Lis Verhoeven

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Lis Verhoeven (born March 11, 1931 in Frankfurt am Main ; † July 2, 2019 ), initially also Lys van Essen or Lis van Essen , was a German actress and theater director . The film director Michael Verhoeven is her brother.

Life

The daughter of the actor and director Paul Verhoeven and his wife, the actress Doris Kiesow (1902–1973), attended the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich from 1949 to 1951 after graduating from high school .

She received her first engagement from 1951 to 1954 at the Schauspiel Frankfurt . From 1954 to 1956 she was a member of the ensemble of the Münchner Kammerspiele . Here she acted several times under the direction of her father and the director Hans Lietzau . She then became a freelance actress.

She has now appeared at various German theaters in Berlin, Cologne and Munich, often also on theater tours, where she embodied Stella in Endstation Sehnsucht in 1962/63 . From 1966 to 1968 she worked at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. At the Schwäbisch Hall Freilichtspiele she was in productions by Kurt Hübner in 1969/70 Juliet in Romeo and Juliet , 1972/73 Kunigunde in Das Käthchen von Heilbronn and 1980/81 Sittah in Nathan der Weise , and in 1978 Lady Macbeth in Macbeth .

She made her debut as a director in the independent theater scene in Munich in 1980. Her directorial work includes Arnolt Bronnens Patermord (1985, Teamtheater in Munich), Peter Turrinis Josef und Maria (1986, Volkstheater Wien ), Edward Bonds Sommer (1988, Kammerspiele Düsseldorf), Chekhov's Der Kirschgarten (1989, Bregenz ) and Ionesco's Die Nashörner ( 1992, Landshut ). From 1994 to 2004 she was the artistic director of the Feuchtwangen Cloister Theater , where she staged Romeo and Juliet (1995) and Don Carlos (1997), among others .

Lis Verhoeven played in numerous television plays and series and embodied the criminal inspector Schröder in the crime series Berlin, Keithstrasse 30 (1972) for 13 episodes. She was also active as a voice actress and at poetry readings. She worked as an acting teacher at the Zinner Studio in Munich as well as at Christine Willschrei's drama school and most recently at the Academy for Performing Arts in Bavaria .

Verhoeven was briefly married to Mario Adorf in the 1960s , with whom they had their daughter Stella Adorf (* 1963). Verhoeven died on July 2, 2019 at the age of 88 from complications from a stroke .

Filmography (selection)

as Lys van Essen

as Lis van Essen

as Lis Verhoeven

  • 1960: Time and the Conways
  • 1962: regret, wrongly connected
  • 1963: walls
  • 1964: campsite
  • 1964: Port Police (series) - Dangerous Refuge
  • 1964: a long day
  • 1965: machinations
  • 1966: Bethany
  • 1967: Crumble's last chance
  • 1969: day after day
  • 1970: Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin - the hour of decision
  • 1971: Two letters to Pospischiel
  • 1972: Berlin, Keithstraße 30 (series)
  • 1972: Suspicion against Barry Croft
  • 1972: Pulle + Pummi
  • 1972: Marie
  • 1973: The Commissioner - summer pension
  • 1973: In the Schillingshof
  • 1975: The Commissioner - A murder in the country
  • 1977: To the Little Fish (series)
  • 1978: be careful! Freshly waxed (Director: Helmut Kissel)
  • 1978: Tatort - The man on the high seat
  • 1979: The Skimmed Milk Gang (series)
  • 1982: a case for two - rabies
  • 1983: times are changing (multi-part)
  • 1985: Derrick - sister Hilde
  • 1995: Around 30
  • 2003: Der Bulle von Tölz: Class reunion (TV film)

Radio plays

Film documentaries

  • The Verhoevens . Documentary by Felix Moeller , Germany 2003, 75 minutes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Actress Lis Verhoeven has died. In: Die Zeit , July 5, 2019. Retrieved July 5, 2019.
  2. ↑ Caution! Freshly waxed (13 episodes) ( Memento from January 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Verhoeven, Lis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Food, Lys van; Food, lis van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 2nd July 2019