Ulrike Kriener and husband Georg Weber, Digi Mart USA News: Ulrike Kriener has spoken in interviews about her husband, actor Georg Weber, with whom she has been married for more than 30 years. Her long-running role as Ellen Lucas in the ZDF crime series Kommissarin Lucas remains her signature part.
Kriener played the title character, Chief Inspector Ellen Lucas, in 35 films of the ZDF crime series over two decades. The last film aired for the first time in October 2023.
Since then, she has told the news agency teleschau that she enjoys the additional free time, describing her ideal day as puttering around in the morning, reading, and sometimes doing a little sport.
Kriener married actor and director Georg Weber in 1992, when she was 38 years old. In an interview with the Berliner Zeitung, she recalled that the two were introduced at a theater premiere party and kept talking ever since.
She credits their marriage to tolerance, calm, humor, and staying in touch.
In an interview with Bunte, Kriener said that growing old together is wonderful and that their love is the greatest gift of her life. Weber also works in film and television, with roles in Tatort, Großstadtrevier, and Ein Fall für zwei, and he has worked as a screenwriter since 2002.
The Bottrop-born actress also enjoys travel. At the time of the interview she was staying for an extended period on Lanzarote, where she said the couple cooks, meets friends, and lives a low-key life.
She also tends the garden when it is not too hot.
Kriener said that the couple recently moved within Munich to downsize, since a house brought too much work. She has no plans to fully retire, saying she would like to keep working on projects while also having time to travel or do nothing.
Kriener remains active on screen. In the tragicomedy Nichts wie weg, she plays a terminally ill dementia patient who sets off on an absurd and touching road trip with a police-wanted nurse played by Tamara Romera Ginés.
The film airs Monday, November 9, at 8:15 p.m. on the ZDF livestream on Joyn.
