Helga Anders
Helga Anders was an Austrian actress.
She was born Helga Scherz in Innsbruck, to an Austrian father and a German mother, and she grew up in Ruhpolding and Bielefeld after her parents divorced. She made her stage debut at the age of eight.
Anders is best known in Great Britain for her part in the Yugoslav-West German television series The White Horses, and is also remembered for playing several roles in the German TV series Derrick.
Personal life
She had a daughter, Tatjana Leslie, with the actor Roger Fritz.She appeared as one of 28 women under the banner We've had abortions! on the cover page of the West German magazine Stern on 6 June 1971. In that issue, 374 women publicly stated that they had had pregnancies terminated, which at that time was illegal.
Death
Her addictions with alcohol and drugs resulted in her death at 38. She died of heart failure in Haar, Bavaria, West Germany.Selected filmography
- Max the Pickpocket, as Brigitte Schilling
- Die Unverbesserlichen, as Lore Scholz
- Der Forellenhof, as Christa Buchner
- How to Seduce a Playboy, as Lucy
- ', as Anni Leithner
- The White Horses, as Julia
- ', as Angela
- Murderers Club of Brooklyn, as Edna Cormick
- ', as Linda
- Tattoo, as Gaby
- ', as Helga Arnold
- ', as Monika
- ', as Leslie
- The Unnaturals, as Elizabeth
- Our [Doctor is the Best], as Loni Vogt
- Der Kommissar: "Die Schrecklichen", as Herta Panse
- ', as Alice
- Der Kommissar: "Tod eines Schulmädchens", as Kirsten Benda
- Fall nicht in den Schwanensee
- Pan
- Derrick - Season 1, Episode 2: ', as Roswitha Meinecke
- The Clown, as Sabine
- Tatort: "Kassensturz", as Renate Cand
- , as Kimmi
- Das Blaue Palais, Episode 5: "Unsterblichkeit", as Yvonne
- Derrick - Season 4, Episode 2: "Hals in der Schlinge", as Heli
- Derrick - Season 5, Episode 2: "Tod eines Fans", as Vera Höfer
- Derrick - Season 5, Episode 7: "Kaffee mit Beate", as Beate Schill
- The Old Fox: "Teufelsbrut", as Christa Brückner
- Hurricane Rosy, as Charlotte
- Derrick - Season 7, Episode 8: "Auf einem Gutshof", as Waltraud Heimann
- The Old Fox: "Bruderliebe", as Anita Will
- Derrick - Season 8, Episode 2: "Der Kanal", as Hannelore Junker
- Derrick - Season 11, Episode 13: "Der Klassenbeste", as Uschi
- Ein Fall für zwei: "Blutsbande", as Monika Brauer