secondHe was the first West German TV commissioner: the actress Ingrid Fröhlich has passed away. According to the German News Agency’s information from the family circle on Saturday, she passed away on Friday. Florich is 81 years old. Her first role was in the Vienna People’s Theater and appeared in several TV productions in the 1970s, including the popular ZDF series “Drei sind ein zuviel”.
On January 2, 1978, she played the role of Renate Burger in the ZDF series “SOKO 5113”, writing a history of West German television. This made her the first female TV investigator of West German TV. Nicole Hesters first appeared as a “Tatort” commissioner a few weeks ago. In 1971, the East German TV station had an investigator to solve the case, and Sigrid Geller served as Lieutenant Vera Arndt.
Fröhlich recalled in an interview with dpa last year that at the time, she didn’t even think about becoming a pioneer. Although there were almost only male investigations on the street at the time, she did not encounter any prejudice on the set. Florich, who lives in Wolfratshausen near Munich, said: “At the time, the screenwriter just thought it was time to find a woman.”
Strong and “feminine”
After working as a theater actor and many TV movies in Vienna and Munich, the “Queen of Evening Show” has a big plan for her role at the time: being strong and “feminine” imitating a policewoman, conducting rigorous investigations and interrogating suspects. But the reality disappointed her: Although her male colleague pursued criminals with brilliant slogans in the first episode and sat in the police station to smoke after the night investigation, the policewoman Berg was often excluded.
“Should I go with you?” In the episode before the mission, she asked her colleague. “It’s too dangerous,” he answered simply. “You could play this role at the time, but I was just a barista, and every woman was like that back then,” Florich said.
“Today I don’t even know how I got this role,” she once told dpa. “First I got a role-then, through a lot of happy little coincidences, and then another, so it continued.” Her acting career actually started in the delivery room, because Florich was a A well-trained midwife. Her boss repeatedly encouraged her to try to become an actor: “The doctor said I have the face of an actress.” Although Ingrid Fröhlich was a pioneering role, she was caught in 1978. Deprived of her most famous TV policewoman role. The actress came to the conclusion-and left “SOKO 5113” after 19 episodes. She only came back as the main suspect in 2018 for a guest appearance on the 40th anniversary of the series.
After her TV career, Fröhlich turned to a very unusual industry. She and her son made the globe very successfully. The company has sold millions of globes in more than forty countries.
