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Grischa Huber with film partner Heinrich Giskes in "The beach is under the pavement" (1974)
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Farewell to a versatile actress: On Tuesday morning, Grischa Huber died after a long illness in Hamburg, as her daughter Muriel König told the German press agency.
Huber was born in 1944 on the Polish island of Wollin and began her career as an actress at the Karlsruhe State Theater.
After further acting lessons in Munich, Huber made his debut there in 1967 at the Residenztheater in Jean Genet's "The Walls".
This was followed by other theater engagements, for example in Cologne, Mannheim, Bochum and Berlin, and later also in Hamburg, where she starred in Peter Zadek's infamous "Lulu" production in 1988.
In 1970 she received her first film role in the Büchner film adaptation »Lenz«, which the Literarisches Colloqium Berlin had produced, her ticket to the world of the new German auteur film of the 1970s.
Reflection on the 1968 movement from the perspective of women
But Huber remains unforgotten as Grischa in the movie "Under the pavement is the beach", which the debut director Helma Sanders-Brahms shot in 1974 as a partially autobiographical reflection on the 1968 movement and its consequences for women in society.
In it, Huber plays an actress who accidentally becomes pregnant and discusses abortion, the values of the revolution, feminism, relationships between men and women and female self-determination for one night with her one-night stand Heinrich (Heinrich Giskes).
In the end she emerges from the conflict ideologically disaffected, but also with a stronger will.
For her portrayal in the film, whose screenplay she co-authored, Huber was awarded the gold ribbon in 1975.
In addition, Huber briefly became a symbolic figure of the women's movement in the 1970s, which manifested itself for the first time in the cinema with "Under the pavement is the beach".
Huber, married to the Berlin Schaubühnen actor Michael König, subsequently stayed on TV and in the cinema, including starring in "Goethe" by Philipp Stölzl, in Kai Wessel's "Hilde" and "September" by Max Färberböck.
On TV she was seen in the series "Soko Stuttgart" (ZDF) and numerous television films.
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