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{{Short description|German actress}}
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{{Infobox person
| name         = Witta Pohl
| image        = Wittapohl.jpg
| caption      =
| birth_name   = Witta Breipohl
| birth_date   = {{Birth date|df=yes|1937|11|1}}
| birth_place  = [[Königsberg]], [[East Prussia]]
| death_date   = {{death date and age|df=y|2011|4|4|1937|11|11}}
| death_place  = [[Hamburg]], Germany
| occupation   = Actress
| yearsactive  = 1966–2009
| spouse       = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|Karl Maldeck|end=divorced}}
* {{marriage|Charles Brauer|1966|1976|end=divorced}}
* {{marriage|Ekkehart Franz|1989}}
}}
| children     = 2
}}
'''Witta Pohl''' ({{née}} '''Breipohl'''; 1 November 1937 – 4 April 2011) was a German actress.
== Life ==
Born in the [[East Prussia|East Prussian]] city of [[Königsberg]], she was one of six children to Wilhelm Breipohl, a gynaecologist, and his wife Marie-Luise, née Klönne.
During World War II, her family moved to [[Bielefeld]], where Pohl grew up. After working as a beautician, she attended drama school in [[Berlin]] to become a stage actress.
Her most popular role however was that of "Vera Drombusch" in the highly successful
television drama series [[Diese Drombuschs]] from 1983 to 1994.
She died from [[leukemia]] in [[Hamburg]] in 2011 aged 73.
== Selected filmography ==
* ''[[Supermarket (1974 film)|Supermarket]]'' (1974)
*''[[Desperado City]]'' (1981)
*''Kudenow'' (1981, TV film)
*''[[Diese Drombuschs]]'' (TV series, 1983–1994)
== External links ==
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* {{IMDb name|0688360}}
* [http://www.stern.de/lifestyle/leute/witta-pohl-ist-tot-forever-vera-drombusch-1671570.html Stern:Witta Pohl ist tot (german)]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110829180256/http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/zum-tod-von-witta-pohl-nacht-mutter-1.1081488 Sueddeutsche:Zum Tod von Witta Pohl (german)]
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[[Category:German television actresses]]
[[Category:Actors from Königsberg]]
[[Category:1937 births]]
[[Category:2011 deaths]]
[[Category:German film actresses]]
[[Category:20th-century German actresses]]
[[Category:21st-century German actresses]]
[[Category:Deaths from cancer in Germany]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]]
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