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 (born 19 January 1954 in East Berlin) is a German actress and film 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

• 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, Television mini-series)
• For Example Otto Spalt (1987)
• Der Passagier – Welcome to Germany (1988)
• Follow Me (1989)
• God afton, Herr 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, Television mini-series)
• The Manns
• Kabale und Liebe (2005)
• The Robber Hotzenplotz (2006)
• Not Everybody was a Murderer (2006, Television Film)
• Strike (2006)
• Deadline - Every Second Counts (2007)
• 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)

External links

• Katharina Thalbach at IMDb