Franziska Stömmer (16 September 1922 - 21 June 2004) was a German

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and character actress.

Life

Stömmer was born on 16 September 1922 in

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, Bavaria. After studying at

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's acting school, Stömmer was seen on stages in Reichenberg and

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in the

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, but interrupted her career at the request of her husband Wolfgang Eichberger (1911–1963). It was not until the end of the

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that she returned as an actress and appeared in several films, television series (including ''

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'', '' Meister Eder und sein Pumuckl'' and '' Die zweite Heimat - Chronik einer Jugend'') and

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s. She became more widely known as Grandma Soleder, first in the radio series ''Die Grandauers und ihre Zeit'' alongside Karl Obermayr and Ilse Neubauer and then nationwide in the television series '' Löwengrube'' (1989 to 1992), where she acted alongside

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and

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. At the end of the 1990s, the penniless actress moved into a retirement home in

, where she died in 2004. She was buried in the Solln Forest Cemetery in Munich.

Filmography

Cinema

* 1965:

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* 1976:

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* 1979:

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Television (selection)

* 1959: Kasimir und Karoline * 1964: Die Verbrecher * 1965: Die Reise nach Steiermark (TV movie) * 1966:

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: Der fünfte Mann (TV series episode) * 1967: Report of a Coward (TV movie) * 1971: Strange Stories: Conjuring at Midnight * 1971: Eyewitnesses Must Be Blind (TV movie) * 1972: (TV movie) * 1972-1987:

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(TV series) ** 1972: Münchner Kindl ** 1973: Weißblaue Turnschuhe ** 1976: Wohnheim Westendstraße ** 1987: Pension Tosca oder Die Sterne lügen nicht * 1973: Der Komödienstadel: The Three Village Saints * 1975: * 1975-1976: Spannagl & Sohn (TV series, 8 episodes) * 1976: Inspection Lauenstadt: Der Kompagnon (television series) * 1978:

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: Ein Hinterhalt (TV series episode) * 1978:

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: Die Referendarinnen (TV series episode) * 1979: Andreas Vöst * 1980: Glaube Liebe Hoffnung * 1982:

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: Ich werde dich töten (TV series episode) * 1982: Meister Eder und sein Pumuckl (TV series, 2 episodes) * 1984: Derrick: Manuels Pflegerin (TV series episode) * 1985: Hochzeit (TV movie, director: Kurt Wilhelm) * 1987: Hans im Glück (2 episodes) * 1988:

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(television series, 2 episodes) * 1988-1992: Die zweite Heimat - Chronik einer Jugend (episodes 3, 4, 8, 9 and 10) * 1989-1992:

Löwengrube – Die Grandauers und ihre Zeit ''Löwengrube – Die Grandauers und ihre Zeit'' is a German television series first aired between 1989 and 1992, created by Willy Purucker and directed by Rainer Wolffhardt. It is set in Munich and follows the lives of Ludwig Grandauer and his s ...

(television series, 27 episodes) * 1993: Madame Bäurin * 1997: Mali (BR two-parter, director: Rainer Wolffhardt) * 1997: Herbert und Schnipsi (Herbert's mother) * 1998:

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: Mord im Irrenhaus (TV series episode)

References

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