Marie-Luise Marjan celebrates its 85th birthday: This is how she fared after the “Lindenstraße”

Arie-Luise Marjan (85) has become a bit quieter after the “Lindenstraße” in 2020. In contrast to her cult series figure “Mother Beimer”, the actress, who celebrates her 85th birthday on August 9, is still active. Even if she had to accept one or the other stroke of fate since then.

So she fell heavily about a year ago, the result: a broken femoral neck. Marjan now helps himself with a rollator. “In the meantime I have struggled to do so, after all, I would like to continue to participate in social life and not only hide at home,” she revealed the “Bild” newspaper about her walking aid. Even if she does not particularly appreciate the term “rollator” as such. “In the word you immediately think of old people with curved backs and a sad look that drag around with it. The opposite is the case! The rollator gives me a completely new way of life,” said Marjan.

Already in 2021 Marie-Luise Marjan lost her life partner Bodo Bressler. This “suddenly died of a heartbeat,” she revealed at the time to the magazine “Bunte”. The two were a couple for almost four decades.

Despite this great loss and her injury, the actress is still in public, keeps readings and, as has been committed to decades, is committed to social purposes. And she also enjoys her birthday. “I only celebrate birthdays every five years, but this time I invited 85 friends for the 85th birthday. Life can be a festival – at any age”. Her perceived age is “around 65 around 65, i.e. 20 years younger. I feel like I have made age my friend”.

Marie-Luise Marjan, who grew up in adoptive parents in Hattingen, knew early on where she was going: from 1958 to 1960 she completed the Hamburg University of Music and Theater, after which she was involved in large actresses until 1982. At the same time, she was already on TV, including in “A Heart and a Soul”, “Tatort”, “The Dream Ship” or “Berlin-Alexanderplatz”.

Then her cult role came: from the beginning of the television series “Lindenstraße” in 1985 until her attitude in March 2020, she became Helga Beimer. A mother of triple and triple grandmother, who cannot be done, but it is also difficult to stay out of the private life of her loved ones. With this figure, Marjan became a star throughout Germany. Even after the “Lindenstraße” there were further appearances on television: In 2023 she played a guest role in “Soko Stuttgart”, and she was also there in an “Inga Lindström” film.

In addition to the great awareness of Marie-Luise Marjan, the long “Lindenstraße” engagement also brought other advantages. “I never had any debt, never lived over my standards. Due to my theater time and the ‘Lindenstrasse’, I made good care, among other things through the Frankfurt pension fund. I am fine – but not because I live luxuriously, but because I am responsible with money. I don’t need a bag for 2,000 euros – the cheap one bears the same content.” In addition, she said about her current phase of life: “I don’t feel lonely without my own children or incomplete: I have a fulfilling life.”