Simone Rethel

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Simone Rethel-Heesters, 2013
Signature of Simone Rethel

Simone Rethel-Heesters (born June 15, 1949 in Herrsching am Ammersee ) is a German actress and book author .

biography

Simone Rethel

Simone Rethel is the daughter of the painter and designer Alfred Rethel and granddaughter of the aircraft designer Walter Rethel and a descendant of the history painter Otto Rethel , brother of Alfred Rethel .

As a schoolgirl, she played the lead role in the 1965 film Die fromme Helene , directed by Axel von Ambesser (with Theo Lingen and Friedrich von Thun ). After finishing school, she trained as an actor with Hanna Burgwitz and made her debut in 1966 at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich in Die Freier by Joseph von Eichendorff - again directed by Axel von Ambesser, who repeatedly made his discovery for the stage and television hired for various roles.

Rethel mainly appears on the boulevard stages and has appeared in numerous TV series such as Aktenzeichen XY ... unsolved , Der Kommissar , Derrick , Der Alte , Schöne Ferien and Die Drombuschs .

From 1992 until his death in 2011 Simone Rethel was married to Johannes Heesters , 46 years her senior .

In addition to her work as an actress, she also devotes herself to painting and photography . Simone Rethel-Heesters has been working as an ambassador for the Aging in Dignity Initiative since the beginning of 2005 and is trying to bring the topic of Alzheimer's disease more to the fore. At the beginning of 2010, Rethel-Heesters published the non-fiction book Say Never, You're Too Old , in which she criticized the negative social image of getting older. In it, she demands to continue to be active in old age and not to stop setting goals in life.

Filmography (selection)

Publications (excerpt)

  • Simone Rethel, Beatrix Ross: Beauty of Age. Burgschmiet, Nuremberg 1998, ISBN 3-933731-01-1 .
  • Simone Rethel-Heesters: Johannes Heesters: Ein Mensch und ein Jahrhundert. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89602-731-X .
  • Simone Rethel-Heesters: Never say you're too old. Westend Verlag, Frankfurt 2010, ISBN 3-938060-35-2 .
  • Rei Gesing with Simone Rethel-Heesters (preface) and André Kröker: The wisdom of 100-year-olds. 7 questions to the oldest people in Germany (= MonoLit . Volume 1). Solibro Verlag, Münster 2018, ISBN 978-3-96079-061-7 .

Web links

Commons : Simone Rethel  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ laut.de
personal data
SURNAME Rethel, Simone
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rethel-Heesters, Simone (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Herrsching am Ammersee