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http://dietlindeturban.com/ germany reutlingen , germany dietlinde turban maazel 27 august 1957 lorin maazel dietlinde turban
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dietlinde turban

dietlinde turban -lrb- born august 27 , 1957 in reutlingen , germany -rrb- is a german actress .
her brother is the violinist ingolf turban .
dietlinde turban 's first stage appearance at the age of 19 as gretchen in goethe 's faust at the residenz-theatre in munich brought her national fame .
in rapid succession she starred in new productions of lessing 's minna von barnhelm -lrb- as minna -rrb- , shakespeare 's `` othello '' -lrb- as desdemona - for which she received the bad hersfeld festival prize for best actress -rrb- , and in works of anouilh , giraudoux and others .
she was invited as guest star at the state theater in bonn and the josefstadt theatre in vienna .
thanks to scores of films and plays filmed for television , mrs. turban won germany 's coveted bambi award by popular vote as best actress of the year -lrb- 1983 -rrb- .
among her film credits : the title role in goethe 's stella and schiller 's love and intrigue -lrb- luise -rrb- , the role of mozart 's sister-in-law aloysia in the french film biography of the composer , a starring role in sidney sheldon 's american thriller bloodline , and the part of euridice in the jean-pierre ponnelle/harnoncourt adaptation of monteverdi 's orfeo , the lead-roles in die kalte heimat , die undankbare , peter schamoni 's the castle in konigswald and the world war ii story mussolini and i , in which she played opposite anthony hopkins .
in 2004 ms. turban founded the new york based crescent theatre company .
in collaboration with christopher rothwell she created a one woman play constantly risking absurdity which she premiered in castleton and at the cherry lane theatre , new york , a year later performed it at the george mason university and was also invited with this play to salzburg , austria , by the american austrian foundation , for the inauguration of schloss arenberg in 2005 .
recently the crescent theatre co. merged with kid pan alley , an organization , initially funded by ms. turban , that inspires children through group song writing to become creators of their own music .
ms. turban has recorded a number of audio books -lrb- naxos -rrb- as well as cds in collaboration with young composers .
she also performs dramatic readings of literary masterpieces both in the united states and in europe and tours with recitals based on works by andersen , fontane , heine , kafka , rilke , schiller and thomas mann .
ms. turban studied violin , classical dance and voice in her home town munich , germany and , in aspen , co. .
after a decade of an intense acting career she married the conductor lorin maazel .
they have two sons and a daughter .
she took a 15-year break from acting to raise their home-schooled children while traveling throughout the world .
in 1996 she co-founded a private school for low-income families on her virginia estate , based on the holistic ideas of rudolf steiner , `` the hearthstone school '' , and developed a pilot educational project designed to explore new ways of integrating vital artistic and aesthetic values into school curricula .
in addition to her active role as administrator of the castleton festival and the year-round performance season at the castleton theatre , she works as private performance coach in manhattan and teaches every summer at the `` castleton artists training seminar '' -lrb- cats -rrb- , the castleton festival 's young artist program which she founded and developed together with renowned soprano nancy gustafson .
in the summer 2013 she performed jean cocteau 's la voix humaine at the castleton festival .
since september 2013 she has joined the faculty at the mason gross school of the arts at rutgers university , nj , teaching interpretative and performance skills -lrb- in german , french , italian and english repertoire -rrb- and a new course that she created for rutgers : `` acting for singers '' .
with her brother -lrb- ingolf turban -rrb- and husband -lrb- lorin maazel -rrb- , turban has participated in classical music projects .
