Beatrice Richter, born on 20 December 1948 in Munich, is a German TV actress, comedian, cabaret artist, and jazz singer. She completed acting training at the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts in Munich and studied jazz dance under Frank Hatchett in New York.
She began her career on the Radio Bremen comedy program Rudis Tagesshow (1981–1987) alongside Diether Krebs, Klaus Havenstein, and Rudi Carrell, receiving the Goldene Kamera award in 1982 for her parodies. Richter gained further recognition in the sketch comedy series Sketchup (Bayerischer Rundfunk, 1984–1986). She appeared in films with Walter Giller and Peter Alexander, acted in theater plays, and performed in the TV series Meister Eder und sein Pumuckl in 1989. Since 1996, she has performed in her own jazz cabaret show. In 2004, she acted in Hugo von Hofmannsthal's play Jedermann at Cologne Cathedral, playing the Journeyman, the Devil, and Mammon. In 2008, she portrayed Rosmathilda Polterman at the Karl May Festival in Bad Segeberg. Photos of her appeared in the August 1982 issue of German Playboy magazine. She is the mother of actress Judith Richter (born 1978), from a temporary relationship with actor Heinz Baumann.
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