Barbara Focke

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Barbara Focke (* 1945 in Arolsen ) is a German actress and director .

Life

Education and theater

Focke was born in Northern Hesse . She completed an acting training at the Folkwang University in Essen . In the course of her career she had numerous engagements as a stage actress . Focke played a broad repertoire , which included pieces by William Shakespeare , the classical European theater repertoire, the German-speaking authors of the classical period , but especially pieces of the modern and contemporary theater. Focke was initially filled in the role of the youthful heroine and the youthful lover, but soon took over the character subject.

She had her first permanent engagement at the Staatstheater Oldenburg (1975–1977). There they played, among others, the title role in Minna von Barnhelm (1975), the Natascha in Three Sisters (1976) and 1977 the Nadezhda in the rarely performed play Barbarians by Maxim Gorky . After that she worked as a freelance actress and guest actress at various theaters. This was followed by engagements at the Hamburger Kammerspiele (1978, as housemaid Mitzi in the crime play Scherz aside by Agatha Christie , director: Jürgen Roland ; 1979 as daughter-in-law Marianne Neumeister in the Schwank Der Raub der Sabinerinnen ) and at the Hamburg Thalia Theater (1982, as mother in a stage version by Peter Pan , director: Knut Hinz ).

In 1980 Focke founded the “Theater der Teilung” in Hamburg , which she is still in charge of today. There she worked regularly as an actress and director and realized numerous productions of her own, including Duet for a Voice by Tom Kempinski (1989/1990), Maria Stuarda by Dacia Maraini (1991), The Daughters of Catherine Hayes (1991/1992), The clothes of the star by Helmut Kajzar (1992/1993) and art (2009). In the late 1990s she began directing other stages on a regular basis; Among other things, she staged the world premiere of the play Allergie by Verena Kanaan at the Drachengasse Theater in Vienna in 1997 and the German-language premiere of the play Jordan (Anna Reynolds / Moira Buffini ) in 1998 . In 1998 she directed the production of the play The Zoo Story by Edward Albee at the comedy Winterhuder Fährhaus .

In the 1980s she often worked as an actress in Vienna. She appeared at the Volkstheater Wien (1983 as a mother in parricide by Arnolt Bronnen , director: Wilfried Baasner ; 1986/1987, inter alia as general in the Revue Christmas at the Front by Jérôme Savary ) and 1985/1986 at the Wiener Festwochen , as Frau Bergmann ( Wendla's mother) in Spring Awakening . In 1986 she appeared at the Bad Gandersheim Cathedral Festival in the role of the maid Olivia in the Shakespeare comedy What you want . In the 1980s she also participated in two touring theater productions of the Landgraf theater production , for example in 1987/88 in Jacques, the Fatalist and 1989/90 as Madame Jourdain in Der Bürger als Edelmann .

She took on other roles at the Westfälische Kammerspiele in Paderborn (1992 as mother in Hase Hase ), at the Rheinisches Landestheater Neuss (there in 2002 the title role in the Schwank Charley's Aunt ) and since 2003 again at the Hamburger Kammerspiele. There they last met, under the direction of Michael Bogdanov , 2006 in the play The dresser by Ronald Harwood on.

Movie and TV

Focke also acted in several movies . She played the role of David's mother in the Austrian love film Herzklopfen (1984), Simons mother in the love drama Hunger - Sehnsucht nach Liebe (1997) by Dana Vávrová , as a convinced Nazi neighbor Frau Ude in the love story Aimée and Jaguar (1999) and in the German comedies Kebab Connection (2004) and On the day when Bobby Ewing died (2005).

Since the 1990s, Focke mainly worked for television. She has appeared in various roles in numerous television films and series. She embodied elegant ladies, careworn wives, compassionate domestic servants and grandmothers, often also persons of authority.

In the Donna Leon film adaptation, Venetian Charade (2000), she played the role of Signora Mascari, who turns to the police and identifies the dead transvestite as her husband, who has been missing for a week. In the ARD love romance Der Zauber des Rosengarten (2000) and Laura's Wishlist (2005) she played the mother of the female leading actresses Barbara Wussow and Christine Neubauer . In 2002 she was seen in the film drama Die Novizin at the side of Kathrin Kühnel as the novice master Sister Bénédicta. In the ZDF comedy Age Before Beauty (2008), she took on the short but memorable supporting role of company boss Ms. Bechtel, who advocates an advertising campaign with older, non-retouched models . In the romantic love film Schwarzwaldliebe (2009) she portrayed the loving old farmer Gertrude Lindner at the side of Siegfried Rauch with a Swabian idiom. In the ZDF Sunday film Das Paradies in uns (2013) from the Herzkino series, she played the mother of the female main character Christiane Jakobi, who was portrayed by Katja Flint . In the television film Three Fathers Are Better Than None (first broadcast: March 2016), she had two short appearances; she played Alice, the late pastor's sister-in-law, who was secretly in love with him. In the ZDF Sunday film Katie Fforde: You and I (first broadcast: May 2016), she played Evelyn Plentley, the co-owner of an apple orchard and mother of the main male character. In the ZDF crime series Under Other Circumstances , she had a supporting role as Evelyn Winter in the episode Liebesrausch (first broadcast: December 2017); she played the mother-in-law of the detective chief inspector Jana Winter ( Natalia Wörner ).

She also had regular episode roles in numerous television series, including the television series Der Bulle von Tölz , Großstadtrevier , Edel & Starck , Dr. Sommerfeld - News from Bülowbogen , The Investigator , Notruf Hafenkante (2007, as Käthe Dietrich, mother of the series lead role Dr. Dietrich), The Commissioner (2006, as millionaire's wife Sybille Theisen), SOKO Cologne and Coast Guard . She also appeared in several episodes of the crime series Tatort , most recently in 2010 as Herta Fromm, wife of the suspected murderer of former police chief Rudi Fromm, in the singer / Dellwo crime scene at the end of the day . She also had a continuous series role from 2005 to 2007 as secretary Iris Brenner in the ARD lawyer series Der Dicke .

In the ARD hospital series In all friendship , she was seen in 2008 and 2011, most recently in 2011 as Regine Seidel, mother of the horse breeder Anja Seidel, who is being treated for a hip operation in the Saxon Clinic.

In 2010 she took on a supporting role in the ARD television series Rote Rosen (episode 723 to 731). There she embodied the medical professor Dr. Thies, the mother of the series role Dr. Britta Thies. In March 2011 (episode 992 to 995) she was seen again in this role. Focke continued to play her recurring series role in the years 2012–2014. In January 2017, Focke was seen in the ZDF series Bettys Diagnose in an episode role as the seriously ill patient Bärbel Plum. In the 8th season of the family series Dr. Kleist (2018), alongside Pauline Rénevier , she had a leading role in the episode as tutor Martha Kemmer, who absolutely wants to get to know her granddaughter.

Speaker and painter

Focke also worked as a speaker for radio plays . She worked for the radio play label Europa in the radio plays Die Drei ??? and The Singing Snake (1981), The Three ??? and Die Höhle des Horens (2003) and The three ??? and The Sunken Village from the radio play series The Three ??? With.

Focke has also devoted himself to painting for several years . The main focus was portraits. Focke sees herself as a “portrait painter of animals and people”. Her first own exhibition with animal portraits and portraits of villagers took place in 2004 in Valluhn near Zarrentin . In 2006 the exhibition Hanseatic Portraits followed in Hamburg , including portraits of Jürgen Roland, Rochus Bassauer and Hannelore Hoger .

Private

Focke was married to the painter Walter Focke and is the mother of a now grown daughter who lives in Zurich . She lives with her current partner, Holger Schnitgerhans , the former editor-in-chief of the Merian travel magazine series, in Hamburg and in a village on the Schaalsee in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Focke ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Profile at Theaterkontakte.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theaterkontakte.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e Ms. Focke's new role . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from May 17, 2004
  3. ↑ Barbara Focke . Vita Hamburger Sprachwerk
  4. ↑ a b c How a terrier seduces you to paint . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from May 13, 2006
  5. ↑ Dr Kleist family | Blood ties . Official website Das Erste . Retrieved December 20, 2018.
  6. ↑ Barbara Focke . Speaker The three ???
  7. ↑ Barbara Focke . Private website of the painter Barbara Focke
personal data
SURNAME Focke, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and director
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Arolsen