Ursula Karusseit

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Karusseit (right) next to Benno Besson and Galina Malinovskaya , 1974
Signature of 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

Ursula Karusseit and Manfred Krug in 1968 in the DFF television film Weg über Land

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).

Ursula Karusseit (right) is congratulated by her serial colleague Arzu Bazman on the Golden Hen for her life's work (2009)

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)

theatre

actor

Director

Radio plays

honors and awards

Autobiography

literature

Web links

Commons : Ursula Karusseit  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Rühmann : Obituary
  2. ↑ Ursula Karusseit: Biography. In: filmportal.de . Retrieved February 2, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Actress Ursula Karusseit has died. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . February 1, 2019, accessed February 1, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Dietmar Bartsch: On the last Monday before the election. In: die-linke.de. September 21, 2009, accessed August 27, 2020 .
personal data
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