Cornelia Köndgen

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Cornelia Köndgen (* 1958 in Weingarten ) is a German - Austrian actress .

Life

Köndgen completed an acting training at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich .

As a theater actress, she had numerous festival and guest engagements, mainly in Austria , including permanent engagements at the Theater in der Josefstadt , the Schauspielhaus Vienna , the Volkstheater Vienna and the Landestheater Niederösterreich in St. Pölten . She has appeared at the Wiener Festwochen and the Hamburger Kammerspiele , among others . In September 1990 she played at the Fritz-Remond-Theater in Frankfurt am Main in the tabloid comedy Na und? by Françoise Dorin at the side of Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff , Martha Marbo and Heini Göbel .

At the Landestheater Niederösterreich, Köndgen played the mother Phyllis Hogan in the comedy Fette Men im Rock by Nicky Silver (2006), the ministerial wife Mrs. Pamela Willey in the comedy Out of Control by Ray Cooney (2006/07 season) and Mariedl in the Comedy The Presidents by Werner Schwab (2007/08 season).

Since 2008, Köndgen has performed regularly at the Haag Theater Summer in Lower Austria . There she played Mrs. Lucretia Otis, the wife of the American ambassador, in Das Gespenst von Canterville , Duenna / Liese / Sister Margarete in Cyrano de Bergerac (2009) and Sequence / Elfe in A Midsummer Night's Dream (2011).

In the 2011/2012 season, Köndgen appeared at the Klagenfurt City Theater in the role of Mrs. Evelina Strong in the Austrian premiere of the play Süd by Julien Green .

Since the 1970s Köndgen also took on film roles in feature films and television films , and later in various television series . Initially, Köndgen was cast as a young lover, in 1976, alongside Erika Pluhar and Harald Serafin , as the manufacturer's daughter Anna Oberholzer in a television adaptation of the musical comedy Fireworks . In 1977 she played the role of Nanni, the bride and childhood sweetheart of a young soldier, in the drama Eine Jugendliebe alongside Christian Berkel . In the two-part TV series Uncle Silas (1977), she played 17-year-old Maud, the sole heir to a large family fortune. In the mini-series Job (1978/79) she played the young widowed daughter-in-law Vega.

In 1992 she was seen in the Austrian film Ihr Glücklichen Augen , alongside Peter Sattmann , in the role of Miranda. In this literary film adaptation, based on a story by Ingeborg Bachmann , she embodied a visually impaired young woman, who sees her eye defect as a gift from heaven. In the tragic comedy Something in the Heart (1994), she played the role of the professor's daughter Gabi, again alongside Erika Pluhar. In the movie The Piano Player (2001) she was seen in the role of Madame Gerda Blonskij.

Köndgen had leading and supporting roles in various television series, including Pastor Lenau (1990), Julia - An Unusual Woman (2000; as Mrs. Hackl, neglected by her dog-loving husband), Schlosshotel Orth (2003, as Dr. Blank), The Country Doctor (2010, as Swabian wife Claudia Pfleiderer) and Pastewka (2011, as psychiatrist Dr. Karstein). In 2012 she was seen in a leading role in the ARD television series Tatort . She played the mother of the murder victim Annika in Leipzig's Tatort: ​​Todesbilder (2012), who cannot cope with the death of her daughter. In the 11th season of the Austrian crime series SOKO Donau (2019), Köndgen took on one of the episode roles as the suspect boss of a technology company.

Cornelia Köndgen works extensively as a reciter with literary programs. In the programs she has put together herself, she mainly reads texts by Austrian authors such as Ilse Aichinger , Ingeborg Bachmann , Hertha Kräftner and Friederike Mayröcker .

Private

In 1995 Köndgen began training as a psychotherapist ; she also worked as a therapist. She is a member of the Academy of Austrian Films .

Köndgen had been married to the Austrian singer-songwriter and actor Ludwig Hirsch (1946–2011) since 1977 ; the marriage resulted in a son (* 1981).

Köndgen lives alternately in Vienna and in Styria .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Cornelia Köndgen Vita (Official website women work film)
  2. ↑ 1958 is always given as the year of birth in publicly accessible sources and publications. Therefore this date of birth is also mentioned here. Other data (1954) are not officially confirmed.
  3. ↑ a b c Cornelia Köndgen ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Vita (Hague Theater Summer 2009)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / 2009.theatersommer.at
  4. ↑ a b c Cornelia Köndgen Vita (Theatersommer Haag 2011)
  5. ↑ Kuli: So what? Note , September 1990
  6. ↑ We chew human short review (with photo by Köndgen) in: Der Standard from March 14, 2006
  7. ↑ Always having trouble with the farce ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. criticism @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.litges.at
  8. ↑ Theater: "You can also say 'Haufi'" Theater review in: Die Presse from October 20, 2007
  9. ↑ Wooden and bloodless: Julien Green's "South" in Klagenfurt Premiere review in: Kleine Zeitung from January 13, 2012
  10. ↑ Bloody wedding: Flashed in: Der Tagesspiegel (with photo by Cornelia Köndgen)
  11. ^ SOKO Danube: Thin Air . Plot and cast. Official website of the ZDF. Retrieved October 31, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Koendgen, Cornelia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Vineyard