Isabel Karajan

Isabel Karajan (born June 25, 1960 in Vienna) is an Austrian actress. She is the daughter of Herbert von Karajan and Eliette von Karajan as well as the older sister of the musician Arabel Karajan.

Life

After completing her Matura, Isabel Karajan studied acting in Vienna and Paris. She had her first acting engagements with the playhouses in Zurich and Stuttgart, the Thalia theatre Hamburg, the theatre Der Kreis in Vienna and the Théâtre National de la Colline. From 1995 to 1998 Isabel Karajan played the part of the Good Works in Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival. She also performed in Avignon and Adelaide, Australia, as well as at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Schauspielhaus Stuttgart, the Münchner Kammerspiele and at the Schaubühne in Berlin. In 2000, she appeared in "Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher" by Arthur Honegger at the Saito-Kinen Festival in Japan.

For several years, Isabel Karajan collaborated with directors Klaus Ortner, Julian Pölsler and Christina Pfrötschner on their own musical theater projects. She was also in numerous film and television productions by Wolfgang Murnberger, Holger Barthel, Nina Companéez, Alain Michel Blanc, Erhard Riedlsperger, Michi Riebl, Rupert Henning and Patricia Mazuy.

Own Projects

• 8 Songs for a Mad King by Peter Maxwell Davis (Director: Klaus Ortner) with Isabel Karajan, Performances: Rolandseck Festival 2013, Kfar Blum Festival 2014, Dresdner Kunstfest 2015
• Candide by Leonard Bernstein: A comic operetta in two acts (Realization: Klaus Ortner) with Sir Jeffrey Tate, the Hamburger Symphoniker, Isabel Karajan, Performance: Laeiszhalle Hamburg 2016
• Die Feuerprobe, Director: Julian Pölsler
• The Soldier’s Tale by Igor Strawinsky (Scenic Realization: Klaus Ortner), with Isabel Karajan, Performances: Salzburg Easter Festival 2011, Appenzell 2015, Hamburg Laeiszhalle 2015, Bamberg 2016, Bayreuth 2016
• Miss Death meets Mister Shostakovich: A scenic collage (Scenic Realization: Klaus Ortner) with Isabel Karajan, Performances: Schostakowitsch Tage Gohrisch 2014, Salzburg Easter Festival 2015, Soli Deo Gloria Festival Goslar 2016, Suntory Hall Japan 2016
• Kreutzersonaten: Musical-literary collage about the Kreutzersonaten (Coordination: Klaus Ortner), Performance: Rolandseck Festival 2013
• Peter and the Wolf (Director: Klaus Ortner) with Isabel Karajan, Christian Spitzenstätter, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Performance: Salzburg 2016
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream Dream, (Director: Christina Pfrötschner)

Filmography

TV

• 2016 Die Toten von Salzburg (Angelika Holzer)
• 2015 Tatort: Grenzfall (Dani Karger)
• 2014 SOKO Wien: Drehschluss (Nele Cox)
• 2011 Schnell ermittelt: Helmut Schafranek (Viktoria Throst)
• 2010 Tatort: Glaube, Liebe, Tod (Sieglinde Kaber)
• 2009 SOKO Wien: Alte Bekannte (Patrizia Manninger)
• 2006 Schloss Orth: Neuanfänge
• 2003 SOKO Kitzbühel: Die Bestattung, Rolle: Frau Terhagen
• 2003 Julia – Eine ungewöhnliche Frau: In Vino Veritas
• 1998 La Poursuite du vent (Margot)
• 1996 Les Faux Médicaments (Mme. Fontanelle)
• 1995 Le retour d'Arsène Lupin: La robe de diamants

Movie

• 2011 Sport de filles (Patricia Mazuy)
• 2008 Der schwarze Löwe
• 2002 Ich gehöre dir (Lina Manz)
• 1996 Les faux médicaments
• 1994 Cognacq-Jay (Bertie)
• 1994 Ich bin den Sommer über in Berlin geblieben (Maria)
• 1989 Achterloo IV (Hide)
• 1983 Le grand échiquier: Coxteau vivant

Discography

• 2012 Mozart und Zeitgenossen: Francesca Cardone / Isabel Karajan / Peter Simonischek

Links

• Isabel Karajan Homepage
• Isabel Karajan Facebook
• Isabel Karajan IMDb (Internet Movie Database)