Maria Sebaldt | |
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 Maria Sebaldt (right) | |
| Born | (1930-04-26)26 April 1930 |
| Died | 4 April 2023(2023-04-04) (aged 92) |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Spouse | Robert Freitag |
| Children | Katharina Freitag |
Maria Katharina Helene Sebaldt (26 April 1930 – 4 April 2023) was a German actress.[1][2]
The daughter of a department head of the Paramount film distribution company took private acting lessons from 1946 to 1949 and passed an acting examination in 1951. As early as 1947 she made her stage debut in Sondershausen asEdeltraud Panse in Maximilian Böttcher'sKrach im Hinterhaus. Numerous theater engagements followed, among others inSondershausen, Berlin (Renaissance Theater, Theater Club British Center) and Munich.
From 1965 until his death in 2010, Maria Sebaldt was married to her colleagueRobert Freitag.[2] Together with Freitag's first wife, the actress Maria Becker, she created the cookbookEat and Drink and Be Happy in 1997,Favorite dishes from Maria Becker & Maria Sebaldt.
Maria Sebaldt had a daughter, Katharina Freitag, and a grandson.[3] She died in Munich on 4 April 2023, at the age of 92.[4]
She was buried next to her husband in the Grünwald forest cemetery.
In 1953, Sebaldt made her film debut alongsideRudolf Prack inWhen The Village Music Plays on Sunday Nights. Since then, film and television have been her artistic focus. She played in music films likeThe Gypsy Baron, dramas likeThe Story of Anastasia (withLilli Palmer in the title role), comedies like Helmut Käutner'sThe Zürich Engagement (withLilo Pulver) andFather, Mother and Nine Children (withHeinz Erhardt), crime fiction likeThe Black Sheep after Gilbert Keith Chesterton (withHeinz Rühmann asFather Brown), and the gangster movie parodyOops, here's Eddie! (withEddie Constantine ), westerns[5] likeFive Thousand Dollars on One Ace, and literary adaptations like Alfred Weidenmann's two-parter based on Thomas Mann'sThe Buddenbrooks and Helmut Käutner's adaptation of Carl Zuckmayer'sThe Captain from Köpenick. She often embodied sympathetic characters, but also cunning gangsters such asVirginia Peng in the real-life version of Manfred Schmidt's popular comic seriesNick Knatterton.
Sebaldt also became popular through her roles in series such asIch heirate eine Familie or as the caringHannelore Wichert, which she embodied in the ZDF seriesDie Wicherts von nebenan between 1986 and 1991. In addition, she had numerous guest appearances in series such asTatort,Das Traumschiff,Der Kommissar,Derrick andThe Old Fox.
In addition, Sebaldt worked extensively for radio (NDR, RIAS, SFB), and was the German voice for internationally renowned actresses asAntonella Lualdi(The Red and the Black),Eva Marie Saint(A Hatful of Rain) andJoanne Woodward(Rally Round the Flag, Boys! andThe Three Faces of Eve)
Additional films can be found on German[6] and Swedish[7] databases.
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