Annemarie Wendl

Who was Annemarie Wendl?

Annemarie Wendl was a German actress.

Wendl was born into an upper-class family in Bavaria and began her training as an actress in Berlin at Lucie Höflich's seminar. Afterwards, she played classical roles on stage in Berlin, Bonn, Augsburg, Innsbruck, Munich, Bamberg and Ingolstadt. In her youth, she played "all sentimental characters", such as Faust's Gretchen and Emilia Galotti. Later she played character roles, such as Adelheid in Götz von Berlichingen, Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire, Maria Stuart in the play by Schiller and the title role in Brecht's Mother Courage. Her last theatrical works were The Widow in the Green Tree and Sanssouci in 2001.

Wendl began working in film in 1961 and made more than 35 films and TV productions. During her long career on the big screen, Wendl was seen in both soft-porn movies, as well as some movies of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Her television work includes series like Die Fünfte Kolonne, Meister Eder und sein Pumuckl and Der Komissar, where she made guest appearances in a few episodes.