Actress Isabella Schmid in a photo from summer 2021.
Stephan Pick
A stroke of fate for the Swiss actress Isabella Schmid: she loses her life partner at the age of 58. She shared the sad news on Instagram.
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- The Swiss actress Isabella Schmid mourns the loss of her partner Urs Gantner in an emotional post on Instagram.
- The photographer died at the age of 58. The cause of death is unknown.
- This is reported by a Swiss daily newspaper.
The Swiss actress Isabella Schmid is known from many TV films and also from cinema productions. She appeared in series such as “Polizeiruf 110” and the ZDF telenovela “Lena”. In the 2018 film “Mama Moll” she appeared alongside Stefan Kurt.
A stroke of fate hits the 53-year-old actress. Her life partner Urs Gantner died, how «Blick.ch»writes today, Thursday, May 9th.
Isabella Schmid mourns Urs Gantner on Instagram. She writes: “I don’t know how things will continue without you. I love you.”
The photographer Urs Gantner was 58 years old. How he died remains unclear.
Schmid and Gantner: Photography as a shared passion
Isabella Schmid and Urs Gantner have been a couple since 2018. The actress discovered her passion for photography through her photographer boyfriend, she said in an interview with the magazine “Lucky mail” 2021: “Urs also works mainly with an analog camera,” she said, and doubled down: “You have to think about which shots you take, the film only has 36 images. I can’t photograph the same subject a hundred times like I can with digital cameras and choose the best photo at the end.”
Isabella Schmid kept to herself where the love story between the actress and the photographer came from: “It happened naturally. Urs is basically organic.”
Schmid thereby indicated that she did not meet Gantner on an online dating platform. Gantner preferred to stay in the background and let her make public appearances.
Urs Gantner photographed stars such as Tina Turner, Ronan Keating and Günther Netzer.