Anne-Marie Kuster

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Anne-Marie Kuster (born July 10, 1948 in Rorschacherberg , Switzerland ) is a Swiss theater, film and television actress .

Life

Anne-Marie Kuster began her acting training at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich in the late 1960s . Almost at the same time, at the beginning of 1970, the brunette artist from the canton of St. Gallen was given the female lead in the coming-of-age cinema drama O Happy Day by the Czech director Zbyněk Brynych . Immediately afterwards she was given a supporting role in another Brynych production, the bizarre women’s horror story Die Weibchen .

In the same year 1970 Kuster returned to Switzerland and gave her theatrical debut at the Schauspielhaus Zurich as Gretchen in Goethe's Urfaust , directed by Friedrich Dürrenmatt . She stayed at this most important Swiss venue until 1972, before going to the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart for the 1972/73 season, where she embodied Juliet in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Luise in Friedrich Schiller's Cabal and Love . From 1973 to 1978 Anne-Marie Kuster worked at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. There she found important roles in mostly modern pieces. Kuster was Elisabeth in Ödön von Horváths Glaube Liebe Hoffnung directed by Luc Bondy , Lena in Georg Büchner's Leonce and Lena , a production by Jérôme Savary , Peggy in Women in New York by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Nina in Anton Chekhov The seagull and Klara in Hebbel's Maria Magdalena , both directed by Dieter Giesing .

In 1978 Kuster went to the Bavarian State Theater in Munich until 1982 , where she a. a. The Miss Julie in the same Strindberg -Stück directed by Ingmar Bergman portrayed. From 1982 to 1985 Anne-Marie Kuster returned to the Schauspielhaus Zürich and appeared in plays such as Chekhov's Ivanov and Shakespeare's Measure for Measure . In 1985 she returned to Hamburg, where she was a member of the Thalia Theater until 1991 . Here she was Maggie in Tennessee Williams ' The Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , Marion in Büchner's Danton's Death and Queen Gertrude in Shakespeare's Hamlet , directed by Jürgen Flimms . From 1991 to 2001, Kuster was again a member of the Zurich Schauspielhaus ensemble. Here you saw them u. a. as Olga in Chekhov's Three Sisters , as Crescence in Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Der Schwierige , as Hannah Jarvis in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and as Pirate Jenny in Bertolt Brechts / Kurt Weill's Die Dreigroschenoper . In addition, Anne-Marie Kuster had some successes in Ibsen pieces , for example in Hedda Gabler , where she embodied the title role. In 1999 she appeared at the Volkstheater Wien as Esme in David Hare 's Amys Welt .

In 2002 Anne-Marie Kuster was elected President of the Swiss Association of Stage Artists . In view of her intensive theatrical activity, she found little time for appearances in front of the camera; She completed guest roles in individual episodes of popular German crime series such as Der Alte and Tatort .

Anne-Marie Kuster was married to the actor Christoph Bantzer and has three children. The actress Johanna Bantzer (* 1978) is her daughter, the screenwriter Aurel Bantzer (* 1975) her son.

Filmography

Awards

  • 1983: Actress of the year in Theater heute magazine's annual critics poll
  • 1997: Golden mask of the Society of Friends of the Schauspielhaus Zurich

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personal data
SURNAME Kuster, Anne-Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actress in the theater as well as in film and television
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Rorschacherberg , Switzerland