Lis Verhoeven
Lis Verhoeven ( born March 11, 1931 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German actress and theater director. She is the sister of film director Michael Verhoeven.
The daughter of actor and director Paul Verhoeven and his wife, actress Doris Kiesow attended after high school from 1949 to 1951, the Otto Falkenberg School in Munich.
Her first engagement was from 1951 to 1954 at the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt. From 1954 to 1956 she was a member of the ensemble of the Munich Studio Theater. Here she appeared several times under the direction of her father and the director Hans Lietzau. After that, she was a freelance actress.
She walked on at various German theaters in Berlin, Cologne and Munich, often in theater tours where they 1962/63 the Stella embodied in A Streetcar Named Desire. 1966 to 1968 she worked at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. In the open-air theater Schwäbisch Hall she was in productions of Kurt Hübner 1969/70 Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, 1972/73 Cunegonde in Cathy of Heilbronn and 1980/81 Sittah in Nathan the Wise, 1978 to Lady Macbeth in Macbeth.
As a director, she made her debut in 1980 in the independent theater scene in Munich. Her directing credits include Arnolt Bronnen parricide (1985, team theater in Munich ), Peter Turrini, Joseph and Mary (1986, National Theatre Vienna), Edward Bond's Summer (1988, intimate theater Dusseldorf ), Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard (1989, Bregenz) and Ionesco's Rhinoceros ( 1992, Landshut ). From 1994 to 2004 she was director of the Kreuzgangspiele wet cheeks, where she directed, among others, Romeo and Juliet (1995) and Don Carlos ( 1997).
Lis Verhoeven starred in numerous television dramas and series, and embodied in the crime series Berlin, Keithstrasse 30 (1972 ) 13 episodes long the Kriminalinspektorin Schröder. She was also active as a voice and poetry readings. As a drama teacher, she worked at the Munich Zinner Studio and at the drama school of Christine Willschrei and most recently at the drama school Regensburg.
Verhoeven was married a short time with Mario Adorf in the 60s and is the mother of their daughter Stella Adorf (born in 1963 ).