Katharina Thalbach

Katharina Thalbach
Thalbach in April 2012
Born	(1954-01-19) 19 January 1954 East Berlin, East Germany
Occupation(s)	Actress, film director
Spouse	Thomas Brasch (deceased)
Children	Anna

Katharina Thalbach (German: [ka.ta.ˈʁiː.na ˈtaːl.bax] ; born 19 January 1954 in East Berlin) is a German actress and stage director.

Life and work

Katharina Thalbach comes from a particularly artistically oriented family. Her father Benno Besson was a director, her mother Sabine Thalbach was an actress. Her late husband Thomas Brasch was an author. Her daughter Anna (born 1973) and her granddaughter Nellie (born 1995) are also actresses, as are her half-brother Pierre Besson and her stepmother Ursula Karusseit.

Awards

• 2006 Bavarian Film Awards, Best Actress

Filmography

• Johannes Kepler (1974)
• The Blue Light (1976)
• It is an Old Story
• Schlaraffenland
• Lotte in Weimar
• Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (1976)
• The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (1978)
• The Tin Drum (1979)
• Angels of Iron (1980)
• Domino (1982)
• Sophie's Choice (1982)
• Glut (1984)
• Paradise (1986)
• Flight North (1986)
• Väter und Söhne – Eine deutsche Tragödie (1986, TV miniseries)
• For Example Otto Spalt (1987)
• The Passenger – Welcome to Germany (1988)
• Follow Me (1989)
• Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg (1990)
• Der achte Tag (1990)
• Just a Matter of Duty (1993)
• Kaspar Hauser (1994)
• Back to Square One (1994)
• Silent Night (1995)
• Caipiranha (1999)
• Sonnenallee (1999)
• Liebesau – the other Home (2001, TV miniseries)
• Die Manns – Ein Jahrhundertroman (2001, TV miniseries)
• Kabale und Liebe (2005, TV film)
• The Robber Hotzenplotz (2006)
• Not Everybody was a Murderer (2006, TV film)
• Strike (2006)
• Deadline – Jede Sekunde zählt (2007, TV series)
• Hands off Mississippi (2007)
• Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution (directed by Bille Eltringham, 2007)
• You Are Not Alone (2007)
• The Moon and Other Lovers (2008)
• Ruby Red (2013)
• Der Tote im Pub (2013, TV-adaptation of The Man With A Load Of Mischief from the Richard Jury mystery series by Martha Grimes)
• Mord im Nebel (2015, TV-adaptation of Help the poor Struggler from the Richard Jury mystery series by Martha Grimes)
• Inspektor Jury spielt Katz und Maus (2017, TV-adaptation of The Deer Leap from the Richard Jury mystery series by Martha Grimes)
• 100 Dinge (2018)
• Der faule Engel (2019) (p. Addi)
• Ich war noch niemals in New York (2019)

Theatre

En tant que comédienne

• Betty aus der Dreigroschenoper am Berliner Ensemble 1969
• Venus/Galatea in Die schöne Helena (bearb. von Peter Hacks Volksbühne) 1972
• Lovely Rita Schillertheater (Berlin) 1978
• Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
• Das Käthchen von Heilbronn (Schauspiel Köln) 1980
• Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (1995)
• Frau Jenny Treibel in Frau Jenny Treibel (Hans Otto Theater Potsdam) 2005
• Tante Augusta in Ernst sein ist alles (Komödie am Kurfürstendamm) 2006
• Emanuel Striese und Luise Striese in Der Raub der Sabinerinnen (Hans Otto Theater Potsdam) 2006
• Wie es euch gefällt 2009 (Komödie am Kurfürstendamm)
• 2017: Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

External links

• Katharina Thalbach at IMDb