Ruth leuwerik german actress and singer

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Sibylla Zander, in: Ein Herz spielt falsch, 1953, Regie: Rudolf Jugert.

Effi Briest, in: Rosen im Herbst, 1955, Regie: Rudolf Jugert. In 1944, she became a cast member of Städtische Bühnen Münster.

In 1950, Ruth Leuwerik made her movie debut in the holiday comedy "13 unter einem Hut".

Titelrolle, in: Königin Luise, 1957, Regie: Wolfgang Liebeneiner.

This particular performance won her the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco Film Festival. Her second husband was the famous German opera singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.

Franziska Lukas, in: Die Rote, 1961, Regie: Helmut Käutner.

ruth leuwerik german actress and singer

Voted Germany's most popular actress by Bravo, "the magazine for film and television", Leuwerik also picked up four prestigious Bambi Awards in 1953, 1960, 1961 and 1962.

 

In 1960, Leuwerik was the first German actress to participate in the "Royal Performance" but she passed up an offer by Universal to go to Hollywood.

The war, however, proved decidedly limiting to further career prospects. Ruth Leuwerik died in Munich in January 2016 at the age of 91.

BornApril 23, 1924

DiedJanuary 12, 2016(91)

Biography

Ruth Leuwerik, born April 23, 1924, in Essen, attended secondary schools for girls in Essen and in Münster, and later went to commercial college.

Kaiserin Elisabeth von Österreich, in: Ludwig II. Glanz und Elend eines Königs, 1955, Regie: Helmut Käutner. Between 1947 and 1949, she was able to gain steady theatrical engagements in Bremen and Lübeck. Maria Rohn, in: Ein Alibi zerbricht, 1963, Regie: Alfred Vohrer.

Theatrografie:

Peter Mänz/Nils Warnecke (Hg.), Die ideale Frau.

Hilde, in: Die große Versuchung, 1952, Regie: Rolf Hansen.

Konsulin Elisabeth (Betsy) Buddenbrook, in: Die Buddenbrooks, TV-Serie, 11 Folgen, 1979, Regie: Franz Peter Wirth. Arguably the culmination of her career was Liebling der Götter (1960), a biopic of the tragic actress Renate Müller. Undeterred, Leuwerik made her theatrical debut in 1943.

Undeterred, Leuwerik made her theatrical debut in 1943. Julius Martin Leeuwerik, a merchant, was sufficiently prosperous to afford his daughter private acting tuition after she was initially rejected by Berlin's premier acting academy. She played Maria von Trapp in The Trapp Family (1956) -- long before the musical version with Julie Andrews was conceived -- and showcased her abilities as a serious dramatic actress in the role of a priest's daughter, on trial for murdering her husband, in the title role of A Matter of Minutes (1959).

Rollen in Fernsehfilmen:

Titelrolle, in: Hedda Gabler, 1963, Regie: Paul Hoffmann.