Ingeborg Westphal

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Ingeborg Westphal (born April 17, 1946 in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg , † July 28, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German actress .

Life

Ingeborg Westphal was born the fifth of six children and grew up in East Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg. At a young age she received dance lessons ( folk dance and expressive dance ). She had her first small roles as a teenager in the theater of friendship for children and young people in Berlin-Lichtenberg , before taking on a first major role in the House of Young Pioneers, which is right next door .

She did a two-year training at a pedagogical college and then worked with people with language impairments. During this time she graduated from evening high school. She was then delegated to study rehabilitation pedagogy and communication sciences at the Humboldt University . After four months, she withdrew from the university to become an actress.

Ingeborg Westphal graduated from the State Drama School in Berlin-Schöneweide . This was followed by engagements as an actress at the theaters in Meiningen , Halle , Rostock and Eisenach . She also worked in the GDR for film and television .

In 1983 she left the GDR. She worked at the Stadttheater Heidelberg , then in Cologne, before moving to West Berlin , where she played at the Renaissance Theater . From 1986, the first film and television work followed in the Federal Republic.

Ingeborg Westphal's grave in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Ingeborg Westphal has since worked as an actress in numerous cinema and television films and was also involved in several productions that were later awarded national and international film prizes. Ingeborg Westphal was nominated for the German Film Prize 2005 in the category Best Supporting Actress for her supporting role in the feature film Kammerflimmern .

Ingeborg Westphal died unexpectedly in Berlin at the end of July 2012. Your artist agency, which spread the news, did not provide any information on the cause of death. Her grave is on the state's own cemetery in Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: II-Ur 1-205). The grave monument has the shape of a closing theater curtain.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The date given on her grave by the administration of the Heerstrasse cemetery . During her lifetime, Ingeborg Westphal always refused to publish her date of birth. According to her agency Pegasus and other sources, 1951 was officially given as the year of birth. IMDb names November 30, 1946 (as of November 22, 2019).
  2. ↑ Berlin actress Ingeborg Westphal is dead . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . August 3, 2012. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
  3. ↑ Berlin actress Ingeborg Westphal is dead . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . August 3, 2012. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
  4. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Ingeborg Westphal
personal data
SURNAME Westphal, Ingeborg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 2012
Place of death Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg