Vera Tschechowa

Vera Chekhova is the daughter of the actress Ada Chekhova, and of the physician Dr. Wilhelm Rust. Her grandmother, the actress Olga Chekhova, your great-great uncle, the Russian writer Anton Chekhov is. Vera Chekhova grew up in Berlin. After school, she briefly attended the Academy of art to become a stage designer, decided then however for the acting profession, and took lessons with Anne-Marie Hanschke and Ernst Fritz Fürbringer in Munich, as well as in the case of Marlise Ludwig in Berlin. In 1957 she made her debut Erhardt in the Heinz-movie-a widower with five daughters. Up in the Nineties in followed in Film and television more 50 roles. In 1962 she received for her role as Ulla Wickwebe in the Film The bread of those early years of the Federal film prize as best actress in 1977 for her role in the ZDF-production, time sensitivity, as well as the Golden camera. In 1959, Vera Chekhova played at the Freie volksbühne in Berlin theatre. Other stage stations, the Deutsche Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, the düsseldorf Schauspielhaus and the theatre of Basel, were, among other things. As Elvis Presley in 1959, was stationed in Germany, you saw the young actress a few times with the singer.[1][2] her mother Ada came in 1966 in a plane crash in Bremen killed. 1967 married Vera Chekhova your colleagues Vadim Glowna. The marriage was divorced after more than twenty years. In 1971, she participated in the Alice Schwarzer initiated the media campaign "We have aborted!". In 1980 she founded together with Vadim Glowna, the Atossa film production. The company produced, among other things, Desperado City, in the Vadim Glowna Director of the Caméra d'or won and in 1981 as the Best debut film at the Cannes film festival, and in 1984, Chekhov in my life, a documentary on the artist dynasty of the Chekhov. From the beginning of the 1990s, Vera Chekhova worked mainly as a Director of documentaries. For various TV channels, she created portraits of Eduard Shevardnadze, Vaclav Havel, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Klaus-Maria Brandauer, Katja Riemann, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Anthony Quinn, Michael Ballhaus, the national Chinese Director Ang Lee and the Makhmalbafs, a family of Iranian filmmakers. Today, Vera Chekhova is married to the Manager and producer Peter Paschek. She has a son from a relationship with Hartmut Reck.