Katharina Thalbach Explained

Katharina Thalbach
Birth Date:19 January 1954
Birth Place:East Berlin, East Germany
Children:Anna Thalbach
Occupation:Actress, stage director
Spouse:Thomas Brasch (deceased)

Katharina Thalbach (pronounced as /de/; actually Katharina Joachim genannt Thalbach; born 19 January 1954) is a German actress and stage director. She played theatre at the Berliner Ensemble and at the Volksbühne Berlin, and was actress in the film The Tin Drum. She worked as a theatre and opera director.

Life and work

Born in East Berlin,[1] Katharina Thalbach's father Benno Besson was a director, her mother Sabine Thalbach, was an actress.[2] Also actors are her half-brother Pierre Besson and her stepmother Ursula Karusseit.[3]

At the age of four, Thalbach was playing children's roles on stage, on television and in films. After the death of her mother in 1966, Helene Weigel took her under her care. In 1967, she made her debut as the whore Betty (later the Polly) in Erich Engel's production of Brecht's Dreigroschenoper. She completed her Abitur at the Max-Planck-Oberschule.[4] She obtained her stage maturity examination (German: Bühnenreifeprüfung) as a master student of Helene Weigel, Berliner Ensemble.[5] Thalbach played at the Berliner Ensemble and at the Volksbühne Berlin, where her father worked as artistic director.

In 1976, Thalbach moved with her partner Thomas Brasch to West Germany, because he was protesting against Wolf Biermann's expatriation.[6] In West Berlin, she made her debut at the Schillertheater.[7] She acted as a guest star in Hans Lietzau's production of Hauptmann's Der Biberpelz and in Jürgen Flimm's production of Kleist's Das Käthchen von Heilbronn, for which she was voted actress of the year by Theater heute in 1980. She had success with the role of Maria in Volker Schlöndorff's 1979 film adaptation of Grass' The Tin Drum.[8] In 1984, she performed the Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet in Zürich.

Since 1987, she worked as a director. Her break through was the award-winning production Macbeth. Since 1997, she was opera director, with productions of Mozart's Don Giovanni and Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen in Berlin.

Personal life

Thalbach's partner Thomas Brasch was an author.[9] [10] Her daughter Anna (born 1973) from a former relationship with [11] and her granddaughter (born 1995) are actresses. She is married to Uwe Hamacher.[12] She lives in Berlin.

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Filmography

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Theatre and Opera

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Steffen . Alfred . Katharina Thalbach im Interview ohne Worte . SZ Magazin . 17 October 2019 . de . 29 March 2022.
  2. Web site: Katharina Thalbach . Biografie [CineGraph Lexikon] . de . 28 March 2022.
  3. Web site: Ursula Karusseit: Ihre letzten Geheimnisse . SUPERillu . 14 April 2020 . de . 28 March 2022.
  4. Web site: Susanne . Vieth-Entus . Max-Planck-Gymnasium soll weitermachen . . 10 September 2014 . de . 29 March 2022.
  5. Web site: Katharina Thalbach . . de . 29 March 2022.
  6. Web site: The Thalbachs – a German-German Theatre Family . Goethe-Institut . 15 October 2021 . 28 March 2022.
  7. Web site: Katharina Thalbach . . 1 August 2021 . de . 28 March 2022.
  8. Web site: Thomas . Blubacher . Katharina Thalbach . Theaterlexikon der Schweiz . Chronos Verlag . Zürich . 3 . 2005 . de . 29 March 2022 . 1836.
  9. Web site: Decker . Kerstin . Ein Fremder in Ost und West . . 11 November 2021 . de . 28 March 2022.
  10. Web site: Ein Poet mit dem Herzen eines Boxers . FOCUS Online . 29 September 2016 . de . 28 March 2022.
  11. Web site: Katharina Thalbach privat: Glücklich mit jüngerem Mann! Doch DAS kommt ihr nicht in die Tüte . News.de . 3 May 2021 . de . 28 March 2022.
  12. Web site: Heimliche Hochzeit! Schauspielerin Katharina Thalbach sagte ja . B.Z. Berlin . 22 July 2020 . de . 28 March 2022.
  13. Web site: Thalbach . . de . 28 March 2022.
  14. Web site: Katharina Thalbach hat geheiratet . n-tv.de . 30 July 2020 . de . 28 March 2022.
  15. Web site: Katharina Thalbach . filmportal.de . 19 January 1954 . de . 28 March 2022.
  16. Web site: Peter von . Becker . Der Parvenü verlässt uns nie . . 20 January 2005 . de . 29 March 2022.
  17. Web site: Hartmut . Krug . Oscar Wilde ganz harmlos . . 16 January 2006 . de . 29 March 2022.
  18. Web site: "Der Raub der Sabinerinnen" im Hans Otto Theater Potsdam . Theaterkompass – Für Theaterbesucher und Theatermacher . 24 December 2006 . de . 29 March 2022.
  19. Web site: Romeo und Julia . . 22 March 2021 . de . 29 March 2022.
  20. Web site: Hänsel und Gretel – Oper – Semperoper Dresden . Semperoper Dresden . 18 January 2022 . de . 29 March 2022.
  21. Web site: Michael . Ernst . Semperoper Dresden: Schauspiellegende Katharina Thalbach inszeniert Verdis "Aida" . MDR.DE . 7 March 2022 . de . 29 March 2022.
  22. News: Hoffmann . Stephan . Katharina Thalbach inszeniert "Fidelio" in Zürich . . 17 November 2011 . de . 29 March 2022.
  23. Web site: Philipp . Elena . Im Dickicht der Städte – Katharina Thalbach debütiert als Regisseurin in ihrem Mutter- und Vaterhaus . nachtkritik.de . 29 April 2020 . de . 29 March 2022.
  24. Web site: Spaßtheater mit originellen Ideen . . 23 March 2021 . de . 29 March 2022.
  25. Web site: Agency . Hands . La Résistible Ascension d'Arturo Ui . La Résistible Ascension d'Arturo Ui . 30 June 2017 . 29 March 2022.
  26. Web site: Katharina Thalbach inszeniert "Arturo Ui" in Paris . swr.online . 31 March 2017 . de . 29 March 2022.
  27. Web site: Wie es euch gefällt . Komödie Berlin . 1 January 1970 . de . 29 March 2022.

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