Ulla Willick

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Ulla Willick-Borsche (born August 19, 1940 in Cologne - † October 16, 2019 in Ulm ) was a German theater actress .

Life

Training and career start

Ulla Willick completed her acting training at the drama school of the theater "Der Keller" in Cologne. Presumably in the 1959/60 season she had her debut and her first engagement there. At the beginning of her career she had further engagements at the Small Theater in Cologne and at the literary-political cabaret "Zerrspiegel".

Subsequently, Willick was mainly active as a guest actress, u. a. at the Small Theater in Bad Godesberg (season 1964/65), at Grenzlandtheater Aachen , at the Comedy Düsseldorf and at the Comedy Munich (each in the season 1967/68), at the Hamburger Kammerspiele and at the Volksbühne Berlin.

Stage stations

From 1971 to 1985, Willick was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Städtische Bühnen Nürnberg under the acting directors Hesso Huber and Hansjörg Utzerath , where she mainly worked with the director Raymund Richter (among others in Masse Mensch ). She then went to the United Städtische Bühnen Krefeld / Mönchengladbach from 1985 to 1991 , and then, under Richter's short-term direction, from 1991 to 1994 again at the Schauspielhaus Nürnberg. There she took over in the 1992/93 season a. a. at the side of Patricia Litten (Miss Lena Isenbarn), Ksch. Jochen Kuhl (Siebenmark) and Christian Habicht (Hans Iver) play the role of the widow Mrs. Keferstein in Ernst Barlach's drama The poor cousin . In Nuremberg she was voted one of the ten best actresses of the past 50 years at the Nuremberg Schauspielhaus.

Engagement at the Ulm Theater

Since the 1994/95 season, Ulla Willick has been engaged at the Ulm Theater. She was a permanent member of the ensemble for a total of 19 seasons until the end of the 2012/13 season. Since the 2013/14 season, her 20th season at Theater Ulm, Willick has continued to work there with a guest contract. In summer 2019 Willick was awarded the Ulm Theater Prize for her life's work.

Willick played over 100 roles at the Ulm Theater; In the course of her acting career, she has appeared on stage in a total of more than 200 roles.

Her roles in Ulm included a. the landowner Lyubow Andrejewna Ranjewskaja in Der Kirschgarten (season 1998/99, next to Friederike Frerichs as Charlotta Ivanovna), Mrs. Marthe Rull in Der Brochne Krug , Marija Wojinizkaja in Uncle Vanja , the Queen Gertrude in Hamlet , the Madame Pace in Six People are looking for an author (premiere, season 2004/05), Marthe Schwerdtlein in Faust (premiere, season 2007/08), Claire Zachanassian in The Visit of the Old Lady (2001), the cancerous and pill-addicted clan mother Violet in the drama Eine Family von Tracy Letts (premiere: 2007, later also in the 2010/11 season), Alice in Der Totentanz by August Strindberg (2011/12 season; director: Antje Thoms ), furthermore, in each case in the 2012/13 season, the title role in Bernarda Alba's house and the Lady Bracknell in Bunbury .

In the play Rommel. A German general (season 2011/12) played a double role: Hitler and the ghost of a murdered Jew. In the 2013/14 and 2014/15 seasons she played the maid Dorine in Tartuffe at the Ulm Theater . In the 2014/15 season she also took over the aging diva Dotty Otley in the comedy Der nackte Wahnsinn by Michael Frayn .

In summer 2015 she played the puck in the Shakespeare comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream in a production by Andreas von Studnitz with the ensemble of the Ulm Theater at the Wilhelmsburg ; She had already played Titania (director: Ansgar Haag ) and Oberon in earlier Ulm Midsummer Night's Dream productions . In the 2015/16 season, from March to June 2016, she took on the role of Countess Annegret in the Lehár operetta Schön ist die Welt at the Ulm Theater . One of her last premiere roles was Mrs. Higgins in the musical My Fair Lady in the 2018/19 season, for which she was cast again in the 2019/20 season.

Private

Willick was married to the film actor Dieter Borsche from 1970 until his death in 1982 . During their marriage, Willick and Borsche lived in Nuremberg .

literature

  • Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.): German Theater Lexicon . Volume VI. Weisbrod - Wolansky. De Gruyter, Berlin [et al.]. Page 3405. 2008, ISBN 978-3-908255-46-8 (accessed from De Gruyter Online).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gala on July 6th in the Ulm Theater . In: Südwestpresse July 28, 2019. Retrieved October 17, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Ulla Willick is on stage as a puck ; Portrait. In: Südwestpresse of November 27, 2013. Accessed July 1, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Ulla Willick ; Vita. Theater Ulm (2015/16 season, with a detailed list of roles). Retrieved July 1, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b The actress Ulla Willick is dead ; Obituary. In: Südwestpresse of October 17, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b Playing against the grain . In: Abendzeitung from September 10, 2009. Accessed July 1, 2017.
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j The actress Ulla Willick in her 20th season at the Ulm Theater ; Portrait. In: Südwestpresse of November 27, 2013. Accessed July 1, 2017.
  7. ^ The poor cousin , program booklet of the Nuremberg Theater, 1992/93 season
  8. ↑ A terribly chaotic family ; Performance review. In: Augsburger Allgemeine, March 21, 2011. Accessed July 1, 2017.
  9. ↑ Back to the agenda after the inferno ; Audience votes. In: Augsburger Allgemeine, October 8, 2011. Accessed July 1, 2017.
  10. ↑ The Rommel riddle can hardly be solved ; Performance review. In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung of January 27, 2012. Accessed July 1, 2017.
  11. ↑ The comedy "Der nackte Wahnsinn" at the Ulm Theater ; Performance review. In: Südwestpresse from November 22, 2014. Accessed July 1, 2017.
  12. ↑ Truly "The naked madness" ; Performance review. In: Augsburger Allgemeine, November 21, 2014. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
  13. ↑ THE WORLD IS BEAUTIFUL: ROYAL LOVE . Picture gallery. Retrieved July 1, 2017
  14. ↑ "My Fair Lady" with chic and charm . Criticism. In: Augsburger Allgemeine, November 9, 2018. Retrieved October 17, 2019.
  15. ↑ Almost divorced . Filmreporter.de from March 19, 2014. Accessed July 1, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Willick, Ulla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Willick-Borsche, Ulla (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 2019
Place of death Ulm