Susanne Lothar

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Susanne Lothar (born November 15, 1960 in Hamburg , † July 21, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German actress . She became known as an actress of difficult and broken characters on the theater stage as well as in film and television.

Life

Origin and family

Susanne Lothar came from a family of artists . She was born as the daughter of the actor couple Ingrid Andree and Hanns Lothar (née Neutze). Her half-brother Marcel Werner and her uncles Horst Michael Neutze and Günther Neutze were also actors.

theatre

Lothar studied acting at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater . She broke off her studies after three semesters and went to the Thalia Theater in Hamburg as an apprentice . She made her debut there in 1980 as a student Hermine Seitz in the play Purgatory in Ingolstadt by Marieluise Fleißer . This was followed in 1981 by the Recha in Nathan the Way , also, like Purgatory in Ingolstadt , directed by Benjamin Korn . In 1981 she was the first recipient of the Boy Gobert Prize ; she was awarded the prize for her roles as Hermine Seitz and Recha in 1980/1981.

At the beginning of the 1982/83 season Lothar went to the Schauspielhaus Köln , where she was directed by Jürgen Flimm a . a. Cordelia played in King Lear (1982) and Gretchen in Faust (1983). In 1983 she also appeared as M in Botho Strauss ' play Kalldewey, Farce at the side of her mother Ingrid Andree. In 1985 she played again at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg; she embodied the viola in What you want under the direction of Jaroslav Chundela .

In 1986 she made guest appearances at the Burgtheater and the State Theater in Stuttgart . In 1986 she was awarded the Kainz Medal in Vienna for her role as Klara Hühnerwadel in Frank Wedekind's Schauspiel Musik . In 1986 she appeared in Stuttgart as May in Sam Shepard's play Liebestoll (with Ulrich Tukur as a partner) and, under the direction of Jossi Wieler , as Marie in Woyzeck (with Stephan Bissmeier in the title role). In the 1986/87 season she took on the role of rock bride in the musical Andi at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg under the direction of Peter Zadek . She was best known for the title role of Lulu in Zadek's 1988 production at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus. The Lulu is considered Lothar's greatest stage success. For her portrayal of Lulu , in which Lothar sometimes appeared completely naked, she was voted "Actress of the Year" by the critics of Theater heute magazine in 1988.

In 1990/91 she appeared at the Salzburg Festival as the Jewess Rahel in Franz Grillparzer's play The Jewess of Toledo .

Lothar also delighted critics and audiences as Sonja in Yasmina Reza's comedy Drei Mal Leben am Burgtheater Wien (2000; director: Luc Bondy ) and, also under the direction of Luc Bondy, as doctor Corinne in Martin Crimp's play Auf dem Land am Schauspielhaus Zurich (2001). In 2002 she appeared at the Deutsches Theater Berlin as Yvette in Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children ; Again directed by Peter Zadek. In 2004 she took on the role of Blanche du Bois in a production of Endstation Sehnsucht directed by Burkhard C. Kosminski at the Schauspielhaus Zürich . In 2006, Susanne Lothar was seen as Christine / Klytämnestra in Eugene O'Neill's play Mourning must carry Elektra in a production by Thomas Ostermeier at the Schaubühne Berlin .

Movie and TV

Her first film role as the feeble daughter Marga Schroth in Eisenhans , directed by Tankred Dorst , brought Susanne Lothar the Federal Film Prize in 1983 . It was not until the early 1990s that she resumed her film work. In the early evening crime series Der Fahnder , she was seen as Gina in the episode Romeo, which first aired in October 1990 . In the same year, she embodied the female lead of Lena Haas in Markus Imhoof's Der Berg , based on the true tragedy of the double murder of the Wetterwart couple Heinrich and Lena Haas in 1922 on the Säntis . In 1993 she and Ulrich Mühe received the Golden Gong in 1993 for her portrayal of Vera Meerholtz in the two-part television series Das tödliche Auge .

Susanne Lothar has played leading roles in several films in the Tatort television series . In Tatort: ​​Himmel und Erde (first broadcast: November 1993) she played the Serbian Nina, who belongs to a criminal trio that removes the apartment keys from older single women and has them copied later, in Tatort: ​​Traumhaus (first broadcast: May 1999) she was Hanna Hebbel, the wife of the pharmaceutical representative Friedel Hebbel (portrayed by Ulrich Mühe ), who was dismissed due to a decline in orders , in the crime scene: Der Teufel vom Berg (first broadcast: August 2005) Andrea Hochreiter, the wife of the painter Georg Hochreiter ("the devil from the mountain"), In the crime scene: The end of silence (first broadcast: February 2007) Cora Rohwedder, the mother of the missing Silke Rohwedder and in the crime scene: The happy death (first broadcast: October 2008) Katja Frege, whose daughter Julia Frege suffers from cystic fibrosis and ultimately from the metabolic disease dies.

1997 saw the first collaboration with the Austrian film director Michael Haneke . Susanne Lothar made four films under his direction: she was seen as a victim of violence in the 1997 thriller Funny Games , embodied the role of Frieda in Das Schloß (1997), starred in The Piano Player (2001) based on the novel by Elfriede Jelinek and in the multi-award-winning drama The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story (2009).

Numerous roles in film and television followed up to 1999, such as Edgar Reitz ' The Second Home - Chronicle of a Youth or Peter Vogel's film drama Einfach raus .

From 2000 Susanne Lothar worked in other film and television productions. She played the role of Petra Maier in the television film Vom Kiss und vom Flug by Hartmut Schoen . In Peter Patzak's business crime thriller Die 8th Todsünde: Toskana-Karussell she played the main role of Marion Hansen, who is employed by the European Anti-Fraud Office . In the episode film The Austrian Method , she was seen at the side of Michael Abendroth in the role of Carmen Fischer. In addition to Sandra Hüller , Luisa Sappelt and Gerti Drassl , she played the role of Isabella under the direction of Maria Speth . In the film adaptation of the Heinz Strunk novel Meat is My Vegetables (2008) she was the mother of Heinz Strunk ( Maxim Mehmet ). In the German-American movie Der Vorleser (2008) she played the role of Carla Berg.

In the film drama Nemesis , which premiered in 2010 , Lothar took on the role of Claire, for the last time at the side of her husband Ulrich Mühe . In the ARD television film Bloch: Inschallah , she was seen in the role of Daniela Sonnenberg, who is struggling with the rejection of her daughter Dalia Feisal ( Aylin Tezel ). In the feature film Who if Not We (2011) she embodied Ilse Ensslin, the wife of the evangelical pastor Helmut Ensslin (portrayed by Michael Wittenborn ). In the same year she played Stefania Limanowska in the Holocaust film drama Lost Time (2011).

In April 2012, Susanne Lothar was seen as the cucumber queen Luise König in the television thriller Die Gurkenkönigin in the series Polizeiruf 110 . In Hanna Doose's feature film Dust on Our Hearts , she played the leading role alongside Stephanie Stremler . Posthumously was shown in German cinemas in December 2012, the novel adaptation Anna Karenina to where she played the princess Schtscherbatzki in a smaller role.

Radio play work

Susanne Lothar was also active as a radio play speaker. As part of the “Favorite Tale of the Germans” ( Patmos publishing group ) she spoke the female title role in the Grimms fairy tale radio plays Little Brother and Sister and Jorinde and Joringel , Ulrich Mühe took on the male title role . In 2004 she spoke Jacqueline Coverdale in the radio play of Ruth Rendell's blood script . In the radio play series Die Drei ??? she spoke the Shawne Davison in the 131st episode House of Secrets (2009). In 2010 she took on one of the speaking roles in the radio play for the debut novel Das Geisterhaus by the Chilean writer Isabel Allende . Posthumously, Deutschlandfunk broadcast their last radio play work on October 13, 2012 in the award-winning radio play Oops, wrong planet! (DLF / WDR 2012; director: Walter Adler ), which deals with the problems of autistic people who study at a university.

Private life and death

From 1997 Lothar was married to the actor Ulrich Mühe (1953–2007), whom she met in 1990 at the Salzburg Festival when she performed the play The Jewess of Toledo . In the following years she worked with him repeatedly. She lived with him and their two children in Berlin until his death. She was the stepmother of Anna Maria Mühe and Andreas Mühe .

The family's lawyer announced the death of Susanne Lothar on July 25, 2012. No information was given on the cause of death. She died one day before the fifth anniversary of her husband Ulrich Mühe's death. Her ashes were buried at sea off the north German coast .

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

watch TV

Plays (selection)

Radio plays

documentary

  • 2010: Susanne Lothar - My Life . Script and direction: Claudia Müller

Awards

Web links

Commons : Susanne Lothar  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in: Süddeutsche Zeitung of July 27, 2012 p. 34 (Germany edition). Retrieved online from sueddeutsche.de on July 29, 2012.
  2. ↑ Film star Susanne Lothar dies at the age of 51. Focus.de, July 25, 2012, accessed on July 26, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Star guide: Susanne Lothar ; Prisma.de, accessed on July 26, 2012
  4. ↑ cf. contemporary criticism by Hellmuth Karasek : On the slide . In: Der Spiegel . No. 8 , 1988, pp. 180-186 ( online ).
  5. ^ Police call 110: Die Gurkenkönigin on programm.ard.de; Retrieved October 30, 2013.
  6. ↑ Radio play by Deutschlandfunk awarded June 11, 2013; accessed on May 27, 2016.
  7. ↑ Acting star. Susanne Lothar is dead. On: Spiegel Online from July 25, 2012, accessed on July 25, 2012.
  8. ↑ The family's obituary dated July 28, 2012, formerly available at http://trauer.abendblatt.de/trauer.php?v=a1&titel=ab&t=1&w=1&d=2296032401.jpg
  9. ↑ "Maximum risk" as the motto. On: Süddeutsche Zeitung of July 27, 2012.
  10. ↑ Susanne Lothar: Her ashes were scattered on the high seas. on bz-berlin.de, accessed on July 21, 2013.
  11. ↑ table of contents
personal data
SURNAME Lothar, Susanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg , Federal Republic of Germany
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 2012
Place of death Berlin , Federal Republic of Germany