Nastassja Kinski

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Nastassja Kinski (2017)

Nastassja Kinski (* 24. January 1961 as Nastassja Aglaia Nakszynski in West Berlin ) is a German actress who had her greatest success in the late 1970s and 1980s. She shot in Germany, France and Hollywood with directors such as Wim Wenders , Wolfgang Petersen , Roman Polański and Francis Ford Coppola . At times she was one of the most photographed women in the world and graced numerous covers. In some of the film credits she appears under the names Anastasiya Kinski, Nastassia Kinski or Nastasha Kinski.

biography

youth

In 1960 the German actor and reciter Klaus Kinski married twenty-year-old Ruth Brigitte Tocki in West Berlin. Nastassja Kinski was the only child from this marriage. Due to the different locations of her father, she grew up alternately in Berlin, Munich and Rome. After her parents separated in 1968, she left Italy with her mother and lived in Munich until 1971, then for a short time in Caracas and again in Munich from 1972 - this time together with her mother in a commune . In 1977 she left the Willi-Graf-Gymnasium in Munich with the secondary school leaving certificate . Her half-siblings Pola Kinski (from her father's first marriage) and Nikolai Kinski (from her third marriage) and her cousin Lara Naszinsky are also actors.

Career

Kinski in Cannes

Lisa Kreuzer , an actress in the New German Cinema of the 1970s, discovered Kinski's acting talent and gave the thirteen-year-old the role of mute Mignon in Wim Wenders ' film Wrong Movement in 1974 . In 1977 she became known for her role in the Tatort episode Reifezeugnis filmed by Wolfgang Petersen . In the same year she received acting lessons from Lee Strasberg in New York . Photos, which the director Roman Polański also took of her in 1977 for the French fashion magazine Vogue , aroused interest in the international film world.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Kinski was one of the most sought-after young actresses. Polański directed her first major film role Tess in 1979 , for which she received a Golden Globe as best young actress . At the time, the star had the headline “Nastassja Kinski - our world star in Hollywood” and featured it on the cover, photographed by Richard Avedon . More films followed in Hollywood; u. a. turned it in 1982 with director Francis Ford Coppola One from the Heart (One from the Heart) of bad arrived with critics and audiences. In 1982 she took on the leading role in Paul Schrader's erotic horror thriller Cat People . In 1984 she directed the award-winning film Paris, Texas with Wim Wenders . Her career plummeted in the mid-1980s, especially after the failure of the lavishly staged period film Revolution , in which she played alongside Al Pacino in 1985 .

Since 2011, Nastassja Kinski has been a member of the US film academy AMPAS , which is known for awarding the Oscar film prize . In 2016 she took part in the 9th season of the dance show Let's Dance . Together with her dance partner Christian Polanc , she dropped out after the seventh round. In September 2017 she was on the game show Who knows something? to see with Kai Pflaume .

Private life

In 1984 Kinski married the producer Ibrahim Moussa (1946–2012); in the same year a son was born. 1986 daughter Sonja Kinski was born, who is also a model and actress. The marriage ended in divorce in 1992. From 1991 to 1997 she lived with the composer Quincy Jones , from this relationship comes her daughter Kenya Kinski-Jones (* 1993), who also works as a model. In 2016, Kinsky was in a relationship with the dancer Ilia Russo .

reception

Nastassja Kinski, 2009

Andy Warhol mentions them in his diaries. She has appeared on the covers of fashion magazines such as Vogue, Marie Claire and Elle, as well as film and TV magazines, illustrated tabloids and men's magazines .

In 1984 it was immortalized by Simple Minds in a single line in the song Up on the Catwalk : “One thousand names that spring up in my mind, like Deodata, Michelangelo , Robert De Niro , so many others, Nastassja Kinski and Martin Luther - there's room for others, away from me "

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • 1975: Filmband in Gold ( Federal Film Prize ) for Wrong Movement in the Actor Ensemble category (together with Marianne Hoppe , Lisa Kreuzer and Hanna Schygulla )
  • 1977: Golden Bravo Otto
  • 1978: Golden Bravo Otto
  • 1978: Bambi for school-leaving certificate
  • 1978: Jupiter in the Best Actress category
  • 1979: Silver Bravo Otto
  • 1980: César : nominated for Tess in the category Meilleure actrice
  • 1981: Golden Globe for Tess in the New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture category
  • 1983: Filmband in Gold (Federal Film Prize) for Spring Symphony in the category Outstanding Individual Achievement, Actress
  • 1983: Saturn Award : nominated for Cat People in the Best Actress category
  • 1985: Nastri d'Argento (silver ribbon) from Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani (SNGCI) for Maria's Lovers in the category Migliore Attrice Straniera - Best Foreign Actress
  • 1988: César: nominated for Maladie d'amour in the category Meilleure actrice - Best Actress
  • 2000: Wine Country Film Festival (California): The Magic of Marciano in the Best Actress category
  • 2014: Honorary Actor Award of the Eat My Shorts - Hagen Short Film Festival

literature

  • Jo Burger (editor): Nastassja Kinski. Our puzzling world star, career, problems, films, love, disappointment, future. AC-Verlag, Grünwald 1983 [?], DNB 830773762 .
  • Andreas jacket: Nastassja Kinski. The daughter of the black panther. An article about "Cat People" in IMDb , Berlin 2004
  • Dirk Manthey (ed.), Hans-Werner Asmus (collaborator): Goddesses of the erotic film. 1st edition. Kino-Verlag, Hamburg 1985, ISBN 3-88724-012-X (a film book by Cinema , No. 12).

Web links

Commons : Nastassja Kinski  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Other years are or were sometimes also mentioned, around 1960 ( Nastassja Kinski. (No longer available online.) In: Dirk Jasper FilmStarLexikon. Dirk Jasper, archived from the original on April 7, 2016 ; accessed on January 8, 2019 . ). Nastassja, however, was born in Klaus Kinski's second marriage, which took place in October 1960. 1961 is secured by reports at the time, u. a. in Klaus Kinski: Familiar . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 1961 ( online ). On September 11, 2008, Nastassja Kinski mentioned this year in the talk show Johannes B. Kerner herself.
  2. ↑ James M. Welsh, Gene D. Phillips, Rodney F. Hill: The Francis Ford Coppola Encyclopedia. Scarecrow Press, Lanham / Toronto / Plymouth, UK 2010, ISBN 978-0-81087-651-4 , p. 154 ( preview in Google Book Search).
  3. ↑ Nastassja Kinski added. Newcomer to the Oscar Academy. In: n-tv . June 18, 2011, accessed January 8, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Inga Pylypchuk: Sonja, the next beauty from the Kinski dynasty. In: Die Welt Online . March 25, 2012, accessed November 6, 2016.
  5. ↑ Producer Ibrahim Moussa: Cardiac arrest! In: image . August 8, 2012, accessed August 10, 2012 .
  6. ^ "Let's Dance". Nastassja Kinski's daughter Kenya is so beautiful. In: Bunte Online . April 8, 2016, accessed November 6, 2016.
  7. ^ "Let's Dance" couple. Professional dancer Ilia Russo dumps Nastassja Kinski. In: Stern.de . November 5, 2016, accessed November 6, 2016.
  8. ↑ Up On The Catwalk Lyrics - Simple Minds. In: lyricsfreak.com. Retrieved June 2, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Kinski, Nastassja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nakszynski, Nastassja Aglaia (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin