Karin Gregorek is dead. According to media reports, the actress died in the night from Friday to Saturday in Berlin. She is best known for her role as Sister Felicitas in the ARD series “Um Himmels Willen”. She was 81 years old. A cause of death is not yet known.
Karin Gregorek was born on September 26, 1941 in Wendorf near Stralsund to a Polish mother. She became an actress rather by accident. She accompanied a friend to an audition at an acting school in Berlin. But only she was accepted there. Gregorek once revealed this in an interview with the “Senioren Ratgeber”.
In the GDR, Karin Gregorek first made a name for herself as a theater actress, but she also acted in a number of movies and several times in “Polizeiruf 110”. After the fall of the Wall, she effortlessly made the leap onto West German television. She was a permanent member of the ensemble in series such as “Mama istImpossible” and “Tierarzt Dr. Engel”.
However, she found her late star role in “For Heaven’s Sake”. In the successful monastery comedy she played alongside Fritz Wepper. As Sister Felicitas Meier, a nun with weaknesses for alternating between alcohol, tobacco and computer games, she was one of the crowd’s favourites.
