Shortly after obtaining her
Matura, Lutz became a trainee at the
Schauspielhaus Zürich in 1947. Already in 1948, she played the cowherd in the premiere of
Mr Puntila and his Man Matti by
Bertolt Brecht, directed by the author himself. Engaged in 1949 with the newly founded
Berliner Ensemble, she made her mark in 1950 in
The Tutor by
Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, staged by Brecht. She moved to
West Berlin in 1960 and subsequently performed in
Munich,
Wuppertal and
Bremen, before returning to Basel from 1968 to 1970. After a break following her marriage, Lutz resumed her activity in 1972 and was part of the companies of
Boy Gobert's
Thalia Theater in
Hamburg (1979) and the
Schillertheater in Berlin (1980–1985). She then worked as an independent artist, performing in particular in Munich,
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and on tour. The author of a handbook (
Schauspieler – der schönste Beruf, 1993), she taught at various universities from 1993 onwards. She was named honorary professor of the
Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock in 2005, appeared in numerous films and television films, and received many awards. == Bibliography ==