Carin Braun

Carin Braun (born November 27, 1940 in Kassel ; † March 4, 1986 in Munich ) was a German theater and film actress and director .

Live and act

Carin Braun grew up in Bad Hersfeld and graduated from high school there . This was followed by studies in Zurich , then German studies in Munich. There she took private acting lessons . She had her first engagement in Ingolstadt , she played there the Barblin in Andorra by Max Frisch . In the following years she had engagements at the Residenztheater in Munich , at the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer in Berlin and at the Forum Theater Berlin. From 1973 to 1976 she played at the Münchner Kammerspiele .

In 1977 Carin Braun decided to study again, namely psycholinguistics . Her studies enabled her to do an internship at the Munich School for the Deaf - in preparation for the role of a deaf gardener in a film that was never made. Instead, she made several films about the deaf - initially for the editorial team, seeing instead of hearing on Bayerischer Rundfunk .

For the ZDF series Bettkantengeschichten she directed three films based on scripts by Michael Hatry .

For her film Look here and see the grace of my hands , she received a Federal Film Prize in gold in 1981 for the best young directors. In 1985 she made a sequel to this film, CVs in a Silent World . She also made two films about women in resistance, Für Doris Maase (1981) and women in resistance . She was also an employee of the series Frauengeschichten in Bayerischer Rundfunk.

Carin Braun's last work was about the late effects of the Vietnam War , especially among children, in the 1986 film Old Bamboo Trees Should Love Their Offspring .

Carin Braun died three days after her return from Vietnam , on March 4, 1986 in Munich.

Awards

• 1981: Gold film tape in the category “Best Young Director” for Look here and see the grace of my hands .

Filmography (selection)

Directorial work

• 1981: Look here and see the grace of my hands
• 1985: CVs in a silent world
• 1986: Old bamboo trees should love their offspring

Film and television roles

• 1964: Die Gentle - title role - director: Willy Schmidt
• 1964: Young man for Jenny - as Jennifer - Director: Hermann Leitner
• 1965: The sea and the waves of love - as Janthe - director: Heinz Hilpert
• 1971: The Italian - as a sister - Director: Ferry Radax
• 1971: The Commissioner - Gray-Red Morning - as Frau Derichs - Director: Theodor Grädler
• 1972: Rosa and Lin - as mother - Director: Klaus Emmerich
• 1972: Land - as Johanna Rotter - Director: Roland Gall
• 1973: The so-called normal - Director: Bernd Dost
• 1975: Georgina's Reasons - as Mildred Theory - Director: Volker Schlöndorff
• 1978: intermediate track
• 1979: Die Anstalt - as Mrs. Peters - Director: Hans-Rüdiger Minow
• 1980: Am Südhang - as Ms. Undamm - Director: Michael Verhoeven

TV films about the deaf

• Nazi injustice against the deaf
• About Franziska Schwarz
• About Lore Parry ( I have no hate )
• I can't hear you - from the Rappelkiste series

Bedside stories

• 1982: David and the Giants
• 1983: The Secret of Lilalula
• 1984: The cold winter after the war

Women stories

• 1983: Centa Herker-Beimler ( stop by Dirndl )
• 1985: The opera singer and actress Moje Forbach ( a board comes swimming )
• 1985: The writer Grete Weil

literature

• Thomas Bernhard, The Italian, Residenz Verlag 1971, ISBN 3-7017-0012-5
• Munich Film Festival 1987, catalog
• Estate (photos, reviews, portrait in the SZ , VHS cassettes, etc.) in the possession of the author and estate administrator Michael Hatry.

Web links

• Carin Braun in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Carin Braun at filmportal.de
• Carin Braun on deutsche-filmakademie.de
• Carin Braun on fernsehserien.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German Film Awards from 1951 to the present day at www.deutsche-filmakademie.de. Accessed on October 14, 2009