Kirsten Block

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Kirsten Block (born March 1960 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) is a German actress .

Life

Education and theater

Kirsten Block grew up in a new housing estate near the “Café Moskau” in Karl-Marx-Stadt, where she attended the “EOS Karl-Marx-Stadt” on Theaterplatz. At the age of 17 she was in the play The Night after the graduation ceremony for the first time on a theater stage. She completed her acting studies from 1979 to 1982 at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Berlin-Schöneweide . She received her first theater engagement in 1982 at the Annaberg Theater . From the 1984/85 season she was a member of the Berliner Ensemble until 1989 , where she a. a. played the pirate Jenny in Brecht / Weill's Die Dreigroschenoper (director: Manfred Wekwerth ). She then appeared as a guest on various West German theaters. She had engagements at the Theater am Turm in Frankfurt am Main (1991/92 season), the Theater Bremen (1993) and the Lower Saxony State Theater in Hanover (1994/95). In 1995 she made a guest appearance at the Wiener Festwochen as Betty Dullfeet in The Rise of Arturo Ui in a production by Konstanze Lauterbach .

Film and television in the GDR

In the later phase of the GDR, Block worked in TV series, TV films and in DEFA productions. Your directors were u. a. Achim Hübner and Günter Meyer . She made her television debut in 1983 in Kurt Veth's five-part GDR television production Martin Luther , with Ulrich Thein and Friedo Solter in the leading roles. She was the assistant director Christa Mühle in the successful children's series Spuk von Outside (1987). She was particularly well known for her role as the initially distant, but later emotionally involved journalist Marga in Michael Kann's relationship comedy The Distance Between You and Me and Her (1988), which was realized for DEFA .

After the turn

After the fall of the Berlin Wall , Block got bigger roles in German film and television relatively quickly and was able to build on the career she started in the GDR almost seamlessly. Block has now worked in almost 130 cinema and television productions.

In the cinema co-production Frei nach Plan (2007) by Franziska Meletzky , Block played Marianne, one of three sisters who lived in a nest of 2,000 souls on the Saale , who never made the jump, and who was on the occasion of her alcoholic mother's birthday party meets her sister Anne, who had failed as a rock singer. For her role in the film Frei nach Plan , she was honored as best actress at the Shanghai International Film Festival 2007 together with Corinna Harfouch , Dagmar Manzel and Christine Schorn .

In the movie Der Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) she was Ignes Ponto , the widow of the banker Jürgen Ponto who was murdered by RAF terrorists . She had other cinema roles in Lila Lila (2009, as chief editor, alongside Daniel Brühl ), in the melodrama In der Welt haben ihr Angst (2011, as the mother of a heroin addicted musician, alongside Axel Prahl ), in the literary film adaptation The Book Thief (2013, as Red Cross sister Mrs. Heinrich) and in the film comedy The Nanny (2015, as school director, at the side of Matthias Schweighöfer ).

In the two-part for the ZDF incurred spy drama code name Luna (2012) played block in a mother role as SED -Parteimitglied Elisabeth Reinhardt a typical representative of the GDR everyday life, their family after the " flight from the republic " the grandfather to the attention of state security device . In the TV documentary Emmy Göring - The First Lady of the Nazis (2015) produced for MDR , Kirsten Block portrayed Hermann Göring's future wife , Emmy Sonnemann , in the scenes . In the 7th film in the ZDF Lotta series, Lotta & der Schöne Schein (2019), Block embodied the Berlin practice doctor Dr. Gloria Rubens, the boss of the female main character Lotta ( Josefine Preuss ). In the Rosamunde Pilcher film Von Tee und Liebe (first broadcast: January 2020), Block embodied Jane Morgan, who was fighting for her life's work and who owned the only tea plantation in England.

Crime scene appearances

Between 1993 and 2014, Block had a total of 10 appearances in various leading and supporting roles in the ARD crime series Tatort.

In the Leipzig Tatort: ​​Waidmanns Heil (first broadcast: February 2004) she was Birgit Sofsky, the owner of a travel agency and wife of a murdered real estate investor, who did not like her husband because he had been enjoying himself with a young waitress for some time. In SWR - Tatort: ​​The Lipstick Murderer (first broadcast: August 2006), she played the pharmacist Inge Schmehler, the mother of a 16-year-old schoolgirl who was killed. In the crime scene: The last race (first broadcast: October 2006) of the Frankfurt team of investigators Dellwo und Sänger she played a leading role, Irene Ferber, the cleaning lady of a parish who was doped as a biathlete by her trainer as a biathlete during her childhood in the GDR carried away, and which is now on a campaign of revenge.

In the Tatort: ​​Before it gets dark (first broadcast: November 2007) she had one of the leading roles alongside Fritz Karl ; she embodied Regina Schottmüller, the owner of a medical supply store, who supported the Frankfurt lunch table with effective advertising and had a relationship with the head of the table, from whom she became pregnant. In the RBB - Tatort: ​​Nobody is noble and healthy (first broadcast: April 2011) she was the café owner Susanne Richthofen, to whom detective chief Till Ritter ( Dominic Raacke ) feels drawn, and whose sick child is regularly treated by the suspected doctor Schmuckler's practice has been. In another Cologne crime scene, the Tatort: ​​Auskreuzung (first broadcast: September 2011), she embodied the chief secretary Vera Breitkreutz, the wife of the team leader in a genetic engineering research laboratory in Cologne.

In the two episodes of the crime scene of the Erfurt team of investigators Funck, Schaffert and Grewel , Kalter Engel (first broadcast: November 2013) and The Mole (first broadcast: December 2014), she took on the role of crime director Petra Fritzenberger.

Participation in crime series

Block acted in leading and supporting roles in all known crime series and in leading episode roles in numerous crime series. She had a continuous leading role in the series from 2012-2014 as Police Superintendent Marianne Klug in the early evening series Heiter bis tödlich: Hauptstadtrevier (with Friederike Kempter as a partner).

She had roles in the crime series Polizeiruf 110 several times . In Police Call 110: Der Riss (first broadcast: April 1991) she played the pregnant company doctor Dr. Susanne Hecht, who is the victim of a violent attack by her ex-lover out of jealousy and offended vanity. In Police Call 110: Death in the Bank (first broadcast: May 2007) she was the bank clerk Anita Arndt, who finds out that her colleague had enriched himself with foreign capital and who, after being convicted herself, commits suicide out of desperation. In Polizeiruf 110: Im Schatten (first broadcast: October 2016) she embodied Heike Angerer, the cancer-stricken wife of a customs officer who needs expensive medication that her health insurance does not pay for.

In the ZDF crime series A Strong Team , she played the taxi driver Iris Eigel in the episode The Suspicion (first broadcast: January 2004), while Chief Inspector Verena Berthold ( Maja Maranow ) drives home with her colleagues after a birthday party, but for unknown reasons she does not Alibi confirmed.

In the opening episode of the ZDF crime series Stralsund with the title Murderous Persecution (first broadcast: March 2009), she was the woman-loving chief inspector Susanne Winkler, who is taken hostage and shot by kidnappers. In this role, she was seen again in the episode The Attack (first broadcast: December 2015), when she appears again in "wild flashbacks" for the main character Detective Inspector Nina Petersen ( Katharina Wackernagel ).

In the Wilsberg crime thriller Mundtot (first broadcast: March 2014) she embodied the corrupt Münster entrepreneur and sports sponsor Christa Sieland, who was able to reorganize her ailing company through large-scale tax fraud.

In the television crime series Der Tel-Aviv-Krimi , Block played in the first film in the series entitled Death in Berlin (first broadcast: March 2016), criminal inspector Vera Schubert, who was single again after 12 years of marriage, and chief of police investigator Sara Stein ( Katharina Lorenz ) .

In the ZDF crime series Beside the Track , she was subsequently seen as a death wish (first broadcast: November 2016) in a supporting role as the trust teacher Roth, who was later murdered. In the 2nd season of the crime series The Specialists - In the Name of Victims (2017), she played a suspect wife who killed her husband's lover , with Michael Rotschopf and Steffen Münster as partners. In the 14th season of the ZDF series The Public Prosecutor (2019), she also took on one of the main roles in the episode as the loyal chief secretary of an “economically troubled” businesswoman who is to be deported into early retirement .

In the ZDF crime series Das Quartett: The Long Shadow of Death (2019), Block played the still-wife of the former large-scale bakery operator Franko Bleich, whose new partner Esther Korff ( Anneke Kim Sarnau ) even befriends her.

Private

Kirsten Block lives in Berlin .

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Radio plays

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kirsten Block. Versatile actress ( Memento from January 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (ZDF mediathek, accessed January 7, 2017)
  2. ↑ a b Frank-Burkhard Habel : Lexicon. Actor in the GDR. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-355-01760-2 , p. 40.
  3. ↑ a b c d Bernd Rippert: AFTER TATORT AND CO: CHEMNITZER ACTRESS KIRSTEN BLOCK ALREADY FILMED FOR HOLLYWOOD! . Portrait. In: TAG4.de from January 12, 2020. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  4. ↑ Free according to plan . TV review at Tittelbach.tv . Retrieved August 27, 2018.
  5. ↑ Hitler German dream couple . Television review. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of August 15, 2015. Retrieved on August 29, 2018.
  6. ↑ Emmy Göring - The First Lady of the Nazis . MDR TELEVISION. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  7. ↑ "Lotta and the beautiful glow" on ZDF: actors, plot, location and novel . In: Gießener Allgemeine from April 18, 2019. Retrieved April 19, 2019.
  8. ↑ Series "Rosamunde Pilcher - Of Tea and Love" . TV review at Tittelbach.tv . Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  9. ^ Series "Stralsund - The attack" . TV review at Tittelbach.tv . Retrieved August 27, 2018.
  10. ↑ The Tel Aviv Crime | Death in Berlin . Review. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
  11. ↑ The Public Prosecutor | A second life . Plot and cast. Official ZDF website . Retrieved February 8, 2019.
  12. ^ "The Quartet": New ZDF Saturday crime thriller with Anja Kling . Golden camera. Retrieved October 19, 2019.
  13. ↑ “The Quartet” solves the first case - the start is not very inspiring . TV review. In: Berliner Morgenpost of October 12, 2019. Retrieved October 19, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Block, Kirsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Karl Marx City