{{Short description|German actress (1931–2017)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Sonja Sutter | image = Sonja Sutter.jpg | alt = | caption =Sutter in 1958 | birth_name = | birth_date = 17 January 1931 | birth_place = Freiburg, Germany | death_date = {{death date and age|2017|6|1|1931|1|17|df=y}} | death_place = Baden bei Wien, Austria | years_active = 1952–2005 | occupation = Actress | website = }}
'''Sonja Sutter''' (17 January 1931 – 1 June 2017) was a German film actress.<ref name="Berghahn2005">{{cite book|last=Berghahn|first=Daniela|title=Hollywood behind the Wall: the cinema of East Germany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JAr2pv4R6kIC&pg=PA186|year=2005|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-6172-1|page=186}}</ref> She was one of the few actors that was allowed to appear in productions in both East and West Germany. She is remembered for her role as Fraulein Rottenmeier in the German TV series ''{{Ill|Heidi (1978 TV series)|de|3=Heidi (Fernsehserie, 1978)|lt=Heidi}}'' from 1978. This series aired in many countries in Europe during the 1980s and 1990s, and was dubbed into several languages. She is also remembered for having had several roles in the TV series ''Derrick'' from 1983 to 1998.
==Biography== {{unreferenced section|date=June 2017}} Sonja Sutter was born in Freiburg, Germany. She went to the Rudolf Steiner School in Freiburg but ended with only a limited education and later studied Greek and Latin. At that time she matured into the decision to become an actress. Her stage debut was in 1950 at the Municipal Theater. Later she worked in Stuttgart, at the Schauspielhaus in Hamburg and at the State Theater in Munich. In test shots for a movie by and with Luis Trenker, the DEFA director Slatan Dudow discovered and engaged Sutter for the role as Renate Ludwig in the German movie ''Frauenschicksale'' in 1952.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}
After this movie many film offers came from West Germany and Sutter was thus one of the few artists of her time who worked in two German territories. Her big breakthrough came in 1957 with Lissy, an award-winning movie, which gave Sonja Sutter a certain notoriety in East Germany. During the 1950s she starred in movies like ''Die Barrings'' (1955), ''Star mit fremden Federn'' (1955), Das Schweigen im Walde (1955),<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Helt |first=Richard C. |url=https://archive.org/details/westgermancinema0000helt |title=West German Cinema Since 1945: A Reference Handbook |last2=Helt |first2=Marie E. |date= |publisher=The Scarecrow Press |year=1987 |isbn=978-0-8108-2053-1 |location=Metuchen, N.J., & London |pages=425, 526}}</ref> Drei Birken auf der Heide (1956) and Johannisnacht (1956). In 1961, she lost the opportunity to participate in further DEFA films related with the construction of the Berlin Wall{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}
From 1961 until her death, she lived in Vienna and worked at the Burgtheater. She appeared in 16 TV-movies and in such popular German TV-series like ''Der Kommissar'', ''Tatort'' and ''Derrick''. In ''Derrick'' she played in 6 episodes from 1983-98.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}
==Death== Sutter died on 1 June 2017 in Baden bei Wien, Austria, at the age of 86.<ref>{{cite news|title=Burgschauspielerin Sonja Sutter gestorben - wien.ORF.at|url=http://wien.orf.at/news/stories/2846952/|work=wien.orf.at|date=2 June 2017|language=de}}</ref>
==Filmography==
===Films=== *1952 ''Frauenschicksale'' (Renate Ludwig) *1976 ''Die Wildente'' (Frau Sörby) *1976 ''Ich will leben'' (Lucille) *1961 ''Jedermann'' (Gute Werke) *1958 ''Der Lotterieschwede'' (Frau Jönsson) *1958 ''Sie kannten sich alle'' (Herte Klausner) *1958 ''Tatort Berlin'' (Walters Freundin) *1957 ''Lissy'' (Liesbeth 'Lissy' Frohmeyer) *1956 ''Three Birch Trees on the Heath'' (Rose Heidkämper) *1956 ''Johannisnacht'' (Irene Hofmann) *1955 ''Die Barrings'' (Gisa von Eyff) *1955 ''Star mit fremden Federn'' (Isolde Sturm) *1955 ''Das Schweigen im Walde''<ref name=":0" /> (Lo Petri) *1954 ''{{Interlanguage link|Meines Vaters Pferde I. Teil Lena und Nicoline|de|3=Meines Vaters Pferde I. Teil Lena und Nicoline|lt=Meines Vaters Pferde}}''<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/reclamslexikonde0000unse |title=Reclams Lexikon des deutschen Films |date= |publisher=Reclam |year=1995 |isbn=978-3-15-010410-1 |editor-last=Kramer |editor-first=Thomas |location=Stuttgart |pages=216 |language=de}}</ref> (Lena) *1952 ''Frauenschicksale'' (Renate Ludwig)
===TV=== *2005 ''The Old Fox'' (TV series) – "Der Nachruf" (Gerda Walser) *2003 ''Schlosshotel Orth'' (TV series) - "Falsche Fährten" (Elisabeth) *2000 ''The Old Fox'' (TV series) – "Der Schatten des Todes" (Berta Kolberg) *1998 ''Derrick'' (TV series) – "Mama Kaputtke" (Kraus) *1995 ''Derrick'' (TV series) – "Eines Mannes Herz" (Eva Dalinger) *1995 ''Lieben wie gedruckt 'Dora Krummacher'' (TV series) *1993 ''The Old Fox'' (TV series) – "Korruption" (Ilse Brinkmar) *1992 ''Derrick'' (TV series) – "Der stille Mord" (Greta Zinser) *1992 ''Derrick'' (TV series) – "Mord im Treppenhaus" (Helga Strohm) *1991 ''The Old Fox'' (TV series) – "Das Gericht" (Beate Kranz) *1990 ''Wilhelm Tell'' (Armgard) (TV movie) *1989 ''The Old Fox'' (TV series) – "Bahnhofsbaby" (Carola Wendisch) *1986 ''Derrick'' (TV series) – "Die Rolle seines Lebens" (Lydia Theimer) *1983 ''Derrick'' (TV series) - "Die Tote in der Isar" (Gerlinde Rudolf) *1981 ''Tatort'' (TV series) – "Mord in der Oper" (Frau Homann) *1980 ''Die weiße Stadt'' (Lepa) (TV movie) *1978 ''{{Ill|Heidi (1978 TV series)|de|3=Heidi (Fernsehserie, 1978)|lt=Heidi}}'' (Fraulein Rottenmeier) (TV series) *1976 ''Der Kommissar - Der Held des Tages'' (Frau Weise) (TV series) *1976 ''Wir pfeifen auf den Gurkenkönig'' (Mutter Hogelmann) (TV movie)<ref name=":0" /> *1970/II ''Nachbarn'' (Sie) (TV movie) *1970 ''Jedermann'' (Glaube) (TV movie) *1968 ''Schmutzige Hände'' (Olga) (TV movie) *1965 ''Onkel Wanja - Szenen aus dem Landleben'' (Jelena Andrejewna - seine Frau) (TV movie) *1964 ''Die letzte Folge'' (Gwendoline) (TV movie) *1964 ''Heinrich VI'' (TV movie) *1963 ''Ein Dorf ohne Männer'' (Die Blonde) (TV movie) *1963 ''Elektra'' (TV movie) *1962 ''Lumpazivagabundus'' (Amorosa - Beschützerin der wahren Liebe) (TV movie) *1961 ''Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua'' (Leonore) (TV movie) *1957 ''Der Geisterzug'' (Julia) (TV movie) *1957 ''Mrs. Cheneys Ende'' (Mrs. Cheney) (TV movie) *1957 ''Minna von Barnhelm'' (Minna von Barnhelm) (TV movie)
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