and occasional actress.She believes passionately that there should be
more women exerting their influence in the film business.Ula Stckl was
born in Ulm a few weeks before the (largely uncontested) incorporation
of Austria into an enlarged Germany. Alfons Stckl, her father, was a
professional orchestral clarinettist. He was sent away to fight in the
war, but survived. After the war the wages of the players in her
father's orchestra were halved, and in order to support the family
budget Ula's mother, born Katharina Kreis, took factory work in the
textiles sector. Katharina Stckl-Kreis had grown up in an orphanage,
looked after by nuns who had solicitously educated her in a formidable
range of house-wifely skills, and brought a steely practicality to the
challenges of raising a family on her own during the war years. But as
her daughter later recalled, during the first four decades of her life
she had not been well prepared for factory work: her fingers were
almost always bandaged. Many of Ula's most vivid childhood memories
relate to her family's experiences of the wartime bombing of Ulm,
clutching one of her mother's hands while her younger sister clutched
the other and night after night they watched the city burn. Their home
and the surrounding area were destroyed on 17 December 1944:
collateral damage included three dead siblings, but both her parents
had survived. She never thought to ask whether they were paying any
rent for the succession of little rooms in which they were
accommodated over the next few months. Subsequent memories included
the flu epidemic and starvation winter in 1946. The birth of another
sister in 1948 meant that she was no longer her parents' only
surviving child and represented some kind of a new beginning for the
family. Stckl quit school in 1954 and trained for secretarial work,
which would remain her principal source of paid employment till 1963.
In February 1958 she embarked on languages courses in Paris and
London. Between 1961 and 1963 she worked as a trilingual executive
secretary. Between May and August 1963 she worked as an editorial
assistant with the publishers DM-Verlag at Sandweier (at that time
still just outside Baden-Baden, into which the little town has
subsequently been subsumed).In 1963 Stckl enrolled as a student at the
"Institut fr Filmgestaltung" (loosely, "Institute for Making Films"),
a department of the School of Design ("Hochschule fr Gestaltung")
which had been set up ten years earlier in Ulm, and which had built a
reputation for its innovative approach to teaching. She was the first
female student to be admitted to the course, which she completed in
1968. Ula Stöckl Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter
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