Katharina Schütz

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Katharina Schütz (born July 1956 in Bern ) is a Swiss actress , acting teacher and speaker.

Life

Education and theater

Katharina Schütz was born in Bern, Switzerland. Already in her youth she wanted to leave her Swiss homeland because she wanted “space” and “space for her ideas and fantasies”. She wanted to become an actress and went to Germany to study . From 1975 to 1978 she completed an acting training at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen .

Her first engagement as a theater actress was in the 1978/79 season at the Hildesheim City Theater . She played there in her first year a. a. in Sonny Boys (role: Nurse in a sketch, director: Harald Nikelsky), in Monsieur Chasse or How to Hunt Rabbits by Georges Feydeau (role: Babet, director: Pierre Léon), in Die Möwe (role: Mascha, director: Uwe Berend ), in Harold and Maude (role: Sunshine Doré, director: Jan Bicycki), in Marat / Sade (role: daughter Coulmier, director: Holk Freytag ) and in Outside in front of the door (role: the girl, director: Harald Nikelsky) .

In the 1979/80 season he worked for one year at the United City Theaters in Krefeld-Mönchengladbach . There she stepped u. a. in Poor Knight by Peter Hacks (role: blossom princess, director: Horst-Gottfried Wagner), in the musical Anatevka (role: Hodel, director: Frank Croszey), in the children's fairy tale Kalif Storch based on Wilhelm Hauff (role: owl princess Lusa, director: Horst-Gottfried Wagner), in Bürger Schippel by Carl Sternheim (role: Thekla, director: Horst-Gottfried Wagner) and in Turandot by Friedrich Schiller (role: Zelima, director: Horst-Gottfried Wagner).

In 1981 she took on the role of Charlotte in Molière's comedy Don Juan in the production of Norbert Schwientek at the Schwäbisch Hall open-air theater .

This was followed by guest engagements at the Lübeck Theater (1982; as Mylady de Winter in The Three Musketeers ), at the Hamburger Kammerspiele (1982/83 season; in The Downfall by Walter Jens after Die Troerinnen by Euripides , directed by Jan Aust ) and at the Zimmer Theater in Heidelberg (1988; as Linda in Spiel's again, Sam by Woody Allen , directed by Ute Richter). In 1989 she appeared again at the Hamburger Kammerspiele; she starred alongside Dieter Bach the role of President de Tourvel in Dangerous Liaisons by Christopher Hampton (Director: Kathrin Ackermann ).

In 1992 she had a guest engagement at the Westfälische Kammerspiele Paderborn ; she embodied Helena in the Trojans . In 1994 she appeared at the SeeBurgTheater in Kreuzlingen as Constanze in the Johann Nestroy poses Der Talisman . In 1995/96 she played the title role in Ariadne von Unica Zürn at the Internationale Kulturfabrik Kampnagel Hamburg . From 1997, regular appearances at the Staatstheater Oldenburg followed , for example in 1997 as a motherhundsjule with a tattoo by Dea Loher (director: Katja Czellnik ) and 1998-2000 as Donna Lucia d'Alvadores in Charley's aunt (director: Henning Rühle ).

In 2002 she made a guest appearance at Theater Lüneburg (director: Jürgen Nola ) and in 2003/2004 at Theater Kiel (director: René Heinersdorff ) as chairwoman of the opera guild in the comedy Otello must not burst by Ken Ludwig . In 2008 she appeared at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven in a stage version of Dogville by Lars von Trier as Gloria. In 2012 she took on the role of director Hassenreuter in The Rats by Gerhart Hauptmann (director: Angelika Zacek ) at the Schleswig-Holstein State Theater .

From July 2018 she played in the Serbenhalle (Raxwerke) in Wiener Neustadt a . a. the court councilor Ida Schwarz-Gelber in The Last Days of Mankind by Karl Kraus in the staging by Paulus Manker .

Movie and TV

Since the early 1980s, Schütz has also been active as an actress in feature films , television films and television series . The main focus of her film activity was television .

In the television series Schwarz Rot Gold , she was seen in two episodes in 1982 and 1984 in the role of investigator Frau Lenius. In 1989 she took on the role of psychiatrist Gerda Ruchti in the movie Johnny Assault Rifle . In 1991, she played in The Great Bellheim by Dieter Wedel with. 1991-1993 she had a continuous series lead role as mother Sonja Brendel in the children's series Neues vom Süderhof . In 1998 she was seen in the movie David in Wonderland . She played Dr. Elisabeth Kramer, the single mother of Michael Kramer, a young man from a wealthy family, who begins an unusual friendship with a boy from a strictly religious sect.

This was followed by numerous serial episode roles in Stadtklinik (1998; as mother and wife Erika Schumpeter), two men at the stove (1999; as Ricki's mother), double engagement (2001), alpha team - the lifesavers in the operating room (2001 as Annegret Maywald, mother of the pupil and rapist Karsten Maywald giving her son a false alibi), the Air rescue Team (2002; as a publishing boss Claire crown), SOKO Leipzig (2004; as a kidnap victim Andrea Kreimayer) the pound guy as a marriage candidate Ingrid of consolation) and (2005 comes Da Kalle (2010; as a pyramid player Mrs. König).

In addition, she had smaller roles in the television films Help, I'm a Millionaire (2003; as a realtor Mrs. Willuweit), Yesterday does not exist (2003; as a friend Britta Hollmann next to Suzanne von Borsody ), The woman at the end of the street (2006; Director: Claudia Garde , as a librarian in a public lending library) and Wie ein Licht im Nacht (2010; Direction: Florian Baxmeyer , as second wife Lisa Binder).

From 2009 to 2016 she had a recurring series role as school director Marlies Schröder-Hartmann in the youth series Die Pfefferkörner .

In 2012, she played the role of the seedy pharmacist Bernadette Sorge in the television film The Dead Man and the Sea in the ZDF crime series Das Duo . In March 2015, she was seen in the ZDF series Sibel & Max in a supporting role. She played Ms. Bendix, the former neighbor of the series character Olaf Jensen. In the movie Freistatt (2015) she was Mrs. Brockmann, the wife of the home manager, and in episode 7 It's Never Over in the TV series Stralsund (director: Christine Hartmann ) the prison director.

Teaching activity and speaker

In addition to her work as an actress, Schütz has been working as an acting teacher for many years. She also gives body language seminars and works as a coach .

For many years Katharina Schütz has also appeared with readings and literary reading evenings. Her repertoire ranges from William Shakespeare to the classical texts of literary modernism. She reads u. a. Albert Cohen , Thomas Bernhard , Mário de Andrade and Bruno Schulz . She is now a specialist in modern literature from China and reads Guo Xiaolu , Yu Hua , Liao Yiwu and the Nobel Prize for Literature Mo Yan . She often puts women's texts at the center of her readings; Her programs include texts by Marguerite Duras , Annemarie Schwarzenbach , Hannah Arendt , Swetlana Alexijewitsch (2011 at the Harbourfront Literature Festival in Hamburg), Olga Tokarczuk , Anne Carson , Rosa Schapire and Helene Hanff .

In the 2017/18 season she reads regularly in the Allee Theater in Hamburg in the event series “Moments of pleasure of a special kind”, which takes place irregularly once a month.

Schütz has lived in Hamburg for many years. In her private life, she especially feels at home in the Schanzenviertel because of the flair . In addition to Swiss citizenship, she also has German citizenship.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e MEIN HAMBURG: Katharina Schütz (51) in: Hamburger Morgenpost from February 28, 2008. Accessed on March 15, 2015
  2. a b Katharina Schütz . Profile and vita at Schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved March 15, 2015
  3. ^ Annemarie Schwarzenbach - Events Initiative Literature
  4. Hannah Arendt: "Thinking without railing" ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Körber Foundation @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.koerber-stiftung.de
  5. Harbourfront Literature Festival 2011 . Program booklet. Retrieved October 6, 2015
  6. PLEASURE MOMENTS OF A SPECIAL KIND . Program of the event series. Retrieved January 26, 2018.