Ruth Drexel
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Ruth Drexel (born July 14, 1930 in Vilshofen an der Donau) is a Bavarian actress and theatre director. Although Drexel has been a serious actress, director and theatre manager for many decades, her wide popularity rests on her comic role (since 1996) as Resi Berghammer in the German television series, Der Bulle von Tölz, where she plays, in Bavarian dialect, the adventurous and resolute mother of the eponymous cop.
Born in Vilshofen near Passau, Drexel trained as an actress in Munich, where she was also given her first engagement. She subsequently worked in Berlin (as a member of the Berliner Ensemble during 1955-56), Wuppertal, Darmstadt and Düsseldorf. She also appeared, to great critical acclaim, in new plays by Franz Xaver Kroetz and Felix Mitterer. In 1980, she co-founded the Tiroler Volksschauspiele in Telfs, Tyrol.
Drexel's early television work included Wedekind's Der Marquis von Keith (1962), a German adaptation of Shaw's Candida (1963), Frisch's Biedermann und die Brandstifter (1967), and Kroetz's Wildwechsel, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1973). She also put in guest appearances on Der Kommissar and Tatort.
Drexel was a member of the cast of the cult television series Münchner Geschichten (1974) and Zur Freiheit (1987). As of January 2006, she has played Resi Berghammer in 58 episodes (90 minutes each) of Der Bulle von Tölz. In 2005, she started a new television series, Agathe kann's nicht lassen, playing Agathe Heiland, a sleuthing old lady modelled on Agatha Christie's Miss Marple.
Her long-time companion, actor Hans Brenner, died in 1998.
Ruth Drexel lives in Feldkirchen (near Munich).
