Heide Keller: That's why Heinz Weiss was her favorite "dream ship" captain
Heide Keller (76), who played chief-stewardess Beatrice in "The Dream Ship" from the first episode in 1981, has a favorite captain: "The other captains may forgive me, Heinz Weiss was for me the dearest of all captains, not only because we are friends were, especially because of the cap, "writes the actress in her recently published book" Dream time and other days "(Knaur HC). Heinz was the only one who knew, "how best to wear the headgear, perhaps had the right head for it". Elsewhere Keller tells about Weiss, when he said goodbye, it "shook her so that I could not stop crying".
The role of the "dream ship" captain Heinz Hansen embodied Heinz Weiss (1921-2010) from 1983 to 1999. In the successful TV series of ZDF, which is produced since 1981 after the idea of Wolfgang Rademann (1934-2016), there was so far four captains. Günter König (1926-1998) played in the first season captain Braske. Weiss followed him, then took over from 1999 to 2013 Siegfried Rauch (1932-2018) as Jakob Paulsen. Then Sascha Hehn (63) played the captain, he gave up the role in 2018 again. Heide Keller had her last appearance on the "Dream Ship" in the episode, which was broadcast on 1 January 2018.
"Without Wolfgang I did not want to imagine a dream ship"
The actress, who also wrote screenplays on individual episodes, writes in her book: "The day that Wolfgang let me know that now Siegfried Rauch would also leave the dream ship was a sad day. I used to think that we were three to go together, and already invented a story about it, in an old age group we would have been able to continue mischief for years, should not be. "
In addition, Keller tells in "Dreamtime and other days", Rademann have publicly stated in a broadcast about them: "The remains until the steamer goes down, and if we need to drive in a wheelchair." And adds: "After he had to leave us, I decided that it was better to say goodbye before I need a wheelchair Without Wolfgang, I did not want to imagine dream ship and go, as long as I came down the gangway on stiletto heels . "
