Ortrud von der Recke

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Ortrud Baronin von der Recke (born January 17, 1916 in Riga , as Ortrud Benita Hach , † March 31, 2000 in Munich ) was a German aristocrat and film actress .

Life

Ortrud von der Recke, née Hach, came from the Baltic States ; she belonged to the ethnic group of the Baltic Germans . In 1938 she married Alexander Jeannot Franz Adam Leon Baron von Koskull (* 1904 in Adsirn, Kandau municipality , Talsen district ) in Riga . The marriage resulted in two daughters (* 1939 and * 1941). In the course of the resettlement of the Baltic Germans as part of the so-called “Home in the Reich” policy, they came to what was then the “ Reichsgau Wartheland ” during the Second World War . Towards the end of the Second World War , she fled to Bavaria on a trek of displaced people , where she lived until her death.

Their first marriage was divorced in Munich in September 1947; Her first husband later lived in the Rhineland after the war and worked as a bank clerk and farmer. Her second marriage was in March 1950 in Aßling / Upper Bavaria, the Baltic German Karl (Carl) Leo Eugen Baron von der Recke (* 1912 in Riga). Their second marriage was also divorced in December 1954 in Munich. From then on she bore the name Ortrud von der Recke. She lived in Munich's Bogenhausen district , where she a. a. worked as a bridge teacher.

Ortrud von der Recke was one of the leading actresses in Peter Schamoni's comedy Schloß Königswald . She played Countess Voronzoff, who, together with seven other noble ladies and a maid, is waiting in an old castle for the end of the Second World War.

Together with the other leading actresses Camilla Horn , Marika Rökk , Marianne Hoppe , Carola Höhn , Rose Renée Roth and Fee von Reichlin , she received the Actor Award at the Bavarian Film Prize in 1987 for her role .

Ortrud von der Recke died in Munich in March 2000 at the age of 84.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Alexander Jeannot Franz Adam Leon Baron von Koskull in: Hans Friedrich von Ehrenkrook : Genealogical manual of noble houses . Volume 28; Volume 138, Starke Verlag . Limburg an der Lahn 2005, p. 237.
  2. ↑ a b The last story of Königswald Castle Official website Schamoni Film & Medien GmbH. Retrieved December 5, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Recke, Ortrud von der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Recke, Ortrud Baroness von der (full name); Hach, Ortrud Benita (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German aristocrat and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 2000
Place of death Munich , Bavaria, Germany