Christel Peters (15 January 1916 – 11 June 2009) was a German actress.

Biography

Peters was born in Swinemünde,

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(now Świnoujście, Poland) as a child of an actor's family and started to appear on a stage in the age of four. Peters worked at several stages and became known to a wider audience after the

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by several TV productions and especially through her appearance as the "Mother of all bargains" (Mutter aller Schnäppchen) in an advertising campaign.derstandard.at Christel Peters 93-jährig gestorben
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Selected filmography

* ''

Nightshapes ''Nightshapes'' () is a 1999 German drama film written and directed by Andreas Dresen. Michael Gwisdek won the Silver Bear for Best Actor in the 49th Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Myriam Abbas as Hanna * Dominique Horwitz as Vict ...

'' (1999) * ' (2000) * '' Vaya con Dios'' (2002) * '' Summer in Berlin'' (2005)

References

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* * 1916 births 2009 deaths People from Świnoujście German television actresses German stage actresses Actors from the Province of Pomerania 20th-century German actresses 21st-century German actresses {{Germany-stage-actor-stub