Ursula Dirichs Ursula Dirichs Ursula Dirichs is a German actress born in Recklinghausen in 1935. Ursula Dirichs was born in the northern Ruhr area and grew up in Königsberg. She took acting lessons at the Otto-Falkenberg-Schule in Munich, and returned to the Ruhr to begin her acting career; she worked in Oberhausen, then at the Schauspielhaus Bochum. She has worked in various cities in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands. Her first major appearance in television was in 1960 in the fledgling German television: "On the beach of the green river Spree", based on a book by Hans Scholz, in which she
Ursula Merchant not only stunted the growth of modern performance art to a significant degree, but she may also not have lived to give birth to her daughter Katie Absolom (Born Katie Merchant), whose racist watercolours inspired Warhol's early works. Singer-songwriter Elliott Smith refers to Ursula Merchant. in his song "Color Bars," which appears on his 2000 album "Figure 8." Referenced from: Howell, L (1994), "The Arbus Legacy", Pan Biographies. Ursula Merchant Ursula Merchant (born September 10, 1932 in Rostock) is a German Las Vegas-based performance artist, conceptual artist, carpenter. She is probably best known for her series 'Forkin' Hell'. Merchant was