Traudl Kulikowsky

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Traudl Kulikowsky (actually Edeltraud Kulikowski , born December 9, 1943 in Litzmannstadt ) is a German actress .

From the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s she played some major roles in cinema and television films in the GDR . In 1984 she left for West Berlin . After the turn of 1989/90, their activities were considered IN the state security known.

Film career

Kulikowsky initially worked in a production company while playing in a workers' theater.

In the 1960s and early 1970s she was one of the most famous young actors in the GDR, also because of her youthful, fresh charisma. Even before starting her acting training, she appeared in two feature films in 1964: In the workers' film Das Lied vom Trompeter she played alongside GDR stars such as Rolf Römer , Günther Simon and Jürgen Frohriep . However, she became known for her appearance alongside Gunter Schoß in the television film Egon and the eighth wonder of the world based on the bestselling novel by Joachim Wohlgemuth , which credibly portrayed the lifestyle of the GDR youth. Under the direction of her husband at the time, the director and screenwriter Horst Seemann (1937–2000), she became a popular young star and graced the front pages of GDR film magazines several times.

She then began studying at the State Drama School in Berlin-Schöneweide and later at the GDR Academy for Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg.

Between 1966 and 1974, Kulikowsky played major roles in Horst Seemann's films. For example, in the musical comedy Wedding Night in the Rain (alternative title: Liebe im Galopp , 1966/67) alongside Frank Schöbel and Herbert Köfer . The film, harmless in itself, was rejected by the official film review. The FDJ newspaper Junge Welt criticized the “self-centered worldview”. Even within the state film production company DEFA , Seemann's works were sometimes violently attacked, while the GDR audience appreciated the highly emotional films. In 1969 Kulikowsky played in Seemann's drama Time to Live , in 1971 in a declaration of love to GT. 1972 she played the daughter of the construction worker and brigade leader Kamp in his workers' film Reife Kirschen , played by Günther Simon. In the film, Kamp decides against his family and in favor of moving to the Baltic Sea to help build a nuclear power plant. It was officially criticized that in the film “the strong character drawings of the first part of the film were blurred; an idyllic harmony devalues ​​the conflicts that were previously to be taken seriously. ”Seemann's last contemporary film Suse, liebe Suse (1975) depicts the slow development and emancipation of a young truck driver (Traudl Kulikowsky) who wants her friend, who wants to leave the GDR, in favor of one Soviet engineer gives up. "A deliberately progressive film, convincing neither in terms of content nor form, pathetic and superficial," was the criticism of the film service .

After separating from Seemann, Kulikowsky was only occasionally seen on the big screen or on the television screen, for example in the 1975 Polizeiruf-110 episode The Calculus Does n't Work and the TV movie You Must Go Over Seven Bridges (1978). She had her last appearance in 1980 as a supporting actress in the film May I say Petrushka to you? by director Karl-Heinz Heymann .

A few years after her departure from the GDR, she shot the 9-minute short documentary Agonie as a director in 1989, but was unable to build on her earlier artistic successes.

IM activity

After the fall of the Wall it became known that Kulikowsky had worked as an informant for the State Security for years. When confronted with the allegations, the ex-actress replied in 1997 that she hadn't taken the initiative: “I was in a broken marriage for years, was beaten, and nobody helped me. Then someone came to help me. He was with the MfS. I did not know that."

As IM "Galina Mark" she spied on since 1971 a. a. Peter Brasch , Heiner Carow , Franz Fühmann , Stefan Heym , Walter Janka , Rainer Kirsch , Elke Erb and the literary scene in Prenzlauer Berg . Since 1974 she has received regular agent fees. In 1982 she terminated her collaboration with the MfS because, according to Joachim Walther , she felt “not supported”. In 1983 she wrote a petition to Erich Honecker , complaining about her non-employment as an actress. She began to work in the system-critical women's group Women for Peace , was now observed critically by the Stasi herself and finally submitted an exit application approved in 1984 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cit. n. Film and television art of the GDR , Berlin 1979, p. 386
  2. ↑ cit. n. Ulrich Paul: Career between film studio and state security In: Berliner Zeitung , February 20, 1997
  3. ↑ Walther: Security area , p. 731
  4. ↑ s. Traudel Kulikowski: I wanted to be there ... An experience report on working with the “Women for Peace” in the GDR . In: Church in Socialism (KiS) 4/1985, p. 152
personal data
SURNAME Kulikowsky, Traudl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kulikowski, Edeltraud (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Litzmannstadt