Maria Furtwängler

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Maria Furtwängler (2020)

Maria Furtwängler-Burda (born September 13, 1966 in Munich ) is a German doctor and actress . She is known for her role as Tatort commissioner Charlotte Lindholm , which she has played since 2002.

Life

Maria Furtwängler is the daughter of the actress Kathrin Ackermann and the architect Bernhard Furtwängler . She has two older brothers. Her great-uncle is the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler . Her great-grandmother is the politician Katharina von Kardorff-Oheimb . The director Florian Furtwängler was her uncle.

After graduating from high school, Furtwängler studied human medicine at the University of Montpellier in France. In 1996 she received her doctorate from the Technical University of Munich . After that she worked as a doctor, but decided to devote her professional life entirely to acting. She has been married to the publisher Hubert Burda since November 8, 1991 . You have two children.

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At the age of seven, Maria Furtwängler was in front of the camera for the television film Zum Abschied Chrysanthemen directed by her uncle Florian Furtwängler. Maria Furtwängler played her first major role from 1987 to 1993 in the television series The Happy Family at the side of Maria Schell , Siegfried Rauch and her mother Kathrin Ackermann. The eighth deadly sin was Furtwängler's first work for the NDR . Here she played the EU employee Katja Schütte in the white-collar crime department .

This collaboration was successfully continued with Tatort . She made her debut on April 7, 2002 in Lastrumer Mixture , further broadcasts followed. As crime scene commissioner Charlotte Lindholm , who belongs to the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office in Hanover , Furtwängler investigates all of Lower Saxony , mainly in the countryside. The mother role in the series is played by her mother Kathrin Ackermann.

In 2007 Furtwängler played in the two-part TV series Die Flucht Lena Countess von Mahlenberg, which in the winter of 1945 led a refugee route from East Prussia to Bavaria . In the award-winning film The Weather in Closed Spaces , which was launched in 2016 , she plays a development worker and fundraiser who distracts herself from the misery of the crisis areas with designer clothes, long drinks and a lover who is 20 years younger. With Alles muss glanzen ( The Homemaker ) by Noah Haidle , she appeared on stage for the first time in a leading role in Berlin in spring 2017.

In November 2018 she had a guest appearance on the new album MTV Unplugged 2 by Udo Lindenberg , where she sang with him in the duet Are you from the KGB .

Social and community engagement

It is a particular concern of the actress and doctor to empower and support girls and women wherever they are exposed to contempt and discrimination in the world. She actively supports her cause with the MaLisa Foundation, founded by her and her daughter Elisabeth, and the MaLisa Home in the Philippines , which enables girls and young women to get out of human trafficking . She is co-founder of the Digital Life Design conference series DLDwomen , President of the Board of Trustees of the aid organization German Doctors and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hubert Burda Foundation . For the ONE campaign , which works to end extreme poverty and preventable diseases, especially in Africa, she is an ambassador for women, girls and children's health. She also takes part in relief missions herself.

In autumn 2013 Maria Furtwängler was one of the first to sign the appeal against prostitution initiated by Alice Schwarzer in the magazine Emma , which she publishes .

In 2017, the study on the representation of women and men in film was initiated by her and her MaLisa Foundation and carried out by the University of Rostock. The result shows how much women are underrepresented in films - especially as heroines and experts.

Due to her social commitment, a vocational school in Lahr in southern Baden was named after Maria Furtwängler in March 2018 .

Awards

Filmography (selection)

Crime scene consequences as detective chief inspector Lindholm

theatre

year Play role stage
2017 Everything has to shine Rebecca Theater on Kurfürstendamm

Appearances on TV shows etc.

Web links

Commons : Maria Furtwängler  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maria Furtwängler becomes the new NDR “Tatort” commissioner. In: presseportal.de , July 21, 2001.
  2. ↑ MTV Buzz. mtv.de
  3. ↑ Maria Furtwängler-Burda. Retrieved November 6, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Vanessa Vu : Men act, women appear . Zeit Online , July 2017; accessed on August 18, 2017
  5. ↑ badische-zeitung.de
  6. ^ Information from the Siegfried Lowitz Foundation
  7. ↑ Leibniz-Ring 2016 / ... / The “Leibniz-Ring-Hannover” board of trustees awards this year's “Leibniz-Ring-Hannover” to Dr. Maria Furtwängler , press release from the Hannover Press Club from March 16, 2016
  8. ↑ Cape of Good Hope Miniseries, at fernsehserien.de
personal data
SURNAME Furtwängler, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Furtwängler-Burda, Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich