Karin Huebner

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Karin Hübner (born September 16, 1936 in Gera ; † July 25, 2006 in Munich ) was a German actress .

Life

Karin Hübner, whose parents were both opera singers, grew up in Michendorf near Potsdam. After graduating from high school in 1953, she took singing and acting lessons at the Max Reinhardt Drama School in Berlin and worked as a singer and actress in the following years. In 1954 she was engaged at the Munster Municipal Theaters , then in Bremen and Berlin. She made her film debut with the title role in the DEFA film adaptation of Emilia Galotti based on Gotthold Ephraim Lessing .

In 1958 she played one of the leading roles alongside René Kollo, Wolfgang Gruner and the "porcupines", Marguerite Kollo, Edith Schollwer, Bruno Fritz and others. v. a. in the feature film "Solang noch Unterst Linden", produced by Willi Kollo, which documents the life of the composer Walter Kollo and Berlin from 1900 to 1945.

Despite a few other leading roles, she did not succeed in establishing herself as a film actress.

She celebrated a great triumph with the role of Eliza Doolittle from October 1961 at the side of Paul Hubschmid as Professor Henry Higgins in Frederick Loewe's musical My Fair Lady , in which she appeared about 850 times until 1965. In 1968 her husband at the time Frank Duval produced the 30-minute radio play "The Four Sisters" based on Anton Chekhov and with Erika von Thellmann , the singer Alexandra and Ivan Rebroff in other roles. Until the mid-1970s she performed at Munich boulevard theaters, among others. After numerous successes as a musical, film and television actress as well as a singer, she then withdrew from the stage for private reasons.

A suicide attempt by setting fire to her apartment in 1982 resulted in her being sentenced to six months probation for negligent arson. In 1983 she failed as a director with her staging of Under the Stairs . Charles Dyer's tragic-comical two-person play was panned by the press and fell through with the public. She then appeared again as an actress in the mid-1980s, including in Neil Simon's successful play Pfefferkuchen und Gin in the 1984/85 season at the Munich Boulevard Theater . In 1987, Hübner declared her final departure from the stage.

The actress was married to the director Peter Beauvais , the actor Günter Pfitzmann and the composer Frank Duval . She had a daughter from her marriage to Beauvais.

Her grave is in the Ottobrunn cemetery .

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SURNAME Huebner, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 2006
Place of death Munich