Barbara Frey (actress, 1955)

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Barbara Frey , born Barbara Andrea Frey , also named Barbara A. Frey and Andrea Frey (born May 1, 1955 in Stuttgart ) is a German theater and television film actress.

Life

Barbara Frey spent her childhood in Stuttgart with her grandparents, after which she was a high school student in several schools and boarding schools. She studied from 1974 to 1977 with a degree in acting at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts . From 1977/78 she was a member of the ensemble at the Stadttheater Basel , Schauspiel Frankfurt , Thalia Theater Hamburg , Städtischen Bühnen Heidelberg , Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin West until 1990.

She played her first theater role during her studies in 1976 at the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart , artistic director Claus Peymann , the sketch nurse in Sonny Boys by Neil Simon , directed by Guido Huonder . This was followed by Doris Biber in the Grips-Theater play at the Tübingen Landestheater. That can't be held in the head by Volker Ludwig .

Since 1976 there have been TV roles at WDR , u. a. in the live recording of Der treue Otto with Willy Millowitsch (as Andrea Frey), in Lemmi and the Schmöker and on SWF and SDR . She also financed her studies by acting as a television announcer twice a week in the afternoons at SDR Regional until the evening show, until she was forbidden to do so by her drama director Felix Teutoburg Müller.

For the 1977/78 season she was hired as a beginner by the artistic director Hans Hollmann and the dramaturge Klaus Völker at the Stadttheater Basel.

As a member of the ensemble, her inaugural role was Eve in Der zerbrochne Krug by Heinrich von Kleist , directed by Nicolas Brieger, and this production was discussed by Reinhard Stumm in the specialist magazine Theater Heute in issue 12, December 1977. In other roles in Basel she played a. a. Marianne in Tartuffe by Molière alongside Hilmar Thate as Tartuffe, directed by Bernard Sobel, and, directed by Horst Zankl, daughter Bertha in Der Vater von August Strindberg with Karlheinz Böhm in the title role.

In 1978/79 she followed Peter Palitzsch's call to the Schauspiel Frankfurt , Codetermination Theater. In his production, which was nominated for the Theater Treffen Berlin, The First Day of Peace, a four-person play by Horst Laube, she was the siblings with Burghart Klaußner as Icka and she played Bianca in the Peter Palitzsch production Othello by Shakespeare .

It was Hans Hollmann who brought her to the Thalia Theater Hamburg for his productions of Goethe's Faust I and Faust II 1979/80, whose director Boy Gobert she followed the following season to the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin in the Schillertheater , where she was a member of the ensemble until 1984 . Here she played u. a. the daughter Solange in the German. First performance Sonnenstaub by Raymond Roussel , staged by Hans Hollmann, which was discussed by Hanns Zischler in Theater heute , issue 7, July 1981.

In 1984/85 she was engaged by Peter Stoltzenberg at the Städtische Bühne Heidelberg, where she played the leading female role Helene in The Races by Ferdinand Bruckner, directed by Jossi Wieler and in his next production Was Ihr wollt by Shakespeare, alongside Ulrich Tukur was she who Maria was.

When she returned to Berlin, she engaged the artistic director Heribert Sasse at the Berlin State Theaters from 1987 to 1990 . Her roles there included the main role Phöbe Zeitgeist in Blood on the Neck of the Cat by Rainer Werner Fassbinder . This production by Claus Andre received second prize at the Edinburgh International Festival in 1988. a. the female lead Marie la Rousse in Posada by Walter Serner, directed by Thomas Reichert, and in the takeover with Heribert Sasse, Countess Juli Imperiali in The Conspiracy of Fiesko in Genoa by Friedrich Schiller .

In addition to the permanent engagements, she played as a guest a. 1985 in Berlin at the Komödie am Kurfürstendamm , 1985/1986 at the theater of the Freie Volksbühne West Katja in A Month in the Country by Iwan Turgenjew staged by Fred Berndt and at the Stadttheater Regensburg 1992/93 in Endstation Sehnsucht by Tennessee Williams the Stella, director Eberhard Itzenplitz . This was followed in 2003 in Scheselong Berlin / Moabit, Martha in Wer hat Angst vor Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee and in 2009 at the Brandenburg Theater several roles in Rolf Hochhuth's Wessis in Weimar and Moliere's Tartuffe staged by Christian Kneisel.

In August 2014 she played Lady Jennie Randolph Churchill at the BE Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in summer 14 by Rolf Hochhuth , who she also gave in 2010 at the Berlin Urania under the direction of the author. In addition to her theater work, she participated in 40 television productions, including a. Wolff's Revier , The Last Witness , Liebling Kreuzberg and The Dream Ship Norway .

Her first marriage was to the journalist and author Matthias Matussek until 1983, her second marriage to the actor Wolf Dieter Kabler and her third marriage until 1990 to the moving entrepreneur Klaus Zapf . She lives in Berlin and has had a son since 1990.

Filmography

• 1976: City Directorate
• 1981: The Laurents
• 1983: the dreamer
• 1986: crooks in paradise
• 1986: Aranka
• 1987: Mrs. Harris goes to Moscow
• 1988: Direction City
• 1991: island of dreams
• 1991: The nocturnal visitor
• 1992: Dream ship - Norway
• 1993: Wolffs Revier - Roulette
• 1994: Your Excellency, the Ambassador (episode 1)
• 1995: Spreebogen
• 1995: An unforgettable weekend - North Sea
• 1995: The pilots
• 1995: Inka Connection
• 1996: Liebling Kreuzberg - A nice intrigue
• 1996: The Shadow Man - Janus
• 1996: The shadow man - right among us
• 1996: In the name of the law - idle
• 1996: Soko Classics 5113 - The Death of the Old Lady
• 1996: Soko Classics 5113 - Out of service
• 1996: Soko Classics 5113 - Stahlmann
• 1996: Soko Classics 5113 - smell
• 1996: Soko Classics 5113 - An interesting guy
• 1996: A Bavarian on Rügen - nepotism
• 1997: Gynecologist Dr. Markus Merthin - mix-up
• 1997: Soko 5113 - Big and small money
• 1997: Soko 5113 - The Traitor's Smile
• 1997: The Beloved / Desire for Love - Whoever Cries Last
• 1998: The forgotten life
• 1998: Tatort - Looking into the Abyss
• 1999: The Last Witness - Levitating Angels
• 1999: Just in case Stefanie - At the end of the guilt
• 1999: Stefanie - Prize of Love, just in case
• 1999: Dangerous wedding
• 2007: KIKA - No turning back
• 2009: Between today and tomorrow
• 2011: Family Dr. Kleist - beginnings

Theater roles

year	title	author	role	Director	theatre
1975	Sonny Boys	Neil Simon	Sketch nurse	Guido Huonder	Württemberg State Theater Stuttgart
1976/77	The head can't stop it	Volker Ludwig	Doris Bieber	Falko Gottsberg	LTT State Theater Tübingen
1977/78	The broken jar	Heinrich von Kleist	Eve	Nicolas Brieger	City Theater Basel
1977778	The father	August Strindberg	Daughter Bertha	Horst Zankl	City Theater Basel
1977/78	Tartuffe	Moliere	Marianne	Bernard Sobel	City Theater Basel
1977/78	Don juan	Moliere	Mathurine	Bernard Sobel	City Theater Basel
1977/78	Comedy of vanity	Elias Canetti	Puppy	HansHollmann	City Theater Basel
1977/78	Rainbow	Paul Butghardt	Lizzy	Martin Markun	City Theater Basel
1978/79	The first day of peace	Horst Laube	Icka	Peter Palitzsch	Frankfurt theater
1978/79	Othello	William Shakespeare	Bianca	Peter Palitzsch	Frankfurt theater
1978/79	Oedipus (takeover for CH)		Charissme	Hans Neuenfels	Frankfurt theater
1979/80	Fist i	Johann W. von Goethe	Lieschen	Hans Hollmann	Thalia Theater Hamburg
1979/80	Faust II	Johann W. von Goethe	Pulcinelle	Hans Hollmann	Thalia Theater Hamburg
1980	The last shot	Drug youth	Petra	Gerhard Weber	Saarland State Theater Saarbrücken
1980/81/82/83/84	nostalgia	Eugen Roth	Sonja	Dietmar Pflegerl	State theaters of West Berlin / Schlosspark-Theater
1980/81/82/83/84	Sun dust	Raimond Roussel	As long as	Hans Hollmann	State theaters of West Berlin / Schiller Theater
1980/81/82/83/84	Orpheus in the underworld	Jacques Offenbach	Venus	Hans Hollmann	State theaters of West Berlin / Schiller Theater
1980/81/82/83/84	Actors talking	Peter Fischer	The bride	Peter Fischer	State theaters of West Berlin / Schiller-Werkstatt-Theater
1980/81/82/83/84	All birds all	Walter Höllerer	Jenny	Eike Meewes	State theaters of West Berlin / Schiller workshop theater
1980-1984	Side by side	Georg Kaiser	lady	State West Berlin's stages / Schlosspark-Theater
1980-1984	The balcony	Jean Genet	The thief	Hans Neuenfels
1984/85	The races	Ferdinand Bruckner	Helene	Jossi Wieler	Heidelberg City Theater
1984/85	Celestina	F. de Rochas	Melibea	Ralf Nürnberger	Heidelberg City Theater
1984/85	What you want	William Shakespeare	Maria	Jossi Wieler
1985/86	A month in the country	S. Turgenev	Katja	Fred Berndt	Free Volksbühne Berlin West
1986	If so, then already	Ray Cooney	Maria	Wolfgang Spier	Comedy on Kurfürstendamm Berlin
1986/87	ghetto	Joshua Sobol	Chaja	David Levin	City of Bielefeld stages
1987	Lysis rate	after Aristophanes / Müller	Myrrhins	Achim Grubel / Müller	Spandau Summer Theater at the Citadel Berlin
1987/88/89/90	The Fiesko conspiracy to Genoa (takeover)	Friedrich Schiller	Julia, Countess Imperiali	Heribert Sasse	State West Berlin stages / Schiller Theater
1987-1990	Blood on the cat's neck	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	Phoebe Zeitgeist	Klaus Andre	State West Berlin's stages / Schiller workshop / Edinburgh International Festival 1988
1987-1990	One for all	Allen Ayckbourn	Fay	Rosemarie Fendel	State West Berlin's stages / Schlosspark-Theater
1987-1990	The love council	O. Panizza	Vanozza	Franz Marijnen	State West Berlin stages / Schiller Theater
1987-1990	Vinzens, or the girlfriend of famous men	Robert Musil	The girlfriend	Dietmar Pflegerl	State West Berlin's stages / Schlosspark-Theater
1987-1990	The petty bourgeoisie	Maxim Gorky	Cvetava	Harald Clemen	State West Berlin's stages / Schlosspark-Theater
1990	Elizabeth II	Thomas Bernhard	The lady in the red hat	Nils-Peter Rudolph	State West Berlin stages / Schiller Theater
1992/93	End of the line longing	Tennessee Williams	Stella	Eberhard Izenplitz	Regensburg Municipal Theaters
1994	6th degree bond	J. Guare	Kitty	Martin Wölffer	Comedy on Kurfürstendamm Berlin
2003	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf	Edgar Allbee	Martha	Karin Weber	Scheselong Theater Berlin-Moabit
2006	Anyone	Hugo von Hoffmanstahl	Debt servant's wife	Brigitte Grothum	Tour VIB Events / on tour
2009	Wessis in Weimar	Rolf Hochhuth	Hildegard / Closer / Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger / Ruth / Professor	Christian Kneisel	Brandenburger Theater / Havel
2009	Summer 14	Rolf Hochhuth	Lady Randolph Churchill	Rolf Hochhuth	Urania Berlin
2012	Moliéres Tartuffe	Rolf Hochhuth	Armande	Christian Kneisel	Brandenburger Theater / Havel
2012	Moliéres Tartuffe	Rolf Hochhuth	Armande	Christian Kneisel	Admiralspalast Berlin \ Jewish Theater Bimah
2014	Summer14	Rolf Hochhuth	Lady Jennie Randolph Churchill	Torsten Münchow	BE Theater on Schiffbauerdamm Berlin

Radio plays

• 1985: Hessischer Rundfunk "The blind man cannot sing without money" - Part 2
• 1991: CRC "Jonny Hilversums Women"
• 1995: Südwestfunk "The portrait of Dorian Gray (part 1 + 2) - 2 before midnight
• 1996: Radio Bremen "Like speaking"
• 1999: Hessischer Rundfunk "Three times Germany"

Readings

year	title	author	Director	Venue
2005/2006	Klara Höfels Theater-Stückemarkt	First author theater in Berlin	Gabriele Jakobi	Literaturhaus Fasanenstr., Berlin
2006	melancholy	u. a. Schiller, Holderlin	Hermann Treusch	New National Gallery Berlin
2007/2009	Wind and light	Nadine Ribault	Isabelle Azoulay	Gallery 1st floor, Berlin
2009	Dear friend	Tchaikovsky & Nadeshda v. Meck	Harald Arnold	Brandenburger Theater
2010	Dr. Zhivago	Boris Pasternak	Jürgen Tomm	Buchhändlerkeller, Carmerstr. Berlin
2010	Autobiography	Tilla Durieux	Jörg Aufenanger	ImWestenWasNeues - "Vor Ort", Berlin
2011	Old love. Stories	Elke Heidenreich	Harald Arnold	Brandenburger Theater
2012	Disused route	Annemarie Zornack	Beppo Disiati	Buchhändlerkeller, Carmerstr. Berlin
2012	He and I	Christa Wolf	Harald Arnold	Brandenburger Theater
2012	Dearest sister - dearest brother	Frederick the Great and Wilhelmine	Harald Arnold	Brandenburger Theater
2014	Undine goes	Ingeborg Bachmann	Johanna Binger Hochhuth	Book guild at Wittenbergplatz Berlin

Web links

Commons : Barbara Frey  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Barbara Frey in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Barbara Frey homepage