Maria Koerber

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Maria Körber (born June 23, 1930 in Berlin as Maria Christiane Harlan ; † May 14, 2018 ) was a German actress .

Life

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Maria, the daughter of the film director Veit Harlan and the actress Hilde Körber , took her mother's maiden name after her parents divorced in 1938. From 1947 to 1949 she received acting lessons at the Hebbel Theater and with Marlise Ludwig in Berlin. In 1948 she made her debut in The Flies .

In 1949 she got an engagement at the Staatstheater Oldenburg , where she appeared in the same year as Eve in Der zerbrochne Krug . From 1950 to 1953 she could be seen at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm , 1953 at the Nationaltheater Mannheim and the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden , 1954 to 1959 at the stages of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, 1957/58 at the Renaissance Theater Berlin and at the Thalia Theater Hamburg under artistic director Willy Maertens . As a freelance actress, she made guest appearances at numerous German theaters from 1960 to 1974, after which she became a member of the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin , but continued to make guest appearances at other theaters, such as 1985 at the Theater Kleine Freiheit in Munich.

In the cinema, Maria Körber was mostly seen in smaller roles. She received an important job in breakthrough locomotive 234 , where she played the wife of a GDR refugee . In the sex comedy Sonne, Sylt und kesse Krabben , an atypical film genre for her, she embodied a rightly suspicious wife. She took on bigger roles in numerous television games and series such as Our Charly as grandmother Rosa Bergner.

She also worked in radio and dubbing, voicing Leslie Caron , Julie Andrews , Susan Strasberg and Debbie Reynolds, among others . In the 1990s she had her own drama school in Berlin, the Maria Körber Drama Studio .

Maria Körber's first marriage was to actor Walter Buschhoff , with whom she has a son. In her second marriage, she was married to the actor and voice actor Joachim Kerzel until her death .

Maria Körber died at the age of 87 and rests in the Dahlem forest cemetery in the Berlin district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf under the name Maria Kerzel on field 009-422. She was the sister of the German writer and director Thomas Harlan .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maria Körber, daughter of Veit Harlan, died. In: Welt Online . May 16, 2018, accessed May 16, 2018 .
  2. ↑ The grave of Maria Körber. In: knerger.de. Klaus Nerger, accessed on September 6, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Thomas Nagel: Back then it was - stories from old Berlin. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Koerber, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 2018
Place of death Berlin , Germany