Cristin King

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Cristin König (* 1965 in Trier ) is a German actress .

Life

Education and theater

Cristin König received her acting training from 1986 to 1990 at the University of Music and Theater in Hanover . Afterwards she had theater engagements at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg (season 1989/90), at the Landestheater Tübingen (season 1990/91), at the Staatstheater Kassel (season 1991/92) and at the theater in Chur (season 1991/92). From 1992 to 1996 she was a member of the ensemble at the Kleist Theater in Frankfurt (Oder) . There she played the title role in “ Das Käthchen von Heilbronn ” (director: Armin Petras , 1994).

From 1996 to 1999 she was engaged at the Berliner Ensemble . At the Berliner Ensemble she could be seen in “The Construction Pit” by Lothar Trolle (directed by Armin Petras, 1996) and in “ Dantons Tod ” by (directed by Robert Wilson , 1998).

From 1999 to 2006, König was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Berlin Schaubühne . At the Berlin Schaubühne she performed a. a. in “ Gier ” (as Frau C; directed by Thomas Ostermeier , 2000), in “Das kalte Kind” by Marius von Mayenburg (as Silke; directed by Luk Perceval , 2002), in “ In the thicket of cities ” (as Der Grüne ; Direction: Grzegorz Jarzyna , 2003), in “Der Würgeengel” by Karst Woudstra (Direction: Thomas Ostermeier, 2003) and in “Distance” by Lars Norén (as Hanna; Direction: Enrico Stolzenburg , 2005).

From 2006, König played at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin . From the 2007/08 season to 2013, König was a permanent member of the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. She played there u. a. Aline Solness in “ Baumeister Solneß ” (premiere: September 2006; director. Armin Petras), Helena in “Children of the Sun” by Maxim Gorki (premiere: October 2006; director: Peter Kastenmüller ), Dodo in “ Breaking the Waves ” (premiere : October 2007; Director: Christian Lollike ), Elke in “ Der Schimmelreiter ” (Premiere: October 2007; Director: Armin Petras), Antonio in “ The Merchant of Venice ” (Premiere: October 2009; Director: Armin Petras), Amanda Wingfield in “ Die Glasmenagerie ” (premiere: March 2010; director: Milan Peschel ), Frau Brigitte in “ Der zerbrochne Krug ” (premiere: March 2010; director: Jan Bosse ) and Agnes / Oskar Matzerath in “ Die Blechtrommel ” (premiere: September 2010; Director: Armin Petras).

In 2011, König first emerged as a director; she staged the world premiere of her own play "Die Wohngemeinschaft" at the Maxim Gorki Theater.

In addition to her permanent engagements, König had regular guest engagements, especially at the Münchner Kammerspiele . She worked there as a freelancer. B. in “A boy whose name is not Mehmet” (director: Peter Kastenmüller, 2004). In the 2005/06 season she played Varya in " The Cherry Orchard " (director: Lars-Ole Walburg ). In the 2011/12 season she appeared at the Münchner Kammerspiele as Gunhild Borkman in “ John Gabriel Borkman ” (director: Armin Petras). In the 2013/14 season she performed there in "America" ​​based on Franz Kafka (director: Julie Van den Berghe, premiere October 2013). In the 2014/15 season she took on the role of Maria in the play “ Hunting Scenes from Lower Bavaria ” at the Münchner Kammerspiele .

In the 2013/14 season she appeared as a guest at the Schauspiel Stuttgart ; she was seen as wife of G ... (mother of the marquise) and as mother in the double production " The Marquise of O .... " / "Drachenblut" by Christoph Hein . In the 2015/16 season she made guest appearances in Stuttgart as the widowed actress Irina Nikolajewna Arkadina in “ Die Möwe ” (premiere: October 2015, director: Martin Laberenz ).

In the 2016/17 season, König had a guest engagement at the St. Pauli Theater in Hamburg .

Movie and TV

Cristin König was also regularly seen in film and television roles. In the two-part television film Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie (2007; with Veronica Ferres in the leading role) she had a supporting role; she was Eva Landmann, the best friend of the main female character Sarah Bender. In the television film Mein Leben - Marcel Reich-Ranicki (2009) she played the Jewess Emilie Langnas, the mother of Tosia , who later became the wife of the literary critic and journalist Marcel Reich-Ranicki . In the crime scene: The Last Patient (2010) she played Dr. Silke Tannenberg, a general practitioner who dies in a fire in her practice. In 2012 she was seen in a leading role in the ZDF crime series SOKO Wismar ; she played Britta Niederländer, the wife of the murdered doctor and clinic director Dr. Dutch.

In September 2015 she was seen in a supporting role in the ZDF crime series Blochin - The Living and the Dead . She played Petra Geissler, the wife of Minister Geissler ( Michael Goldberg ) and mother of the student Freddy Geissler ( Peri Baumeister ). In Tatort: ​​Ätzend (2015; first broadcast November 2015), the second case of the Rubin / Karow investigative team, she played the mother of student Ira Michels ( Stephanie Amarell ). In February 2016, König appeared in the ZDF crime series Kommissarin Lucas ; she played Martina Heise, a Catholic who works with a group of activists for the purpose of church asylum for the opening of all church properties.

In the 2nd and 3rd season of the television series Die Kanzlei , she took on a recurring supporting role as judge Johanna Gruber in several episodes (first broadcast: January and November 2017). In January 2017, König was also seen in the ZDF series SOKO Leipzig in an episode role as head nurse Beatrice Ludwig, who illegally helps patients suicide . In Tatort: ​​Böser Boden (first broadcast: November 2017) by the investigative team Falke and Grosz , she had a supporting role as Anne Kielsperg, the wife of a militant eco-activist. In December 2017, König was seen in the ZDF television series Notruf Hafenkante in a leading role as laboratory assistant Miriam Meyer, whose marriage is about to end. In the 7th season of the ZDF series last trace Berlin (broadcast from February 2018), König also took on a leading role in the episode as Sabine Jahn, the director of a day-care center involved in a fraudulent advertisement , in which sexual assaults occur several times. In the first season of the newly placed crime series SOKO Hamburg in March 2018 , König also had a leading role in the episode; she embodied Karin Röper, who runs a small country bakery in the Altes Land together with her husband and who becomes the murderer. In the six-part TV series Die Neue Zeit (2019), broadcast on arte , about the founding years of the State Bauhaus in Weimar , she played Alice Helm, the mother of the painter and graphic artist Dörte Helm, in a series role .

Radio

König also works as a speaker for radio plays . Her first directorial work in this regard, Lila and Fred , "based on Friedrich Schiller's Cabal and Love " (composition: Friederike Bernhardt, production: Deutschlandradio Kultur ), was radio play of the month in August 2016.

Awards

In 1994 and 2000, König was nominated by the magazine Theater heute for selection in the category “Best Young Actress”.

Private

König plays the accordion and piano . She lives in Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

  • 2016: Lila and Fred Frei based on Friedrich Schiller's Kabale und Liebe , director: the author, composition: Friederike Bernhardt (Deutschlandradio Kultur)
  • 2018: My memories tear me to pieces Freely based on motifs from Mary Shelley's biographical notes, director: the author, composition: Friederike Bernhardt (Deutschlandfunk Kultur)
  • 2018: Die Wand , director: the author, composition: Friederike Bernhardt (WDR)

Radio plays as a speaker (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Cristin König ; Profile at schauspielervideos.de . Retrieved November 22, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b c d Cristin König ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Vita; State Theater Stuttgart . Retrieved November 22, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schauspiel-stuttgart.de
  3. ↑ a b c Cristin King Vita; Schaubühne . Retrieved November 22, 2015.
  4. ↑ a b c d Cristin King Vita; Munich Kammerspiele . Retrieved November 22, 2015.
  5. ↑ a b c d Cristin König ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Vita; Maxim Gorky Theater . Retrieved November 22, 2015.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gorki.de
  6. ↑ a b The young ladies at the theater - presented - Cristin König plays at the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin . Vita / portrait of Cristin König. Gesellschaft Freunde der Künste Berlin from March 31, 2010. Accessed November 22, 2015
  7. ^ "Hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria": Too much fear is not good . Performance review in: Stuttgarter Nachrichten, February 24, 2015. Accessed November 22, 2015
  8. ↑ Schauspiel Stuttgart starts with Chekhov's "Möwe" . Performance review in: Südwestpresse, October 5, 2015. Accessed November 22, 2015.
  9. ↑ SOKO Hamburg | Right in the heart . Plot and cast. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
  10. ↑ The New Era . Prisma.de (with picture gallery). Retrieved September 9, 2019.
  11. ↑ deutschlandfunk.de . (November 5, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME King, Cristin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Trier , Rhineland-Palatinate , Federal Republic of Germany