Rosel Zech

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Roselie "Rosel" Helga Lina Zech (* July 7, 1940 in Berlin ; † August 31, 2011 there ) was a German theater and film actress . After her discovery by the director Peter Zadek she was promoted by him; However, she became widely known through her collaboration with Rainer Werner Fassbinder .

Career

theatre

Rosel Zech was born as the daughter of a barge and a seamstress in Berlin and grew up in Hoya . She had her first engagement as an actress in the 1959/60 season at the Südostbayerischen Städtetheater (today Landestheater Niederbayern ) in Landshut , where she made her debut as Bianca in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew .

From 1963 to 1965 she worked at the Biel Solothurn Theater and the Winterthur Summer Theater , then until 1970 at the Wuppertal Theater . In 1967 and 1970 she took on guest roles at the Stuttgart State Theater . In 1972 Peter Zadek signed her to the Schauspielhaus Bochum , of which he was director until 1979. His production of Hedda Gabler with Zech in the title role (as well as with Ulrich Wildgruber and Hermann Lause ) was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen in 1977 . From 1978 to 1980 Zech was seen in four productions of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg , all of them in productions by Zadek, including Hedda Gabler again with the same cast as in Bochum . She then took part in three productions at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin . From 1980 she was mainly seen at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich , but also in Vienna , at the Salzburg Festival and at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. In 2009 she played the title role in Mother Courage and Her Children at the Luisenburg Festival .

Movie and TV

Rosel Zech made her debut in front of the camera in 1970 in the television film Der Pott (directed by Peter Zadek ). In 1973 she played a small role in The Tenderness of the Wolves with Kurt Raab and Margit Carstensen . During the filming, she met Rainer Werner Fassbinder , who produced the film. She later worked with Fassbinder more often. In the same year Peter Zadek cast the actress in his film adaptation of Little Man - what now? with Heinrich Giskes and Hannelore Hoger . Other films and television films followed, including a film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Die Möwe or Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler . In the children's film Die Vorstadtkrokodile from 1977, she played Mrs. Wolfermann , the mother of one of the suburban crocodiles . In 1979, she played alongside Helmut Griem and Fernando Arrabal in Peter Fleischmann's science fiction film The Hamburg Disease .

Two years later she was cast by Rainer Werner Fassbinder in the film Lola in a supporting role as the wife of Mario Adorf . She played the leading role in Fassbinder's next film, The Desire of Veronika Voss . Her convincing portrayal of a morphine addicted actress was one of the decisive factors in the fact that the film was awarded the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1982 .

In the following years, Rosel Zech concentrated primarily on working on television. Her portrayals in Die Knapp-Familie , Die Bertinis , Die Indian Ärztin (1994–1996) and several appearances in the crime series Der Alte and Tatort made Rosel Zech known to the broader television audience. Since 2002 she played Mother Superior in the series Um Himmels Willen .

Rosel Zech also worked internationally. So she stood in front of the camera for the director Percy Adlon at the side of kd Lang . The drama Salmonberries won an award at the 1991 World Film Festival and made Zech known abroad. In addition, Zech was awarded the Bavarian Film Prize for Best Actress for this film. In addition, she was seen in many German films such as Aimée and Jaguar , Fathers , Anatomy 2 or ventricular fibrillation .

Rosel Zech was one of the best-known actresses in German-language film, not least because of the numerous awards she received for her performance. Rosel Zech lived in Berlin , where she last appeared in numerous theater roles.

In the summer of 2011, Rosel Zech was diagnosed with end-stage bone cancer, which is why she no longer played in the eleventh season of the ARD series Um Himmels Willen . She succumbed to her illness at the end of August 2011. In the summer of 2012 it became known that the unmarried Zech had appointed her long-time friend Juliane Lorenz (President of the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation) and a student at the time to be her heirs. Some media had previously reported on the disinheritance of Zech's then 93-year-old mother Helga in favor of Juliane Lorenz.

Awards

Filmography

Web links

Obituaries

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Rosel Zech
  2. ^ Edith Rabenstein: In Passau acclaimed as Molières "Elise" , Passauer Neue Presse of September 2, 2011
  3. ↑ Hellmuth Karasek : A higher daughter is dusted off , Der Spiegel from February 21, 1977
  4. ↑ Rosel Zech died of cancer at 69. Retrieved September 16, 2011 .
  5. ↑ Rosel Zech: She bequeaths her parents' house to a student! Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Student from Hoya: "I inherit the house from Rosel Zech". Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Why did Rosel Zech disinherit her mother (93)? Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Zech, Rosel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zech, Roselie Helga Lina (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin -Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 2011
Place of death Berlin