Dietlinde Turban

Ms. Turban Maazel lives in New York City where she works as a stage director and private acting coach. She recently remarried on July 1, 2018 to Antony Wood. She created the course "Acting for Singers" for Rutgers University where she is on faculty. She regularly holds masterclasses and is a guest faculty member of the International Vocal Arts Institute and Highland Opera Studios in the U.S. and Canada.

In 2009 Ms. Turban Maazel co-founded the Castleton Festival with her husband, Maestro Lorin Maazel. After his passing in 2014 she took over as Artistic Director and CEO. In addition to overseeing a year-round performance season at the Castleton Theatre (CiP) she works as a private performance coach in Manhattan and teaches every summer at the “Castleton Artists Training Seminar” (CATS), the Castleton Festival's Young Artist Program.

In 2004 Ms. Turban performed her first One Woman Play Constantly Risking Absurdity which she premiered in Castleton and at the Cherry Lane Theatre, New York. She performed it a year later at the George Mason University and was also invited with this play to Salzburg, Austria, by the American Austrian Foundation, for the inauguration of Schloss Arenberg in 2005. In the summer 2013 she performed Jean Cocteau's La Voix Humaine at the Castleton Festival.

In 1996 she founded a private school for low-income families on her Virginia Estate and developed a pilot educational project designed to explore new ways of integrating vital artistic and aesthetic values into school curricula, inspired by Rudolf Steiner.

In 1986 she married the conductor Lorin Maazel. They have two sons and a daughter.

Thanks to scores of films and plays filmed for television, Mrs. Turban won Germany's coveted Bambi Award by popular vote as Best Actress of the Year (1983). Among her film credits: the title role in Goethe's Stella [de] and Schiller's Intrigue and Love (Luise), the role of Mozart's sister-in-law Aloysia in the French film biography of the composer, a small role in Sidney Sheldon's American thriller Bloodline (1979), and the part of Euridice in the Jean-Pierre Ponnelle/Harnoncourt adaptation of Monteverdi's Orfeo, the lead-roles in Cold Homeland [it] , Die Undankbare [de] (1980), Peter Schamoni's The Castle in Konigswald and the World War II story Mussolini and I (1985), in which she played opposite Anthony Hopkins.

Dietlinde Turban (born August 27, 1957 in Reutlingen, Germany) is the birth name and stage name of Dietlinde Turban-Maazel, a German actress. Her brother is the violinist Ingolf Turban.