Barbara Sukowa

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Barbara Sukowa at the Berlinale 2010

Barbara Sukowa (born February 2, 1950 in Bremen ) is a German actress and singer .

Life

Barbara Sukowa - daughter of a businessman - attended the Kippenberg grammar school in Bremen , which at that time was still a girls’s grammar school . From 1966 to 1967 she spent a school year in California (USA). Here she was voted Best School Theater Actress in Orange County , which she describes as the spark for her career as an actress. After graduating from high school, she studied at the Max Reinhardt School for Drama in Berlin from 1968 . After completing her acting training, she was engaged in theaters in German-speaking countries. In 1971 she played at the Berlin Schaubühne on Halleschen Ufer in Peter Handke's Der Ritt über den Bodensee . In the 1970s she played a. a. in Frankfurt am Main and at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg under directors such as Luc Bondy and Ivan Nagel . Under Ivan Nagel as director of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, she was a permanent part of the ensemble. When Nagel left the theater, Barbara Sukowa also left in 1980. In 1980 and 1981 she played Rosalinde in Shakespeare's As You Like It at the Salzburg Festival , directed by Otto Schenk.

At that time, Rainer Werner Fassbinder hired her for his multi-part television series Berlin Alexanderplatz based on Alfred Döblin . The great success in the role of Kitty ensured that Fassbinder also engaged her for his next film. In 1981 she played Lola alongside Armin Mueller-Stahl and Mario Adorf . In the film Die Bleierne Zeit by Margarethe von Trotta she played the leading role alongside Jutta Lampe and Rüdiger Vogler . Barbara Sukowa received the Federal Film Prize for both films .

In 1983 she was voted actress of the year by the theater magazine Theater heute for the role of Hilde Wangel in Henrik Ibsen's master builder Solness , directed by Peter Zadek . In 1986 Margarethe von Trotta directed the film Rosa Luxemburg with Barbara Sukowa in the title role . For this role, Sukowa received the Actor Award at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival .

Barbara Sukowa was - after a marriage with the actor Hans-Michael Rehberg , from which her first son, born in 1978, emerged - with the Polish actor Daniel Olbrychski . Their son Viktor Longo-Olbrychski is a singer-songwriter and lives in Brooklyn . The actress has been married to the American multimedia artist and photographer Robert Longo since 1994 , with whom she has lived in Brooklyn, New York since 1992, and has another, her third, son Joseph.

At the end of the 1980s, Barbara Sukowa started a career as a singer. Since then she has given classical concerts around the world, among others with the conductors Claudio Abbado and Esa-Pekka Salonen . With the conductor Reinbert de Leeuw and the Schönberg Ensemble she recorded the production In the wonderful month of May , which is dedicated to the German romantic song, especially Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann . With Robert Longo she founded the rock band "Barbara Sukowa & The X-Patsys", for which her son Viktor also wrote songs.

In 2012, Barbara Sukowa was appointed to the competition jury at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival . Since 2015 she played the role of Katarina Jones in the US science fiction series 12 Monkeys. The series ended in 2018.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Documentary film

  • 2007: Barbara Sukowa - My Life . Director: Hilka Sinning

literature

Web links

Commons : Barbara Sukowa  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Audible Rust: Barbara Sukowa. radioeins (rbb), January 26, 2020, accessed on January 28, 2020 .
  2. ↑ 42nd Grimme Prize 2006 - Hierankl. Grimme Institute, accessed on January 6, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Barbara Sukowa - My Life. Mime Centrum Berlin, media library for dance and theater, accessed on January 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Sukowa, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen , Germany