Petra Peters

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Petra Peters in her first film Das Mädchen Christine , 1948

Petra Peters , actually Ursula Helene Aline Peters (born March 31, 1925 in Remscheid , † July 31, 2004 in Munich ), was a German actress .

Life

After attending the conservatory in Hanover, she took acting lessons there and made her debut as a stage actress at the Hanover State Theater . Engagements in Mulhouse and at the Comedy Berlin followed.

Then she was discovered by film and immediately received the lead role in her feature film debut, the historical drama Das Mädchen Christine . The DEFA production, directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt, based on a literary model by Hans Rabl , earned her a high degree of popularity and other leading roles - initially also in a DEFA Kahn production of the happy people and in West German films Anonymous letters and girls behind bars .

In the years that followed, it was cast by respected directors Ferdinand Dörfler ( monks, girls and pandurs ) and Gerhard Lamprecht ( the angel with the flaming sword ), but could no longer follow up on their early successes.

In the 1950s she married the actor Albert Lieven , whom she followed to his adopted home in England, where he had emigrated during National Socialism . Apart from a small guest role in the English series Studio Four , she no longer appeared as an actress, but instead switched to work as a playwright.

After Lieven's death in 1971, however, she occasionally took on roles in film and television productions, e. B. in the horror flicks Magdalena, possessed by the devil and The Bride of Satan , the drama The Falcon , the exploitation thriller Natascha, death greetings from Moscow as well as in several Derrick episodes.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Rolf Aurich, Susanne Fuhrmann, Pamela Müller (Red.): Dreams of film. Cinema in Hanover 1896–1991. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Theater am Aegi from October 6 to November 24, 1991. Society for Film Studies, Hanover 1991, p. 172f.

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personal data
SURNAME Peters, Petra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peters, Ursula Helene Aline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Remscheid , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 2004
Place of death Munich , Bavaria , Federal Republic of Germany