Claudia Prietzel was born in 1958 in Gelsenkirchen. After working in a puppet theater in Bochum, she trained as an actress and dancer in London. She then returned to Germany and studied at the German Academy of Film & Television (dffb) in Berlin. Her films include: "Die Blattlaus" (TV, 1991), "Kuppke" (TV, 1996), "Kinder ohne Genade" (TV, 1996), "Das vergessene Leben" (TV, 1997), "Nur das Blaue vom Himmel" (TV, 2000), as well as "The Puppet Grave Digger" ("Der Puppengraeber",TV, 2002) and "Erste Liebe" (TV, 2003), both in co-direction with Peter Henning.

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