Petra Kelling

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Petra Kelling (born August 26, 1944 in Reitendorf , Mährisch Schönberg district ) is a German actress .

Life

Kelling completed her acting studies from 1962 to 1965 at the German Academy for Film Art in Potsdam-Babelsberg . She had her first theater engagement from 1965 to 1967 at the Rostock Theater . From 1967 to 2007, she worked continuously at the Theater derfreund in Berlin . Kelling had guest engagements in Hamburg and at the Theater unterm Dach in Berlin. She played important stage roles in a stage version of The Diary of Anne Frank and in 1994 at the Theater der Freund in the one-person play Santa Cecilia by the Cuban author Abilio Estévez .

In the course of her career, Kelling developed "from an uncomplicated young girl to an expressive character actress". Kelling often played down-to-earth women from the people, working women and little civil servants. She embodied this type of role in various episodes of the crime series Polizeiruf 110 .

After the reunification , Kelling mainly worked for television , in particular she was seen in numerous television series . Kelling took on continuous series roles, episode roles and guest roles. She had a continuous leading role in the series from 1996-1997 as head nurse Kathi in the SAT1 series Kurklinik Rosenau . She was also seen in episode roles in the television series For All Cases Stefanie (1996), The Last Witness (1999), Coast Guard (2007), Commissioner Stolberg (2008) and The Country Doctor (2009).

In 2010 she played the role of pensioner Gerlinde Rössler in the hospital series In all friendship , who is looking forward to a Mediterranean cruise with her husband and urges him to have another check-up beforehand. Also in 2010 she was in the family series Dr. To see Kleist ; Kelling embodied the role of the patient Helga Thaller, who initially categorically refuses to seek treatment due to her previous negative experiences with doctors.

Kelling has also appeared in numerous television films . In the two-part television film The Secret of the Red House (2005), she played the compassionate and concerned housekeeper and housekeeper Johanna Bode. In the biography Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger! (2006) she took on the role of neighbor Elisabeth Möller, who lovingly takes care of little Hans-Jürgen and becomes part of the Baetz family. In the television comedy Two Million Looking for a Father (2006) she played the role of Edda Krüger at the side of Johanna Christine Gehlen ; she embodied the "good soul" of a hotel in need of renovation. In 2009 she took on the role of Queen Dorothea in the new fairy tale film Die Gänsemagd , which was first broadcast on Christmas 2009 in the ARD Christmas program. In 2010, ZDF cast Kelling in the role of the unconventional and fun-loving Kitty Anson, the former nanny and foster aunt of the female lead (played by Felicitas Woll ) in the romantic Katie Fforde love film Glücksboten . In 2011 she was seen in the ZDF two-parter Schicksalsjahre , a film adaptation of the memoirs of Uwe-Karsten Heye , in the role of Aunt Anni, who lives in Rostock and with whom the Heye family finds refuge.

She also took part in several episodes of the crime series Tatort , for example as a villager and farmer Berta Mommsen in the Charlotte Lindholm crime scene Forgotten Memory (2010); most recently in 2011 as a consultation assistant for Karin Diestel in the Tatort television film Precious be the human being and healthy (2011).

In March 2016, Kelling was seen in the television film No marriage without a break on Das Erste as mother-in-law Greta Thielke.

Kelling also works as a speaker and reciter . She also recorded various audio books ; Among other things, she spoke the title role in Oma Else for the Buschfunk label , "an audio story in songs", with texts and songs by Gerhard Gundermann .

Kelling lives in Berlin. Her daughter Nadja Engel also works as an actress.

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personal data
SURNAME Kelling, Petra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Reitendorf , Sudetenland, Czech Republic