She is most famous for playing police officer Lena Odenthal in the German crime television series Tatort.
Folkerts, who is openly lesbian, participated in the Gay Games 2002 in Sydney and won a silver and bronze medal in the swimming relay.
[2] On the stage, in 2005 and 2006, she was the first woman to play Death in Jedermann, Hugo von Hofmannsthal's version of Everyman, at the Salzburg Festival.
[3] In October 2008, she published her second book, Glück gefunden (Happiness found) together with her partner, Katherina Schnitzler.
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