Barbara de Koy

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Barbara de Koy (born 1954 in Lansing , Michigan , USA ) is a German-speaking actress who has played on many important stages as well as in film and television.

life and work

Barbara de Koy was born as the daughter of the Russian architect Andrew Wssewoloschskoy and the housewife Luise Feigl in the American state of Michigan. The name was changed in 1958, and in 1959 the family moved to Münchsmünster in Upper Bavaria. De Koy first studied German , English and theater studies at the University of Munich , then from 1979 to 1982 acting at the Folkwang University in Essen, with Rolf Henniger among others .

Work on stage

Immediately after graduation, de Koy made her debut as a hero in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing , directed by Kurt Meisel at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel . Then she was a permanent member of the ensemble of the Munich Volkstheater from 1983 to 1991 , where she was seen in productions by Harald Clemen , Ruth Drexel , Wolfgang Gropper , Ulrich Heising and others. Barbara de Koy has been working as a freelance actor for drama, film and opera, as well as a speaker, dialect and dialogue coach since 1992. She worked at the Württembergisches Staatstheater Stuttgart , the Nationaltheater Mannheim , the Hamburger and Münchner Kammerspiele , the Stükke-Theater Berlin , the Stadttheater Klagenfurt and the Schauspielhaus Graz , where she worked in Krystian Lupa's production of Thomas Bernhard's woodfalls. An excitement was seen.

From 1999 to 2010 she worked continuously with the director Peer Boysen , who integrated her as an actress in many of his operatic productions of works by Cimarosa , Handel , Stravinsky and Tarnopolsky - at the Prinzregententheater and at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, at the International Handel Festival Göttingen , at the Halle Opera House , at the Ludwigsburg Palace Festival and at the Karlsruhe State Theater .

From 2004 to 2008 the actress and her colleague Monica Bleibtreu performed the staged Karl Valentin reading The Childless Married Couple on numerous stages throughout Germany. In 2013 she returned to the Munich Residenztheater in a Martin Kušej production by Hedda Gabler . In 2015 de Koy made her debut as Abbess Emilia in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors at the Salzburg Festival ; Henry Mason staged it on the Pernerinsel in Hallein. In 2016 she is cast in Salzburg as Frau Varga in Thomas Bernhard's The Ignorant and the Insane , together with Sven-Eric Bechtolf , Christian Grashof , Michael Rotschopf and Johanna Wokalek . Old master Gerd Heinz stages it in the Salzburg State Theater .

Movie and TV

De Koy's work for feature films and television began in 1983 with Georg Kostya's musical feature film Spider Murphy Gang and in 1984 with Dieter Berner's four-part historical drama Lenz or freedom based on the novel by Stefan Heym . In 1990 she took over in the comic adaptation Werner - Beinhart! a lady-in-waiting and Aunt Brösel. Subsequently she worked in three films by Herbert Achternbusch : No man's land and I Know The Way To The Hofbräuhaus (both 1991), as well as Ab nach Tibet! (1994). In 1998 she was involved in Sebastian Schipper's feature film Absolute Giganten . This was followed by three works with director Bernd Fischerauer : Not with Us (2000), In the Middle of Life (2002) and In the Name of the Lord (2003), as well as two films with Peter Weißflog : Das Christkind und Unterholz (both 2002). In 2011 she starred in Konstantin Ferstl's debut film Trans Bavaria , in 2013 in Harald SICHERITZ 's tourist grotesque Bad Fucking (based on the crime novel by Kurt Palm ) and in 2015 in Karola Meeder's comedy Endstation Glück .

Her television work includes a number of appearances in series and TV films, including the series Julia - An Unusual Woman , Munich 7 and Monaco 110 . From 2006 to 2008 she played Schulze-Hellweg in five episodes of the ARD series Sonnenfeld Family . In 2011 she took over in the Munich Tatort: ​​Yesterday there was not a day the role of Mrs. Hofer, Lansinger's neighbor. For her portrayal of the murdering pharmacist Margot Höllerer in the Munich crime scene: At the end of the hallway in 2014, she received two awards.

De Koy lives with her partner, the Austrian actor Johannes Silberschneider , in Munich.

Stage roles (selection)

Filmography (selection)

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Start of shooting: “Beer corpses. A paschal thriller ”| BR.de . September 8, 2016 ( br.de [accessed November 20, 2016]).
personal data
SURNAME Koy, Barbara de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stage, film and television actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Lansing , Michigan , United States