Katy Karrenbauer

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Katy Karrenbauer with Markus Lanz , 2011

Katy Nina Karrenbauer (born December 31, 1962 in Duisburg ) is a German actress , voice actress , singer and author . She became known to the general public through the role of Christine "Walter" in the television series Hinter Gittern - Der Frauenknast .

Life

youth

Katy Karrenbauer grew up in Kiel . At the age of twelve she sang in the school choir ; At the age of 15 she began classical singing training as a mezzo-soprano and learned to play the guitar. Karrenbauer also sang in various Kiel rock bands and wrote his own songs from the age of 14. Karrenbauer left school at the age of 17, began training at the drama school in Kiel and took acting lessons from Uta Grabowski. As part of the discussion on the topics of youth violence and domestic violence , Karrenbauer spoke publicly for the first time in March 2010 about the fact that as a teenager she was beaten up by her boyfriend at the time and shot at with a gun.

Music career

In 1995 Katy Karrenbauer published her first CD with the title Curtain up with cover versions of well-known songs. Karrenbauer, who co-produced the CD, sings eight songs on the series CD for Hinter Gittern - Der Frauenknast from 2002. The album rose to number 4 in the German LP charts and stayed in the top ten for several weeks . It achieved gold status within three weeks . In Austria the record was able to place up to 36th place.

In the same year her second solo album was released with the title Trau dich . It reached number 43 on the German music charts and sold around 50,000 times by 2006. In 2004 the second Hinter-Gittern CD was released, to which Karrenbauer contributed three songs. The album reached number 28 on the German LP charts. At the same time, she took part in the music project “ Marks of the Times ” and was on stage at the first Berlin Wannsee concert with Xavier Naidoo and the band “ Marks of the Times” in front of over 30,000 spectators.

At the end of 2005 and summer 2006 Katy Karrenbauer went on tour with the band Silly . 2011 immediately before carts manufacturer participation in the so-called RTL - Dschungelcamp their single was released I come through .

Karrenbauer's voice, which was originally trained in mezzo-soprano, has since been transformed into a concise contra-alto .

Acting career

From 1985 to 1986 Katy Karrenbauer played at the Urania Theater, Cologne's first district theater; after that she had engagements at various German theaters.

Her acting career in front of the camera began in 1994 with the 13-part RTL series Notaufnahme (in the Netherlands: Casualty ) at the side of Andreas Hoppe . Katy Karrenbauer played the paramedic Karo Kaiser as the main role.

This was followed by guest appearances in television series such as Verbotene Liebe (1995), Balko (1995), Die Wache (1996) and Nikola (1996). In 1997 she was seen in her first film role in The First Semester . The breakthrough came in 1997 with the role of prison inmate Christine Walter in the RTL series Hinter Gittern - Der Frauenknast . In 1999 Katy Karrenbauer was nominated for the German Television Award in the category Best Actress in a Series . Karrenbauer played the role until 2007 in a total of 16 seasons. Her interpretation of the dominant lesbian , convicted of armed robbery, was so convincing that the actress was fixated on this type for a long time. Karrenbauer was only gradually able to assert her actual and artistically much larger spectrum.

In addition to her work in Behind Bars - Der Frauenknast , she was mainly seen in television films. She played roles in Pest - Diereturner (2002) and Hai-Alarm auf Mallorca (2004) and was seen in the Crazy Race series (2002-2007).

In 2005 Karrenbauer starred in the movies Max and Moritz Reloaded and in 2006 in 7 Zwerge - The forest is not enough . In 2008 she toured for the NDR telecast countries, people, adventure with a Harley-Davidson from Los Angeles to San Francisco.

Between the films she appeared on theaters and musicals in Kiel, Cologne, Salzburg, Gelsenkirchen, Karlsruhe, Berlin, Saarbrücken, Basel, among others. In 2011 she “fought” in Trier as the Amazon queen at the Open Air Festival Bread & Games ; the following year she was cast in the role of Empress Faustina . Karrenbauer has also been speaking the role of Shannon Beiste in the US television series Glee since 2011 ; in the children's series Löwenzahn (2011) she played a commissioner. In Helmut Dietl's satirical and ironic film Zettl (2012) she can be seen in the role of the Russian nurse Svetlana, in the international novel Cloud Atlas (2012), directed by Tom Tykwer , Lana and Lilly Wachowski , as Ax Woman.

In February 2013 Katy Karrenbauer played at the Schlosstheater Celle in the German premiere of Jessica, 30 by Marlene Streeruwitz and at the same time celebrated her 30th stage anniversary. The Karl May Festival in Elspe hired her for the 2013 summer season as an emigrant Rosalie Ebersbach for the production of the Oil Prince .

In March 2014 Karrenbauer stood in front of the camera for three months as the Russian ballet teacher Ludmilla Petrova for Everything that counts . From June to September she played one of the leading roles as Capt'n CC Roberts at the Piraten Open Air in Grevesmühlen. In 2015 she was supposed to take on the character again, but had to cancel the engagement due to illness. Before that she stood in front of the camera alongside Jiří Lábus , Eva Habermann and Helmut Krauss for the film Goblin - That's Real Troll by Eric Hordes . The film was released in 2019.

In the film Hardness , based on the autobiography of Andreas Marquardt , Katy Karrenbauer embodied his mother, who sexually abused her son for years. The film (director: Rosa von Praunheim ) opened the Berlinale panorama series on February 6, 2015 as a premiere . As part of the German Film Prize 2015, Katy Karrenbauer was awarded the Jaeger-LeCoultre Hommage to German Film special prize for outstanding acting in German film . In 2019, Karrenbauer cast von Praunheim again in his film Darkroom - Deadly Drops , this time as a public prosecutor. The film opened the Max Ophüls Preis film festival in Saarbrücken in 2020 .

In 2018 Karrenbauer worked again with the director Hordes and stood next to Neil Malik Abdullah and Stefan Mocker for the dramedy series Patchwork Gangsta produced by SWR for the media offer funk .

Personal

In addition to her work as an actress and musician, Karrenbauer also attracted attention as an author. After the volume of poetry Was geht, remains - about someone who moved out to seek to find (1999), 36 autobiographical short stories were published ten years later in Life is not a fish fart; Two of the short stories in Life Isn't a Fish Fart are about how the actress ruined herself financially by investing in a mobile event venue. In addition to Anne Will and Brisant , Günther Jauch took up their commitment in the interview on “Celebrities in Debt Trap ” for stern TV (2009). Karrenbauer announced on television that it had become insolvent due to private investments in what was then the world's largest air dome in the port of Hamburg. In her third book I take freedom. (2010) Karrenbauer tells in fifteen life stories, some of them self-deprecating and spiced with black humor, about success and failure, about struggling through and about what ultimately counts for them.

In January 2011 Karrenbauer took part in the RTL reality show Ich bin ein Star - Get me out of here! part and came second. With the fee, she managed to get out of personal bankruptcy .

Until 2007 Katy Karrenbauer lived mainly in Cologne; since then she has lived in Berlin. She was in a relationship with the Italian stuntman Danilo Lazzarini for three years.

social commitment

In her book Was geht, Karrenbauer explains: “Anyone who is not prepared to deal responsibly with the lives of others deserves no respect.” In 1999 she was an ambassador for the Christiane Herzog Foundation for people with cystic fibrosis, and she also advocates for Berliners AIDS help one. She is also an ambassador for the Sonnenhof children's hospice in Berlin and is committed to Dunkelziffer e. V. against the sexual abuse of children.

For the Cinema for Life initiative founded by Isabella Schmid in Switzerland in 2005 , Karrenbauer is regularly with fellow actors, including a. Hannes Jaenicke , Ursela Monn , Gerit Kling or Leonard Lansink , out and about in hospitals to perform texts and plays for patients.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Behind bars
  DE 4th 03/04/2002 (12 weeks)
You dare!
  DE 43 11/18/2002 (5 weeks)
Behind Bars Vol. 2
  DE 28 04/19/2004 (6 weeks)
Singles
Another morning ( signs of the times with Patrick Nuo , Katy Karrenbauer and Marta Jandová )
  DE 33 06/07/2004 (9 weeks)

Albums

  • 1995: curtain up
  • 2002: Behind Bars (DE:goldgold)
  • 2002: trust yourself! , Sales: + 50,000
  • 2004: Behind Bars Vol. 2

Singles

  • 2002: Hand on heart
  • 2002: trust yourself! , Promo
  • 2002: There are princes , promo
  • 2003: this is my day
  • 2003: If you really want me , promo
  • 2004: Another morning ( signs of the times with Patrick Nuo , Katy Karrenbauer and Marta Jandová )
  • 2011: I'm getting through

More songs on CD

  • 2004: Sign of the times with the song Another morning
  • 2004: Best of Mania with the song Jailhouse Rock
  • 2006: Silly and guests with the song repaired and sons of bitches

Audio books and games

In June 2018 was on the Hörmich 2018 announced in Hanover that Karrenbauer the role of indefinitely Jane Collins in the radio drama series Geisterjäger John Sinclair will take over as the master spokeswoman, Franziska Pigulla illness, failed, she said that role on the Hörmich 2018 also live. Even before Pigulla's death in February 2019, Karrenbauer took over the role from episode 129. She paid tribute to Pigulla with the words: “ I will honor your character Jane Collins, who has been animated by you for so many years, and I thank you for your approval that Bastei Lübbe trust me with this character . ”In October 2018, she could be heard as Smoky Barrett in the radio play series for The Bloodline by Cody McFadyen ; Franziska Pigulla read the audio book in 2014. She also took on the role of Smoky Barrett in The Death Artist and The Evil Inside Us .

other projects

Theater and musical

Filmography

Television films

movie theater

TV Shows

Reality formats

TV shows, game shows, TV guest

Synchronization (selection)

Movies

Series

Awards

  • 1999: Nomination for the German Television Award in the category Best Actress in a Series for Behind Bars - Der Frauenknast
  • 2002: Gold record in Germany for the album Hinter Gittern
  • 2002: RSH Gold for the album Hinter Gittern
  • 2003: Directed by Christina Fürneisen and Daniel Texter, Katy Karrenbauer and other actors won the “ ProSieben -First-Cut” promotion for the film Traumtänzer
  • 2015: Jaeger-LeCoultre homage to German film , acting award for hardness

Works

Web links

Commons : Katy Karrenbauer  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "My friend fired at me with a rifle". In: bz-berlin.de . March 10, 2010, accessed October 21, 2019 .
  2. ↑ charts.de
  3. ↑ Stephanie Drees: Jessica, 30. - Mirko Böttcher brings a story by Marlene Streeruwitz to the stage of the Celle Castle Theater: prison guards from their own captivity. In: nachtkritik.de . February 1, 2013, accessed October 21, 2019 .
  4. ↑ “The Oil Prince” in Elspe: Katy Karrenbauer plays Rosalie Ebersbach. Elspe Festival , February 4, 2013, archived from the original on February 8, 2013 ; accessed on October 21, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Katy Karrenbauer joins "Alles was haben" . Retrieved February 26, 2014
  6. ↑ Successful crowdfunding startnext.de
  7. ↑ Katy Karrenbauer in GOBLIN 2 gamona.de
  8. ↑ Release Info. Goblin. In: imdb.com. Internet Movie Database, accessed October 16, 2019 .
  9. ↑ hardness. Berlin International Film Festival , accessed on February 2, 2015 .
  10. ↑ New funk series - dwdl.de
  11. ↑ page 116 ff.
  12. ↑ stern.de
  13. ↑ 1.5 million lost - broke! . In: Berliner Kurier , May 6, 2009
  14. ↑ bz-berlin.de
  15. ↑ Actress Katy Karrenbauer falls in love with a gladiator . In: Trierischer Volksfreund , September 8, 2011.
  16. ↑ What works, stays , p. 50
  17. ↑ Charts DE Charts DE2 Charts DE3
  18. ↑ a b gold / platinum database DE
  19. ↑ Katy Karrenbauer. Retrieved May 24, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Die Blutlinie - All information about the radio play series. Retrieved May 24, 2019 .
  21. ↑ The Bloodline / The Death Artist. Retrieved May 24, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Karrenbauer, Katy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karrenbauer, Katy Nina (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and singer
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg , North Rhine-Westphalia , Federal Republic of Germany