Monday, July 20, 2020

RIP Dinah Hinz


Long stage life

Nachtkritik
July 20, 2020

July 17, 2020. The actress Dinah Hinz is dead. This is known from her family environment. Hinz had died on July 14 at the age of 86 "after a short illness peacefully and with dignity in Zurich with self-determination".

Hinz came from a family of actors and was discovered by Fritz Kortner as a high school student. She made her debut at the Hebbel Theater in Berlin at the age of 15. During her acting training at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich, she played at the Residenz Theater and the Munich Kammerspiele.

This was followed by engagements at the Thalia Theater and the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, at the Renaissance Theater and the Volksbühne in Berlin, at the Theater in der Josefstadt and at the Schauspielhaus in Vienna and at the Theater am Neumarkt in Zurich. In addition to Fritz Kortner, she worked with Egon Baumgarten, Peter Beauvais, Ida Ehre, Peter Palitzsch, Achim Plato, Paul Verhoeven, Michael Bogdanov and Peter Zadek.

She was a speaker in radio play productions and for documentaries and features. As voice actress, she lent her voice to Carroll Baker, Elizabeth Taylor and Joanne Woodward, among others.

Dinah Hinz last appeared in the theater in 2016 in Hansgünther Heyme's production "Quartetto" by Ronald Harwood at the Hamburg Kammerspiele.


HINZ, Dinah (Dinah Eleanora Hinz)
Born: 2/14/1934, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Died: 7/14/2020, Zürich, Switzerland

Dinah Hinz’s westerns – actress:
Aye, Aye Sheriff (TV) – 1973 (Mrs. Rosemary Wilson)
Huckleberry Finn and His Friends – 1979 (Aunt Sally)

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