Nowadays, only a few people want to be called popular actors; that is too restrictive and perhaps a bit too provincial, meaning that they are no longer considered for other roles. Christiane Blumhoff was a popular actress with heart and soul; she loved her job and practiced it for more than six decades. She didn’t feel restricted; just a few years ago she raved about the versatility of her job in an interview: She was already over 70 and still very busy, including at the side of the cabaret artist Helmut Schleich on his show “Schleich Fernsehen”. She played in television series such as “Watzmann investigates”, “München Mord” or “Dahoam is Dahoam”, read audio books, and appeared on the stage of the Metropoltheater, the Pasinger Fabrik and the Blutenburg Theater.
She also had her first appearance in Munich, at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz. She was nine years old then. Her mother was an actress and speaker for the BR, her stepfather ran the Munich Marionette Theater. So her career choice was clear early on and she received her acting training from Ruth von Zerboni and Ado Riegler. Christiane Blumhoff’s television career began in the 1960s, when she was seen in series such as “The Strange Methods of Franz Josef Wanninger” or “Royal Bavarian District Court”, which were to become Bavarian television classics. And then came another classic, which many also see as restrictive or provincial: But she remained true to the “comedy class” over all the decades. Here she was able to let off steam as a comedienne and juggle different dialects, and here she was also allowed to age. While she was initially the dashing maid or the brilliant court heiress, she most recently played the devil’s grandmother (2019 in “Deifi Sparifankerl”).
The Munich actress still had little to do with Bavarian foolishness. She was “a hippie mom who always tells everyone her opinion,” her son, the actor and comedian Simon Pearce, once revealed in an interview with SZ. In the 1970s she met Charles Bioudun Pearce, who came from Nigeria and was studying politics in Regensburg. They married, had three children and moved to Puchheim. She has often heard jokes about dark-skinned people over the years, including in television studios or on theater stages. “I was pain-free,” the actress said in an interview with SZ a few years ago, “and if others had a problem with my husband, then it was their problem.”
In 2004, Charles Boidun Pearce passed away and was succeeded by his wife on Tuesday November 14th. This death hit her completely unexpectedly, writes her agency. Her family said: “We are grateful to have felt your love of life, your endless optimism and your love for all people.” Christiane Pearce-Blumhoff was 81 years old.