22 November 2021

Gudula Blau

Beautiful blonde Gudula Blau (1940) was a German actress who briefly appeared in German and Austrian entertainment films of the late 1950s. Later, she worked as an author, singer, and politician and incidentally played guest roles on television.

Gudula Blau
West-German postcard by Kunst und Bild, Berlin-Charlottenburg, no. I 251. Photo: CCC / Deutsche Film Hansa / Arthur Grimm. Gudula Blau in Einmal eine grosse Dame sein/Once Becoming a Great Lady (Erik Ode, 1957).

Gudula Blau in Scherben bringen Glück (1957)
West-German postcard by Franz Josef Rüdel, Filmpostkartenverlag, Hamburg-Bergedorf, no. 2037. Photo: Erma / Gloria-Film / Czerwonski. Gudula Blau in Scherben bringen Glück/The Shards Bringing Luck (Ernst Marischka, 1957).

Gudula Blau in Die Heilige und ihr Narr (1957)
West-German postcard by Kolibri-Verlag, Minden/Westf., no. 128. Photo: Gloria Filmverleih. Gudula Blau in Die Heilige und ihr Narr/The Holy and Her Fool (Gustav Ucicky, 1957).

Gudula Blau
West-German postcard by Kolibri-Verlag, Minden/Westf., no. 2961. Photo: Gloria-Film. Gudula Blau in Die Heilige und ihr Narr/The Holy and Her Fool (Gustav Ucicky, 1957).

Gudula Blau in Die Heilige und ihr Narr (1957)
West-German postcard by Kolibri-Verlag, Minden/Westf. Photo: Gloria Film. Gudula Blau in Die Heilige und ihr Narr/The Holy and Her Fool (Gustav Ucicky, 1957).

Once Becoming a Great Lady


Gudula Blau (sometimes written as Gundula Blau) was born in 1940 in Posen, Germany (now Poznan, Poland).

During the late 1950s, Blau starred in four films. She made her film debut in the Austrian comedy Scherben bringen Glück/The Shards Bringing Luck (Ernst Marischka, 1957) with Adrian Hoven.

Her other films were Einmal eine große Dame sein/Once Becoming a Great Lady (Erik Ode, 1957), the Austrian drama Die Heilige und ihr Narr/The Holy and Her Fool (Gustav Ucicky, 1957) with Gerhard Riedmann, and Das fliegende Klassenzimmer/The Flying Classroom (Werner Jacobs, 1957), based on the childrens novel by Erich Kästner.

In 1958, she married actor Karlheinz Böhm, and retired from acting. She became the mother of three children: former actress Kristina Böhm (1959), Michael (1960) and Daniela (1961). The couple divorced in 1962.

Gudula Blau in Einmal eine grosse Dame sein (1957)
German postcard by Kolibri-Verlag G.m.b.H., Minden/Westf., no. 2730. Photo: CCC / Deutsche Film Hansa (DFH) / Arthur Grimm. Gudula Blau in Einmal eine grosse Dame sein/Once Becoming a Great Lady (Erik Ode, 1957).

Gudula Blau and Dietmar Schönherr in Einmal eine grosse Dame sein (1957)
West-German postcard by Kolibri-Verlag, Minden/Westf., no. 2731. Photo: CCC / Deutsche Film Hansa / Arthur Grimm. Gudula Blau and Dietmar Schönherr in Einmal eine grosse Dame sein/Once Becoming a Great Lady (Erik Ode, 1957).

Gudula Blau
West-German postcard by Kolibri-Verlag, Minden/Westf., no. 2735. Photo: CCC / Deutsche Film Hansa / Grimm. Gudula Blau in Einmal eine große Dame sein/Once Becoming a Great Lady (Erik Ode, 1957).

Gudula Blau
West-German postcard by Kolibri-Verlag, Minden/Westf., no. 2752. Photo: CCC / Deutsche Film Hansa / Arthur Grimm. Gudula Blau in Einmal eine grosse Dame sein/Once Becoming a Great Lady (Erik Ode, 1957).

The spiritual political party Die Violetten


In the 1970s Gudula Blau started to sing her own chansons and appeared in 1974 with her first song 'Das hat uns keiner gesagt' (No one told us about it) in the TV show 'Dalli Dalli'.

She also appeared in the Austrian comedy series Die liebe Familie/The sweet family (1983). In 1985 she finished her vocal career and worked as a customer advisor and works council chairman at Böhmler in the valley in Munich and then as a lecturer and PR lady for the Langen Müller Verlag.

Incidentally, she did guest appearances in such TV series as Ein Heim für Tiere/A Home for Animals (1990). After that, she worked until December 1998 as the administrative manager of the Ayurveda clinic in Kassel. Her last TV role was in the series Das Verkehrsgericht/Traffic court (Ruprecht Essberger, 2001).

In 2005 she founded the spiritual political party Die Violetten (the Violets), which she led for three years as state chair. Gudula Blau then became Federal President of the Violets. In the state election in Bavaria in 2008, she ran for the first time as a direct candidate of the Munich-Giesing constituency (Upper Bavaria constituency). In the 2009 European elections, she was still listed as a candidate, but resigned from the chair in June 2009 and left the party.

Gudula Blau founded the Annapurna seminar organisation based in Mittenwald, which is esoterically oriented.

Gudula Blau
Austrian postcard by Kellner-Fotokarten, Wien, no. 81066.

Gudula Blau
West-German postcard by Agfa, no. 1210. Photo: CCC / Deutsche Film Hansa / Lilo. Gudula Blau in Einmal eine große Dame sein/Once Becoming a Great Lady (Erik Ode, 1957).

Gudula Blau
West-German postcard by Kolibri-Verlag, Minden/Westf., no. D 68. Photo: CCC / Deutsche Film Hansa / Arthur Grimm. Gudula Blau in Einmal eine grosse Dame sein/Once Becoming a Great Lady (Erik Ode, 1957).

Gudula Blau
West-German postcard by Kolibri-Verlag, Minden/Westf., no. D 86. Photo: Sascha / Gloria / Meroth. Gudula Blau in Die Heilige und ihr Narr/The Holy and Her Fool (Gustav Ucicky, 1957).

Gudula Blau in Die Heilige und ihr Narr (1957)
West-German postcard by Ufa/Film-Foto, Berlin-Tempelhof, no. FK 3827. Photo: Meroth / Sascha Film / Gloria Filmverleih. Gudula Blau in Die Heilige und ihr Narr/The Holy and Her Fool (Gustav Ucicky, 1957).

Sources: Wikipedia (German) and IMDb.

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