Ingrid Richter-Wendel

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Ingrid Richter-Wendel (born January 20, 1933 in Radensdorf bei Lübben as Ingrid Richter ) is a German actress . She has been a member of the ensemble at the theater in Heilbronn since 1969 .

Life

Richter-Wendel grew up in Berlin , where she followed Bertolt Brecht's public rehearsals as a student . She studied acting in Weimar and at the Leipzig Theater Academy and from 1955 had engagements at the Meiningen Court Theater (with her first major role in 1955/56 as Klärchen in Egmont ), in Plauen and in Erfurt . Her first husband Fritz Wendel was a director and worked in theaters in the GDR. With the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, the couple went to West Germany. Fritz Wendel continued to work at West German theaters, Ingrid Richter-Wendel had children and guest appearances in Krefeld , Ulm and Cologne .

After Fritz Wendel's death, Ingrid Richter-Wendel, a single parent at the time, called on the Heilbronn theater manager Walter Bison , with whom her husband had worked, was hired and moved to Heilbronn with her children. She has been on stage in the Heilbronn Theater since August 1969 and has seen four venues and the four directors Walter Bison, Klaus Wagner , Martin Roeder-Zerndt and Axel Vornam during this time. She played and plays in numerous pieces in Heilbronn, including classics and modern classics such as The Broken Krug , The Holy Johanna der Schlachthöfe , I often think of Piroschka , The Kleinbürgerhochzeit , Das Käthchen von Heilbronn , Mother Courage and her children , Anatevka , My Fair Lady , Maria Stuart , Nathan the Wise and vagina monologues . During the break from the theater in summer, she spends every year in Berlin and attends cultural events there.

family

Ingrid Richter-Wendel has four children. Her first husband, the West Berlin director Fritz Wendel, was 25 years older than she and died in 1969. She has been married to the Heilbronn graphic artist Joachim R. Bertsch since the 1980s.

Awards

The Heilbronn Theater Association awarded Ingrid Richter-Wendel the honorary philistine in 2007 . In 2012 she received the Prime Minister's Staufer Medal for services to the state of Baden-Württemberg .

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SURNAME Richter-Wendel, Ingrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Radensdorf near Lübben (Spreewald)