Ursula Dirichs

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Ursula Dirichs
Born1933
Died2022
Occupation Actress

Ursula Dirichs (born 1933, Recklinghausen, Germany - 2022) was a German actress. [1]

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Early life

Ursula Dirichs was born in the northern Ruhr area and grew up in Königsberg. She took acting lessons at the Otto-Falkenberg-Schule in Munich, and returned to the Ruhr to begin her acting career; she worked in Oberhausen, then at the Schauspielhaus Bochum. She has worked in various cities in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

TV career

Her first major appearance in television was in 1960 in the fledgling German television: On the beach of the green river Spree, based on a book by Hans Scholz, in which she played two roles. In the third sequence, set after the Battle of Kunersdorf, she played the girl Hannah, and in the fourth part, the role of the "goat princess" Bärbel Kroll. She has acted in 60 films and television playing large and small roles.

Since the 1960s, she was also in radio in a variety of roles, such as Horst Tappert in a radio adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera , the multi-part thriller, La Boutique by Francis Durbridge and the children's radio drama The daisies'.

Filmography

Radio dramas

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References

  1. "Traueranzeigen von Ursula Dirichs-Neess | Frankfurter Allgemeine Lebenswege". lebenswege.faz.net (in German). Retrieved 27 January 2024.