Gitta Schweighöfer

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Gitta Schweighöfer (* 1954 in Heiddorf , Schwerin district ) is a German film and theater actress .

Life

Education and theater

Gitta Schweighöfer, born in what is now Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , came to acting during her school days through her involvement in children's theater. After school she completed her training at the Rostock University of Music and Theater . She had her first permanent engagement from 1981 to 1988 at the Kleist Theater Frankfurt (Oder) , where she took on the title role in the theater adaptation Jutta or Die Kinder von Damutz based on the play of the same name by Helmut Bez . During this time she worked with the directors Horst Lebinsky , Frank Castorf and Andreas Kriegenburg . There she played the title role in Kriegenburg's Fräulein Julie production.

After the expiry of their engagement in Frankfurt (Oder) she was from 1989 to 1999 at the Theater Chemnitz committed, where they directed by Tatjana Rese the Lady Macbeth played. Afterwards she was exclusively active as a guest actress at the theater. In the 1999/00 season she made a guest appearance at the State Theater in Hanover , where she appeared on stage in productions by Andreas Kriegenburg and Armin Petras . In 2004 she played one of the witches in Kriegenburg's Macbeth production at the Hamburg Thalia Theater . In the 2005/06 season she was engaged as an ensemble member at Theater Lübeck . In the 2006/07 season she appeared at the Lübeck Theater as Queen Mother Atossa in the Aeschylus tragedy The Persians . Engagements at the Paderborn Theater (2010) and the Volksbühne Berlin (2011) followed. Her last theater work so far was Lutz Hübner's play Richtfest at the Renaissance Theater in Berlin in 2013, directed by Albrecht Hirche .

Movie and TV

Since the 2000s she has appeared increasingly in film and television productions. After the first minor roles a. a. In the television series Gute Zeiten, Bad Zeiten and Behind Bars , she has been in front of the camera in action-bearing roles since 2004.

In the television film Baal (2004), a remake of the play of the same name by Bertolt Brecht , she played the homeless Gougou at the side of her son Matthias . In the TV series Pfarrer Braun , she was the wife of Chief Inspector Albin Geiger ( Peter Heinrich Brix ) in the crime thriller Ein Hexter Fall (first broadcast: April 2004 ).

In Jena Paradies (2005), the feature film debut and graduation film by DFFB student Marco Mittelstaedt , she played as Ursula Bauch the mother of the title character Jeanette Bauch, a single mother portrayed by Stefanie Stappenbeck . In the 9th season of the popular hospital series In allerfreund (2006) she was Margarete Meissner, whose husband is run over and admitted to the Saxony clinic with severe spinal injuries. In Michael Schorr's film satire Schröder's wonderful world (2006) she took on the role of Anne Schröder, the mother of the title hero Frank ( Peter Schneider ), who wants to build the tropical paradise "Lagoon Magic" in his home town in the Saxon triangle between Poland and the Czech Republic .

In the film Der Rote Baron , which was released in German cinemas in March 2008 , she played Kunigunde von Richthofen, the mother of the "Red Baron" Manfred von Richthofen , played by her son Matthias. In the ZDF crime series Rosa Roth , she was directed by Carlo Rola between 2009 and 2012 in five episodes in a permanent role as Anna Körber.

From January 2010 she was back as a film mother at the side of her son in the tragic comedy Friendship! to see on the big screen. Her ex-husband Michael Schweighöfer played her husband. Since 2011 she has regularly appeared in supporting roles in films by and with her son Matthias.

In the Sat.1 film comedy Im Bridal Dress of My Sister (2012) she was Irene Dahrendorf, the mother of the two identical twin sisters Marie and Sophie, one of whom she has never seen.

She also played roles in various crime series, such as Under other circumstances (2013, as a witness and ex-wife of the perpetrator at the side of Max von Pufendorf in the episode The Murderer Among Us ) and in TV series, such as in SCHULD nach Ferdinand von Schirach (2015, as the mother of a victim of domestic violence) and in the pilot episode of the ZDF crime series The Specialists - In the Name of the Victims (2016, as the mother of a homosexual soccer player ). Over the years she has also appeared in the Tatort television series, for example in the Münster Tatort: ​​Das Ewig Böse (2006) as the widow Elke Brunner-Stettenkamp and in the Leipzig Tatort: ​​Death penalty as a bakery employee Beate Kühne. She had a third smaller role in 2018 in Rubin and Karow - Tatort: ​​Animals of the Big City (2018).

In the German-Czech fairy tale film Rübezahl's Schatz (2017), she was the mother of the main female character, the maid Rosa. In mid-2018 she took on the role of director in the children's and youth series Schloss Einstein . In the TV comedy A Weekend in August (first broadcast: August 2019), she also showed her comedic talent alongside Nadja Uhl and Carlo Ljubek . In the 9th film of the ARD television series Die Eifel Practice (first broadcast: August 2019), she played the pulmonary farmer Bärbel Kuhn, who refuses to use the life-saving ventilator. In the 2nd season of the BR series Hindafing (autumn 2019) she played one of the continuous season roles as former RAF terrorist Heidi Knopke and mother of the series character Marie.

Private

Gitta Schweighöfer was married to the actor and theater director Michael Schweighöfer . Both were engaged together at the Karl-Marx-Stadt Theater in the 1980s. The marriage was divorced in 1984. Afterwards Schweighöfer was a single mother. Their son Matthias Schweighöfer (* 1981), who also became an actor, comes from the marriage .

Schweighöfer has lived in Berlin since 2000.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gitta Schweighöfer . Profile and vita at Castupload.com. Retrieved January 13, 2020
  2. ↑ a b c talk with Gitta Schweighöfer (actress) . MDR at April 4, 2019. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Gitta Schweighöfer . Profile and vita at CASTFORWARD. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Gitta Schweighöfer . Vita (as of March 2013). Official website of the Renaissance Theater (Berlin) . Retrieved November 13, 2019.
  5. ↑ Matthias Schweighöfer plays his mother's son . In: Berliner Morgenpost from January 15, 2007. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
  6. ↑ Klaus Brenneke: Introduction to the ancient drama "The Persians" . In: Lübeckische Blätter . Issue 5 of March 10, 2007. Page 75/76.
  7. ^ Pastor Braun: A Bewitched Case . Plot and cast. Official website Das Erste . Retrieved November 13, 2019.
  8. ↑ JENA PARADISE . Movie review. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
  9. ↑ Episode 324: Between the Fronts . Plot, cast and picture gallery. MDR.de. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
  10. ↑ Schröder's wonderful world . Retrieved November 13, 2019.
  11. ↑ Schweighöfer together with his mother in front of the camera . In: Märkische Oderzeitung of March 30, 2008. Accessed on November 13, 2019.
  12. ↑ a b c d Mother Gitta and father Michael: Matthias Schweighöfer: His parents played in some of his films . Promipool.de from October 3, 2017. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
  13. ↑ In my sister's wedding dress . Picture gallery. Official website of Sat1 . Retrieved November 13, 2019.
  14. ^ Image: Tatort, episode 1066: Animals of the big city . Retrieved November 16, 2019.
  15. ↑ Mama Schweighöfer becomes director of "Schloss Einstein" . In: WELT of March 30, 2008. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
  16. ↑ A weekend in August . Plot, cast and picture gallery. Official website Das Erste . Retrieved November 13, 2019.
  17. ^ TV film "A Weekend in August" . TV review at Tittelbach.tv. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
  18. ↑ body and mind . Plot, cast and picture gallery. Official website Das Erste . Retrieved November 13, 2019.
  19. ↑ Hindafing, content 2nd season: State politics, young talent and a political fiasco . Official website of Bayerisches Fernsehen . Retrieved November 13, 2019.
  20. ↑ Schweighöfer wants to fall in love again . In: Hamburger Morgenpost from April 19, 2018. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Schweighöfer, Gitta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Heiddorf , Schwerin District , German Democratic Republic