What is Ellen Schwiers?
[[File:Ellen Schwiers by Stuart Mentiply.jpg|thumb|200px|Schwiers in 2008]] '''Ellen Schwiers''' (11 June 1930 – 26 April 2019) was a [[Germans|German]] actress. Her acting career lasted from 1949 to 2015. She acted in plays by [[Friedrich Dürrenmatt]] and [[Max Frisch]] at the [[Schauspielhaus Zürich]]. She appeared as the Buhlschaft in ''[[Jedermann (play)|Jedermann]]'' at the [[Salzburg Festival]]. She also acted in over 200 movies and [[television series]]. Some of her screen roles include ''[[When the Bells Sound Clearly]]'', ''[[The Inheritance of Bjorndal]]'', ''[[God's Thunder]]'' and ''[[Tatort]]''. In 1989, she was awarded an Officer's Cross of the [[Bundesverdienstkreuz|Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]]. Schwiers was born in Stettin, [[Pomerania]], which is now the [[Poland|Polish]] city of [[Szczecin]]. She was married to Peter Jacob from 1956 until his death in 1992. The couple had two children. On 26 April 2019, Schwiers died in [[Starnberg]], [[Bavaria]]. She was 88.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.saechsische.de/schauspielerin-ellen-schwiers-ist-tot-5064111.html|title=Schauspielerin Ellen Schwiers ist tot|lang=de|work=Sächsische Zeitung|date=26 April 2019|access-date=26 April 2019}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category}} * {{DNB portal|139513388}} * {{IMDb name|0777951|Ellen Schwiers}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Schwiers, Ellen}} [[Category:1930 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:German movie actors]] [[Category:German stage actors]] [[Category:German television actors]] [[Category:People from Szczecin]] {{Actor-stub}}