Marina Koehler

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Marina Köhler (born July 20, 1954 ) is a German actress , voice actress , dialogue director and dialogue book author .

biography

She is the daughter of the film director Manfred R. Köhler , who was also active in the dubbing industry. After graduating from high school, she studied German and Romance languages, and in the early 1980s she began working full-time as a voice actress. She lives and works in Munich.

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In 1980 she dubbed Brooke Shields for the first time in The Blue Lagoon , then in Sahara (1983) and in Laura's Shadow (1985). She has also been used for other actresses, including Jennifer Beals in Four Rooms (1996), Kate Jackson in The Art of Dying (1999), Laura Linney in Bellomont House (2001), Christine Baranski in Chicago (2002), Harriet Walter in Atonement (2007) and for Kristin Scott Thomas in Shopaholic - Die Schnäppchenjägerin (2009).

Since the beginning of the US daily soap Reich und Schön , which was first broadcast on German television in 1988 and ran until 2011, Köhler has spoken the role of Brooke Logan, played by Katherine Kelly Lang, in more than 2,400 episodes . She also voiced Claude Jade for the series Die Insel der 30 Tode , which was broadcast on ARTE in 1996 , and Rebecca De Mornay for the mini-series The Shining , which was first broadcast on RTL in 2000 .

Furthermore, she could be heard in many animated films and series, so she spoke the wild goose Ingrid in the animated series Nils Holgerson from 1981 to 1982 . She can also be heard in South Park: The Movie - Bigger, Longer, Unedited (2000) as Cartman's mother, in Die Monster AG (2002) as Miss Flint, in Finding Nemo (2003) as Lee & Luv, in Howl's Moving Castle (2005) as Hanna and in Arielle the Mermaid: How It All Began (2008) as Marina Del Ray.

Dialogue book / director

She has also been working as a dubbing writer and director since the early 2000s . It is responsible for the German versions of the Oscar -prämierten documentaries One Day in September (2000) by Kevin Macdonald and Bowling for Columbine (2002) by Michael Moore and for the ozone Movies films Under the Sand (2000) and Swimming Pool (2003). The British-Irish film drama The Merciless Sisters not only received various European film awards and nominations, but Köhler's directorial work in German voice recordings was also awarded the German Dubbing Prize in 2003. In addition, she wrote and directed the German voice recordings of European films, such as the 2003 British-French thriller Murder on the Net , the French comedy Paint or Love in 2006 , the British television films Charles and Camilla - Love in the Shadow of the Crown and Sex Traffic , as well 2007 the French literary adaptation Lady Chatterley , which won five Césars .

She is also responsible for German versions of American movies, including the romantic drama Das Haus am See (2006) with Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock , for the spy thriller Traitor (2009) with Don Cheadle and the Oscar nominee Drama Faith Question (2009) with Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman . Furthermore, many Disney productions were dubbed under her direction. The German dialogues of the High School Musical films (2006, 2007, 2008) and the spin-off Sharpays fabulous world (2011) were written by and recorded under her direction, as well as the cartoons Tinkerbell (2008), the sequels of which (2009, 2010) and Kiss the Frog (2009).

Radio plays and audio books

Already in the early 1980s she was involved in a number of children's radio plays, so she was involved in the Poly label, the children's division of Polydor , in Marco's adventurous journey (1979, episodes 1-4) and in Sherlock Holmes (1980, episode 3 - The Secret Agreement ). From Carousel Publishing House published Nils Holgersson (1981-1982) on record or on tape with the original speakers of the TV series in which Koehler is heard as a wild goose Ingrid, and also in the setting of the ZDF - Christmas series Jack Holborn (1982) she can be heard in the second episode as Yorka. She was also involved in the audio version of the Walt Disney film Finding Nemo , which contains the original dialogues with the original speakers in a slightly abbreviated form.

It was only in 2008 that it established itself on the audio book market . For the Audio Media Verlag, she and her colleague Michael Schwarzmaier spoke for the first time on the seven-part audio book series CD WISSEN Allgemeinebildung (2008), in which the basics of various areas of knowledge are conveyed. The twelve-volume series Allgemeinebildung Deutsche Geschichte (2009) and the audio book This is the crux of the matter (2011), which examines famous sayings from historical personalities , were created in the same speaker constellation.

At the same label she also worked on the setting of the novels Das Haus in der Rothschildallee (2008) by Stefanie Zweig , Die Wishlist (2008) by Jill Smolinski and The incredible journey of Lillian Leyb (2009) by Amy Bloom , and she was also involved also take part in the productions by Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg - A Portrait (2009) and Business Golf - Networking on the Course (2010).

Synchronous rollers (selection)

Movies

Series

Video game

  • 2003: Finding Nemo - Underwater Adventure as Lee & Luv

Awards

Publications

  • Shadows over the fairytale forest: Never mind forever . neobooks, Berlin 2015, ISBN 3-7380-2904-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Brief portrait of Marina Köhler ( Memento from October 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ hörspielland.de: Radio plays with Marina Köhler , accessed on September 9, 2011
  3. ↑ soforthoeren.de: spokeswoman Marina Köhler , accessed on September 9, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Koehler, Marina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and voice actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1954