Ruth Preller-Gutdeutsch

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Ruth Preller-Gutdeutsch (* 1931 in Berlin ) is an American actress and acting teacher of German origin.

Life

Ruth Preller-Gutdeutsch already had the desire to become an actress as a child after she had seen a fairy tale performance of Snow White and Rose Red in her hometown Berlin in the professional children's theater . She became an American citizen after World War II . She received her acting training in New York City , where she lived for many years and appeared as an actress.

After her return to Germany, from the 1975/76 winter semester until the end of the 1993/94 winter semester, she was professor for language maintenance and drama lessons in the “Performing Arts” department at the University of the Arts in Berlin. Her students included u. a. the songwriter Klaus Hoffmann and the actor Heinrich Rolfing . From 1998 she ran the “Greenhouse” chamber theater in the basement of her villa in Berlin-Zehlendorf for about ten years together with her husband, the architect and engineer Götz Gutdeutsch (1929–2003) and her son Christopher Melching, who built the sets . "Theater in the Greenhouse"), where she u. a. Staged pieces by Sławomir Mrożek , Athol Fugard and Jean-Paul Sartre . In 2006, she played there in crayfish by Fred Denger Mary, the great age role of Tilla Durieux . She also made a guest appearance at the Berliner Ensemble .

After the end of her teaching activity, she increasingly turned to film and television. At the age of 75, she made her first feature film, Berlin am Meer , under the direction of Wolfgang Eißler , which was released in 2008. Roles in short films , TV films and TV series followed . In the 6th season of the ZDF series SOKO Wismar (2009), she took on a leading role in the episode as the mother Margot Rönneborg in need of care, alongside Olaf Rauschenbach . In the RTL production Good Times, Bad Times , she played Hannelore Reimann, the grandmother of the series character Carsten ( Felix Isenbügel ).

Filmography (selection)

  • 2007: Willi - Smoking can be fatal (short film)
  • 2008: Reusable (short film)
  • 2008: Berlin by the Sea (movie)
  • 2009: Week after Week (TV movie)
  • 2009: SOKO Wismar : Omas Engel (TV series, one episode)
  • 2010: Good Times, Bad Times (TV Series)
  • 2012: Klinik am Alex : For Life and Death (TV series, one episode)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Frank Gehricke: Ruth Preller-Gutdeutsch, actress . Biography and interview. In: The successful path into the film and television business . Practical guide for actors. actorsahead! Publishing company. 2nd edition 2009. ISBN 978-3-941617-00-1 . Pages 45–48.
  2. ↑ a b "Greenhouse" becomes a permanent theater institution . In: Tagesspiegel of September 7, 1999. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  3. ↑ Professors of the Performing Arts at the University of the Arts and the University of the Arts. 1975 - WS 2017/18 . Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  4. ↑ Klaus Hoffmann : As if it were nothing: From my life . Ullstein publishing house . Berlin 2012. ISBN 978-3-8437-0314-7 .
  5. ^ Heinrich Rolfing: Theater . Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  6. ↑ Theater in the Greenhaus . Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  7. ^ TiG: Theater in the Greenhouse . Official website. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  8. ↑ GUTDEUTSCH, Götz 1929-2003 . Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  9. ↑ "The whole house is a stage" . In: WELT of February 23, 2006. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  10. ↑ Self-inventions . In: taz of April 20, 2001. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  11. ↑ SOKO Wismar: Grandma's angel . Plot and cast. Official website of the ZDF . Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  12. ↑ SOKO Wismar: Grandma's angel . Plot and cast. Prisma.de (with photo by Ruth Preller). Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  13. ↑ GZSZ roles "R" . Retrieved November 26, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Preller-Gutdeutsch, Ruth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Melching-Preller, Ruth; Preller, Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress and drama teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin