Liselotte Pulver

Pulver was born on 11 October 1929, in Bern, to civil engineer Fritz Eugen Pulver, and his wife Germaine.[https://www.munzinger.de/search/portrait/Lilo+Pulver/0/5435.html "Lilo Pulver"], Munzinger-Archiv (in German)[https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/009220/2010-04-06/ "Liselotte Pulver"], Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz, 6 April 2010 (in German) From 1945, Pulver attended commercial school. After graduating in 1948, she worked as a model and took acting classes at the Bern conservatory, now part of the Bern University of Applied Sciences. Following small parts at the Bern Theatre (Stadttheater Bern), she appeared at the Schauspielhaus Zürich.[https://www.filmportal.de/person/liselotte-pulver_815c35d150364c839f48f3c8e4ed8c2d Liselotte Pulver at Filmportal.de] (German)

Pulver's first film role was in the 1949 American-Swiss co-production Swiss Tour.[https://www.allmovie.com/artist/lilo-pulver-p58048 Liselotte Pulver] at Allmovie Her breakthrough movie role was "Vreneli", the wife of the lead in Uli, der Knecht (1954), made after the novel of Swiss author Jeremias Gotthelf.{{IMDb title|0047629|Uli, der Knecht}} Pulver became one of the biggest stars of German-language cinema in the 1950s and 1960s, often nicknamed "Lilo" Pulver.[https://www.bildderfrau.de/promi-party/article215537229/Schauspielerin-Liselotte-Pulver-Geburtstag.html Article at Bild der Frau regarding her 90th birthday][https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/interview-mit-liselotte-pulver-ich-war-immer-nur-der-seitensprung-1.427712-0 Interview] in Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2010][https://www.kino.de/star/liselotte-pulver/ Liselotte Pulver], Kino.de She was very often seen in comedies, most notably I Often Think of Piroschka (1955), The Zürich Engagement (1957), The Spessart Inn (1958) and Kohlhiesel's Daughters (1962). One of her more serious film roles was as Tony Buddenbrook in The Buddenbrooks (1959), a movie adaptation of Thomas Mann's novel of the same name. She also appeared in another Thomas Mann adaptation, Confessions of Felix Krull (1957) with Horst Buchholz in the title role of a charming and narcissistic conman.

In the late 1950s and 1960s, Pulver was involved in a number of American and French film productions. Her first Hollywood film was Douglas Sirk's war melodrama A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958), in which she and John Gavin played a young German couple whose happiness is doomed at the end of the Second World War. She was James Cagney's attractive secretary "Fräulein Ingeborg" in Billy Wilder's comedy One, Two, Three (1961). In 1963, for her role as a Russian woman in A Global Affair, she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award as best supporting actress. In France, she appeared alongside Anna Karina in Jacques Rivette's film The Nun (1966).

In the 1970s, she increasingly turned towards television roles. From 1978 until 1983 she worked for the German edition of Sesame Street, Sesamstraße. Her last film credit was in 2007, when she played a cameo role in Die Zürcher Verlobung, a remake of The Zürich Engagement. She made a public appearance at the 2018 Bambi Awards, where she accepted a prize for Honorary Achievement.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3hrDJAucgU Liselotte Pulver (Bambi 2018)], video at YouTube

File:Liselotte Pulver in A Time to Love and a Time to Die trailer.jpg (1958)]]

In 1960, she met German actor Helmut Schmid on the set of Gustav Adolf's Page: they married on 9 September 1961 and had two children. Her daughter committed suicide in 1989. Her husband died in 1992 of a heart attack. As of 2008, Pulver lives secluded in Perroy, Canton Vaud on the shores of Lake Geneva; she also has an apartment at the {{ill|Burgerspital|de}}, a retirement home near Bern.[http://www0.rhein-zeitung.de/on/08/09/20/magazin/kino/t/rzo477329.html "Ausstellung zu Lilo Pulver im Filmmuseum Frankfurt"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719074828/http://www0.rhein-zeitung.de/on/08/09/20/magazin/kino/t/rzo477329.html |date=2011-07-19 }}, Rhein-Zeitung (19 September 2008) {{in lang|de}}

• 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1990, 2018: Bambi Award (in 2018 for livetime achievement)
• 1963: Golden Globe Award nomination as best supporting actress for A Global Affair
• 1986: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1999: Bavarian Film Awards Honorary Award{{cite web|url=http://www.bayern.de/Anlage9780627/PreistraegerdesBayerischenFilmpreises-Pierrot.pdf |title=Bayerischer Filmpreis – "Pierrot" – Past recipients |access-date=16 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608165339/http://www.bayern.de/Anlage9780627/PreistraegerdesBayerischenFilmpreises-Pierrot.pdf |archivedate= 8 June 2011 }}
• 2007: Goldene Kamera for Livetime Achievement
• 2011: Star at the Boulevard der Stars in Berlin (Walk of Fame)

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