Katrin Sass

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Katrin Sass in the show Markus Lanz , 2012
Ruth Reinecke , Uwe Kockisch and Katrin Sass as GDR citizens of the 1980s in the ARD series Weissensee (2014)

Katrin Sass (meanwhile: Saß , born October 23, 1956 in Schwerin ) is a German theater , film and television actress .

Life and professional development

Her mother is the actress Marga Heiden (1921–2013), who became known on GDR television through dialect pieces on the Fritz Reuter stage in Schwerin. At her insistence, Katrin Sass first learned the job of a skilled worker for telephone technology and then went to dress up at a theater. The first application attempt at the Berlin drama school failed, the second in Rostock succeeded.

In 1979, at the age of 23, she made her film debut with the lead role in the film Till Death Do You Part , where she played an early disaffected young wife. Her great career began in the early 1980s. She received the Silver Bear at the 1982 Berlinale in West Berlin for her portrayal in the film Bürgschaft für ein Jahr (1981), shot while she was still a student . Sass herself states that in response to the West German award at the Berlinale, to which she was allowed to travel, she had not received any film roles from the GDR regime for two years. From the mid-1980s, however, she was seen in numerous DEFA films and in 1987 she was named actress of the year in the GDR .

Her theater career began in the early 1980s at the Kleist Theater in Frankfurt (Oder) , in 1981 Peter Sodann brought her to Halle / Saale . An engagement at the Schauspielhaus in Leipzig followed until 1990.

With the exception of the television series Polizeiruf 110 , in which she appeared as Chief Inspector Tanja Voigt from 1993 to 1998 , she had hardly any engagements in the 1990s. Sass suffered since her nineteenth year, and especially after turning to alcohol addiction , which she overcame in 1998 and has addressed the public from 2,001th Due to her addiction, she was terminated in 1998 by the ORB , the broadcasting company producing at the time, her role as a commissioner in Police Call 110 .

According to Sass, she had to have her last name changed to Saß in the GDR . They suspect that the state authorities of the time associated the " Nazi abbreviations" SA and SS with the spelling Sass and therefore banned them. However, your name was also spelled with double S in GDR films and series. In addition, she appeared under the spelling Saß long after the end of the GDR and is also spelled with "ß" in her autobiography Das Glück wird nie alt .

Sass claims to have been spied on by her best friend Sabine since 1987 in revenge and by friends and colleagues who had been recruited as unofficial employees by the Stasi .

With the leading roles in the social drama Heidi M. (2001) and in the international hit Good Bye, Lenin! (2003) she made a comeback on the big screen. In August 2006 she played the role of Celia Peachum in a production of Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera by Klaus Maria Brandauer at the Metropol-Theater Berlin. Since then she has appeared in several television films and series .

In January 2013, Sass came into the focus of attention after she verbally attacked actor and presenter Peer Kusmagk on the talk show Markus Lanz because of his participation in the jungle camp and, according to critics, personally insulted him. The star , whose reporting Sass had also criticized on the same talk show, described their style of discussion as "arrogant schoolmastering" and "below the belt" and compared Sass with Klaus Kinski .

Sass was married to the director Siegfried Kühn from 1991 to 2007 . She lives in Mecklenburg and Berlin .

In 2013 she released the songs that she performed in her role as a singer in the TV series Weissensee under the title Königskinder as an album.

Filmography

movie theater

TV films (selection)

TV series (selection)

TV appearances (selection)

Music videos

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Katrin Sass  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Picture box: Katrin Saß , in: Neues Leben 1981, no. 7, p. 65f
  2. ↑ Christina Brecht-Benze: Sit down, six! - School stories from Germany (2/3). Missed Opportunities . Documentary film on behalf of the SWR. German premiere on December 15, 2005.
  3. ↑ a b How the Stasi tried to lure me with sneakers . Welt.de , September 13, 2010; Retrieved August 20, 2015.
  4. ↑ Jens-Uwe Korsowsky: Katrin Saß: Bonjour Katrin, Good Bye Lenin . Emma 2/2003, March 1, 2003, accessed August 20, 2015.
  5. ↑ Katrin Sass: "I want to talk openly about addiction" . ( Memento from January 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Interview from Health and Society Special 12/2010, KomPart-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Bonn. Reproduced on brigitte.de , November 1, 2011
  6. ↑ Interview with Katrin Saß: “Who is still asking about Ossi or Wessi?” Der Tagesspiegel , March 22, 2009, accessed on August 20, 2015. From: Manuela Arand, Thomas Knuth : Berlin 1989–2009: a balance sheet in 12 discussions . Berlin-Story-Verlag, Berlin, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86855-010-8 .
  7. ↑ Bernhard Borgeest, Heiner Bayer: "If you are not on the brink, wings will not grow" . Focus 30/2003, July 21, 2003, pp. 103-110.
  8. ↑ Katrin Saß: Happiness never gets old , p. 22, 2003. “[…] the gatekeeper always said the same thing: 'Where are you going to Hans-Otto Sass, SA-SS, double Nazi […]' were at that time we still write with double S. Later, when I already had my ID, the Sass family had to go to the police and the 'ss' was turned into a 'ß', nobody knew why. Perhaps that had something to do with the porter's sentence. "
  9. ↑ Karen Gottschild: Why Katrin Sass was considered a "double Nazi" in the GDR . Bild.de , September 2, 2010; Retrieved August 20, 2015.
  10. ↑ z. B .: Until death do you part , 1978; Polizeiruf 110: Nerze , 1981; The house on the river , 1986
  11. ↑ z. E.g .: Police call 110: The miracle of Wustermark , 1998
  12. ↑ Katrin Saß: Happiness never gets old , 2003.
  13. ↑ Actress Katrin Saß speaks in FUNK UHR about her worst time: Why I wanted to kill my best friend . presseportal.de, June 14, 2001; Retrieved August 20, 2015.
  14. ↑ Volker Probst: The dropout by Katrin Sass . n-tv , January 30, 2013, accessed on January 31, 2013
    Katrin Sass kills Peer Kusmagk . BZ , accessed on January 31, 2013 http://www.bz-berlin.de/artikel-archiv/katrin-sass-macht-peer-kusmagk-nieder ( Memento from August 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) , accessed on August 20, 2015 August 2015.
  15. ↑ Jens Maier: Katrin Sass is freaking out with Markus Lanz . Stern.de , January 30, 2013, accessed January 31, 2013.
  16. ↑ Short message about the album Königskinder on popshot.over-blog.de, April 16, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Sass, Katrin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sat, Katrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater, film and television actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin