Ulrike Folkerts

Ulrike Folkerts (born 14 May 1961 in Kassel, Hesse, Germany) is a German actress. She is most famous for playing police officer Lena Odenthal in the German crime television series "Tatort". The episodes are located in the town of Ludwigshafen.

Folkerts, who is openly lesbian, participated in the Gay Games 2002 in Sydney and won a silver and bronze medal in the swimming relay. In the single competition she was disqualified because of a false start.cite web |title=Navratilova ist die große Ausnahme |language=German |date=August 11, 2002 |url=http://www.tagesspiegel.de/sport/;art272,1987277 |first=Anne-Katrin |last=Löffler |accessdate=2007-10-27 |work=Der Tagesspiegel] In July 2004 she won a bronze medal at the Eurogames in Muenchen.cite web |title=First day swimming results for actress Ulrike Folkerts |date=July 31, 2004 |url=http://www.eurogames.info/2004/news_428_e.html |work=Eurogames |accessdate=2007-10-27 |year=2004]

On the stage, in 2005 and 2006 she was the first woman to play Death in Hugo von Hofmannsthal's version of "Everyman", "Jedermann", at the Salzburg Festival.

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* [http://www.salzburgfestival.at/popup_fotoservice.php?lang=de&id=120&fotoid=1380&seite=2&showpic=1 Image of Folkerts at the Salzburg Festival 2006]