Karin Hardt

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Karin Hardt (left) and Hilde Körber in the film Via Mala (1945)

Karin Therese Meta Hardt (born April 28, 1910 in Altona , † March 5, 1992 in Berlin ) was a German actress .

Life

The merchant's daughter initially took private acting lessons from Alex Otto and received theater engagements in Mönchengladbach, Rheydt and Altenburg. In 1931 she made her film debut with Father Goes on Travel and quickly became a popular star in the years to come. Among her best-known films of the 1930 year include A certain Mr. Gran (1933) next to Hans Albers , Barcarolle (1935), The detours of the beautiful Karl (1938) and people from the music hall (1939), where she was naive blonde competitor of La Jana used has been. In the war years, the film engagements became rarer. She acted among others in Kameraden (1941) and Via Mala (1944).

After the war, there were only a few other film appearances such as Queen in Fritz Genschow's fairy tale film Sleeping Beauty (1955), next to Horst Buchholz in Endstation Liebe (1957) and next to Kirk Douglas in City without Pity (1961). Instead she played mainly on stage again, among others in Berlin, Hamburg, Aachen and Cologne.

From the 1960s , she was increasingly offered roles in television. After roles in the series Bei Uns zu Haus (1963), Der Forellenhof (1965), The Enterprises of Mr. Hans (1976) and as a grandmother in A Year Without a Sunday as well as films such as Beautiful Gigolo, Poor Gigolo (1979; directed by David Hemmings ) she played the housekeeper Käti in the successful ZDF series Die Schwarzwaldklinik from 1985 to 1986 and in 1988 the mother of Robert Liebling in the ARD series Liebling Kreuzberg . In 1991 she stood in front of the camera one last time for Mrs. Harris and the marriage fraud at Inge Meysel's side . She also played the Countess of Strelenau in the television series Die Wicherts next door .

Karin Hardt was married to the director Erich Waschneck from 1933 . Her second, later divorced, marriage was with Rolf von Goth . In 1983 she received the gold film tape for many years of outstanding work in German film.

Her grave is in the Wilmersdorf cemetery in Berlin , anonymous burial.

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personal data
SURNAME Hardt, Karin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hardt, Karin Therese Meta (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1992
Place of death Berlin