Uschi Glas: "I just did not like it"
Franz Xaver Bogner (69) will open the "München Grill" with Christine Eixenberger (31) and Christine Neubauer (55) from April 20 (every Friday at 20:15 in the BR) in the leading roles. Unlike the previous format "Moni's Grill", there is no longer a talk show element, but celebrity guests are still plentiful, playing themselves. Including Uschi glass (74), fleeing from selfie hunters in the pub of Fanny (Eixenberger) flees. The news agency spot on news has met the actress for an interview.
You play yourself in "München Grill". Do we really see the real Uschi glass?
Uschi Glas: No, of course not. You can not play yourself. This in the series is almost a coated version of the real Uschi glass, played with a lot of wink and humor.
We see you in the series fleeing from selfie hunters. Do you get upset sometimes in real life?
Glass: That does not upset me at all. Aggravating me that someone is happy to see me would drag down both the other person and myself. It has never happened to me that people have reacted rude or derogatory, which has always been very positive. And anyone who is offended in our profession, that people recognize one, must not practice the profession.
The BR had just a theme week on the theme of "The 68er", in which your film "To the point baby" ran. How did you experience this time back then?
Glas: It was a wild time, a time of discussion - we talked whole nights through. We were saujung, and in such a phase you think anyway, you're the navel of the world. I found this time very nice and full of experience, but I was always forced into a certain corsage because I always had to work. I paid my rent myself.
What has happened to the time back then?
Glass: The women's movement emerged in the 1968s. A lot has happened there. That the woman is not only a housewife, mother and educator of the children, but is self-determined and working is still quite new at the time. In Lower Bavaria, where I came from, it was then still said: You as a pretty girl marry young, your husband is working, and that's it. That was out of the question for me, never in life! I found it incredible freedom to say: I do not want that.
You have developed self-determination in an industry where it was not easy for women ...
Glass: Yes, but thank God I had a good self-confidence and a spirit of contradiction. I just did not like it. For example, I was never afraid of men and never acknowledged the authority of a man more than a woman's authority. By the way, that was very exciting for me on "To the Baby": the work with May Spils. I'll never forget how I did the test shots with Peter Schamoni and asked myself who that petite little woman is that she's talking about. And then she told me she was directing. That's when I knew I had to do this movie!
Speaking of self-confidence: in "Fack Ju Göhte" you are sometimes very unpretentious, which not many colleagues dare.
Glass: That just made a lot of fun. I think you have to be able to hug yourself up a bit and have a bit of self-irony. There are enough actors who take themselves incredibly seriously, but that's not my world at all. I want to stay down and laugh at myself. That's life.
