Karin Neuhauser

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Karin Neuhäuser (* 1955 in Leonberg ) is a German actress and theater director .

Life

Family and studies

Neuhäuser comes from a modest, middle-class background. Her parents came from the Sudetenland . After the Second World War, they initially fled to the vicinity of Brandenburg as displaced persons . At the beginning of the 1950s they moved with three children to Baden-Württemberg , to Renningen , southwest of Stuttgart . Neuhäuser was the fifth child in the family. When she was five and a half years, her father died. From then on, the mother raised the children alone.

After graduating from high school, Neuhäuser began studying teaching at the University of Tübingen , majoring in education as well as English and German . After eight semesters of study, she applied to the Berlin University of the Arts for an acting course, but was rejected.

theatre

Neuhäuser then received her acting training at the Westphalian Drama School in Bochum . She had her first theater engagement at the Schlosstheater Moers (1984–1988), during the artistic direction of Holk Freytag . With him she moved to the Wuppertaler Bühnen in 1988 ; there she was permanently engaged from 1988 to 1991. She played there u. a. 1990 Gretchen in Faust , with Josef Ostendorf as Mephisto. Another long-term permanent engagement at the Theater an der Ruhr with Roberto Ciulli (1992–1999) followed. Under Ciulli she played a. a. the landowner Lyubow Andrejewna Ranjewskaja in Anton Chekhov's play The Cherry Orchard . The production premiered in the spring of 1997. With this production she made a guest appearance. a. in Belgrade (1997), Bogotá (1998), Sarajevo (1998) and Tehran (1999).

She had other engagements at the Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (1999/2000) and at the Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz in Berlin . At the Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin she played a. a. the male title role in Richard III. directed by Johann Kresnik .

From 2002 to 2005 she was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Schauspielhaus Zürich under the direction of Christoph Marthaler . There she worked with Isabel Osthues , Meret Matter , Christoph Marthaler, Stefan Pucher , Jan Bosse and Falk Richter, among others . There she played Grete in The Presidents by Werner Schwab (director: Jan Bosse; premiere: January 2005), Polina Andrejewna in Chekhov's Die Möwe (director: Falk Richter; with Sylvester Groth as Doctor Dorn), the male role of Governor Geßler in Wilhelm Tell (2003; directed by Meret Matter) and Athene in Stefan Pucher's production of Orestie (2004).

At the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz in Berlin, she worked with Falk Richter again from 2004, and especially with Luk Perceval . Her roles at the Schaubühne again included Polina Andrejewna in Chekhov's Die Möwe (director: Falk Richter, 2004), Anna Petrovna in Chekhov's Platonow (director: Luk Perceval, 2006) and various roles in Luc Perceval's Molière project (2007; with texts by Feridun Zaimoglu , Günter Senkel and Luk Perceval). At the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt she appeared from January 2007 to May 2009 as Mrs. Peachum in Brecht / Weill's Die Dreigroschenoper .

Neuhäuser has been a permanent member of the Thalia Theater in Hamburg since the 2009/10 season . She played there so far u. a. the wet nurse in Romeo and Juliet (season 2014/15), the judge Walter (here: a female figure as judge Walter) in Der zerbrochne Krug (season 2012/13), Miss Juliane Tesman in Hedda Gabler (premiere: season 2013 / 14) and Harro Hassenreuther, a male role, in Die Ratten (premiere: 2013/14 season).

Activity as a theater director

Neuhäuser has worked as a theater director since 2000. At the Städtische Bühnen Münster she staged a. a. Medea , Maria Stuart , What You Will and Three Sisters . She made other productions at the Schauspiel Frankfurt (season 2004/05 Nathan der Weise and 2006 Die Orestie von Aischylos ), at the Staatstheater Kassel (2004/05; Lost Paradise by Clifford Odets ) and at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus . In the 2012/13 season she realized a production of Spring Awakening at Thalia in Gaußstrasse with drama students from the Hamburg Theater Academy for their graduation . In the 2014/15 season she directed Hedda Gabler at the Schauspiel Köln .

Movie and TV

Since the early 1980s, Neuhäuser has also taken on film and television roles again and again. However, the focus of her work is still on theater work. She came to film through the director Klaus Emmerich . This hired Neuhäuser in 1982 for the role of the Ruhrpott woman Erna Stanek in his multi-part family saga Rote Erde (1983). Since then she has had roles in various film and television productions, including a. in Anniversaries (1999, as Sister Magdalena; Director: Margarethe von Trotta ), Mein Vater (2002; Director: Andreas Kleinert ), All Men Are Criminals (2005; Director: Stefan Wagner ), in the feature film Mein Kampf (2009; as Woman Merschmeyer, butcher's wife and head of the men's dormitory where Adolf Hitler is staying) and in the movie Henri 4 (2010; as a wet nurse). In the movie Emmas Glück (2006; director: Sven Taddicken ) she played the alcohol addicted mother of the village police officer Henner.

Neuhäuser had continuous series roles as coroner Dr. Melanie Heitmann in the Sat1 crime series Der Elefant - Mord never expires (2002–2004; with Thomas Sarbacher as partner) and as the tough lawyer Christine Koller in the RTL television series Die Familienanwältin , alongside Mariele Millowitsch .

Neuhäuser was also in the television films Nice Neighbors You Don't Kiss (2006; as an alcoholic wife Jutta Blaubach), Auf dem Vulkan (2007, as a doctor Dr. Hennig), Mein Gott, Anna! (2008; as deaconess superior Gundula Schwertfeger), house and child (2009; as wife of the Israeli history professor Dr. Schellhorn) and Rosanna's daughter (2010; as university professor and project leader Lydia). In the television film Up to the End of the World , which was broadcast for the first time in November 2014 in the ARD theme week “Tolerance”, Neuhäuser played the aging shop owner Brigitte König, alongside Christiane Hörbiger , who spoke out against the discrimination and threats of Roma -Family in which their own son is involved turns. In the TV film Tell Me Nothing (first broadcast: December 2016) she played the editor-in-chief Doris Mannkopf, the boss of the male main character Martin. In the Berlin Tatort: ​​The Afterlife (first broadcast: November 2019) Neuhäuser embodied the “rock-hard” landlady Petra Olschweski, who is in a noticeable hurry to have the apartment, which could be the scene of a crime, cleaned. The Stuttgarter Nachrichten awarded Neuhauser the title of “minor figure of the year” in their review.

Awards

Neuhäuser has received several awards for her acting achievements. She received the award "Best Actress" (Theatertreffen NRW Bonn, 1997 and Internationales Theatertreffen Sarajevo, 1998), the Theater Prize of the Association of German Critics (1998) and the Gordana Kosanović Actor Prize (2006; for her Orestie staging at the Schauspiel Frankfurt) .

For her role in Stefan Pucher's theater project Andersen. Trip Between Worlds at the Thalia Theater, Karin Neuhäuser received the Rolf Mares Prize in 2010 in the category “Exceptional Performances Actresses”.

As part of the Faust Awards 2017 she was awarded the German Theater Prize Der Faust in the category Best Acting Performance in Drama for Wut / Rage at the Thalia Theater Hamburg.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karin Neuhäuser . Vita. Official website of the Schaubühne at Lehniner Platz . Retrieved December 25, 2014
  2. ↑ THE THREE PUNCH OPERA Press reviews. . Official website of the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt. Retrieved December 25, 2014
  3. ↑ "Tatort: ​​Life after Death" - meanness and loneliness on ARD . TV review. In: Frankfurter Rundschau of November 10, 2019. Accessed November 10, 2019.
  4. ^ TATORT KRITIK: "Life after death": This is how the Berlin crime scene is today . In: Augsburger Allgemeine of November 10, 2019. Accessed November 10, 2019.
  5. ↑ Crime scene review: "Life after death": Cheers bile juice liqueur! . TV review. In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten of November 10, 2019. Retrieved on November 10, 2019.
  6. ↑ The Oresteia. Gordana Kosanovic Theater Prize for Karin Neuhäuser . Official website of the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt. Retrieved December 25, 2014
  7. ^ German Theater Prize DER FAUST 2017: The winners . Press release of November 3, 2017, accessed on November 3, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Neuhauser, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Leonberg