Dietlinde Turban Maazel’s first stage appearance at the age of 19 as Gretchen in Goethe’s Faust at the Residenztheater in Munich brought her national fame.
Thanks to scores of films and TV plays, Mrs. Turban Maazel won Germany’s coveted Bambi Award as Best Actress of the Year (1983). Among her film credits: the title role in Goethe’s Stella and Schiller’s Love and Intrigue (Luise), Euridice in Monteverdi’s Orfeo, starring roles in Sidney Sheldon’s Bloodline, and Mussolini and I opposite Anthony Hopkins. In 2004 Ms. Turban Maazel performed her first One Woman Play Constantly Risking Absurdity in New York, and starred as “Elle” in Cocteau's The Human Voice.
Ms. Turban Maazel appeared as soloist/narrator with the New York Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the National Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio, Munich. Ms. Turban Maazel has recorded a number of audio books (Naxos) as well as CDs in collaboration with young composers. She also performs dramatic readings of literary masterpieces both in the United States and in Europe and tours with recitals based on works by Andersen, Fontane, Heine, Kafka, Rilke, Schiller, Thomas Mann (“Das Teufelsgespräch” from Doktor Faustus), and a portrayal of Lou Andreas Salomé.
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