Karin Giegerich

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Karin Giegerich

Karin Giegerich (born May 15, 1963 in Sorengo , Canton Ticino , Switzerland ) is a German actress who works for both theater and film.

Life

Karin Giegerich was born as the daughter of a German diplomat in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland . She grew up bilingual with Italian and German.

She graduated from the European School in Varese , Italy. She then completed her training as an actress at the Accademia dei Filodrammatici in Milan , which she graduated in 1985. She also attended theater courses in Pontedera with Jerzy Grotowski and later with Peter Brook . She then first played with a few experimental theater groups. In 1988 she founded her own theater company Ideatrucco, with which she staged several of her own productions between 1988 and 1991, combining improvisational theater with dance elements in her productions. She has appeared in Milan and Rome and has worked with well-known Italian directors, including Giorgio Strehler at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano , where she appeared in Pirandello's Come tu mi vuoi and Goldoni's La baruffe chiozzotte .

From 1994 Giegerich shifted her acting activities increasingly to the German-speaking area. Her work for German television began in 1994 with the film Grandmothers Courage . In 1996/1997 she played a committed journalist in the Sat.1 multi-part series Der König von St. Pauli by Dieter Wedel .

In the period that followed, Giegerich took on several main, episode and guest roles in various television series; for example she was out of the blue as Klara Grund , as pediatrician Dr. Beatrice Sander in the operating room calls Dr. Bruckner , as power-obsessed Katharina van der Looh in the ZDF television series Velvet and Silk and as forensic doctor Dr. Angelika Meindl can be seen in several episodes of SOKO Vienna .

ZDF cast Giegerich in 2008 in the television film Wedding in Hardingsholm from the Inga Lindström television series and in 2009 in the television film Second Spring based on a novel by Joanna Trollope .

Karin Giegerich has also appeared in front of the camera in several Italian, French and international cinema and television productions. She lives in Milan and Berlin .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Karin Giegerich's tightrope walk: Milan and Berlin" , Welt Online, November 21, 2000, last accessed on April 3, 2011
  2. ↑ Portrait Karin Giegerich , Press Partner Preiss
  3. ↑ See Giegerich's own website
personal data
SURNAME Giegerich, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film and theater actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Sorengo , Canton Ticino , Switzerland