Ursula Karusseit
Ursula Karusseit (born August 2, 1939 in Elbing , West Prussia region , East Prussia province ; † February 1, 2019 in Berlin ) was a German actress and director .
During her years at the Volksbühne in Berlin, Karusseit advanced to become one of the most important personalities in GDR theater, but also played in over 50 DFF and DEFA films, for example in Weg über Land (1968), Daniel Druskat (1976) and Märkische Chronik ( 1983).
Life
Karusseit was born in Elbing, East Prussia. After the expulsion in 1945 Ursula Karusseit grew up in Parchim and Gera . After completing a commercial apprenticeship, the teacher's daughter worked as a typist and clerk and also worked in the amateur cabaret group at her company. From 1960 to 1962 she received her acting training at the State Drama School Berlin-Schöneweide and then engagements at the Deutsches Theater Berlin , the Maxim-Gorki-Theater and many years of permanent employment in the ensemble of the Berliner Volksbühne . In the Benno Besson era (1969 to 1977) she celebrated success there across Europe. In 1969 she married Besson and thus received her Swiss passport; their son Pierre Besson (* 1967) is also an actor. Karusseit shone especially in the plays Der Drache ( Deutsches Theater Berlin , role Elsa ) and Der gute Mensch von Sezuan (Volksbühne, role Shen Te).
In 1984, Carousel made her directorial debut with John M. Synges The Hero of the Western World . Since the mid-1980s, Karusseit had numerous guest engagements in West Germany, for example in 1986 she appeared as Mother Courage in the play of the same name at the Kölner Schauspiel .
Ursula Karusseit made her film debut in 1963 in Lothar Bellag's TV film Was ihr wollt . With her portrayal of Gertrud Habersaat in the multi-part TV series Routes across the country according to Helmut Sakowski , she achieved great popularity beyond the borders of the GDR. In the four-part series Eva and Adam , she embodied the leading role of Helga Lorenz at the side of Dietmar Richter-Reinick in the first film . She also became known through films such as the anti-fascist film epic about the resistance group around Harro Schulze-Boysen , KLK an PTX - Die Rote Kapelle (1971), or the fairy tale The Exchanged Queen (1984). After reunification, Karusseit was mainly engaged in television, including since 1998 as Charlotte Gauß in the ARD television series In allerfreund . In addition, she occasionally taught at the Konrad Wolf Academy for Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg , took part in the production of radio plays and toured Germany with the jazz, poetry and prose program .
From 2006 she played in the Theater am Rand in Zollbrücke .
Karusseit last lived in Senzig, south of Berlin, and in 1998 married her second partner, the lighting technician Johannes Wegner. She died on February 1, 2019 at the age of 79 in a Berlin clinic of complications from a heart condition. In March 2019, a book by her, on which she had recently been working, was published posthumously under the title Encore .
Political commitment
In the 2009 Bundestag election , Karusseit publicly called for the election of the Left Party .
Filmography (selection)
- 1968: Routes across the country (TV five-part)
- 1971: Avant-garde (theater recording)
- 1971: KLK to PTX - Die Rote Kapelle
- 1971: The unwilling doctor (theater recording)
- 1973: Eva and Adam (TV four-part series)
- 1974: The naked man on the sports field
- 1976: Daniel Druskat (TV five-part)
- 1976: Camping-Camping (TV)
- 1977: Death and resurrection of Wilhelm Hausmann
- 1979: Brush Heinrich (TV film)
- 1980: Levin's Mill
- 1980: Dolls for the Night (TV Movie)
- 1981: The daughters' hour
- 1982: Rechlin family (two-part TV series)
- 1983: The beaver fur (recording by the Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1983: Olle Henry
- 1983: Märkische Chronik (TV series)
- 1984: The swapped queen
- 1985: The geese from Bützow
- 1986: Christmas stories (TV movie)
- 1987: Entry into Paradise (TV series)
- 1987: Polizeiruf 110 - Farewell song for Linda (TV series)
- 1991: The Language of Birds (TV film)
- 1993: Who Lies Twice (TV movie)
- 1994: The City Indians (TV series)
- 1998-2019: In all friendship (TV series)
- 1999: Nachtgestalten
- 1999: washing, cutting, laying
- 2003: I'll Lend You My Husband (TV Movie)
- 2003: Einstein Castle (TV series, four episodes)
- 2004: An angel named Hans-Dieter
- 2005: Police Call 110 - Forward and Backward (TV series)
- 2006: elementary particles
- 2006: Welcome to Lüsgraf
- 2007: Tatort - The Trap (TV series)
- 2008: Tischlein deck dich (TV movie)
- 2013: Welcome to the Country (TV movie)
- 2013: In all friendship: Until the last second (TV movie)
- 2014: We Do It For Money (TV Movie)
- 2014: Dr. Klein (TV series, two episodes: setbacks , intoxication )
- 2014: The last million - when the old people's home wins the lottery
- 2014: Neufeld, come with us!
- 2015: One is not yours (TV movie)
theatre
actor
- 1964: Manfred Bieler : Night Watch - Director: Hans-Joachim Martens ( Volksbühne Berlin - Theater on the 3rd floor)
- 1964: Robert Planchon after Alexandre Dumas the Elder : The Three Musketeers - Direction: Rudolf Vedral (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1965: Peter Hacks : Moritz Tassow (Rote Rosa) - Director: Benno Besson (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1966: William Shakespeare : Measure for Measure (Isabella) - Director: Adolf Dresen ( Deutsches Theater Berlin )
- 1967: Horst Salomon : Ein Lorbaß - Director: Benno Besson (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 1967: Rolf Schneider : Trial in Nuremberg - Director: Wolfgang Heinz (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
- 1970: Bertolt Brecht : The Good Man of Sezuan (Shen Te) - Director: Benno Besson (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1970: Valentin Katajew : Avantgarde (Polina, Chorba's wife) - Director: Fritz Marquardt (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1971: Heiner Müller : Women's Comedy (Jenny Nägle) - Director: Fritz Marquardt (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1971: Carlo Gozzi : König Hirsch (Smeraldina) - Director: Benno Besson / Brigitte Soubeyran (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1972: Tirso de Molina : Don Gil from the green pants (Dona Clara) - Director: Brigitte Soubeyran (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1973: Medieval fairground piece: Vom Furz (wife) - Director: Brigitte Soubeyran (Volksbühne Berlin - left side foyer)
- 1975: Jean Racine : Britannicus (Agrippine) - Director: Brigitte Soubeyran (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1979: Ferenc Molnár : Liliom (Jule) - Director: Brigitte Soubeyran / Irene Böhme (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1980: Euripides : The Women of Troy (Hekabe) - Director: Berndt Renne (Volksbühne Berlin - Theater on the 3rd floor)
- 1984: Gerhart Hauptmann : Schluck und Jau (court lady Adeluz) - director: Siegfried Höchst / Gert Hof (Volksbühne Berlin)
- 1985: Wsewolod Wischnewski : Optimistic Tragedy (Commissioner) - Director: Siegfried Höchst / Gert Hof (Volksbühne Berlin)
Director
Radio plays
- 1980: Georg Büchner : Dantons Tod (Julie) - Director: Joachim Staritz (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR )
- 1981: Joachim Brehmer : Der Doppelganger (Evelyn) - Director: Achim Scholz (radio play - Broadcasting of the GDR)
- 1983: Hans Christian Andersen : The Snow Queen (Robber Woman) - Director: Rainer Schwarz (Children's radio play - Litera )
- 1996: Holger Böhme : Still life with village and corpses - Director: Joachim Staritz (radio play - ORB / RB )
- 1999: Isaak Babel : Die Reiterarmee (Saska, female) - Director: Joachim Staritz (radio play (3 parts) - MDR / DLR )
- 2003: Dylan Thomas : Unter dem Milchwald (Rosie Probert) - Director: Götz Fritsch (radio play - MDR)
- 2008: AL Kennedy : Paradies - adaptation and direction: Irene Schuck (radio play - MDR / NDR)
honors and awards
- 1968: National Prize of the GDR 1st class in a collective
- 2009: Golden Hen for her life's work
Autobiography
- Encore . Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-355-01879-1 .
literature
- Hans-Dieter Schütt : Ursula Karusseit: Paths across the country and through times. Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-360-01982-0 .
- Renate Rätz: Karusseit, Ursula . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Ursula Karusseit in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ursula Karusseit in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ursula Karusseit at filmportal.de
- Christoph Funke: Ursula Karusseit: tender and angular. In: Der Tagesspiegel . August 2, 2009, p. 24 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Rühmann : Obituary
- ↑ Ursula Karusseit: Biography. In: filmportal.de . Retrieved February 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Actress Ursula Karusseit has died. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . February 1, 2019, accessed February 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Dietmar Bartsch: On the last Monday before the election. In: die-linke.de. September 21, 2009, accessed August 27, 2020 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Carousel, Ursula |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress and director |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1939 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Elbing , East Prussia |
DATE OF DEATH | 1st February 2019 |
Place of death | Berlin |