- Born
- Died
- Birth nameGertrud Herr
- Nicknames
- Tutti
- Pummelchen
- Height1.56 m
- Trude Herr was born on May 4, 1927 in Cologne, Germany. She was an actress and director, known for Jakob und Rahel (1965), Frankensteins Schwiegermutter (1983) and Scheidung op Kölsch (1981). She was married to Ahmed M'Barek. She died on March 15, 1991 in Lauris, Vaucluse, France.
- SpouseAhmed M'Barek(1966 - 1976) (divorced)
- Returned to Germany with her longtime companion Samuel Bawesi and planned her comeback in 1991, but died shortly after in Southern France.
- After appearing on over 30 movies, she finally moved to the Fiji Islands for health reasons and cultivated mushrooms there (1987).
- As her father was member of the communist party, the Nazis imprisoned him in a concentration camp until 1945.
- Brunette, plump comic actress, all-round entertainer, singer and drama coach. She was the daughter of a locomotive driver whose membership in the Communist Party led to his internment in a concentration camp by the Nazi regime. Her career took off in 1957, when she joined the Berlin cabaret 'Tingel-Tangel'. She scored a big hit on the German pop charts and subsequently emerged as a popular TV personality on chat shows and variety programs. Between 1977 and 1986, she operated her own stage company in Cologne.
- The song "Ich will keine Schokolade" (I don't want chocolate) was her national breakthrough in Germany (1959).
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