Sonja Karzau

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Sonja Karzau (born October 1, 1912 in Cologne ; † after 1985) was a German actress and acting teacher.

Life

Karzau made her theatrical debut in Darmstadt in 1930. Engagements followed in Hagen, Dessau, Chemnitz, Munich, Leipzig (last engagement in the Third Reich), again Darmstadt (first engagement after the war), Baden-Baden, Bonn, Hanover and Berlin ( Schillertheater ). Karzau worked with many well-known directors such as Otto Falckenberg , who hired her for the Münchner Kammerspiele , and Gustav Rudolf Sellner , who staged a production of Bernarda Alba's house with Karzau in the title role in Stuttgart in 1961 . In addition to her work as an actress, Karzau also occasionally acted as a director. As an acting teacher, she taught Bruni Löbel, among others .

In addition, Karzau also took on roles in numerous film and television productions. She played in adaptations of stage designs such as Heinrich von Kleist's broken jug and Bert Brecht's good people from Sezuan , adaptations of novels such as Die Ilse ist weg nach Christine Nöstlinger and in television series and multi-part series such as Tatort and Walter Kempowski's A Chapter for Himself .

Filmography (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. For example at steffi-online and Archive Kay Less; according to other sources, e.g. imdb , she was born in 1915.
  2. Legendary multi-part: A chapter in itself.
  3. Harenberg actor guide: the whole world of the theater: 265 authors with more than 750 works. Volume 2. New edition. Harenberg 1997, p. 314.
  4. Kürschner's biographical theater manual. P. 342.