Actress Liselotte Pulver is still known today for her infectious laugh. Her life was anything but easy and carefree.
Liselotte Pulver will be 95 years old on October 11th. The film legend looks back on an eventful life: in the fifties and sixties she was one of the most successful and popular actresses of her time and became an absolute icon. Her trademark: her hearty laugh. However, it is not self-evident that she did not lose this until she reached old age.
Liselotte Pulver didn’t just have to cope with one stroke of fate in her life. In 1989 she lost her daughter Mélisande, one of two children. The young woman was only 21 years old when she fell from the Berner Münster, a church in Bern. Three years later, the next loss: her husband Helmut Schmid died of a heart attack at the age of just 67.
In her book “Laughed in the Face of Life” in 2017, she wrote that she was never happy in love again after her husband’s death: “Sometimes I had the feeling: I’m actually all alone. There are times when I I wonder why that has to be the case. Of course I have days when I don’t laugh.”
Despite the fateful events in her life, Lilo Pulver never lost her positive and life-affirming nature. “It was and is a happy, successful life. I achieved almost everything I wanted to achieve. I always wanted to be number one professionally. That “I succeeded for a while,” she further recalled.
With her most famous films “I often think of Piroschka”, “The Wirtshaus im Spessart”, “The Zurich Engagement” and “One, Two, Three” she moved an entire generation and wrote film history. She has been recognized with numerous awards for her life’s work. She got Bambi alone seven times. Things have become pretty quiet around Liselotte Pulver in recent years. Today she lives in seclusion in a retirement home in Switzerland.