Meeting of Germany's central forces of the Enlightenment: Ruth Gassmann 1969 with Oswalt Kalle on the Cote d´Azur
Photo: A9999 DB / dpaIt was Germany's first full-length educational film - and a huge hit right away. In 1967, five million people in this country saw the anatomy research, with its solemn title "Helga. On the development of human life", worldwide it is said to have been 40 million. Only James Bond's fifth adventure "You Only Live Twice" was more successful that year. Helga actress Ruth Gassmann, then just 22 years old, suddenly became famous.
Born in Augsburg, she embodied the young woman two more times, who in the "Helga" films was introduced to the pleasure and burden of human mating techniques in a medically correct and sometimes awkward manner, in 1968 in "Helga and Michael" and in 1969 in "Helga and the men - The Sexual Revolution ". Then Oswalt Kolle took on the role of the nation's enlightener.
Gassmann first studied sports and chemistry and then came to acting as a photo model. In the US, she starred in a dozen episodes of the TV western series "Smoking Colts". Later she moved backstage and worked as an assistant director, among other things at the opera of the Saarbrücken State Theater. There she also appeared as a singer.
Ruth Gassmann 2020 in Munich - at the premiere of the 2nd winter program in Circus Krone
Photo: Ursula Düren / picture alliance / dpaRuth Gassmann had three children and has lived in Aschheim near Munich since they were born. She really enjoyed the time with her family and grandchildren, including "playing golf and skiing until this spring," said her son. As he announced to the German Press Agency on Sunday, his mother died after a brief serious illness at the age of 85 on Friday evening in Munich.
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