Carmen-Renate Köper

Carmen-Renate Köper (born March 24, 1927 in Dortmund ) is a German actress , screenwriter and filmmaker .

Life

Carmen-Renate Köper attended the women's college in Gelsenkirchen after 1945 and worked as a domestic worker in Recklinghausen. At the same time she attended the drama school in Bochum . In 1948 she was engaged at the touring theater "Die Werkstatt", where she played Berta in August Strindberg's Der Vater .

In 1949 she played in Itzehoe , then in Oberhausen , Kaiserslautern , Dortmund , Wiesbaden , at the Schauspielhaus Bochum , Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf and at the Frankfurt City Theaters .

In the 1960s she came to the Schauspiel Köln . Important roles here were the title characters of Hartmut Lange's Die Gräfin von Rathenow (1969), Lenore in The Fiesco Conspiracy in Genoa (1970), Margarethe von Parma in Egmont (1974), Marthe in Urfaust (1975), Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1976), Deianeira in Sophocles ' Die Frauen von Trachis , Minna Klages in Ginka Steinwax Tränende Herzen (first performance 1978) and Xenia in Edward Bond's Summer (1983).

In the 80s she moved to the Theater Bonn , where she took part in the world premiere of Elfriede Jelinek's Clara S. in 1982 . Other roles here were mother in the German premiere of Bond's Der große Frieden (1988) and mother in Thomas Bernhard's Am Ziel (1989). In 1986, she was with a guest performance at the State Opera in Munich , the choir leader at the opera Troades of Aribert Reimann .

In 1991 she returned to the Schauspiel Frankfurt. In 1995 she played Claire Zachanassian in The Visit of the Old Lady , in 1998 she took over the title role of Gorkis Wassa Schelesnowa . Most recently she read “Literature in the Glass House” once a month in the Frankfurt Palmengarten .

In 1997 she took over the role of the landlord in the radio play roundabout by Heinz-Werner Geisenberger at the Hessian Radio.

Carmen-Renate Köper was rarely seen on television as an actress, but from 1986 she wrote as a screenwriter for the television series Leben im Alter . In the series Erinnern für die Zukunft des WDR she staged and produced several contributions. Since 1991 she has made film portraits for HR , including The Long Way to Frankfurt , Asks Us About Arno Lustiger , Why Did Sonja Okun Die , Why Did I Survive About Trude Simonsohn and Love Was Not For Me - Bertha Pappenheim , portrait of an unusual woman .

Carmen Renate Köper is married to Peter Eschberg .

Awards

• 1998: Professional title of Professor, awarded by the Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria
• 1999: Plaque of honor from the city of Frankfurt am Main
• 1999: Wilhelm Leuschner Medal of the State of Hesse
• 2002: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class

Filmography

• 1958: what you want
• 1964: the lamb
• 1966: The man from Melbourne
• 1966: Betty Blue
• 1969: Tartuffe or The Deceiver
• 1971: The fair of wishes fulfilled
• 1975: Ask Casanova about it
• 1975: The town in the valley
• 1977: Tatort - late harvest
• 1983: Adventure Federal Republic
• 1993: The long way to Frankfurt (production, direction)

Radio plays

• 1989: Margaret Millar : Kannibalenherz - Director: Bernd Lau (radio play - NDR )

Works

• An unholy experiment - The new theater in the Scala (1948–1956). Löcker Verlag, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85409-252-0 .

Web links

• Carmen-Renate body in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Biography with photo ( Memento from January 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive )