Celebrity Biographies
Hannelore Elsner
She was considered the grande dame of the theater in Germany, where her face became very popular for her television and film work. Hannelore Elsner she died on April 21, 2019, at the age of 76, according to her relatives, in a hospital in Munich, as a result of cancer.
Born on July 26, 1942, in the Bavarian city of Burghausen, Hannelore Elsner did not have an easy childhood, as her older brother died at the age of two as a result of bombing during World War II. Her father, an engineer, died when she was only eight years old. Her mother moved with her to Munich, where she was expelled from several schools. At fifteen, she auditioned for her theater debut.
In the mid-1960s, she triumphed on the scene in Munich and Berlin, especially as Elena, the protagonist of the comedy Cosas de papá y mamá , by the renowned Spaniard Alfonso Paso . She made her film debut with the forgotten comedy Immer die Mädche, by Fritz Rémond Jr., followed by numerous minor titles, where she exploited her sensual beauty and little else about her.
In the early 1980s, she became very popular in Germany as police officer Lea Sommer, in the long-running hit series Crime Scene. She established herself on the big screen much later, with Die Unberührbare (2000), a drama by Oskar Roehler , which won the trophy for best film and best actress at the German Film Awards, where she played a well-known performer. Outside of her country, she triumphed with Cherry Blossoms , by Doris Dörrie , where she was an old woman visiting her terminally ill husband with her two children who live in Berlin, and another in Japan.
Divorced in 1966 from the actor Gerd Vespermann ( Cabaret ), Hannelore Elsner was together with the director Alf Brustellin ( Germany in Autumn ), until his death in a car accident in 1981. Later she began a relationship with Dieter Wedel ( In the prime of la vida ), another filmmaker, with whom he had his only offspring, Dominik, now a photographer. “My son is my confidant and the closest person,” she said in an interview. Later, the actress maintained relationships with the playwright Uwe B. Carstensen, and the professor Günter Blamberger.
During the last years of his career he was intensely active, to the point that at the time of his death he left various works pending their premiere. Among them, a segment from Berlin stands out, I Love You , where Keira Knightley and Helen Mirren are also present .