Petra Schürmann
Petra Schürmann - friend ( born September 15, 1933, Mönchengladbach as Hildegard Petra Susanna Schürmann or according to other sources as Petra Schürmann Hildegard Elisabeth; † January 14, 2010 in Starnberg ) was a German television presenter, program spokeswoman, actress and former Miss World.
Life
Petra Schürmann grew up as the second of three children first in Wuppertal, and lived there from 1953 to Wipperfuerth. She studied in Bonn, Cologne and Munich, philosophy and art history. In 1956 she was elected to London as the first German Miss World, after only 3 occupied space at the Miss Germany. The interrupted her studies, she took after a short time again, without, however, quit.
In the 1960s, Petra Schürmann came to the Bavarian television and began a career as an announcer there. In between, she worked as a trainee at the Münchner Merkur. Then she hosted for ARD and ZDF several programs, including the Saturday Club, traffic court, and finally, we in Bavaria. She was also active as an actress and author. 1967 Petra Schürmann's daughter was born, the later BR presenter Alexandra Schürmann friend. First, Petra Schürmann conceal the father's name. This was at the doctor Gerhard friend, who was still married to actress Marianne Koch, and they had these two sons. After the divorce from Marianne Koch married friend and Schürmann Petra Schürmann in 1973 and took the name Schürmann friend to.
The sudden death of her daughter in a traffic accident caused by a suicidal ghost rider in 2001 Petra Schürmann of ill psychoreactive speech disorders and drew largely from the public gaze. The director Heidi Kranz turned over Petra Schürmann a movie that shows her speechlessness, but also their joy of life and gives an insight into her life and the mourning of the daughter.
Your plan to return as host of a talk show on the screen, she could not realize. They also tried to write the book And a night passes to process the death of her daughter as a year. Since 2006, she lived with her husband, retired on Lake Starnberg. 2008 Gerhard friend died at the age of 83 years to cancer. Petra Schürmann died in 2010 after long suffering and found her final resting place at the cemetery in mountain in Santa Maria on Lake Starnberg at the side of her husband and her daughter.
Filmography
Writings
- The adventure to grow up. Knaurs girl book. Earthscan, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-426-02248-6
- The Big Book of cosmetics and body care. Naturalis, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-88703-607-7
- And a night goes by like a year. Earthscan, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-426-27275- X - Knaur Paperback 62467, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-426-62467-2 ( autobiography under the influence of the accidental death of her daughter )
- Enjoy life again. Petra Schürmann report and Gerhard friend how she overcame the worst crisis of her life with the food substance NADH. Together with Gerhard friend. Published by: Health Products Kornelia Sinning, ISBN 978-3-8423-2989-8, published by Books on Demand