Helga Ballhaus

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Helga Ballhaus (born September 14, 1935 ; † September 28, 2006 in Los Angeles ; born Helga Maria Betten ) was a German actress who also appeared as a production designer ; occasionally also as a costume designer and production manager .

Live and act

Helga Ballhaus began her career in 1952 as an actress at the Franconian Theater in Wetzhausen . She was a permanent member of the theater community there for several years and got to know the son of the theater founder, the cameraman Michael Ballhaus , here.

In 1958 she married Michael Ballhaus and repeatedly worked with him (with whom she commuted between America and Germany from the 1980s) and their sons Sebastian and Florian .

From 1958 Helga Ballhaus played at the Staatstheater Karlsruhe , from 1968 at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin under Rainer Werner Fassbinder and from 1974 to 1977 she was a member of the TAT - Theater am Turm in Frankfurt, also under Fassbinder. Ballhaus was repeatedly engaged as a guest at the Franconian Theater Schloss Maßbach up until the 1970s . As a film actress, she starred in Fassbinder's Angst essen Seele auf (1974).

In 1979 she received together with Norbert Scherer , the German Film Award in Gold for the Design of The Marriage of Maria Braun . In 1999 she was the line producer for the feature film The 13th Floor - Are you what you think? , which was nominated for the Saturn Award in 2000.

In 2003, Helga Ballhaus was one of the founding members of the German Film Academy .

She is buried in the municipal forest cemetery Dahlem on Hüttenweg in Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

As an actress

As a production designer

As a costume designer

As production manager

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SURNAME Ballhaus, Helga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Betten, Helga Maria (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and production designer
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1935
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 2006
Place of death los Angeles