Tilli Breidenbach
German actress and voice actress (1910–1994)
Tilli Breidenbach, also Tilly Breidenbach (2 August 1910 in Völklingen – 23 October 1994 in Munich) was a German voice actress and actress.
Life
Breidenbach grew up in Cologne, where she initially studied German studies, Romance studies and art history after Abitur. She finally learned the acting profession at the acting school of the Cologne theatres.
After World War II, she was a member of the ensemble of the Darmstadt State Theatre, between 1948 and 1950 Breidenbach played at the Kiel State Theatre, engagements in Essen, Lucerne, at the Berlin Free Volksbühne, at the Hamburg Ernst Deutsch Theater, at the Schauspielhaus Zürich, at the Stadt- und Ateliertheater in Bern and at the Staatstheater Kassel.
From the 1960s onwards, Breidenbach appeared in numerous renowned television productions. She also appeared in guest roles in series such as Tatort, St. Pauli-Landungsbrücken, Auf Achse and Unsere Hagenbecks. In the animated series Maya the Honey Bee, Tilli Breidenbach was the spokeswoman for the spider Thekla, in the animated series Heidi as Peter's grandmother and in the Muppet Show as the dresser Hilda.
She became known to a wide audience through the role of Lydia Nolte in Hans W. Geißendörfer's family series Lindenstraße. Breidenbach played the character from episode 4 (first broadcast: 29 December 1985) to episode 370 (first broadcast: 3 January 1993).
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