Constanze Engelbrecht
| Constanze Engelbrecht | |
|---|---|
| Born |
6 January 1950 Munich, Germany |
| Died | 21 July 2000 (aged 50) Munich, Germany |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1960-1998 |
Constanze Engelbrecht (6 January 1950 - 21 July 2000) was a German actress, who was one of the most popular actresses in the country between 1980 and 1990. She appeared in more than seventy films from 1960 to 1998. Her daughter Julie Engelbrecht is also an actress, as was her husband an actor.
Constanze Engelbrecht was born on 6 January 1950 in Munich, Germany to actress Alice Franz and sculptor Gen Golch. Her very first role was the voice actress for the character "Jeff" in the German version of the TV series Lassie, which she performed for six years. She debuted as a television actress at ten years old in the TV movie Und nicht mehr Jessica (1965) with Horst Naumann and Sascha Hehn. Engelbrecht's original goal was to become a classical soprano and she studied at the Richard Strauss Conservatory of Munich, at the Salzburg Mozarteneum and finally at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London before changing to acting and studying under the direction of Rosemarie Fendel. She performed in both live theater and television. Engelbrecht was well known at the theaters of Munich and also performed in Paris at the "Theatre de la ville".
Beginning in the 1970s, she worked in television, playing in Derrick, The Old Fox, Tatort and in 1979 she appeared as Gabrielle d'Estrées in a 12-part historical drama Heinrich, der gute König. In 1980, she and her husband, French writer, director and actor François Nocher, moved to Paris, but she continued to act in German television. During the 1980s, she starred in many mini-series, including Unter der Trikolore (1980), in the seven-part Feuchtwanger adaptation Exil (1981) and the lead actress in Tiefe Wasser (1982). She also appeared in films on the big screen during this period with roles in Der Fall Sylvester Matuska (1983) as Ilona with Armin Mueller-Stahl; in Is' was, Kanzler (1984) as the character "Rosi", with Dieter Hildebrandt, Günter Lamprecht, and Tommi Piper; in Wenn ich mich fürchte... (1984) as "Rita" with Horst Buchholz and Uwe Ochsenknecht and in Sierra Leone with Christian Redl.
...
Wikipedia