Constanze Engelbrecht(1950-2000)
- Actress
- Additional Crew
Constanze started into the movies at an early age: as the German voice
of "Jeff" from "Lassie." After "Gymnasium" (high school) the daughter
of actress Alice Franz studied singing at the
Richard-Strauss-Konservatorium in Munich, Germany, at Guildhall School
in London, GB, and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. Actress
Rosemarie Fendel gave her acting lesssons. Constanze's career took place in all
areas, she worked on stage, in movies and on TV. In 1998 she was
diagnosed with breast cancer, followed by a mastectomy. The cancer
spread to the liver. After going through 20 chemotherapy treatments,
she suffered a backlash in March 2000 when doctors found a brain tumor
with 11 metastases spreading through her brain. She is survived by her
16-year old daughter Julie and her husband François Nocher, who had
stayed with her on an extra bed in her hospital room for the last days
of her life.
