin Theater am Kurfürstendamm .

Keller made his television debut in 1965 as Fräulein Barsig , directed by Walter Davy, in the crime film Interrogation in the Afternoon . In 1968 she was seen in a broadcast of the Schwank Der Meisterboxer from the Millowitsch Theater in Cologne alongside Willy and Lucy Millowitsch . After a few less prominent roles, she played from 1981 in the ZDF television series Das Traumschiff first the hostess , later chief hostess Beatrice von Ledebur . From 2007 she was seen in the role in a total of 27 episodes of the offshoot Cruise into happiness . Keller also wrote scripts for individual episodes under the pseudonym Jac (ques) Dueppen . At the end of January 2017, it was announced that she would be leaving the TV series at her own request. At the end of December 2017, Uruguay's departure was discussed for the first time. Her last appearance on the dream ship was in the subsequent 80th episode Los Angeles , which aired on January 1, 2018.

In November 2004 she published together with Peter Bischoff Das Traumschiff: The wanderlust book for the television series in the Henschel publishing house . Beginning in October 2018 was titled Dreamtime and other days: Memories in Knaur publishing an autobiography cellar.

Heide Keller was first married to the actor Thomas Härtner, the son of Georg Thomalla . In her second marriage, she was married to the actor Hans von Borsody for ten years ; her stepdaughters were Suzanne von Borsody and Cosima von Borsody . Most recently, she lived in a senior citizens' residence in Bonn , where she died of leukemia on August 27, 2021 .

Filmography (selection)

The dream ship series

As head hostess Beatrice von Ledebur , Keller appeared in 80 episodes of the television series Das Traumschiff from 1981 to 2018 , including:

Radio plays

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Last shore leave: Heide Keller leaves “Traumschiff”. In: tt.com , December 26, 2017, accessed March 5, 2020
  2. Heide Keller's profile. Retrieved August 30, 2021 .
  3. ^ ZDF press release about the death of Heide Keller. Retrieved August 30, 2021 .
  4. Heide Keller: From the Düren School to the “Dream Ship” . In: Aachener Zeitung , April 15, 2012
  5. ^ RP ONLINE: Kleve: Heide Keller: It all started in Kleve. December 31, 2011, accessed August 30, 2021 .
  6. ^ Note on the author's name in the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , November 4, 2011
  7. ^ Last shore leave for head hostess Beatrice. In: Handelsblatt. December 26, 2017, accessed June 9, 2021 .
  8. Heide Keller gets off the "Traumschiff". In: focus.de , January 25, 2017, accessed on January 3, 2018
  9. Heide Keller
  10. Obituary: Heide Keller has died , sueddeutsche.de , August 30, 2021
  11. Heide Keller († 81) death from cancer in a retirement home