She became famous as the East German fairytale princess: actress Christel Bodenstein is dead. She died on December 5 at the age of 86 in a nursing home in Berlin, according to a spokeswoman for the DEFA Foundation. "She had not been well for some time." She had been quiet recently. Bodenstein, born in 1938 and a native of Munich, is best known for the DEFA fairytale film "Das singende klingende Bäumchen".
In 1957, the 18-year-old played herself into the hearts of viewers as the wicked and defiant Princess Tausendschön with a pouty mouth. She was discovered at the age of 17 by director Kurt Maetzig ("Das Kaninchen bin ich"). Shortly afterwards, she starred in "The Captain of Cologne" and then played a princess in the fairy tale adaptation "The Brave Little Tailor".
During her studies at the Babelsberg Film Academy, she appeared several times in front of the camera for DEFA. In 1963, she got "her dream role", as she herself once confessed, alongside Manfred Krug as an FDJ secretary in "Description of a Summer".
