Cordula Trantow

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Cordula Trantow

Cordula Trantow (born December 29, 1942 in Berlin ) is a German actress , director and general manager .

Live and act

Cordula Trantow is the daughter of the composer Herbert Trantow and the dance teacher Edith Kirchhoff. She took acting lessons from Marlise Ludwig in Berlin ; In addition, she trained in classical ballet with Tatjana Gsovsky .

Trantow had first success as a noble princess in the Hans Sachs film Aufruhr im Schlaraffenland . She became famous in 1959 with the role of Franziska in The bridge of Bernhard Wicki what they, the German Film Award as best young actress won. André Cayatte engaged her in 1960 as a partner of Charles Aznavour in Beyond the Rhine as Helga . In the same year she embodied the Binja in the Heimatfilm An holy waters . As Adolf Hitler's niece Geli Raubal she played in 1962 in the Hollywood production Hitler by Stuart Heisler and received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award as Best Young Actress .

Her husband, the theater director Rudolf Noelte , cast her as Frida in his Franz Kafka film adaptation of The Castle . After numerous German entertainment films, she ended her film career in favor of a theater career, where she starred in some of the most important productions of the 1970s and 1980s. She was best known as the heroine of the three-part TV crime thriller Babeck (1968).

She also works as voice actress for Ali MacGraw , Claude Jade , Marie Versini , Sandrine Bonnaire and Dominique Sanda . Since 1991 she has been director a. a. of the Weilheim theater summer . In 1998 she left Weilheim for Garmisch-Partenkirchen as a result of a smear campaign against her Faust I production because of an allegedly pornographic scene on Walpurgis Night between Gretchen's brother Valentin after his death with a witch. In 1999 she continued to perform her Faust I there (as well as in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) and directed Momo with Cosma Shiva Hagen in the lead role. Guildo Horn played under her direction in The Wizard of Oz and Christine Kaufmann in Maria Stuart (directed by Uwe Niesig ). In 2004 Romeo and Juliet was implemented in Bad Wörishofen as a theater tour with Cosma Shiva Hagen and Marco Hofschneider in the leading roles.

In 2004 she appeared in the crime series Bella Block in the episode Behind the Mirror and in 2005 was a permanent member of the series Bis in die Spitzen . Trantow also plays under other directors, so u. a. 2006 as Violet Venable in Pia Hänggi's production of Tennessee Williams ' Suddenly Last Summer .

Filmography

As an actress

As a voice actress

Radio plays (selection)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Winterer: ... Weilheim and the Walpurgis Night. In: Rhein-Zeitung of July 21, 1998.
personal data
SURNAME Trantow, Cordula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress , director and general manager
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin