Karin Boyd
Karin Boyd (* 1953 in East Berlin ) is a German actress and theater director .
life and work
Karin Boyd is the child of an American soldier and a Berliner. She completed a three-year acting course at the State Drama School in Rostock , followed by additional vocal training in the chanson department at the Friedrichshain Music School in East Berlin. After engagements at several small theaters, she came to the Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin in 1973 , where she played for ten years. In addition, she also had her first film and television assignments for the East German DEFA and television in the GDR . She made her breakthrough as an actress in 1981 in the role of the dancer Juliette Martens in István Szabó's Oscar- winning film Mephisto alongside Klaus Maria Brandauer .
In 1983, after her application to leave the country had been approved , she moved to West Germany with her son, and from then on played on German theaters, but also appeared in television series such as Ein Fall für Zwei and Die Sitte . In addition, she moderated various television formats in the 1990s.
Karin Boyd lives in Munich .
Filmography (selection)
- 1969: time to live
- 1974: Visa for Ocantros (TV)
- 1976: So many songs, so many words
- 1977: The Marquise (TV)
- 1978: Closed Society (TV film)
- 1978: Oh, that aunt (TV)
- 1978: The Invisible Visor : King Kong Flu (TV series)
- 1979: Encrypted to boss - failure no.5
- 1980: Early Summer (TV Movie)
- 1981: Mephisto
- 1982: Monsieur remains in the shadows (TV)
- 1985: A case for two : Little Red Riding Hood
- 1986: Roncalli (TV series)
- 1986: Germans are white, Negroes cannot be Germans (TV documentary)
- 1987: Duet in Bonn (TV series)
- 1988: Wild West inclusive (TV series)
- 1989: Beyond Blue
- 1996: The Seal of Death (TV)
- 1996: As long as there is love (TV series)
- 1996: The Dream Ship - Singapore (TV Series)
- 1998: Stolen Innocence (TV)
- 2000: Police call 110: Forgive me (TV)
- 2001: Customs (TV Series)
- 2006: Heaven over Australia (TV)
- 2008: One year in winter
theatre
- 1977: Rudi Strahl : Arno Prinz von Wolkenstein or Kader decide everything - Director: Karl Gassauer ( Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin )
Awards
- 1993: Hersfeld Prize
Web links
- Karin Boyd in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official homepage of the actress
Individual evidence
- ^ Frank-Burkhard Habel , Volker Wachter : The great lexicon of the GDR stars. The actors from film and television. Extended new edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89602-391-8 .
- ↑ Karin Boyd in: Hersfeld Prize
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boyd, Karin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Afro-German actress and theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |