Rosemarie Fendel

Rosemarie Fendel (1927–2013) was a German actress who worked on the stage, in film, and television. She was also a voice actress and was the voice of notable actresses for German dubs of their work, including Elizabeth Taylor, Jeanne Moreau, and Annie Girardot. She won numerous awards for her work in film and television, and also directed and wrote a few screen productions herself. Her daughter is a German actress, Suzanne von Borsody.

Career

Theater Fendel began her acting career on stage in 1946, appearing at the Kammerspiele in Munich as a flower girl in a production of Girodoux's "Die Irre von Chaillot". She studied acting with the actress Maria Koppenhöfer. She was noticed by director and actor, Gustaf Gründgens, who brought her to act in productions in the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus as well as to perform in Darmstadt, Munich and Frankfurt. In 1957, she temporarily retired from the stage after the birth of her daughter, Suzanne von Borsody, who was born to her after she married actor and director Hans von Borsody. She won the Bavarian Television Prize for her role in Das zweite Leben.

Directing and writing In 1973, Fendel assisted her long-time partner, director Johannes Schaaf, in writing the screenplay for his film Dream City. Following this, she wrote a screenplay for a television series, Der Alte, which was produced by ZDF. In 1980, she wrote and directed the television film Der Heuler. She also wrote the screenplay for Momo (1986).

Voice acting During her retirement from the stage, Fendel worked as a voice actor and performed roles by Elizabeth Taylor, Jeanne Moreau, Simone Signoret, Lauren Bacall, Anne Bancroft, Myrna Loy, Dorothy Parker, Vanessa Redgrave, and Annie Girardot in German dubs. She later married actor Hans von Borsody, and their daughter is the German actress, Suzanne von Borsody, She died at the age of 85 in her home in Frankfurt, after a short illness.

Selected filmography Tattoo (1967), as Frau Lohmann Trotta (1971), as Almarin Dream City (1973), as Anna Sand (1977, TV film), as Mary Rogers (1978, TV film), as Rahel Varnhagen (1979, TV miniseries), as Elisabeth Chindler The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (1985), as Frau von Gerlach Reise nach Weimar (1996, TV film), as Hilde La Rocca The Loneliness of the Crocodile (2000), as Frau Sperl