Christa Siems

Christa Siems (1916-1990) was a German character actor, based in Hamburg, who appeared in recurring Sesamstrasse filmed inserts as Oma Kluge, a goodnatured grandmother. Beginning in the late 1970s, the initial segments focused on her owning a shop and her neighborhood. Later segments, from the early 1980s, centered on Oma Kluge establishing an "Oma-Hilfsdienst" (grandmother help service), which supplied older grandparents to assist busy families as babysitters and caregivers.
Prior to starring as Oma Kluge, Siems appeared in one of the recurring "Taxifamilie Sauer" segments as Tante Meier. She appeared in a Sesamstrasse street scene in 1981, as a stall vendor who sells tomatoes to Finchen but leaves Samson empty handed.
Siems performed on stage and made her film debut in 1940's Für die Katz, but didn't return to films until the 1960s. By then specializing in older women, Siems was often cast as landladies, cleaning women, grandmothers and aunts, or nurses in films including the 1960 comedy Pension Schöller, Polizeirevier Davidswache (with Wolfgang Kieling), Unter den Dächern von St. Pauli (with Gernot Endemann), and the coming of age tale Moritz, lieber Moritz (1978). She was active in German radio plays, while television included multiple episodes of Stahlnetz, as landlady Mrs. Nutboom in the first Gestatten - Mein Name ist Cox television serial (1961), and on Polizeifunk ruft and Hamburg Transit. She had regular roles on the hospital drama Hafenkrankenhaus (as head nurse Brigitte) and on the sitcom Anker auf und Leinen los! (both 1969). Her last role, aired posthumously, was as a tavern landlady on a 1991 episode of Tatort.
==External links==
*Sesamstrassen-Fanclub - Oma Kluge segment guide
*IMDb
*SteffiLine - Profile in German
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Category:International Sesame Street Actors
Category:Sesamstrasse Actors