Karla Runkehl
Karla Runkehl , also Carla Runkehl (born November 7, 1930 in Stettin , † December 24, 1986 in Kleinmachnow ) was a German actress.
Life
She left high school in Greifswald prematurely and moved to Berlin in 1947. There she received acting lessons in the DEFA's junior studio , which she graduated with the state examination in 1951. In the 1951/52 season she made her debut at the Deutsches Theater as a housemaid in George Bernhard Shaw's Pygmalion . She later played as Lidi in Der Putenhirt by Julius Hay and in 1958 as Lowise in Peter Hack's Der Müller von Sanssouci . Guest performances have taken her to the Dresden State Theater, the Rostock Volkstheater as well as to Bremen and Stettin.
Karla Runkehl also appeared in films as early as 1950. She became known as Änne Harms in the two-part propaganda large-scale production about the life of the communist leader Ernst Thälmann . Her portrayal of the career from a Hamburg worker girl to a woman and mother with a stable personality and politics was considered the epitome of the socialist image of women. The following films stylized her as role models for the GDR youth. In 1959 she received the GDR Art Prize .
In later years, Karla Runkehl became a supporting actress again. She died at the age of 56 and is buried in the Kleinmachnow forest cemetery.
Filmography
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literature
- Heinz Hofmann: Karla Runkehl (artist of our time). Henschelverlag, Berlin 1959
Web links
- Karla Runkehl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Karla Runkehl at filmportal.de
- Karla Runkehl at www.defa-sternstunden.de
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| SURNAME | Runkehl, Karla |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Runkehl, Carla |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szczecin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 1986 |
| Place of death | Kleinmachnow |