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Ulrike Folkerts (born 14 May 1961 in Kassel) is a German actress. She is best known for her role as Tatort detective Lena Odenthal.<br/><br/> Career<br/><br/> After her acting training at the Hanover University of Music and Drama, Folkerts was engaged at the State Theatre in Oldenburg in 1987. That same year, she made her film debut in Das Mädchen mit den Feuerzeugen, directed by Ralf Huettner. Folkerts became nationally known and popular for her role as Ludwigshafen chief inspector Lena Odenthal, which she has been playing in the ARD crime series Tatort since 1989. This makes her the longest-serving German television detective after Horst Tappert. Since 1996, Andreas Hoppe has been playing the role of her colleague Mario Kopper.<br/><br/> Folkerts still performs in theatre and was the first woman to play the role of Death in Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival in 2005 and 2006. She also records audiobooks and was awarded in 1999 for her reading of the novel Und dahinter das Meer.<br/><br/> Personal life, sport, media<br/><br/> As an enthusiastic amateur sportsperson, Folkerts participated in the Gay Games in New York City in 1994 and the Eurogames in Berlin in 1996. She was a jury member at the lesbian and gay Grand Prix Cologne 1999, which was broadcast by the WDR. At the Gay Games 2002 in Sydney, Folkerts won a silver and a bronze medal with the swimming team of the Berlin association "Vorspiel". However, she was disqualified in the individual competition due to a false start. In July 2004, she won a bronze medal at the Eurogames in Munich.<br/><br/> In a questionnaire, Folkerts stated how she would like to be remembered: as "an actress who has brought us new types of women in her roles and who has given many women the courage to say yes to their homosexuality and to live it...”<br/><br/> Together with her partner, the artist Katharina Schnitzler, Folkerts released the book Glück gefunden in October 2008.<br/><br/> Social engagement<br/><br/> Together with the Action Coalition Landmine, Folkerts campaigns for a ban on all types of landmines. In early June 2004, she visited the projects of Handicap International in Kosovo. Folkerts also supports people with Down syndrome (trisomy 21) by participating in a poster campaign of the DS Infocenter. In October 2005, posters and postcards were released showing her with Ella Zoch, a girl with Down syndrome whom she has known since birth. The motto of the series of pictures is: "A child with Down syndrome can sometimes be quite annoying. Just like any other child."<br/><br/> As an ambassador of burundikids e.V., Folkerts supports the construction of a school for street children and former child soldiers in Burundi. In early March 2005, she visited the facility in the north of the capital Bujumbura.<br/><br/> Folkerts has also participated in two television commercials of the campaign Deine Stimme gegen Armut, which advocates for the fight against poverty worldwide: before the G8 summit in Heiligendamm in 2007 and 2010, together with 12 of her Tatort colleagues in a commercial prior to the UN Millennium Summit.