Simone Rethel
Simone Rethel-Heesters (born June 15, 1949 in Herrsching am Ammersee ) is a German actress and book author .
biography
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)
- 1965: The pious Helene
- 1969: Young gentleman on an old farm
- 1971: The first day of spring
- 1971: The Commissioner - The Moor Murderer (TV)
- 1972: The Commissioner - Death of a Schoolgirl (TV)
- 1972: how can I become a hero? (À la guerre comme à la guerre)
- 1973: The Lord von Barmbeck
- 1973: The comedy nobility : Small world
- 1973: The Commissioner - The death of Karin W. (TV)
- 1974: The Commissioner - Through the Eyes of a Murderer (TV)
- 1974: The beautiful Helena
- 1976: The laughing apple
- 1977: It doesn't always have to be caviar (TV series)
- 1977: Crime scene: three nooses
- 1977: The old man - bankruptcy (TV)
- 1978: The money is in the bank
- 1978: The Whitsun excursion
- 1979: The Old - New Objectivity (TV)
- 1980: Tea biscuits and blank cartridges
- 1980: One hundred thousand thalers once
- 1981: The protégé
- 1981: It stays in the family
- 1982: The women are to blame
- 1983: Omelette Surprise (comedy) (ORF)
- 1983: The marriage certificate
- 1983: The Violet Cap (TV)
- 1983: Derrick - The horrors of the night
- 1985: Happy Holidays (with Sigmar Solbach and Claudia Rieschel )
- 1985–1986: Police Inspection 1 (2 episodes)
- 1992–1993: These Drombuschs
- 1992: Chéri, my husband is coming! (TV)
- 1993: New Zealand
- 1993: Happy Journey - New Zealand
- 1994: The matchmaker (TV)
- 1994–1996: Sunday again and again
- 1994: Three to fall in love with (TV)
- 1995: The moon shines for subtenants too
- 1995: Two old hands (TV)
- 1996: a blessed age
- 1996: Rosamunde Pilcher (1 episode)
- 1996: In the name of the law (TV)
- 1997: Entre terre et mer (TV)
- 1999: Theater: Momo
- 1999: Stubbe - Case by Case (1 episode)
- 1999: The Office - Late Love
- 2000: Almost a Gentleman (TV)
- 2003: In all friendship (1 episode)
- 2008: Paths to Happiness (1 episode)
- 2012: The Garmisch-Cops - bath foam for a dead person
- 2016: The Rosenheim Cops - Beauty has its price
- 2016: Schwarzach 23 -… and the hunt for the murder finger
- 2017: SOKO Munich - Indian summer
- 2017: Storm of Love
- 2019: SOKO Stuttgart - coffee trip
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
- Literature by and about Simone Rethel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Simone Rethel in the Munzinger Archive , accessed on December 22, 2018 ( beginning of article freely available)
- Simone Rethel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Simone Rethel at filmportal.de
- Website by Simone Rethel-Heesters
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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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 |