Sybil Werden (3 September 1924 – 27 July 2007) was a German dancer and actress during the 1950s.

Life and career

Born on 3 September 1924, Sybil Barbara Astrid Werden was the daughter of actress

Margit Barnay Margit Barnay (born Margit Jana Rosenstock; 5 April 1896 – 11 January 1974) was a German film actress of the silent era. Selected filmography * '' The Boy in Blue'' (1919) * ''Satan'' (1920) * '' From the Files of a Respectable Woman'' (1920) ...

and architect Hans Schmidt-Werden. Following training with Tatjana Gsovsky, she began her career as a dance soloist in 1946 at the Berlin State Opera, and then made her film debut in ''Das Letzte Rezept'' (''The Last Recipe'') in 1952. Married to fellow German actor

Harald Juhnke Harald Juhnke () (born Harry Heinz Herbert Juhnke, 10 June 1929 – 1 April 2005), was a German actor, comedian, and singer. Life and career Juhnke was born in Berlin-Charlottenburg. His father was a police officer and his mother came from a ...

(1929–2005) during the early part of that same decade,Harald Juhnke
(obituary). London, United Kingdom: ''The Times'', April 16, 2005. she and her husband welcomed the birth of daughter, Barbara, in 1953. Their daughter died two years later. After her son, Peter, was born in 1956, she retired from acting. She and her husband then divorced in 1962. Werden was preceded by her ex-husband in death, in 2005, from dementia-related complications. She then died in

Munich, Germany Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and ...

on 27 July 2007, and was buried at the Cemetery Dahlem.Lentz III, Harris M. ''Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2007''.

References

Selected filmography

* ''

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'' (1952) * '' Street Serenade'' (1953) * '' The Bird Seller'' (1953) * '' On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight'' (1954) * ''

Wenn der Vater mit dem Sohne ''Wenn der Vater mit dem Sohne'' is a 1955 West German film directed by Hans Quest. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. Plot summary Teddy Lemke is a lodger with Miss Biermann. She has taken the six-year Ulli into her care, whose ...

'' (1955) * '' Reaching for the Stars'' (1955)

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Werden, Sybil 1924 births 2007 deaths German film actresses German female dancers Actresses from Berlin