Ulrike Krumbiegel

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Ulrike Krumbiegel (2nd from left) at the Großes Fernsehen 2013 festival

Ulrike Krumbiegel (born December 16, 1961 in East Berlin ) is a German actress .

Life

Origin and education

Ulrike Krumbiegel was born in Berlin, then still GDR , as one of two daughters of a foreign trader and an operating room nurse . She grew up in Berlin-Mitte . In 1976 she heard an appeal on the then GDR radio, "Actors wanted". At the age of 15 years she applied then as a student at the amateur theater group of the Berlin Volksbühne , was accepted and played there among other things in the night after the closing ceremony of Vladimir Tendrajakow .

After her school education (Abitur 1980 in Berlin-Mitte), she completed her acting studies at the state drama school "Ernst Busch" in Berlin until 1983 .

theatre

She got her first stage engagement at the Schwerin Theater , where she a. a. when Iphigenie and Minna von Barnhelm stood on the stage. In 1986 she moved to the Deutsche Theater Berlin , where she was a permanent member of the ensemble for a total of 15 years without interruption until 2001, working with directors such as Frank Castorf , Jürgen Gosch and several times with Thomas Langhoff . Krumbiegel played numerous roles in the classical theater repertoire there. In the 1989/90 season she appeared as Natascha in Nachtasyl (director: Friedo Solter ). In the 1990/91 season she was Eve in Der zerbrochne Krug . In the 1991/92 season she took on the title role in a new production of the Kleist play Das Käthchen von Heilbronn (produced by Thomas Langhoff).

Further stations were the Berliner Ensemble , the Munich Kammerspiele , the Maxim-Gorki-Theater and the Residenztheater des Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel . At the Maxim-Gorki-Theater she embodied Goethe's Iphigenie again in the 2001/02 season, in a production by Thomas Langhoff, with Klaus Manchen (Thoas), Joachim Meyerhoff (Orest), Tilo Nest (Pylades) and Siegfried Terpoorten ( Arkas) as partners. At the Munich Residenztheater she was the whore Yvette in the Brecht play Mother Courage and her children in the 2003/04 season (staging: Thomas Langhoff) , her warehouse whore was a "broken, tragic-comic act between brokenness, lust, love and business acumen". In the 2003/04 season she appeared at the Berliner Ensemble as Gina Ekdal in Die Wildente (director: Thomas Langhoff). In 2005 she was Queen Gertrud in Hamlet at the Münchner Kammerspiele (director: Lars-Ole Walburg ). At the Deutsches Theater Berlin , Krumbiegel starred alongside Jörg Pose as Kate Keller in a theater adaptation of Arthur Miller's Broadway successful play Alle Meine Söhne , which premiered on December 16, 2010, under the direction of Roger Vontobel .

Film and television in the GDR

In the later phase of the GDR Krumbiegel worked in numerous TV films and in DEFA productions. The director Bodo Fürneisen discovered her during her studies for film and gave her the female lead in his television film Come with Me to Chicago (1981); Krumbiegel embodied the role of the 17-year-old waiter's apprentice Anja, who is changing "from ugly duckling to beautiful swan". Further film and television assignments for DEFA and television in the GDR followed.

In Karl-Heinz Heymann's youth film Schwierig zu verloben (1982/83) , Krumbiegel took on the role of the young saleswoman Barbara, whose love for the locksmith Wolle ( Werner Tritzschler ) broke down when she told him about her pregnancy . In the DEFA feature film Young People in the City (1984/85), Ulrike Krumbiegel, directed by Karl-Heinz Lotz, played the saleswoman Frieda, who, in order not to lose her position, has to be sexually blackmailed by her superior Reinhard. In the GDR contemporary film Der Hut des Brigadier (1986) she portrayed the wife of a young construction worker who is leaving his home as part of the “Berlin Initiative”. In the biopic Fallada - Last Chapter (1988) by Roland Graef , she was the maid Anneliese, who runs the household for the writer Hans Fallada and his wife, and whose affair with the writer poses problems for his marriage. In Thomas Langhoff's Anna Seghers film Der Aufstand der Fischer von St. Barbara (1988), she embodied the prostitute Maria, a listless port whore who longs for a very specific man. In crime comedy The Break (1988) by director Frank Beyer , which was created as a German-German co-production, she played in the post-war - Berlin in 1946, the young hairdresser Tina, "holds a crook and her childhood friends ward off" the.

After the turn

After the fall of the Berlin Wall , Ulrike Krumbiegel continued to get roles in demanding film and television productions, such as in Dietmar Klein's comedy Der Erdnussmann (1992) or in In the Name of Innocence (1997). She worked u. a. together with the directors Margarethe von Trotta and Andreas Kleinert . From 2000, Krumbiegel increasingly took up film and television offers, but continued to appear in selected productions at the theater, albeit to a lesser extent. In the meantime Krumbiegel has worked in over 100 film and television productions.

In the film drama Heidi M. (2001) by Michael Klier , she played Katrin Saß's friend Lilo. In the film drama Gender: Female (2003) by Dirk Kummer , Krumbiegel played the lead role, the 40-year-old broker Dina, who, after being diagnosed with breast cancer after a routine examination , decided to fight the disease on her own but finally entrusted to their girlfriends. She was awarded the German Television Prize for her performance . In the historical movie Der Untergang (2004) she took on the fictional role of Dorothee Kranz; she was the mother of the Hitler Youth Peter. In the thriller Antibodies by Christian Alvart (2005), she played Rosa Martens, the wife of a village policeman, who witnessed her husband being manipulated by an imprisoned serial killer. In the coming-of-age film Meer is nich (2007) she was the mother Karla, whose 17-year-old daughter is in a deep phase of self-discovery and indecision shortly before graduation from secondary school.

In January 2018 the film The Beginner was shown in the cinema with her in the lead role. Ulrike Krumbiegel plays alongside Annekathrin Bürger as a partner, a disaffected woman in her late fifties who is rediscovering her old passion and trying to fulfill her childhood dream of becoming a figure skater, which her dominant mother once forbade her.

Television work

From 2002 to 2013 she played in the TV series Bloch for a total of ten years at the side of Dieter Pfaff Clara Born, the partner of the psychotherapist Bloch. This also made her known to the television audience. In 2005 she played under the direction of Matti Geschonneck in his Ulrich Woelk novel adaptation Mord am Meer as Renate Siedler and received positive reviews for it. Der Spiegel wrote that Krumbiegel showed “excellent resignation” in her role.

In the TV film Jenseits der Mauer (2009), Krumbiegel and Herbert Knaup played the Pramann couple, who lovingly adopt and lovingly take in the two-year-old daughter of a couple sentenced to six years in prison for “ fleeing the republic ”. In the television film Stilles Tal (2011) she had one of the leading roles as the innkeeper of the excursion restaurant "Stilles Tal" in the Saxon Müglitztal .

In the thriller Im Netz (2013), she portrayed investigating Commissioner Sonja Theissen, alongside Caroline Peters , whose initial suspicion resulted in empathy for the suspect, a management consultant who is said to have rented apartments and cars in preparation for a terrorist attack, transforms.

In the fairy tale film Die goldene Gans (2013), she played, alongside Ingo Naujoks , the king's sister and aunt of the main character Princess Luise. In the TV movie Elly Beinhorn - Solo Flight (2014) she was the mother of the aviator Elly Beinhorn .

In the television film Mother's Enough Now (2016), a mixture of drama and comedy, she played the main role of Barbara Weller, a woman in her fifties who wants to fulfill her lifelong dream and find new lust for life. In the chamber play-like psychological thriller Something Always Remains (first broadcast: November 2019), Krumbiegel embodied the best friend and neighbor of the female main character, the doctor Nina Dormer ( Lisa Maria Potthoff ). In the ZDF "Herzkino" series, Krumbiegel played in the Inga Lindström film Familienfest in Sommerby , which was first broadcast in November 2019, alongside Max Herbrecht's mother and grandmother Nora, who lived separately from her husband.

Participation in crime series

She played several times in the TV series Tatort . In the Munich Out of Battle (first broadcast: May 2006) she embodied the “taciturn and pragmatic” geriatric nurse Inge Kehrer, whose friend (portrayed by Jörg Schüttauf ) is said to have injected twelve people to death. In Münster's Tatort: ​​Summ, Summ, Summ (first broadcast: March 2013) she was Ina Armbaum, the manager of Roman König alias Roland Kaiser .

Krumbiegel also played roles in the crime series Polizeiruf 110 . In Polizeiruf 110: Der Tausch (first broadcast: March 1997) she played the unstable young mother Katja Kraatz, who kills her own son, a screaming child, and tries together with her husband to blame an anti-social, alcoholic young woman (played by Sophie Rois ). In Polizeiruf 110: Jenseits (first broadcast: November 2007), she embodied the desperate single mother Nina Hausner, whose 8-year-old son is killed by her ex-husband. In Police Call 110: Mother's Day (first broadcast in May 2017), she was the "plump and dubious" cleaning lady Heidi Schoppe, who, although she despises his actions, tries to protect her urgently suspect son (portrayed by Anton Spieker ).

In the Bella Block crime thriller Die Frau des Carpenter (first broadcast: October 2005), which was nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize and awarded the Robert Geisendörfer Prize , she played the role of a frustrated wife who, along with her husband observed a rape but took no action.

In 2013, in the ZDF crime series A strong team , she represented her colleague Maja Maranow as detective chief inspector Katharina Dammers , who was suspended for a case. For the ARD series Alles Verbrecher , she stood alongside Daniel Rodic as Commissioner Herta Frohwitter in front of the camera; the first film in the series, entitled Ice Cold Love , premiered in April 2014.

In the first crime thriller special Matula (first broadcast: April 2017) with Claus Theo Gärtner she took on one of the leading roles as scientist and environmental researcher Dr. Ann-Gret Dahus, who, as a former equal opportunities officer, refused to help a raped colleague. In the 6th season of the ZDF crime series Last Trace Berlin (April / May 2017) she took on a recurring supporting role as hairdresser Renate Elbe, the mother of police investigator Lucy Elbe ( Josephin Busch ). In the ZDF crime series Stralsund (first broadcast: November 2017), she subsequently played no way back, the university professor Anke Liebrecht, a new right-wing intellectual who is presented as the spiritual arsonist of the newly burgeoning right-wing radicalism .

In the Swedish thriller series Greyzone (2018) she had a supporting role as German arms manufacturer Renate Gleisner; While shooting, Krumbiegel spoke her text in English with a German accent. In the ZDF series Der Alte , she took over as chairwoman judge Emma Horvath, who mourns for her child, one of the main episode roles in the new season, which will be broadcast from April 2019. In the ZDF series SOKO Munich (2020), she played the mother of a suspect who becomes a murderer at the side of Nils Hohenhövel .

In the 8th film in the ARD crime series Der Kroatien-Krimi (first broadcast: March 2020), Krumbiegel took on one of the episode roles as the mother of a successful pop singer who is against her daughter's wedding to music manager Mate ( Vladimir Korneev ).

Private

Krumbiegel is the mother of an adult daughter she raised alone. Her hobbies include skiing and sailing . She lives in Berlin-Mitte.

Role profile and awards

Ulrike Krumbiegel "is considered one of the most convincing character actresses in Germany". At the beginning of her career she played petite girls several times; later she was often the silent woman in the background. She often portrayed naive or desperate female characters, whereby she was able to prove her changeability several times. Your roles are characterized by a “wide range”. In reviews, her “physical fragility”, her “sensuality” and the “brittle” in her presentation were emphasized.

For her performance in the television film Gender: Female by Dirk Kummer , she received the German Television Award in 2003 in the category "Best Actress - Leading Role". In 2008 Krumbiegel received the Golden Camera for best actress. She was honored for her role in Polizeiruf 110: Jenseits . She was shortlisted for the German Film Prize 2009 in the category "Best Acting Performance - Female Supporting Role" for Anonyma - A Woman in Berlin . For the German Television Award 2010 she was nominated for “Best Actress” (for her role in The Lost Father ).

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Audio books

Radio plays

literature

Web links

Commons : Ulrike Krumbiegel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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