Ingrid Steeger

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Ingrid Steeger, 2013

Ingrid Steeger (* 1. April 1947 as Ingrid Anita Stengert in Berlin ) is a German actress .

youth

Ingrid Steeger was born as the third child of a merchant family. She first attended the commercial school in Berlin and then worked as a secretary in an architectural office. The photographer Frank Quade made her a photo model. In 1968 she adopted the stage name Steeger. In Berlin she was named Miss Film Festival .

Career

At the beginning of her acting career, she was mostly cast as a revealing soft sex actress and joker. She gained nationwide popularity through the television series Klimbim by Michael Hausthar on the side of Elisabeth Volkmann , Horst Jüssen , Wichart von Roëll and Peer Augustinski . The series ran until 1979.

In the 1970s, Steeger was one of the most popular German television stars. The manufacturers of the Rolo and Old Spice brands recognized their high advertising potential and therefore hired them as the face of their products. She was one of the first female German stars to advertise branded products. She has been awarded the Bravo Otto readers' award several times by the youth magazine Bravo . In 1975 erotic photos of Steeger appeared in Playboy and Klimbim sings a music album with Ingrid Steeger .

She played with Iris Berben in the series Two Heavenly Daughters , an offshoot of Klimbim . When it was first broadcast, Two Heavenly Daughters was coupled with the comedy show Die Gimmicks (a Klimbim-like ensemble, in whose nightclub the experiences of the heavenly daughters were introduced and summed up). Steeger has appeared in numerous television films and series as well as occasionally in the cinema. She succeeded in switching to the serious subject in 1992 with the role as "Mona" in the four-part television series Der große Bellheim by Dieter Wedel .

In 2004 the chaos family experienced the same actors as in the 1970s under the title The Klimbim family is alive! a rebirth on the stage. After years without any notable engagements and after the end of the Klimbim family's theater performances, due to the deaths of Elisabeth Volkmann (2006) and Horst Jüssen (2008) and a stroke by Peer Augustinski, Ingrid Steeger was dependent on unemployment benefit II .

From February 2011 she was on the stage of the comedy Kassel in the play Jackpot . In May 2012 she was on stage again in the Kassel comedy, in the play Gatte grilled . From November 2012 to February 2013 she played in the play Der Kurschattenmann in the Theater am Dom in Cologne. In November 2014 she presented heart stories - erotic and cheerful reflections from Goethe to Marilyn Monroe in the Kammerspielchen in Solingen. She was last seen on stage in 2019 at the Bad Hersfeld Festival in a production of "The Trial" (Kafka, staged by Joern Hinkel) as "Fräulein Montag". "

Private life

In 1973 Steeger married the cameraman Lothar Elias Stickelbrucks , and the divorce followed two years later. From 1974 on, director Michael Pflegehar was her partner. In 1977 she went to Kenya with the big game hunter Peter Koenecke . From 1983 to 1987 she lived with the actor Jean-Paul Zehnacker and from 1988 to 1992 director Dieter Wedel was her partner. After separating from him, she married the US environmentalist Tom LaBlanc, and they divorced in 1995. She then lived for a year with the actor Bernd Seebacher in Zurich. In 1997 she moved to Hamburg, since 2010 she has been living in seclusion in Munich - Schwabing .

She wrote the book Meine MANNschaft, published in 2004, about her difficult relationships with men . Ingrid Steeger is committed to the mentally handicapped and children suffering from AIDS .

Awards (selection)

  • 1975: Bravo Otto in bronze for the most popular TV star
  • 1976: Bravo Otto in silver
  • 1976: Golden camera from the TV magazine Hörzu
  • 1977: Bravo Otto in silver
  • 1978: Bravo Otto in gold
  • 1990: Bambi

Filmography (selection)

Discography (selection)

Albums

Singles

  • I am not Mount Everest
  • Franz-Josef, take your fingers away!
  • The Rhine must ...
  • Fly Me (the title is the instrumental theme song of Heavenly Daughters, recorded by Louis Kaplan & His Crew )

literature

  • Ingrid Steeger: A lucky child is allowed to cry too: k (l) a bed stories (autobiography, recorded by Julia Streitz-Dressler), Herbig, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-7766-1594-X .
  • Ingrid Steeger, Olaf Kriewald, Michael Overbeck (illustrator): My MANNschaft . Flachmann, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 978-3-936467-06-2 .
  • Laurenz Werter: Ingrid Steeger: Portrait . Media, publication and advertising company Knorr Martens, Hille 2009, ISBN 978-3-931608-97-2 .
  • Sibylle Auer, Ingrid Steeger: And think it's wonderful. My life (autobiography). Ehrenwirth, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-431-03872-9 .

Web links

Commons : Ingrid Steeger  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ zeit.de advertising figures
  2. ^ Spiegel Online: Kati Witt and Co .: The German "Playboy" celebrities
  3. ↑ Ingrid Steeger about her situation in " Sandra Maischberger : Living with Bankruptcy" (November 9, 2010).
  4. ↑ BRISANT broadcast on November 12, 2010 on ARD
  5. ↑ Ex- "Klimbim" star Ingrid Steeger from February 10th in Kassel Komödie on the stage in hna.de, accessed on August 18, 2011
  6. ↑ Premiere with Ingrid Steeger in Worpswede
  7. ↑ http://www.wdr.de/studio/koeln/serien/premierenreport/2012/11/2012_11_23.html
  8. ↑ bild.de: Ingrid Steeger: Her rise - and her deep fall - photo series with 30 pictures
personal data
SURNAME Steeger, Ingrid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stengert, Ingrid Anita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin