Christa Berndl

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Christina Cäcilia Maximiliana Berndl (born January 18, 1932 in Munich ; † August 10, 2017 there ) was a German actress .

Life

Christa Berndl was born as the daughter of the actress Christa Caporicci and the weightlifter Rudolf Ismayr (1932 Olympic champion in Los Angeles ) in Munich, her great-aunt was the court actress Emma Berndl , her great-great-uncle was Karl Berndl . She was on stage for the first time at the age of six, and when she was eight she got her first film role in the third film adaptation of Ludwig Anzengruber's play The Perjury Farmer . At the age of 13 she played in Thornton Wilders Our Little City at the Münchner Kammerspiele and at the age of 14 at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel , Theater im Brunnenhof (alongside Curd Jürgens in the title role), Luise in Ferenc Molnár's Liliom (premiere July 24, 1946, staged by Friedrich Ulmer ). At the age of 15 she performed with Wolfgang Neuss in his cabaret evenings and was engaged as a partner of Hans-Reinhard Müller and Gerd Brüdern as Gretchen in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust at the Munich Junge Theater .

Together with Maxl Graf , Christa Berndl was selected in 1947 for the then new children's radio series Christa und Maxl at Radio Munich , which was followed by numerous radio and radio play work .

Theater engagements followed, including in Augsburg , Nuremberg , Kiel , Essen and Bochum . In 1971, she played the title role in coral Meier of Martin Sperr . At the Hamburger Schauspielhaus she was Emilia in Peter Zadek's scandal-ridden performance of Shakespeare's Othello in 1976 . In 1976 she played the leading role in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's production of the play Women in New York based on Clare Boothe Luce , also at the Hamburger Schauspielhaus . The production was adapted by Fassbinder in 1977 with the same cast for television. In 1980 she played both female leading roles in Ulrich Heising's production of Friedrich Schiller's Maria Stuart at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf : both Maria Stuart and Elisabeth, which caused a sensation. The director Luc Bondy staged Christa Berndl twice in the role of Winnie in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days. 1980 at the Schauspiel Köln and 1988 at the Hamburger Schauspielhaus. In 1985 she played Elle Rentheim in Henrik Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich, directed by Ingmar Bergman . In 1995 she was Martha in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? together with Helmut Griem on the stage of the Münchner Kammerspiele .

In addition to her career at the theater, Christa Berndl played repeatedly in television productions. For example, in the 1960s she was often a partner of Maxl Graf in the comedy nobility. Numerous other film and television appearances followed, including in The Strange Methods of Franz Josef Wanninger , Tatort , The Old One , The Wild Fifties by Peter Zadek, Have I Only Your Love by Peter Kern , Leni by Leo Hiemer and Leo by Vivian Naefe .

Furthermore, due to her classical singing training, she made a name for herself as a singing actress, among other things in the title role in Jérôme Savary's celebrated production of the operetta La Périchole by Jacques Offenbach at the Hamburg Schauspielhaus , as well as numerous recitals of her own, which were mainly created in collaboration with Joachim Kuntzsch .

Since 1995 Christa Berndl has been a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts . She was married to the director Ulrich Heising until his death . Christa Berndl died at the age of 85 and was buried next to her husband in the Solln forest cemetery in Munich .

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Filmography

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As a voice actress she lent her voice and a. Bibi Andersson ( Duel in Diabolo ), Julie Harris ( Columbo: Wine is thicker than blood ), Angela Lansbury ( The daring witch in her flying bed ), Vanessa Redgrave ( Camelot - At King Arthur's Court ), Liv Ullmann ( Passion ) and Loretta Long (Susanne) from Sesame Street from 1973 to 1975.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theater Munich: Actress Christa Berndl has died. Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 11, 2017, accessed on August 10, 2020 . .
  2. ↑ Christa Berndl in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible).
  3. ↑ The grave of Christa Berndl. In: knerger.de. Klaus Nerger, accessed on April 27, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Berndl, Christa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berndl, Christina Cäcilia Maximiliana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 2017
Place of death Munich