Marie-Luise Marjan (born 9 August 1940) is a German

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Accessed 2010-07-07 After living for one year in an orphanage in Hattingen, she was adopted by the Lause family and given the name "Marlies". Marjan is best known for her role as ''Helga Beimer'' in the German Television Series ''

Lindenstraße ''Lindenstraße'' (literally "Linden Street") was a long-running German television Drama (film and television), drama series, broadcast by Das Erste. The first episode aired on 8 December 1985 and since then new episodes were broadcast weekly u ...

'' (created by

Hans W. Geißendörfer Hans W. Geißendörfer (born 6 April 1941 in Augsburg) is a German film director and producer. Director of ''The Glass Cell (film), The Glass Cell'' (1978, starring Brigitte Fossey), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Lang ...

in 1985). She was the heroine in

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' (1973) and appeared in films by

Werner Schroeter Werner Schroeter (7 April 1945 – 12 April 2010) was a cinema of Germany, German film director, screenwriter, and opera director known for his stylistic excess. Schroeter was cited by Rainer Werner Fassbinder as an influence both on his own work ...

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Palermo or Wolfsburg ''Palermo or Wolfsburg'' () is a 1980 West German film by Werner Schroeter. It tells the story of an Italian immigrant who comes to West Germany in search of work. Cast * Nicola Zarbo - Nicola Zarbo * Otto Sander - Prosecutor * Ida Di Benedett ...

'', ''

Day of the Idiots ''Day of the Idiots'' () is a 1981 West German psychological fantasy film drama directed and written by Werner Schroeter. It stars Carole Bouquet as a disturbed mental patient with an inclination to remove her clothes and Ingrid Caven as Dr. Laur ...

'') and

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Rainer Werner Fassbinder (; 31 May 1945 – 10 June 1982), sometimes credited as R. W. Fassbinder, was a German filmmaker, dramatist and actor. He is widely regarded as one of the major figures and catalysts of the New German Cinema moveme ...

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''). In the German version of ''

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'', ''Immer wenn sie Krimis liest'' (1994), she has portrayed a detective, Anita De Winter, like

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. She played herself in the 1995 TV special ''

Entführung aus der Lindenstraße Entführung aus der Lindenstraße (meaning 'Kidnap from Linden Street') is a German television film directed by George Moorse. It was produced in 1995 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the German television series Lindenstraße, and stars man ...

''. In ''

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'' and '' Shrek 3'' Marie-Luise Marjan is the German voice of Queen Lilian (

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). In 2010, she was presented with the Cross of Merit, First class of the

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. She studied acting with

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at the

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