RIP Karin Gregorek

 

81 years: “For heaven’s sake” actress Karin Gregorek dead

News in Germany

By Armin Weigel

April 24, 2023

 

Karin Gregorek became an actress by chance. After a career in East German film and television, a nun was her trademark in reunified Germany. Now she died.

The film and television actress Karin Gregorek is dead. As the German Press Agency learned from Gregorek’s environment on Monday, she died in the night from Friday to Saturday in Berlin. She was 81 years old.

Gregorek often appeared in supporting TV roles. The Berliner was known to a broad television audience as nun Felicitas Meier from the ARD ratings hit “For heaven’s sake” (2002-2021). She was also very often in the ZDF family series “Tierarzt Dr. Engel” and also appeared in the ARD thrillers “Polizeiruf 110” and “Tatort”.

Her career

Gregorek came to her profession as an actress more by chance, as she said in an interview: “As a friend to audition for acting school Berlin drove, I just came along. I was accepted, my girlfriend wasn’t,” she told the pharmacy magazine “Senioren Ratgeber” in 2019. At the time, her parents didn’t go down well with her career aspirations.

The actress, who was born in Mecklenburg, was already in theatre, film and television during the GDR era TV successful. She had her first screen role in 1963 in the Defa film “Christine”, which was never completed due to the death of director Slatan Dudow during filming.

In the decades that followed, she was repeatedly in film and television productions defa and the DFF. As head nurse Walburga in Lothar Warneke’s drama “One carries the other’s load…” she received the award in the category “Best Supporting Actress” at the National Feature Film Festival of the GDR in 1988.

an era

Her biggest hit with the public, with more than seven million viewers at times, was the long-running hit “Um Himmels Willen”, in which Gregorek has been involved since 2002. Felicitas Meier, the deputy superior of the Magdalen Order, was popular with various weaknesses: among other things, for tobacco, computer games, chocolate and poker.

When Gregorek agreed to play the nun in the ARD series, the habit also played a role for her: “I thought it would be faster in the make-up and wardrobe.” A mistake: the nuns would of course still be thoroughly made up. Despite the costume, she was recognized on the street. “It’s strange.”

GREGOREK, Karin

Born: 9/26/1941, Wendorf, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Died: 4/22/2023, Berlin, Berlin, Germany

 

Karin Gregorek’s western – actress:

Death for Zapata – 1979 (Frau Carlota)