Karin Pfammatter

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Karin Pfammatter in 2018 as Queen Sieglinde at the Nibelungen Festival

Karin Pfammatter (born February 28, 1962 in Visp ) is a Swiss actress and radio play speaker .

Life

Karin Pfammatter first learned the profession of embassy secretary before she trained as an actress from 1982 to 1986 at the University of Music and Theater in Bern. In the 1986/87 season she made her debut in the role of Miranda im Sturm by William Shakespeare at the Aachen Theater , and in 1987/88 Pfammatter made guest appearances at the Mannheim National Theater . Permanent engagements took her to the Staatstheater Stuttgart from 1988 to 1992 , to the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf from 1993 to 1996, and from 1997 to 2000 to the Deutsche Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. After this time, Pfammatter appeared on numerous other German theaters, such as the Schauspiel Frankfurt , the Berlin Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz and the Münchner Kammerspiele , and she also appeared at the Salzburg Festival and the Schauspielhaus Zurich , where she performed from 2007 to Was committed in the early 2010s. After further guest contracts at the Zürcher Theater am Neumarkt and the Schauspiel Köln , she has been a member of the ensemble at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus again since the 2011/12 season.

Well-known roles by Pfammatter were the title characters in Penthesilea by Heinrich von Kleist , in Friedrich Schiller's Jungfrau von Orleans and in Leonce and Lena by Georg Büchner . She also played in several plays by Shakespeare, such as Cordelia in King Lear , Viola (1996 in Recklinghausen) and Olivia (in Frankfurt) in Was ihr wollt , Margarete von Anjou in Richard III. , the nurse in Romeo and Juliet or in 1997 again in the storm as the air spirit Ariel .

In 2005 Karin Pfammatter stood in front of the camera for the first time in the award-winning Swiss-Austrian co-production Snow White . Since then she has appeared on screen occasionally, including starring in three episodes of the crime series Tatort . Since the beginning of the 1990s she has also worked repeatedly for radio.

Karin Pfammatter is married to her fellow actor Oliver Reinhard .

Filmography

Radio plays (selection)

Awards

  • 1995: Sponsorship award from the Canton of Valais
  • 2017: Gustaf , Audience Award of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus

Web links

literature

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Sonja Galler: Karin Pfammatter . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1404.
  2. a b Agency profile , accessed on August 11, 2017
  3. Biography on the website of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus , accessed on August 11, 2017
  4. Regina Goldlücke: actor rewarded for their achievements , Rheinische Post July 6, 2017 , accessed on August 11, 2017