46th Bavarian Film Prize 2024 - Awarded January 24, 2025
Prime
Minister Dr. Markus Söder awarded the acting icon Helga Ursula “Uschi”
Glas with the Prime Minister’s Prize at the 46th Bavarian Film Awards
ceremony (DEUTSCH)
Uschi Glas was honored with the Prime Minister's Prize for her "unforgettable successes as an actress and her honest, exemplary actions as a human being."
Munich - Prinzregententheater -
January 24, 2025. His kneeling was reported in the press today. The
Bavarian Prime Minister Dr. Markus Söder (58) honored the Bavarian
acting icon Uschi Glas (80) as an “important representative of the Free
State” in an emotional and touching speech. He then knelt before her and
bowed his head for a kiss on the hand. Yesterday the Prime Minister's
Prize went to the actress Helga Ursula “Uschi” Glas. Bavaria's Prime
Minister Dr. Markus Söder said: “Uschi Glas is an acting icon. She has
been inspiring all generations for decades, represents the Bavarian way
of life and has a big heart. Uschi Glas shaped eternal classics such as
'Winnetou' and the 'Pauker' films as well as the modern series 'Fack ju
Göhte'. She is one of the absolute audience favorites in film and
television. The canvas is her home. She always remained warm and equally
cosmopolitan and grounded. Above all, Uschi Glas is a great person:
with her association 'brotZeit' she supports children and organizes a
healthy breakfast to start the day. This social commitment is
extraordinary. Uschi Glas is a great role model and an important
representative of the Free State. I've been a big fan of her films since
I was a teenager. Congratulations on the Bavarian Film Prize!”
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| Placeholder: King Max I Joseph on Max-Joseph-Platz in the background the towers of the Frauenkirche, photo: Helga Waess |
The detailed justification for the Prime Minister's Prize to Uschi Glas states (a quote follows):
"Uschi Glas, born in Landau an der Isar and discovered for the film in Munich, is both grounded and cosmopolitan and represents the best of the Bavarian way of life. Strong in character, gifted with a lot of intelligence, humor and acting talent, she has taken an impressive path in life. For She was discovered by producer Horst Wendlandt.
With her first leading role in the cinema in “Winnetou and the Half-Blood Apanatschi” (1966), she played her way into the hearts of an audience of millions alongside Pierre Brice, Lex Barker and Götz George.
Just two years later she became legendary – as the fun-loving Barbara in the Schwabinger cult film “To the Matter, Sweetheart” by May Spils and Werner Enke (1968).
She experienced the horrors of the underworld in several Edgar Wallace films with inspectors like Joachim Fuchsberger and Horst Tappert.
And together with Hansi Kraus and Hannelore Elsner, she made many a school unsafe in several Pauker films. This made Uschi Glas one of the most popular screen heroines of the 1960s and 1970s.
She was also extremely successful on television for over fifty years, several times together with her ideal playing partner Elmar Wepper, in classic series such as “Polizeiinspektion 1”, “Our Most Beautiful Years” and “Two Münchner in Hamburg”.
Since 2013, she has once again been very present in the cinema, including through the series “Fack ju Göhte” or most recently in “Max and the Wild 7” - and has conquered the younger generation.
A significant part of Uschi Glas' life and work is her social commitment:
Among other things, she is the patron of the “German Foundation for Patient Protection”, supports “Doctors Without Borders” and is herself a co-founder of the “brotZeit” association, which ensures that school children nationwide get enough to eat in the morning.
For her unforgettable successes as an actress and her honest, exemplary actions as a human being, the Prime Minister's Prize at the Bavarian Film Prize 2024 goes to Uschi Glas."
