Dinah Eleonora Hinz, married name ''Hinz-Weiss'' (14 February 1934 – 14 July 2020) was a German film and stage actress and audiobook narrator.
Hinz died in
Zürich
Zurich (; ) is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich. , the municipality had 448,664 inhabitants. The ...
on 14 July 2020, aged 86.
Life
Dinah Hinz was the oldest child of the actress Ehmi Bessel from her liaison with the aviator general
Ernst Udet
Ernst Udet (26 April 1896 – 17 November 1941) was a German pilot during World War I and a ''Luftwaffe'' Colonel-General (''Generaloberst'') during World War II.
Udet joined the Imperial German Air Service in April 1915 at the age of 19 ...
. Shortly before the birth, her mother married the actor
Werner Hinz
Werner Hinz (18 January 1903 – 10 February 1985) was a German film actor who appeared in 70 films between 1935 and 1984.
In 1944, he was included on the ''Gottbegnadeten'' list created by Josef Goebbels. Between 1935 and 1945 he had rol ...
. Dinah Hinz was the half-sister of the actors
Michael Hinz
Michael Hinz (28 December 1939 – 6 November 2008) was a German actor.
Life and career
Hinz came from an acting family, his parents were Werner Hinz and Ehmi Bessel, both actors, as well as his brother Knut and half-sister Dinah.
After gro ...
and Knut Hinz.
Hinz grew up in Berlin and Hamburg and originally wanted to be an archaeologist. But
Fritz Kortner
Fritz Kortner (born Fritz Nathan Kohn, 12 May 1892 – 22 July 1970) was an Austrian stage and film actor and theatre director.
Life and career
Kortner was born in Vienna as Fritz Nathan Kohn into a Jews, Jewish family. He studied at the Vien ...
discovered the 15-year-old student for the stage. During her training (1950/1951) at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich, she also had engagements at the Residenztheater in Munich and at the Münchner Kammerspiele. Her first radio role occurred in 1962 and led to engagements in Hamburg, Hanover, Cologne, Berlin, Vienna and Zurich. Dinah Hinz has also been used on radio, radio play productions and often as a speaker for documentaries and features.
As a voice actress she lent inter alia. Carroll Baker (not mine), Elizabeth Taylor (Hotel International, phone Butterfield # 8) and Joanne Woodward (From the Terrace) their voices. In 2009 she celebrated her 60th anniversary on stage. In 2016 she was seen in the Quartetto by Ronald Harwood in a production by Hansgünther Heyme at the Hamburger Kammerspiele.
Her last major role in 2018 was that of Mathilde von Zahnd in the physicists of Friedrich Dürrenmatt in the theater "Die Färbe" in Singen, directed by Klaus Hemmerle. She had a final minor role in “Twenty on Selsky” that premiered in 2020.
Dinah Hinz lived in Zollikerberg near Zurich since 1962 she had a daughter and two grandchildren. She died in July 2020 at the age of 86 after a brief illness in Zurich.
Filmography (selection)
* 1953: ''
Regina Amstetten
''Regina Amstetten'' is a 1954 West German drama film directed by Kurt Neumann and starring Luise Ullrich, Carl Raddatz, and Carl Esmond.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Gabriel Pellon. It was shot at the Göttingen Studios
...
''
* 1957: ''
Kindermädchen für Papa gesucht
''Kindermädchen für Papa gesucht'' is a 1957 West German comedy film directed by Hans Quest and written by Curth Flatow and Eckart Hachfeld. It stars Claus Biederstaedt, Susanne Cramer, and Gunther Philipp.
Plot
Peter and Kurt Jäger are cousin ...
''
* 1957: ''
Confessions of Felix Krull
''Confessions of Felix Krull'' () is an unfinished 1954 novel by the Germany, German author Thomas Mann.
Synopsis
The novel is narrated by the protagonist, an impostor and adventurer named Felix Krull, the son of a ruined Rhineland winemaker. F ...
Stahlnetz
''Stahlnetz'' was a German police procedural television series with many similarities to '' Dragnet'' running from 1958 to 1968, and from 1999 to 2003.
See also
* Episodes ''Stahlnetz'' 1958-1968
*List of German television series
The followi ...
: '' (TV series episode)
* 1960: ''Schlager-Raketen''
* 1963: ''Was soll werden, Harry?'' (TV film)
* 1963: ''Ein Phoenix zuviel'' (TV film)
* 1963: '' Das Kriminalmuseum: Die Fotokopie'' (TV series episode)
* 1967: ''
Rheinsberg
Rheinsberg () is a town and a municipality in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district, in Brandenburg, in north-eastern Germany. It is located on lake and the river Rhin, approximately north-east of Neuruppin and north-west of Berlin.
History
Freder ...
''
* 1968: ''
Morning's at Seven
''Morning's at Seven'' is a play by Paul Osborn. Its plot focuses on four aging sisters living in a small Midwestern United States, Midwestern town in 1928, and it deals with ramifications within the family when two of them begin to question the ...
''
* 1968: '
* 1970: ''Piggies'' (TV film)
* 1971: ''Geschäfte mit Plückhahn'' (TV film)
* 1972: ''Freizeitraum, Bau 2'' (TV film)
* 1972: '' Der Kommissar: Fluchtwege'' (TV series episode)
* 1973: ''
Hamburg Transit
''Hamburg Transit'' is a German crime television series, first aired in 1970. It ran for 52 episodes over four series until 1974.PS'' (TV series, 5 episodes)
* 1977: ''Anpassung an eine zerstörte Illusion'' (TV film)
* 1978: ''Stützen der Gesellschaft'' (TV film)
* 1978: '': Der Trick'' (TV series episode)
* 1979: ''
Huckleberry Finn and His Friends
''Huckleberry Finn and His Friends'' is a 1979 television series documenting the exploits of Huckleberry Finn (character), Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, based on the novels ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' (1876) and ''Adventures of Huckleberr ...
'' (TV series)
* 1982: ''Ab in den Süden'' (TV film)
* 1987: ''Das andere Leben'' (TV film)
* 1989: '
* 1991: ''
Schwarz Rot Gold
''Schwarz-Rot-Gold'' is a German television series.
List of episodes
See also
*List of German television series
The following is a list of television series produced in Germany:
Current
Drama
* ''4 Blocks (TV series), 4 Blocks'' (TNT S ...
: Stoff'' (TV series episode)
* 1992: ''
Tatort
("Crime Scene") is a German-language police procedural television series that has been running continuously since 1970 with 30 feature-length episodes per year, making it the longest-running German TV drama. Developed by the German public-se ...
: Falsche Liebe'' (TV series episode)
* 1993: ''
Tatort
("Crime Scene") is a German-language police procedural television series that has been running continuously since 1970 with 30 feature-length episodes per year, making it the longest-running German TV drama. Developed by the German public-se ...
: Kesseltreiben'' (TV series episode)
* 1993: ''Jeanmaire – Ein Stück Schweiz'' (TV film)
* 1998: ''Spuren verschwinden – Nachträge ins europäische Gedächtnis'' (voice)
Fritz Schröder-Jahn
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