Eva Kotthaus

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Eva Anna Kotthaus (born May 19, 1932 in Düsseldorf ; † April 22, 2020 ) was a German film and stage actress.

Life

Kotthaus completed her acting training at the Otto-Falckenberg-Schule in Munich from 1951 to 1953 , then worked as an actress on various stages until she took an engagement at the German Theater in Berlin in 1957 . Here she started an extensive theater career and, in addition to numerous theater performances, also increasingly participated in film productions. She made her film debut in 1954 in the DEFA literature adaptation Kein Hüsung , directed by Artur Pohl , where she played the leading female role of maid Mariken Brandt at the side of her future husband Rudolf H. Krieg .

She received 1956 film strip in silver as best young actress for her role as Anna Kaminski in the sky without stars . Further film and television activities for the East German DEFA followed before it could only be seen in West German productions from 1957. She had her first television appearances in the West in The Hot Heart with Hanns Lothar and Benno Sterzenbach and in Wolfgang Borchert's drama Outside front door with Paul Edwin Roth and Malte Jaeger .

Filmography

theatre

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://theaterfreunde-mainz.de/eva-kotthaus-ist-tot/