Rita Russek

Rita Russek (2013)

Rita Russek (born June 27, 1952 in Eschwege ) is a German actress and director .

Life

Training and initial engagements

Rita Russek studied at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts and was then a permanent member of the ensemble at the Residenztheater of the Bavarian State Theater in Munich . Her first role was in 1973 as the young Jilly, directed by Luc Bondy, in Edward Bond's play The Sea . During this time she worked several times with Ingmar Bergman , who staged the plays Tartuffe , Nora and Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy with her, among others . In 1984 she was also seen in Hans Lietzau's Shakespeare production of King Lear . In 1986 she ended her engagement because a large part of the ensemble moved on to Basel and she wanted to stay with her family. She also directed several plays herself . For the embodiment shown in Paris, Montreal and London's production of Scenes from a Marriage , she was in 1996 in Paris with the Molière Theater Award nomination for Best Director.

Movie and TV

While she was still working at the Residenztheater, Russek got her first television role. She played in 1976 in the 16th episode death of hummingbirds of the ZDF crime series Derrick alongside Hans Stetter whose wife Gubeck . Ingmar Bergman, who staged several plays with her, also cast her in his film drama From the Lives of Marionettes (1980) as the murder victim Katarina Krafft . The roles were cast exclusively with members of the Staatsschauspiel ensemble. Since then, Russek has played in various other film and television productions.

In July 1982 she first appeared in the ARD crime series Tatort . In the Southwest Radio produced a result Pale Purple letters she took over in the second case, the detective chief Commissioner Hanne Wiegand ( Karin Anselm the role of married) Grete Steinbeiss that with the also married real estate agent Lutz Waldner ( Wolf-Dietrich Berg starts) an affair. In Uwe Schrader's Sierra Leone (1987) she played an old school friend of the main character Fred ( Christian Redl ).

In 1990, she occupied Bernd Fischerauer in on an eponymous novel by utta danella based ten-part television series Regina on the steps (1990) about the economic miracle as Lora Roth .In the ARD evening crime series The investigators she played from 1994 to 1996, the recurring series role of Elli . In the film drama … next week is peace (1995), based on the book of the same name by Peter Steinbach , set in the last days of the war in Berlin , she embodied the resolute tenant Tatjana Zeitler alongside Ulrich Mühe .

From 1997 to 2007 she played alongside Dietz-Werner Steck, aka Commissioner Ernst Bienzle, his girlfriend Hannelore Schmiedinger . Since May 1998, she has played alongside Leonard Lansink from the second episode, Chief Inspector Anna Springer of the Münster Murder Department in the ZDF Saturday crime series Wilsberg . Russek had to take a break on the part of the broadcaster for two episodes that were created in 2018 ( written in the face and Bielefeld 23 ) and played in Bielefeld, which caused her anger.

In A Father to Fall in Love (2001) she played as Claudia Brosche an unfaithful wife who, however, was also betrayed by her husband (played by Dieter Pfaff ) with another woman. In 2005 she played as Birte Schmitz in the 12-part ZDF television series Kanzleramt, the head of the Chancellor's office. She played the divorced Christine Bonhoff , the leaseholder of the bookstore “Bücherinsel”, in the ZDF television production Family is Was Wonderful (2008) . In the television comedy Age Before Beauty (2008) she took on the role of journalist Vera Lichtenberg alongside Fritz Wepper .

In Tim Trageser's comedy film Adel Dich (2011) she embodied the ex-wife of the main character Wendel Overmann , played by Elmar Wepper , who has an affair with his best friend Louis ( Wolfgang Böck ). In the television film Zwei über Berg , directed by Torsten C. Fischer , she took on the female lead of Margot Keilinger , who is cheated on by her husband (played by Günther Maria Halmer ) with a younger woman. Under the direction of Hajo Gies , she played the widow of a north German cuckoo clock factory founder who tried 22 years after his death to obtain the quality association seal he wanted. In the cheerful Tessa Henning story Mutti gets out (2013), she formed a dropout trio with Eleonore Weisgerber and Maren Kroymann who want to escape the gray everyday life in Germany and set up a new domicile in Gran Canaria. In 2014 she was seen in the ten-part television series The Family Detective in the role of Maria Birkenkamp . In the ARD television film Verliebt in Amsterdam (2017) she played Dorothea Baumann, a mother who, together with her husband , would like to bring their son Max ( Vladimir Burlakov ) back from Amsterdam to Germany on his 30th birthday. In March 2020 she was in Annie - headfirst into life as the mother of the title character Annie ( Bernadette Heerwagen ), who cheats on her husband after 17 years of marriage.

Private

Russek was in a relationship with actor Miroslav Nemec at a young age . She has a daughter (* 1983) from her first marriage. In her second marriage, she was married to director and actor Bernd Fischerauer until his death . She lives in Munich and on the island of Elba .