Ursula Dirichs

Ursula Dirichs is a German actress born in Recklinghausen in 1935.

Ursula Dirichs was born in the northern Ruhr area and grew up in Königsberg. She took acting lessons at the Otto-Falkenberg-Schule in Munich, and returned to the Ruhr to begin her acting career; she worked in Oberhausen, then at the Schauspielhaus Bochum. She has worked in various cities in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

Her first major appearance in television was in 1960 in the fledgling German television: On the beach of the green river Spree, based on a book by Hans Scholz, in which she played two roles. In the third sequence, set after the Battle of Kunersdorf, she played the girl Hannah, and in the fourth part, the role of the "goat princess" Bärbel Kroll. She has acted in 60 films and television playing large and small roles.

Since the 1960s, she was also in radio in a variety of roles, such as Horst Tappert in a radio adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, the multi-part thriller, La Boutique by Francis Durbridge and the children's radio drama The daisies'.

• 1964: The Tears of the Blind (Crazy) - Director: Günther Sauer, with John Schauer, Wolfgang Schirlitz, Udo Vioff
• 1967: La Boutique (after Francis Durbridge) (Eve Bristol) - Director: Dieter Munck, with Karl Michael Vogler, Alwin Michael Rueff, Wolfgang Weiser
• 1968: Die Dreigroschenoper (after Bertolt Brecht) (Lucy) - Director: Ulrich Lauterbach, with Horst Tappert, Willy Trenk-Trebitsch, Heidemarie Hatheyer
• 1972: Hey Hey, Its Women and Girls (Ida Stommeln, seller) - Directed by: Otto Düben, with Dirk Dautzenberg, Irene Marhold, Karin Buchali
• 1976: Treibsand (Lona Bridges) - Directed by: Otto Düben, with Claus Biederstaedt, Susanne Beck, Thessy Kuhls
• 1977: The Dwarfs in the City (Olga, sister of Professor) - Director: Urs Widmer, with Eric Kraut Schild, Erika von Thellmann, Wolfgang Höper
• 1980: Sparkling Red (Madame Colette) - Directed by: Otto Düben, with Ruth Drexel, Elisabeth Justin, Walter Lenz
• 1981: The Duration of the Piano Players - Director: Walter Adler, with Dieter Laser, Elisabeth Schwarz, Peter Roggisch
• 1981: Noblesse oblige (Lady Bowington) - Directed by: Otto Düben, with Horst Bollmann, Witta Pohl, Hans Baur
• 1988: The Assassination (after Harry Mulisch) - Director: Hans Gerd Krogmann, Peter Fitz, Benjamin Tholen, Friedrich W. Bauschulte
• 1989: The Daisies (cat) - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell, with Heinz Schimmelpfennig, Verena von Behr, Charles Wirths
• 1991: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Space (after The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams) (The unobtrusive Losverkäuferin) - Director: Hartmut Kirste, with Rolf Boysen, Felix von Manteuffel, Ingo Hülsmann