Isolde Barth

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Isolde Barth (* 24. August 1948 in Maxdorf , Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis ) is a German actress .

Life

Isolde Maria Theresia Barth played already during her school years at Ursuline High School Mannheim small roles at the National Theater in Mannheim . After graduating from high school in 1967, she began her acting training at the State University for Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart and then moved to the Folkwang University in Essen . She passed her final examination there in the summer of 1970. In the same year she started her first engagement at the Wuppertaler Bühnen . Her theater stations included the Staatstheater Darmstadt , the Swiss Tourneetheater ( The bitter tears of Petra von Kant , directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder , 1975 and 1977), the Bremen Theater ( Leonce and Lena , directed by Werner Schroeter , 1986) , the Bayerische Staatsschauspiel Munich ( Edmond by David Mamet , directed by Walter Bockmayer , 1987) and most recently the Münchner Volkstheater (2007/2008 in Baal by Bertolt Brecht , directed by Hans Neuenfels ).

She made her first acquaintance with the film during her training as an actress as a supporting actress in two rather irrelevant, satirical sex comedies, including in Michael Verhoeven's sex film parody Engelchen macht weiter - Hoppe, hoppe Reiter . She made her debut as a film and television actress in 1970 in the television film Messerspiele by Bruno Voges from the SDR series Write a Piece! . It followed at SDR Die Christen by Theo Mezger and Herlemann's dream by Tom Toelle . In the 1970s and 1980s she preferred to work with representatives of the New German Cinema - with George Moorse , Florian Furtwängler , Werner Schroeter and above all with Rainer Werner Fassbinder . In addition to her role as Sybille, she also took on the production and recording management of Fassbinder's film In a year with 13 moons . In autumn / winter 1978 she lived with Fassbinder in an apartment at Niebuhrstrasse 78 in Berlin .

Further stations were the US television series Holocaust and at the side of Romy Schneider in a group picture with a lady (director: Aleksandar Petrović ). At international level she played a. a. in The Snake Egg by Ingmar Bergman , and in The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones (producer George Lucas ). In 1989 the French director Claude Chabrol engaged her for Silent Days in Clichy . The collaboration developed into a personal friendship and engagements in three other Chabrol films followed. In addition to her feature film roles, Isolde Barth was also repeatedly seen in German and French television productions and series .

In addition to her work as an actress, Isolde Barth also works as a speaker for radio plays and TV features . In 1998 she recorded the radio play Virginia based on the play of the same name by Edna O'Brien on Saarländischer Rundfunk . In 2004 she worked on Bayerischer Rundfunk in the radio play Badly seen, badly said with texts by Samuel Beckett , and in 2005 in the crime radio play Blackout from the series The Last Detective by Michael Koser .

Isolde Barth has been a member of the jury of the Bavarian Film Prize since 2009 .

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to the registration register of the district office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
personal data
SURNAME Barth, Isolde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barth, Isolde Maria Theresia (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Maxdorf , Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis