Lilian Westphal

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Lilian Westphal (born March 18, 1926 in Zurich ; † August 4, 1997 in Aurigeno , Ticino ) was a German actress , radio play director, radio play speaker and author .

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Lilian Westphal completed her acting training at the Dresden University of Music and Theater . She had her first engagements in 1946 at the theaters of the state capital Dresden and the theaters of the city of Nordhausen , from 1947 to 1949 at the Leipzig city ​​theaters and from 1949 to 1951 at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich . Further stations were the Theater der Stadt Baden-Baden (1951/52) and the Schauspielhaus Zurich (1952–1954), where she played the actress in Pirandello's Six People Looking for an Author . Further engagements between 1956 and 1966 took her to the Basel Theater (1956 Olga in Chekhov's Three Sisters ), the Theater am Central in Zurich (1957 Ms. Linde in Ibsens Nora ) and the German Theater in Göttingen . Lilian Westphal also had a number of roles in film and television productions.

In the radio play area, Lilian Westphal was not only active as a speaker. From 1959 she worked as a radio play director and author for the Swiss radio DRS and the Bavarian radio . For example, the radio play series Dickie Dick Dickens based on Rolf and Alexandra Becker and Doktor Doolittle based on Hugh Lofting bear their signature.

Lilian Westphal was married to Valentin Gitermann in her first marriage and to Hellmuth Kirchammer in her second marriage . She is the mother of the Swiss journalist Isabel Baumberger .

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SURNAME Westphal, Lilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, radio play director and speaker and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1997
Place of death Aurigeno , Switzerland