She received acting lessons in
Munich after school. She made her debut in 1945 at the
Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, where she remained until 1948. This was followed by the
Städtischen Bühnen Osnabrück and the
Bühnen der Hansestadt Lübeck from 1948 to 1963, the
Theater der Stadt Essen and the
Deutsche Theater Göttingen from 1963 to 1969, the
Bühnen der Stadt Köln from 1969 to 1978 and the
Münchner Kammerspiele from 1978 to 1983. Guest performances took her to the
Württembergische Staatstheater Stuttgart, the
Bühnen der Stadt Bonn and in 1976 to the
Gandersheimer Domfestspiele, where she was awarded the
Roswitha-Ring in the same year. She became known to a wide audience through the television series
Diese Drombuschs in the role of Grandma Drombusch. In 1967, Grete Wurm was awarded the
German Critics' Award. She was used as a
radio play speaker in countless productions, including one of the famous
Paul Temple radio plays by
WDR, namely in 1968 in
Paul Temple and the Alex case. Grete Wurm lived in
Munich-Bogenhausen for a long time. She died of a
heart attack in her hotel room in
Stuttgart, where she was recording
radio plays. She was cremated and the urn was buried in her native city of Wiesbaden. == Filmography ==