Ingrid van Bergen

Actress

June 15, 1931 (94 years)

† November 28, 2025

Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]

Biography

Ingrid van Bergen was a German actress. She became famous in the 1950s and 1960s through roles in films such as Rosen für den Staatsanwalt (1959), and later through her victory in RTL's Dschungelcamp in 2009. Her life was marked by early misfortunes such as fleeing her home country and being interned as a child. Later, she also worked as a voice actress and had an eventful private life, which included a prison sentence.

Filmography

6.2

Scene of the Crime

Petra

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

5.5

Markus Lanz

Self

TV presenter Markus Lanz invites prominent guests and experts from all areas of public life to his colourful talk show. As a rule, there are four guests, introduced individually to contribute their personal experiences to the topics.

6.1

Derrick

Frau Suska

Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.

6.6

Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police

Ellen Ebertshäuser

A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.

6.8

Kölner Treff

Self

No description available

4.7

DAS!

Self

Every evening at 6:45 p.m. sharp, a prominent guest takes a seat on the red sofa—and DAS! provides daily updates on what's hot in the north.

5.9

SOKO München

Schwester Barbara

SOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German.

6.6

NDR Talk Show

Self

No description available

7.2

Die Harald Schmidt Show

Self

The Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian Harald Schmidt. The show first aired from 5 December 1995 to 23 December 2003 on Sat.1. Schmidt then moved his show to Das Erste as Harald Schmidt and Schmidt & Pocher, but he returned to Sat.1 on 13 September 2011. After cancellation on Sat.1, the show continued on Sky Deutschland in September 2012.

5.6

A Case For Two

Frau Rieken

Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main, features two main characters who solve crimes: a defense attorney and a private investigator. Josef Matula, a former German police officer, has gone into private business. His method of investigation is very effective and direct, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Claus Theo Gärtner has portrayed the role since the start of the series.