Cleo Kretschmer

Cleo Kretschmer (born Ingeborg Maria Kretschmer, February 11, 1951; Thalberg, Wegscheid, Germany) is a German novelist, screenwriter, and actress.

She was born as the daughter of a border policeman. After the age of 11, she began living in Munich. After school, she underwent an apprenticeship as a pharmacist, then worked in various jobs such as secretary, bartender, and finally as a marketer in a boutique.

She was discovered by director Klaus Lemke during her student years for a small role in a theater play. Since 1973, she has appeared in films and TV series, both writing and starring in her own television comedy scripts.

In 1984, she published her first novel, followed shortly after by other books. Cleo Kretschmer, who lived in Ibiza for the first half of the 1980s, was a well-known member of the Munich Schickeria art movement. Additionally, she worked for a certain period in the Munich City Council in 1990.

Some of the productions she appeared in include: *Amore* (1978), *Sisi and the Emperor's Kiss* (*Sisi und der Kaiserkuß*, 1991), and *Honeymoon* (*Flitterwochen*, 1980).

(From the Turkish Wikipedia, translated. Text under CC BY-SA license.)