# Liselotte Pulver

Liselotte Pulver (born 11 October 1929), sometimes credited as Lilo Pulver, is a Swiss actress. Pulver was one of the biggest stars of German cinema in the 1950s and 1960s, where she often was cast as a tomboy. She is well known for her hearty and joyful laughter. Her films outside of German cinema include A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958), One, Two, Three (1961) and The Nun (1966).

## Early life

Pulver was born in Bern to civil engineer Fritz Eugen Pulver and his wife Germaine. From 1945 on Pulver attended commercial school. After graduating in 1948, she worked as a model and took acting classes at the Bern conservatory, now part of the Bern University of Applied Sciences. Following small parts at the Bern Theatre (Stadttheater Bern), she appeared at the Schauspielhaus Zürich.

## Film career

Pulver's first film role was in the 1949 American-Swiss co-production Swiss Tour. Her breakthrough movie role was "Vreneli", the wife of the lead in Uli, der Knecht (1954), made after the novel of Swiss author Jeremias Gotthelf. Pulver became one of the biggest stars of German-language cinema in the 1950s and 1960s, often nicknamed "Lilo" Pulver. She was very often seen in comedies, most notably I Often Think of Piroschka (1955), The Zürich Engagement (1957), The Spessart Inn (1958) and Kohlhiesel's Daughters (1962). One of her more serious film roles was as Tony Buddenbrook in The Buddenbrooks (1959), a movie adaptation of Thomas Mann's novel of the same name. She also appeared in another Thomas Mann adaptation, Confessions of Felix Krull (1957) with Horst Buchholz in the title role of a charming and narcissistic conman.
In the late 1950s and 1960s, Pulver was involved in a number of American and French film productions. Her first Hollywood film was Douglas Sirk's war melodrama A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958), in which she and John Gavin played a young German couple whose happiness is doomed at the end of the Second World War. She was James Cagney's attractive secretary "Fräulein Ingeborg" in Billy Wilder's comedy One, Two, Three (1961). In 1963, for her role as a Russian woman in A Global Affair, she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award as best supporting actress. In France, she appeared alongside Anna Karina in Jacques Rivette's film The Nun (1966).
In the 1970s, she increasingly turned towards television roles. From 1978 until 1983 she worked for the German edition of Sesame Street, Sesamstraße. Her last film credit was in 2007, when she played a cameo role in Die Zürcher Verlobung, a remake of The Zürich Engagement. She made a public appearance at the 2018 Bambi Awards, where she accepted a prize for Honorary Achievement.

## Personal life

In 1960, she met German actor Helmut Schmid on the set of Gustav Adolf's Page: they married on 9 September 1961 and had two children. Her daughter committed suicide in 1989. Her husband died in 1992 of a heart attack. As of 2008, Pulver lives secluded in Perroy, Canton Vaud on the shores of Lake Geneva; she also has an apartment at the Burgerspital [de], a retirement home near Bern.

## Awards

* 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1990, 2018: Bambi Award (in 2018 for livetime achievement)
* 1963: Golden Globe Award nomination as best supporting actress for A Global Affair
* 1986: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
* 1999: Bavarian Film Awards Honorary Award
* 2007: Goldene Kamera for Livetime Achievement
* 2011: Star at the Boulevard der Stars [de] in Berlin (Walk of Fame)

## Partial filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Cast | Notes |
| 1949 | Swiss Tour | | Leopold Lindtberg | Cornel Wilde, Simone Signoret | |
| 1950 | The White Hell of Pitz Palu | Maria | Rolf Hansen | Hans Albers, Adrian Hoven | |
| 1951 | A Heidelberg Romance | Susanne Edwards | Paul Verhoeven | O. W. Fischer | |
| 1952 | Klettermaxe | Corry Bell | Kurt Hoffmann | Albert Lieven | |
| 1952 | Fritz and Friederike | Friederike | Géza von Bolváry | Albert Lieven | |
| 1953 | Have Sunshine in Your Heart | Miss Helm | Erich Waschneck | Carl Wery | |
| 1953 | We'll Talk About Love Later | Bianca Merz | Karl Anton | Gustav Fröhlich, Willy Fritsch, Paul Hörbiger | |
| 1953 | The Bogeyman | Trixie | Carl Boese | Hans Reiser | |
| 1953 | I and You | Brigitte | Alfred Weidenmann | Hardy Krüger | |
| 1954 | Men at a Dangerous Age | Anna | Carl-Heinz Schroth | Hans Söhnker | |
| 1954 | School for Marriage | Marianne | Rainer Geis, Anton Schelkopf | Paul Hubschmid, Cornell Borchers, Wolf Albach-Retty | |
| 1954 | Uli the Farmhand | Vreneli | Franz Schnyder | Hannes Schmidhauser | |
| 1954 | The Last Summer | Jessika Tolemainen | Harald Braun | Hardy Krüger | |
| 1955 | Reaching for the Stars | Christine | Carl-Heinz Schroth | Erik Schumann, Gustav Knuth | |
| 1955 | Hanussen | Hilde Graf | O. W. Fischer | O. W. Fischer, Klaus Kinski | |
| 1955 | Uli the Tenant | Vreneli | Franz Schnyder | Hannes Schmidhauser | |
| 1955 | I Often Think of Piroschka | Piroschka Rácz | Kurt Hoffmann | Gustav Knuth, Gunnar Möller | |
| 1956 | My Husband's Getting Married Today | Thesi Petersen | Kurt Hoffmann | Johannes Heesters, Paul Hubschmid | |
| 1957 | The Adventures of Arsène Lupin | Mina von Kraft | Jacques Becker | Robert Lamoureux, O. E. Hasse | French film |
| 1957 | The Zürich Engagement | Juliane Thomas | Helmut Käutner | Paul Hubschmid, Bernhard Wicki | |
| 1957 | Confessions of Felix Krull | Zaza | Kurt Hoffmann | Horst Buchholz | |
| 1958 | The Spessart Inn | Franziska von Sandau | Kurt Hoffmann | Carlos Thompson, Günther Lüders, Wolfgang Neuss | |
| 1958 | A Time to Love and a Time to Die | Elisabeth Kruse | Douglas Sirk | John Gavin, Erich Maria Remarque | American film |
| 1958 | Arms and the Man | Raina Petkoff | Franz Peter Wirth | O. W. Fischer | |
| 1958 | The Gambler | Polina | Claude Autant-Lara | Gérard Philipe | French film |
| 1959 | The Beautiful Adventure | Dorothée Durand | Kurt Hoffmann | Robert Graf | |
| 1959 | The Buddenbrooks | Antonie Buddenbrook | Alfred Weidenmann | Hansjörg Felmy, Nadja Tiller, Hanns Lothar, Lil Dagover | |
| 1960 | A Glass of Water | Queen Anne | Helmut Käutner | Gustaf Gründgens | |
| 1960 | The Haunted Castle | Charlotte von Sandau | Kurt Hoffmann | Georg Thomalla | |
| 1960 | Gustav Adolf's Page | Gustl Leubelfing | Rolf Hansen | Curd Jürgens | |
| 1961 | La Fayette | Marie Antoinette | Jean Dréville | Michel Le Royer, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins, Vittorio De Sica | French film |
| 1961 | One, Two, Three | Fräulein Ingeborg | Billy Wilder | James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin, Hanns Lothar | American film |
| 1962 | Where the Truth Lies | Catherine | Henri Decoin | Juliette Gréco | French film |
| 1962 | Kohlhiesel's Daughters | Liesel Kohlhiesel / Susi Kohlhiesel | Axel von Ambesser | Dietmar Schönherr | |
| 1963 | Breakfast in Bed | Liane Clausen | Axel von Ambesser | O.W. Fischer, Lex Barker | |
| 1963 | A Nearly Decent Girl | Lili Steiner | Ladislao Vajda | Martin Held, Alberto de Mendoza | |
| 1964 | A Global Affair | Sonya | Jack Arnold | Bob Hope, Michèle Mercier | American film |
| 1964 | Monsieur | Elizabeth Bernadac | Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Jean Gabin, Philippe Noiret, Mireille Darc | French film |
| 1965 | Praetorius | Violetta Höllriegel | Kurt Hoffmann | Heinz Rühmann | |
| 1965 | Man from Cocody | Baby | Christian-Jaque | Jean Marais | French film |
| 1966 | Hocuspocus | Agda Kjerulf | Kurt Hoffmann | Heinz Rühmann | |
| 1966 | The Nun | Mother de Chelles | Jacques Rivette | Anna Karina | French film |
| 1966 | The Rainmaker | Lizzie Curry | Franz Peter Wirth | | TV film |
| 1966 | The Gardener of Argenteuil | Hilda | Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Jean Gabin, Curd Jürgens | French film |
| 1967 | Glorious Times at the Spessart Inn | Anneliese von Sandau | Kurt Hoffmann | Harald Leipnitz, Vivi Bach, Hannelore Elsner | |
| 1969 | Pistolen-Jenny | Jenny | Alfred Weidenmann | | TV film |
| 1969 | The Wedding Trip | Hannelore Schmidt | Ralf Gregan [de] | Dieter Hallervorden | |
| 1970 | The Cotton Pickers | Mrs. Pratt | Jürgen Goslar | | TV miniseries |
| 1971 | Timo | Erika Gerber | Rolf Hädrich | | TV series, 13 episodes |
| 1972 | Hoopers letzte Jagd [de] | Jenny Richardson | Claus Peter Witt [de] | Horst Tappert | TV film |
| 1972 | Five Leaf Clover | Daisy | Edmond Freess [fr] | Philippe Noiret | French film |
| 1975 | Monika and the Sixteen Year Olds | Mrs. Annelie | Charly Steinberger | Maria Zürer, Oliver Collignon, Klausjürgen Wussow, Teri Tordai | |
| 1979 | Bread and Stones | Mrs. Bodenbauer | Mark Rissi [de] | Sigfrit Steiner, Walo Lüönd, Beatrice Kessler [de] | |
| 1986 | Le Tiroir secret | Maryse | | Michèle Morgan, Jeanne Moreau, Michael Lonsdale | French TV miniseries |
| 1996 | The Superwife | Alma Winkel | Sönke Wortmann | Veronica Ferres, Heiner Lauterbach, Til Schweiger | |
| 2004 | René Deltgen – Der sanfte Rebell | | Michael Wenk | Götz George, Nadja Tiller, Artur Brauner, Michael Verhoeven | Luxembourgish documentary |
| 2007 | The Zürich Engagement [de] | herself | Stephan Meyer [de] | Lisa Martinek, Christoph Waltz, Tim Bergmann, Hannelore Hoger, Jan Fedder, Sonja Kirchberger | TV film |