Award Winning Actor - Performance Coach
BIOGRAPHY
Dietlinde Turban Maazel’s first stage appearance at the age of 19 as ‘Gretchen’ in Goethe’s Faust at Munich’s State Theatre brought her national fame. Thanks to scores of films and TV plays, she won Germany’s coveted Bambi Award as Best Actress of the Year (1983). Among her film credits: the title role in Goethe’s Stella, Luise in Schiller’s Love and Intrigue, Euridice in Monteverdi’s Orfeo (directed by J.-P. Ponnelle), Bloodline (Sidney Sheldon) and Mussolini and I, starring opposite Anthony Hopkins. In 2004 she created her first One Woman Play Constantly Risking Absurdity (Cherry Lane Theatre, NY) and starred in 2013 as ‘Elle’ in Cocteau's The Human Voice.
Ms. Turban Maazel appeared as soloist/narrator with the New York Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the National Symphony DC, the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio, the Munich Philharmonic, and the Vienna Philharmonic. She recorded several audio books for Naxos as well as CDs in collaboration with young composers. She also tours with dramatic readings of literary masterpieces both in the United States and in Europe and specializes in German poetry and novel recitals based on works by Andersen, Fontane, Heine, Kafka, Rilke, Schiller, Thomas Mann (“Das Teufelsgespräch” from Doktor Faustus), and a semi-staged portrayal of Germany’s first female psychiatrist Lou Andreas Salomé.
A violinist, actor, singer and dancer by training, Dietlinde has worked nearly 50 years as a performer, 15 years as a passionate educator, and she continues her professional training in Expressive Arts Therapy with a strong interest in Psychodrama, Somatic Experiencing and Ayurvedic Nutrition.
Dietlinde created the course "Acting for Singers" at Rutgers University where she taught for a decade. Other faculty appointments included the International Vocal Arts Institute (IVAI NYC and ICAV Montréal), the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt, l’Atelier Lyrique de l'Opéra de Montréal, Highland Opera Studios Ontario, University of South Carolina, Prague Summer Nights, Chautauqua Opera Conservatory, and the Denyce Graves Foundation Shared Voices Immersive at Peabody.
As CEO and Artistic Director of the prestigious Castleton Festival which she co-founded in 1997 with her late husband, the conductor Lorin Maazel, on their country estate in Virginia, she continues to offer Residencies for emerging professional artists year-round.
