Christel Bodenstein (born 13 October 1938, in Munich) is a German film and television actress. She appeared in many East German (GDR) productions and is best known outside Germany for her leading role as the young princess in The Singing Ringing Tree (1957).

This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (October 2022) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the German article. Machine translation like DeepL or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 9,906 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Christel Bodenstein]]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated|de|Christel Bodenstein}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Christel Bodenstein
Christel Bodenstein at the 14th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 1964.
Born	(1938-10-13) 13 October 1938 (age 84) Munich, Germany
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1956–1991
Spouse(s)	Konrad Wolf, Hasso von Lenski.

Biography

In 1949 she moved to Leipzig in the GDR with her mother. She attended the ballet school of the Leipzig Opera and the State Ballet School, Berlin and became a ballet dancer. She met the film director Kurt Maetzig who suggested she study acting and screen test for a film, she then studied acting at the Academy of Film and Television in Potsdam.

She was married from 1960 to 1978 to the director Konrad Wolf and they had a son Mirko in 1961. Her second marriage is to the actor and playwright Hasso von Lenski.

Filmography

• The Singing Ringing Tree (1957)
• The Punch Bowl (1959)
• New Year's Eve Punch (1960), sequel to The Punch Bowl (1959).
• Viel Lärm Um Nichts (1964)

External links

• BBC Radio 4 - The Singing Ringing Tree at bbc.co.uk
• British Singing Ringing Tree fan site
• Christel Bodenstein at IMDb

This article about a German film and television actor is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

На других языках

[de] Christel Bodenstein