Angela Brunner

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Angela Brunner (born January 12, 1931 in Berlin ; † June 17, 2011 in Kleinmachnow ) was a German actress .

Life

Brunner first studied painting at the University of Applied Arts in Berlin-Weißensee and the Käthe-Kollwitz-Kunstschule in Berlin-Reinickendorf , then acting at the State Drama School in Berlin-Schöneweide . After graduating in 1956, she first worked as a theater actress in Frankfurt (Oder) , then for two years at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin , before appearing on a stage in Potsdam from the 1970s .

She played her first small film roles during her studies. In 1956 she achieved her national breakthrough as an actress with the film Young Vegetables by director Günter Reisch . More than 50 film and television productions followed, mainly for DEFA and German television broadcasting (DFF) . In the evening greeting of the German TV radio, she embodied the figure of the " woman puppet doctor pill with the big, round glasses " together with Helga Labudda from 1963 to 1968 .

After 1990, she played at the Theater im Zimmer in Kleinmachnow, where she lived, and she also had a number of film and television roles (such as in 1994 alongside Iris Berben in the television film Death in Miami and as Aunt Martha in the children's series Löwenzahn ).

She was married to the German-Australian writer Walter Kaufmann ; her daughter Rebekka works as a photographer, her second daughter Deborah Kaufmann is also an actress.

Brunner died on June 17, 2011 of cancer.

Filmography (selection)

Working as an illustrator

  • Rosel Klein: Parrot Path . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1975.
  • Walter Kaufmann: Kidnapping in Manhattan . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1975.
  • Walter Kaufmann: Patrick . Young World Publishing House, Berlin 1977.
  • Walter Kaufmann: Three trips to the promised land . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1980.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. berliner-kurier.de