"Under us" -Urgestein Blossey: Irene Weigel dies serial death

Petra Blossey leaves the RTL series "Unter uns" after a quarter of a century. The 63-year-old had played the role of Irene Weigel since the very first episode in 1994. She was most recently the head of the Weigel clan around which everything revolves. Now she leaves the soap opera at her own request, as RTL announced.

She decided to stop at "Unter uns" and to move back to Potsdam - to the city where she grew up. The farewell was very emotional, Blossey reported. "None of my colleagues could imagine that I was no longer playing as Irene." Irene was in the series 'The Rock in the Surf' ".

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Petra Blossey has been with "Unter uns" since 1994 - the only one of the whole ensemble.

In the series action Irene comes back from a trip from Japan - but not alive. From Monday on, an anniversary week of "Unter Uns" will be on show at RTL. The series celebrates its 25th anniversary, the first episode ran on 28 November 1994. It is produced in Cologne.

Petra Blossey already succeeded in the GDR as a dancer and actress. She danced at the Metropol-Theater in Berlin, played at the Staatstheater Cottbus and was seen in TV and cinema films. In the Defa series "Front without mercy" on resistance fighters in the Second World War in 1984, she played one of the leading roles. Recently, Blossey was back in the movies, in the musical "I've never been to New York".