Rosel Zech

Rosalie Helga Lina Zech (7 July 1940 – 31 August 2011),[1] known as Rosel Zech, was a German theater and film actress, especially with the "Autorenkino" (New German Cinema) movement, which began in the 1970s.

Rosel Zech
Born
Rosalie Helga Lina Zech

7 July 1940
Died31 August 2011
NationalityGerman
OccupationTheater and film actress

Career

Theater

Rose Zech was born in Berlin; her father was a citizen from Poland. Because of her birth out of wedlock, her mother, a dressmaker, married soon after the birth of her daughter an inland waterway boatman who gave her his last name,[2] She was raised in Hoya, Germany. Her performing led her, at the age of 20, to Lower Bavaria, where in 1962 her first theatrical engagement was in the South Bavarian City Theater (now the Lower Bavarian State Theatre) in Landshut.

This was followed by other roles at various other theaters, such as in 1964 at the Städtebundtheater in Biel and at the summer theater in Winterthur. Two years later she played at the Schauspielhaus Wuppertal. From 1970 to 1972, she appeared on stage at the Staatstheater Stuttgart then at the Schauspielhaus Bochum.

During the season 1978–1979 Rosel Zech was active in Hamburg at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus and then returned to her native city of Berlin, where she acted on the Volksbühne. In 1981 she was hired by the Bayerischen Staatsschauspiel in Munich. Four years later she was seen again at the Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. 2009 she worked with in the Luisenburg Festival in the play Mother Courage as Anna Fierlinger.

Film and television

She made her 1970 television debut in The Pot. In 1973 she appeared in a small role in The Tenderness of Wolves with Kurt Raab and Margit Carstensen. On the set she met Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who produced the film.[2] She and Fassbinder began an extended collaboration. The same year, Peter Zadek cast the actress in his film version of Kleiner Mann – was nun? ("Little man - what now?" with Heinrich Giskes and Hannelore Hoger.

Other films and TV movies followed, among which were a film version of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, and Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. In the children's film Vorstadtkrokodile from 1977, she played Mrs. Wolferman, the mother of one of the "crocodiles". She appeared in Peter Fleischmann's 1979 science fiction film Die Hamburger Krankheit.

In 1981, she was cast by Rainer Werner Fassbinder in the film Lola (1981) in a supporting role as the wife of Mario Adorf. Fassbinder immediately chose her for his next project, Veronika Voss, and cast her in the lead. This second Fassbinder film was inspired by the life of the UFA actress Sybille Schmitz, and Rosel Zech's convincing portrayal of the morphine-addicted actress turned Zech into a star overnight. The film was awarded in 1982 in the Berlin International Film Festival with a Golden Bear. In the following years, Zech focused mainly on work in television and appeared in numerous television series and television films, as well as in regular theater productions in Berlin, where she lived during her last years. From 2002 until her death, she had a regular role as the mother superior in the German TV series Um Himmels Willen.

Death

She died of bone cancer in Berlin on 31 August 2011, aged 71.[2] Following a cancer diagnosis in the summer of 2011, Zech had not been able to resume her regular role as a nun in the German TV series Um Himmels Willen (For Heaven's Sake).

Awards
  • 1968: Förderpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
  • 1976: Schauspielerin des Jahres der Zeitschrift Theater heute for Hedda Gabler
  • 1982: Goldener Bär der Berlinale for Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss
  • 1983: Deutscher Darstellerpreis for Mascha
  • 1990: Kainz-Medaille der Stadt Wien for Eines langen Tages Reise in die Nacht
  • 1991: 1. Preis des World Film Festival in Montreal for Salmonberries
  • 1992: Bayerischer Filmpreis (Beste Darstellerin) for Salmonberries
  • 1999: Bayerischer Verdienstorden
  • 2001: Merkur-Theaterpreis der Zeitung Münchner Merkur for Afterplay

Filmography
  • 1970: Der Pott (TV Movie) as Susi
  • 1973: Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe as Dame an der Tür
  • 1973: Kleiner Mann, was nun? (TV Movie) as Marlene Dietrich / Marie Kleinholtz / Bettlerkind / Frau Nothnagel / Claire Waldoff
  • 1974: Mädchen in Uniform (TV Movie)
  • 1974: Die Möwe (TV Movie) as Nina Michailowna Saretschnaja
  • 1974: Eiszeit as Wanda
  • 1977: Die Geisel (TV Movie) as Mrs. Gilchrist
  • 1977: Die Vorstadtkrokodile (TV Movie) as Frau Wolfermann
  • 1978: Hedda Gabler (TV Movie) as Hedda Gabler
  • 1978: Verführungen (TV Movie) as Christine
  • 1979: The Hamburg Syndrome as Dr. Hamm
  • 1980: Mosch as Adele
  • 1980: Der Menschenfeind (TV Movie)
  • 1981: Die Jahre vergehen (TV Movie) as Herlinde
  • 1981: Der Nächste bitte (TV Movie)
  • 1981: Lola as Frau Schuckert
  • 1981: Heute spielen wir den Boss / Wo geht's denn hier zum Film? (with Peer Raben) as Frau Kaiser
  • 1981: Die Knapp-Familie (TV Mini-Series) as Elfriede Knapp
  • 1982: Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss as Veronika Voss
  • 1983: Mascha (TV Movie)
  • 1982: Die Geschwister Oppermann (TV Mini-Series) as Lieselotte Oppermann
  • 1983: Klawitter (TV Movie)
  • 1984: Julia (TV Movie)
  • 1985: Der Angriff der Gegenwart auf die übrige Zeit as Ärztin
  • 1985: Ein fliehendes Pferd (TV Movie) as Sabine Halm
  • 1985: Innige Liebe (TV Movie) as Agnes
  • 1985: Tatort (Episode: "Der Mord danach") as Jutta Reismüller
  • 1986: Vermischte Nachrichten (with Sabine Wegner) as Erfolgstyp
  • 1986: The Old Fox (Episode: "Blutgoldspur") as Helma Köhler
  • 1987: Nebel im Fjord (TV Movie) as Claudia Busch
  • 1987: Herz mit Löffel
  • 1987: Die Bombe (TV Movie) as Helga Meyerdiercks
  • 1987: The Old Fox (Episode: "Verwischte Spuren") as Gabriele Lohmann
  • 1987: The Old Fox (Episode: "Mord ist Mord") as Ingrid Pohl
  • 1988: Die Bertinis (TV Mini-Series)
  • 1988: Hemingway (TV Mini-Series) as Lilli Marleen
  • 1989: Fabrik der Offiziere (TV Mini-Series) as Felicitas Frey
  • 1989: The Old Fox (Episode: "Ausgestiegen") as Jutta Sander
  • 1990: Bei mir liegen Sie richtig as Frau Berger
  • 1991: Salmonberries (with k.d. lang) as Roswitha
  • 1993: Mr. Bluesman as Mrs. Neuhaus
  • 1993: Derrick (Episode: "Nach acht langen Jahren") as Charlotte Heine
  • 1993: Der rote Vogel (TV Mini-Series) (with Lola Müthel) as Ellen Vondrowski
  • 1994: Polizeiruf 110 (Episode: "Gespenster") as Mutter Reiser
  • 1994: Das Baby der schwangeren Toten (TV Movie) as Betti Ley
  • 1995: Hades
  • 1995: Schade um Papa (TV Series, with Erika Mottl) as Lena Bandmann
  • 1995: Dicke Freunde (TV Movie) (with Gerd Udo Feller and Nino Korda) as Marianne Strauss
  • 1995: Neben der Zeit (TV Movie) as Sophies Mutter
  • 1996: Ärzte: Die indische Ärztin (TV Series) as Dr. Karla Fasching-Spiehweg
  • 1996: Die Geliebte (TV Series)
  • 1997: Lea Katz – Die Kriminalpsychologin: Das wilde Kind (TV Movie) (with Ralf Schermuly and Alexandra Wilcke) as Gisela Straub
  • 1997: Terror im Namen der Liebe (TV Movie) as Elke
  • 1997: Die letzte Rettung (TV Movie) (with Michael Degen) as Gudrun
  • 1998: Der Schlüssel (Short) as Reinigungschefin
  • 1998: Tatort (Episode: "Der zweite Mann") as Juwelierin
  • 1998: Tatort (Episode: "Todesbote") as Silvia Blankenberg
  • 1999: Aimée und Jaguar as Blonde Frau
  • 1999: Siska (Episode: "Blackout") as Dr. Beate Paulus
  • 1999: The Old Fox (Episode: "Im Angesicht des Todes") as Judith Bennesch
  • 1999: Morgen gehört der Himmel dir (TV Movie) as Frau Niering
  • 1999: Ein Fall für zwei (Episode: "Abgebrüht") as Klara Schierer
  • 2000: Oh, du Fröhliche (TV Movie) (with Dorothee Hartinger and Florian Böhm)
  • 2001: Ein unmöglicher Mann (TV Mini-Series) (mit Stephan Kampwirth and Christian Buse) as Frau Schmitt-Oedenthal
  • 2001: Große Liebe wider Willen (TV Movie) as Claudia
  • 2001: Das Schneeparadies (TV Movie) (with Anne Brendler, Andreas Brucker and Klaus Wildbolz) as Margot
  • 2002: Im Visier der Zielfahnder (Episode: "Die Frau ohne Namen") as Britta Prahm
  • 2002: Väter as Melanies Mutter
  • 2002: Zwei Affären und eine Hochzeit (TV Movie) (with Katja Flint and Ivonne Schönherr) as Rosa Richter
  • 2002–2011: Um Himmels Willen (TV Series) as Oberin Elisabeth Reuter (final apeparance)
  • 2003: Anatomie 2 as Dr. Bamberg
  • 2003: Tatort (Episode: "Veras Waffen") as Marion von Pahl
  • 2003: Der Auftrag - Mordfall in der Heimat (TV Movie) as Karin Eisner
  • 2003: Plötzlich wieder 16 (TV Movie) as Professorin
  • 2003: Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall (Episode: "Yesterday") as Dorothee Mewes
  • 2004: Tatort (Episode: "Mörderspiele") as Monika Hanke-Helmhövel
  • 2004: Kammerflimmern as Oma Crash
  • 2004: The Old Fox (Episode: "Tod im Morgengrauen") as Gisela von Lindow
  • 2005: Rosamunde Pilcher (Episode: "Segel der Liebe") as Winona Carter
  • 2005: K3 – Kripo Hamburg (Episode: "Fieber") as Pauline Petersen
  • 2005: In Liebe eine Eins (TV Movie) as Ursula Sandrock
  • 2006: Papa und Mama (TV Series) as Mutter Martha
  • 2006: Mr. Nanny - Ein Mann für Mama (TV Movie) as Marlene Meister
  • 2006: Agathe kann's nicht lassen (Episode: "Die Tote im Bootshaus"") as Katharina Meindl
  • 2008: Das Traumschiff (Episode: "Kilimandscharo - Malediven - Indien") as Kathrin Kriegel
  • 2008: Einsatz in Hamburg (Episode: "Ein sauberer Mord") as Doris Blank
  • 2008–2009: Der Schwarzwaldhof (TV Series) as Dora Hofer
  • 2009: Die Rebellin (TV Movie, directed by Ute Wieland) as Alma Sattler
  • 2011: Schicksalsjahre (TV Series) as Martha Engler

References
  1. Scott Roxborough "'Veronica Voss' Actress Rosel Zech Dies of Cancer", The Hollywood Reporter, 1 September 2011
  2. Ronald Bergan Obituary:Ronald Bergan, The Guardian, 4 September 2011
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