Anna Karina

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Anna Karina, 1977

Anna Karina (born September 22, 1940 in Solbjerg near Aarhus as Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer ; † December 14, 2019 in Paris , France ) was a Danish- French actress , singer and writer . She was best known for her roles in the films of Jean-Luc Godard between 1960 and 1967, with whom she was also married from 1961 to 1965.

Life

Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer's mother was a milliner ; her father, a captain, left the family a year after their daughter was born. She then lived with her grandparents for three years and then with a foster family for four years. Then she returned to her mother. She later described her childhood as loveless and repeatedly ran away from home. As a teenager, Hanne Karin Bayer performed in cabarets in Denmark and worked as a mannequin. At the age of 17 she went to Paris , where she worked as a model a . a. worked for Coco Chanel and Pierre Cardin . She got her stage name Anna Karina from Coco Chanel. During this time she also made commercials, including a 1959 commercial for soap, which Guy Debord mounted in his short film Sur le passage de quelques personnes à travers une assez courte unité de temps that same year . To the pictures you can hear Debord's voice off-screen: "The commercials during the breaks reflect most truly what a break from life could look like".

Film career

Anna Karina (1968)

Jean-Luc Godard saw Anna Karina in several Palmolive commercials , in which she posed in a bathtub covered in soap foam. He then offered her a supporting role in his first film Out of Breath , but she declined when she learned that there would be a nude scene as well. When Godard replied that she was naked in the Palmolive commercial, she is said to have replied: “Are you crazy? I wore a bathing suit for these commercials - and was covered up to the neck in soap foam. I was only naked in your imagination. ”Godard then gave her a role in his second feature film, The Little Soldier (1960), and on March 3, 1961, Godard and Anna Karina married. For her next film with Godard, A Woman is a Woman , she was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 1961 Berlinale . Other Godard films she starred in include Lemmy Caution against Alpha 60 (1965, with Eddie Constantine ) and Elf Uhr nachts (1965, with Jean-Paul Belmondo ).

Anna Karina also played in the films of other well-known directors, including in The Nun by Jacques Rivette (1966, with Liselotte Pulver , among others ), in The Stranger by Luchino Visconti based on the novel by Albert Camus (1967, with Marcello Mastroianni ), in Satan shuffles the cards by Tony Richardson based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov (1968), in Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel by Volker Schlöndorff (1969) and in Chinese Roulette by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1976).

In 1973 she directed the film Vivre ensemble . She also wrote several scripts.

Music and literature

Anna Karina was also known as a singer, especially in France, first in 1967 through the musical Anna by Pierre Koralnik , in which she sang songs by Serge Gainsbourg , partly together with Jean-Claude Brialy . Two songs on the record for the film became hits in France, namely Sous le soleil exactement and Roller Girl . She also appeared occasionally later as a singer, u. a. 2006 at the Festival Printemps de Bourges as part of a homage to Serge Gainsbourg.

Between 1973 and 1998 four novels were published by her.

Private

Anna Karina 2018 in Cannes

From 1961 to 1965 Anna Karina was married to Jean Luc Godard, from 1968 to 1974 with the actor Pierre Fabre and from 1978 to 1981 with the actor Daniel Duval . In 1982 she married the actor and director Dennis Berry .

Anna Karina died in Paris in December 2019 at the age of 79 of complications from cancer .

Filmography (selection)

She was awarded the Silver Bear in 1961 for a woman is a woman

Web links

Commons : Anna Karina  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information on Les gens d cinéma
  2. ↑ Actress and singer Anna Karina is dead , deutschlandfunk.de, published and accessed on December 15, 2019.
  3. ↑ Colin MacCabe: Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy. New York, 2003, p. 125
  4. ↑ Stéphane Lépine: Anna Karina , in: 24 images , issue no. 126, 2006, pp. 44–47
  5. ↑ Guy Debord: Sur le passage de quelques personnes à travers une assez courte unité de temps film on Vimeo. The recordings can be seen from 18 min 08 s
  6. ↑ Anna Karina: Extras for the DVD Band of Outsiders Die Ausseneiterbande , 2003.
  7. ^ Berlinale, Archive 1961
personal data
SURNAME Karina, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bayer, Hanne Karin (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish-French actress, singer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Solbjerg , Aarhus , Denmark
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 2019
Place of death Paris , France