Dietlinde Turban (born August 27, 1957 in Reutlingen, Germany) is the
birth name and stage name of Dietlinde Turban-Maazel, a German
actress. Her brother is the violinist Ingolf Turban.Dietlinde Turban's
first stage appearance at the age of 19 as Gretchen in Goethe's Faust
at the Residenz-Theatre in Munich brought her national fame. In rapid
succession she starred in new productions of Lessing's Minna von
Barnhelm (as Minna), Shakespeare's Othello (as Desdemona - for which
she received the Bad Hersfeld Festival prize for best actress), and in
works of Anouilh, Giraudoux and others. She was invited as guest star
at the State Theater in Bonn and the Josefstadt Theatre in
Vienna.Thanks to scores of films and plays filmed for television, Mrs.
Turban won Germany's coveted Bambi Award by popular vote as Best
Actress of the Year (1983). Among her film credits: the title role in
Goethe's Stella [de] and Schiller's Intrigue and Love (Luise), the
role of Mozart's sister-in-law Aloysia in the French film biography of
the composer, a small role in Sidney Sheldon's American thriller
Bloodline (1979), and the part of Euridice in the Jean-Pierre
Ponnelle/Harnoncourt adaptation of Monteverdi's Orfeo, the lead-roles
in Cold Homeland [it], Die Undankbare [de] (1980), Peter Schamoni's
The Castle in Konigswald and the World War II story Mussolini and I
(1985), in which she played opposite Anthony Hopkins.In 2004 Ms.
Turban performed her first One Woman Play Constantly Risking Absurdity
which she premiered in Castleton and at the Cherry Lane Theatre, New
York. She performed it a year later at the George Mason University and
was also invited with this play to Salzburg, Austria, by the American
Austrian Foundation, for the inauguration of Schloss Arenberg in 2005.
In the summer 2013 she performed Jean Cocteau's La Voix Humaine at the
Castleton Festival.
birth name and stage name of Dietlinde Turban-Maazel, a German
actress. Her brother is the violinist Ingolf Turban.Dietlinde Turban's
first stage appearance at the age of 19 as Gretchen in Goethe's Faust
at the Residenz-Theatre in Munich brought her national fame. In rapid
succession she starred in new productions of Lessing's Minna von
Barnhelm (as Minna), Shakespeare's Othello (as Desdemona - for which
she received the Bad Hersfeld Festival prize for best actress), and in
works of Anouilh, Giraudoux and others. She was invited as guest star
at the State Theater in Bonn and the Josefstadt Theatre in
Vienna.Thanks to scores of films and plays filmed for television, Mrs.
Turban won Germany's coveted Bambi Award by popular vote as Best
Actress of the Year (1983). Among her film credits: the title role in
Goethe's Stella [de] and Schiller's Intrigue and Love (Luise), the
role of Mozart's sister-in-law Aloysia in the French film biography of
the composer, a small role in Sidney Sheldon's American thriller
Bloodline (1979), and the part of Euridice in the Jean-Pierre
Ponnelle/Harnoncourt adaptation of Monteverdi's Orfeo, the lead-roles
in Cold Homeland [it], Die Undankbare [de] (1980), Peter Schamoni's
The Castle in Konigswald and the World War II story Mussolini and I
(1985), in which she played opposite Anthony Hopkins.In 2004 Ms.
Turban performed her first One Woman Play Constantly Risking Absurdity
which she premiered in Castleton and at the Cherry Lane Theatre, New
York. She performed it a year later at the George Mason University and
was also invited with this play to Salzburg, Austria, by the American
Austrian Foundation, for the inauguration of Schloss Arenberg in 2005.
In the summer 2013 she performed Jean Cocteau's La Voix Humaine at the
Castleton Festival.
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