Carmen-Maja Antoni

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Carmen-Maja Antoni during a book launch, 2013

Carmen-Maja Antoni (born August 23, 1945 in Berlin ) is a German actress .

Life

Carmen-Maja Antoni was born in the post-war turmoil of the Second World War . She grew up in Berlin-Adlershof . The father, Pedro Antoni, was a painter and soon left the family. The mother, Ursula Antoni-Orendt, was an all-round artist and later a production manager at the DFF . Carmen-Maja already gained experience in front of the camera at the age of eleven. Since 1959 she was one of the three “Blue Lightning” in a pioneer cabaret on GDR television . Carmen-Maja Antoni attended the extended high school " Klement Gottwald ".

In 1962, Antoni passed the entrance exam at the German Academy for Film Art in Potsdam-Babelsberg before graduating from high school and became the youngest student. Immediately after graduating as a graduate actress, she was engaged at the Hans-Otto-Theater in Potsdam . In 1964, at the age of 18, she was the youngest “Grush” in Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle . Helene Weigel and Paul Dessau praised their game. She later moved to the Volksbühne Berlin . From 1976 to 2013 she was a permanent member of the ensemble, since then a guest at the Berliner Ensemble , most recently seen a. a. as the leading actress in Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht. With her characteristic voice she played and plays numerous film, television and radio play roles and is a lecturer at the "Konrad Wolf" University of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg.

Carmen-Maja Antoni lives in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg and has two children. In 1998 her husband Malte Antoni died. Her daughter is the actress Jenny Antoni .

Filmography

theatre

Radio plays

Awards

  • 1974: Critics' Award of the Berliner Zeitung: Best Actress of the Year for her role as Eva in Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti
  • 1975: Critics' Award of the Berliner Zeitung: Best Actress of the Year for her role as Herakes in Herakes V by Heiner Müller
  • 1987: Critics' award "The Big Flap": Best Actress for her role as a childhood grandmother
  • 1988: Critics' Award of the Berliner Zeitung: Best Actress of the Year for her role as mother in Baal
  • 1988: 5th National Feature Film Festival of the GDR : National Film Award in the category of best leading actress for the film Childhood
  • 1989: Art Prize of the GDR for total artistic work
  • 1990: Helene Weigel Medal for the portrayal of the mother-in-law in The Suicide
  • 2008: German Critics' Prize (Honorary Prize)

literature

Web links

Commons : Carmen-Maja Antoni  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Berliner Ensemble - a theater for contemporaries. In: berliner-ensemble.de. Retrieved June 9, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Antoni, Carmen-Maja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin