Katharina Thalbach

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Katharina Thalbach pronunciation ? / i (born January 19, 1954 in East Berlin , bourgeois Katharina Joachim called Thalbach ) is a German actress , director , audio book and radio play speaker and dubbing artist . Audio file / audio sample

Life

Origin and beginnings

Katharina Thalbach comes from a theater family, her father was the director Benno Besson , her mother was the actress Sabine Thalbach . The actor Pierre Besson and the director Philippe Besson are her half-brothers, her stepmother is Ursula Karusseit . Her daughter Anna Thalbach (from the relationship with the actor Vladimir Weigl ) is also an actress, as is her granddaughter Nellie Thalbach . She grew up in the theater environment; she often accompanied her mother to the theater. Since she was five, Katharina Thalbach has been on stage and starred in films. After her mother's death in 1966, Helene Weigel , Bertolt Brecht's widow , took care of her acting training and offered her a master class contract at the Berliner Ensemble . During her school days she also received acting lessons from Doris Thalmer .

Acting career in the GDR

At the age of four, Katharina Thalbach made her film debut in the television film Encounters in the Dark (1958). Several times she continued to stand in front of the camera as a child, u. a. in Judged by Night , directed by Hans-Joachim Kasprzik in the role of Elfi Wagner. She had her first major child role with the role of Tini in It's an Old Story (1961; Director: Lothar Warneke ). In the following years she played in other television productions, for example in The Last Chance (1962) and in the two-parter Der Neue (1963/64), where she appeared next to her mother.

She made her debut at the Berliner Ensemble at the age of 15 as the whore Betty in Erich Engels' production of the world success Brecht / Weill's Die Dreigroschenoper . In December 1969 she played her first major theater role; she took over the Polly and was celebrated as a discovery. She continued to play with the Berliner Ensemble until 1971. After graduating from the Max-Planck-Oberschule in 1971 and completing the stage maturity examination, she was under contract at the Berliner Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz until 1974 , where she had great successes. a. in the double role as Venus / Galatea in The beautiful Helena (arrangement: Peter Hacks , 1972). Further stage roles at the Volksbühne were Desdemona in Othello (1972; alongside Rolf Ludwig in the title role) and Mira in the GDR premiere of the play Speckhut by Francisco Pereira da Silva (1974). She worked with the directors Matthias Langhoff and Manfred Karge at the Berliner Volksbühne . In 1974 she terminated her contract there. In September 1975 she returned to the Berliner Ensemble.

From the beginning of the 1970s, she played in several GDR films as an adult. In 1973 she played the young pregnant wife of a soldier in Konrad Wolf's tragic comedy The Naked Man on the Sports Field (1974). In the multi-part television series Die Frauen der Wardins (1974) about the fate of a Brandenburg farming family from the village of Barnekow, she played the farmer's daughter Maria, whose love for a communist worker ended in suicide. In 1974 she lent her voice to the actress Magda Vasary in the role of Ottilie in the GDR dubbed version of Siegfried Kühn's literary film adaptation Wahlverwandschaften .

In the GDR she then received her most important film roles from Egon Günther. In Lotte in Weimar (1975) she played a “concise” (Habel / Wachter) supporting role, Ottilie von Pogwisch. In 1976 she took on a leading role as Lotte in the film The Sorrows of Young Werther .

In December 1976 Thalbach and her partner, the writer Thomas Brasch (1945–2001), moved from East to West Berlin as a result of their protest against Wolf Biermann's expatriation . In 1976, the then unofficial employee (IM) Anetta Kahane described the brothers Thomas and Klaus Brasch as "enemies of the GDR" in a report for the GDR State Security .

Acting career in the Federal Republic of Germany

Theater works

Katharina Thalbach alongside Rainer Höynck at the Berlin Theatertreffen in the 1980s

After moving to the western part of Berlin, she initially had theater engagements at the Schillertheater Berlin (1977/78 and 1981 season), at the stages of the city of Cologne (1979/80 season) and at the Schauspielhaus Zurich (since 1983).

At the Schiller Theater she played the title role in the world premiere of the play Lovely Rita by Thomas Brasch (1977, director: Niels-Peter Rudolph ) and the Prothoe in Penthesilea (1981, director: Hans Neuenfels ). In 1978 she appeared at the Berlin Schloßparktheater as Adelheid in Hans Lietzau's production of Hauptmann's Der Biberpelz . In the 1979/1980 season she appeared in a production by Jürgen Flimm at the Schauspiel Köln in the title role of Kleist's Das Käthchen von Heilbronn . For her portrayal of Käthchen she was voted "Actress of the Year" in 1980 by the critics of Theater heute magazine .

In the 1983/1984 season she made guest appearances at the Schauspielhaus Zürich as Ophelia in Hamlet (director: Benno Besson) and as the girl Oi in Brasch's play Mercedes (director: Matthias Langhoff). In the 1984/1985 season she took over the viola in the Shakespeare comedy What you want at the Schiller Theater Berlin (director: Ernst Wendt ).

Until it was dissolved by the Berlin Senate in the early 1990s, Katharina Thalbach was an ensemble member and director of the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin , which ran the Schiller Theater and the Schloßparktheater . On the day of the dissolution in 1993, Katharina Thalbach played the leading role in the theater premiere of the play Weißalles und Dickedumm by Coline Serreau (director: Benno Besson). Thalbach's other stage roles were the title role in Mother Courage and Her Children (1995; Wiener Festwochen , director: Jérôme Savary ), mother John in Die Ratten (1997; Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, director: Uwe Eric Laufenberg ) and the title role in Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe (1998; Schauspielhaus Zürich, director: Benno Besson).

In the 2003/2004 season she took on the role of Frau Schmidt in the world premiere of the play Koala Lumpur by David Lindemann at the Schauspielhaus Bochum ; She also played Falstaff in Shakespeare's Henry IV in a travesty role in 2004 , in a production by Wilfried Minks . In 2005 she appeared at the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam in a stage version by Mrs. Jenny Treibel (text version and director: Uwe Eric Laufenberg) in the title role. In 2006 Emanuel Striese / Luise Striese in Der Raub der Sabinerinnen (director: Uwe Eric Laufenberg) followed, and in 2008 Elisabeth I in Maria Stuart (director: Petra Luisa Meyer ). In 2006 she appeared at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm as Aunt Augusta in Oscar Wilde's salon comedy Ernst sein ist alles .

Katharina Thalbach, 2012

Later Thalbach often appeared in "family productions" in which her family members were involved as directors or actors, for example in 2014 at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm in the production of the Red Rooster in Beaver Fur , where she played the mother Wolffen and hers as well Daughter, her granddaughter and her two half-brothers participated.

In 2016 she was involved with her daughter Anna and her granddaughter Nellie in the comedy on Kurfürstendamm in the staging of Tennessee Williams ' play The Glass Menagerie . Nellie starred in the role of Laura Wingfield, Anna played her mother while she directed. At the Berlin Schiller Theater she was again in the theater comedy Hase, Hase by Coline Serreau with the whole family (including half-brothers Besson) in the 2018/19 season .

Since the late 1980s, Thalbach has also emerged as a theater director, making a name for herself in particular with the staging of Shakespeare and Brecht plays. Her directorial work includes a .: Macbeth (1987; Schiller-Theater Werkstatt), Brechts Lux in Tenebris (1988; Münchner Volkstheater , three one-act plays) Mann ist Mann (1989; Thalia-Theater, which was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen), Romeo and Juliet (1990; Schiller Theater Berlin), Minna von Barnhelm (1991; Schiller Theater Berlin), As You Like It (1993; Schiller Theater Berlin) and The Threepenny Opera (1994; Thalia Theater Hamburg, with Dominique Horwitz ). In 1996, she staged at Berlin's Maxim Gorki Theater , the Zuckmayer -Stück The Captain of Koepenick with Harald Juhnke in the title role, for which she stepped in temporarily in the lead role. In 1997 Molières Don Juan followed with Michael Maertens in the title role. In 2000 she staged Chekhov's Die Möwe at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin . At the Volkstheater Rostock she staged Schönthan's The Robbery of the Sabine Women in 2003 and played the role of Luise Gollwitz / Striese herself.

Other theater productions of her own were: Romeo and Juliet (2003; Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin) and As You Like It (2009; Theater am Kurfürstendamm), where she cast all roles in the play exclusively with women (including Katy Karrenbauer, Jana Klinge , Inga Busch and Anna Thalbach) and also played along.

In the field of music theater she staged a. a. Don Giovanni (1997; E-Werk Berlin), The Cunning Little Vixen (2000; Deutsche Oper Berlin), Orpheus in the Underworld (2002; Theater Basel ), Salome (2004; Cologne Opera House), Hansel and Gretel (2006; Dresden State Opera) , Jenůfa (2007; Cologne Opera House), Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (2011; Cologne Opera House) and Midsummer Night's Dream (2015; Grand Théâtre Genève).

Movie and TV

After moving to the Federal Republic of Germany, Thalbach immediately received film roles in West Germany. Mostly she played dominant women who rebel against society, fight against grievances and take their fate into their own hands. In the film The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (1978), Margarethe von Trotta's first independent work as a director , Thalbach played the shy young bank clerk Lisa, who independently researched a bank robbery and tracked down the perpetrator, but finally covered her up. In Eberhard Fechner's directorial debut Winterspelt 1944 (1978) in the Eifel in autumn 1944 , the film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Alfred Andersch , she embodied the life-wise and reason-oriented Käthe Lenk, who influences and controls a German officer with whom she has a relationship . In the Grass film adaptation of Die Blechtrommel (1979) she played the neighboring daughter Maria Truczinski, who helped little Oskar Matzerath to have his first sexual experiences and who was eventually impregnated by Oskar's father Alfred. In the multi-part television film Theodor Chindler (1979) by Hans W. Geißendörfer , she was Margarete, the young, revolutionary daughter of the Reichstag member Theodor Chindler. In Thomas Brasch's debut film Engel aus Eisen (1981), a cinematic portrayal of the fate of the Berlin Gladow gang in Berlin at the end of the 1940s, she played the young Lisa, who was actually aiming for a career as a singer, but then more or less accidentally took part in the robberies and becomes a member of the Gladow gang. In the four-part television series Fathers and Sons (1986) she was Elli Deutz. In 1988 she played Tamara in For example Otto Spalt at Otto Sander's side .

After the fall of the Wall, Thalbach continued to work in the theater as well as in film and television.

In Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (1997) she embodied Marie Hoprecht. In the erotic psycho thriller Solo for Clarinet (1998) she was Louise Bethmann. In Leander Haußmanns Sonnenallee (1999) she portrayed Doris Ehrenreich, the mother of the main male character Micha. In Tatort: ​​Martinsfeuer (first broadcast: December 1999) she played as an alcoholic dreaming of youth, Elsie Antes, who met her young competitor Nadja ( Cosma Shiva Hagen ) fights over their lover, ex-male hustler Leon, who plays the leading role in the episode.

She played the actress Therese Giehse in the three-part television film The Manns - A Novel of the Century (2001) . In Rainer Kaufmann's The Job of his Life (2003) and its sequel, The Job of His Life 2 - Again in the office of Hajo Gies , she embodied Erika Strunz, the wife of the long-term unemployed Erwin Strunz ( Wolfgang Stumph ), who is mistaken for Prime Minister. In the film adaptation of the Schiller play Kabale und Liebe (2005) she was seen as Mrs. Miller. In Polizeiruf 110: Dettmanns wide world (first broadcast: February 2005) she played the freight forwarder Charlotte Pelzer. In The Robber Hotzenplotz (2006) she played the woman Schlotterbeck. In the following year she could be seen as Dolores Blumentritt, the grandma Dolly, in Detlev Buck's Hands Off Mississippi . In the same year Thalbach embodied Rumpelstiltskin in the film of the same name .

Since 2010 she has played Mademoiselle Bertoux in the films about Hanni & Nanni . In Die Vermessung der Welt (2012) she was Dorothea Gauß, the mother of Carl Friedrich Gauß . In the film adaptations of the novels Rubinrot (2013), Saphirblau (2014) and Smaragdgrün (2016) from the book series Love goes through all times by Kerstin Gier , she took on the role of Madeleine “Maddy” Montrose. In the role of aunt Agatha Ardry she has been playing alongside Fritz Karl in the ZDF series Inspektor Jury since 2014 .

In Till Schweiger's Honig im Kopf (2014) she embodied Vivian. In the Hape Kerkeling film I am gone (2015) she played grandma Bertha. In the two-part ZDF drama Family! with Iris Berben , Anna Maria Mühe and Jürgen Vogel in the leading roles, which was first broadcast in October 2016, Thalbach played Doris Dombrowski, who comes from the working class and the mother of the main character Melanie. In the socially critical milieu film Wir sind die Rosinskis (2016) she was seen for the first time on television with her daughter Anna and granddaughter Nellie, she plays one of the leading roles with them as Angelika Rosinski. In the musical film I was never in New York , which was released in German cinemas in October 2019, she played the senior Maria Wartberg, who lost memory after falling in her apartment and went to hospital to find her unfulfilled lifelong dream of New York remind. This role earned her the Ernst Lubitsch Prize in 2020 .

Speaking activities

Katharina Thalbach with Stefanie Kloß, Iris Berben and Alexandra Maria Lara at the European premiere of Sing , 2016

In addition to her work in the theater and in film and television, she has recorded numerous audio book and radio play productions, including several works by the British fantasy writer Terry Pratchett and the children's book author Mary Norton . In addition, she also spoke classical works, such as William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet or Heinrich Heine's Germany. A winterstory. . In 2014 she received the German Audio Book Prize and the German Children's Audio Book Prize BEO from the children's jury for her interpretation of Guy Bass ' children's audio book Stichkopf and the Schaulfinder . In the same year she published her personal audio book All Years Again !? Christmas with the Thalbach family , published by the Random House publishing group .

She also works as a voice actress. She lent her voice to Zoe Caldwell in the role of President of the High Council for the 42nd feature-length Walt Disney film Lilo & Stitch (2002). In The Little Raven Sock and its sequel, The Little Raven Sock 2 - The Big Race , she spoke to Mrs. Badger. In the US computer animation film Sing (2016) she took on the speaking role of the green iguana Matilda Crawly.

Memberships

Thalbach has been a member of the Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg since 1995 and of the Berlin Academy of the Arts since 1999 . In 2003 she was one of the founding members of the German Film Academy .

Private

At the age of 15, Katharina Thalbach met the writer Thomas Brasch , with whom she was together for thirty-three years until his death in 2001. She was briefly in a relationship with her fellow actors Detlev Buck and Fabian Krüger . Since 2002 she has been with the Berlin gourmet chef Uwe Hamacher, whom she met while filming Niki Stein's television thriller Die Quittung (2003) - she played the role of Commissioner Wartenberg. In July 2020, it was announced that the two married after an eighteen-year liaison. She lives in Berlin .

Filmography

movie theater

Television (selection)

Theater roles (selection)

Directorial work (selection)

Speaker in audio books (selection)

Synchronization (selection)

Singing / speaker in pieces of music

Awards

Thalbach at the inauguration of her star on the Boulevard der Stars in Berlin with the then Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit , 2012

literature

Web links

Commons : Katharina Thalbach  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katharina Thalbach in an interview. (No longer available online.) In: Gewandhaus-Magazin, issue no. 78. Gewandhaus Leipzig , archived from the original on July 25, 2014 ; Retrieved July 19, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Uwe Müller : Birthler authorities invited Stasi informers. Welt Online , September 25, 2007, accessed October 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Katharina, daughter Anna and granddaughter Nellie Thalbach celebrate their premiere in the "Theater am Kurfürstendamm". A three-generation conversation. in: morgenpost.de from March 3, 2016; accessed on August 8, 2016.
  4. ↑ Katharina Thalbach: It stays in the family . In: Berliner Morgenpost from December 30, 2018; accessed on October 10, 2019.
  5. ^ TV film "We are the Rosinskis": Three generations of Thalbach . In: Tagesspiegel from November 3, 2016; accessed on October 10, 2019.
  6. ↑ Katharina Thalbach: I've always dreamed of Paris . Berliner Morgenpost , October 13, 2019, archived from the original on October 22, 2019 .;
  7. ↑ Actress Katharina Thalbach receives the Ernst Lubitsch Prize. In: Der Tagesspiegel . November 16, 2019, accessed November 17, 2019 .
  8. ↑ They were a couple for 33 years - Thalbach staged Brasch play Märkische Oderzeitung from February 21, 2008.
  9. ↑ Katharina Thalbach. Video on Web.de .
  10. ↑ Man is 20 years younger: Katharina Thalbach married n-tv on July 30, 2020.
  11. ↑ Simply-Noise: 24 Zeit: Listen to MP3 online - Ollarikchen - Audio 468974808. Retrieved on July 16, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Press release from Progress Film Distribution ( memento of March 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ Federal Merit Crosses for Andrea Breth and Katharina Thalbach on nachtkritik.de
personal data
SURNAME Thalbach, Katharina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Joachim called Thalbach, Katharina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and director
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin