Ulrike Folkerts

Who is Ulrike Folkerts?

Ulrike Folkerts is a German actress. She is most famous for playing police officer Lena Odenthal in the German crime television series Tatort. The episodes are located in the town of Ludwigshafen.

Folkerts, who is openly lesbian, participated in the Gay Games 2002 in Sydney and won a silver and bronze medal in the swimming relay. In the single competition she was disqualified because of a false start. In July 2004 she won a bronze medal at the EuroGames in München.

On the stage, in 2005 and 2006 she was the first woman to play Death in Hugo von Hofmannsthal's version of Everyman, Jedermann, at the Salzburg Festival.

In 2005 Ulrike Folkerts published her first book titled "Das macht mich stark", which is an autobiography.

In October 2008 Folkerts, together with her partner Katherina Schnitzler, published her second book: "Glück gefunden".

Folkerts and Schnitzler currently live in Berlin.