Angela Winkler
Angela Winkler ( born January 22, 1944 in Templin ) is a German actress.
Life
Angela Winkler grew up in Templin and at Erlangen, where she attended high school from 1954 to 1962. At 17, she dropped out of school to become an actress. First, she trained as a medical technician in Stuttgart. In 1964, she started at the University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart studied acting, but which ended after only two months. With the assistance of her fellow students, she came to Munich and took acting lessons at Ernst Fritz Fürbringer and Hanna castle joke.
In 1967, she received her first theater engagement in Kassel, then she played in Castrop -Rauxel. After Winkler had already appeared in television films, she gave her film debut in 1969 as a maid in Hannelore Peter Fleischmann's Hunting Scenes from Lower Bavaria. About this film she discovered Peter Stein for his Berlin theater where Angela Winkler 1971 played until 1978.
Her next film The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Volker Schlöndorff after the story by Heinrich Böll she made in 1975 with critics and audiences to stardom. For her portrayal of Katharina Blum, Angela Winkler received the 1975 German Critics' Prize and in 1976 was awarded the Film Award. In 1979, she played the mother of Oskar Matzerath oscar award winning film adaptation in Schlöndorff's The Tin Drum on the novel by Günter Grass and became known internationally.
In recent years, Angela Winkler has mainly focused on her theater work and appeared only rarely on the big screen or on television. Outstanding this was the work with Peter Zadek, who occupied it as Hamlet or 2004 as the mother of Peer Gynt at the Berliner Ensemble in 1999.
2008 Winkler Speaking at the memorial service for the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of National Socialism in representation of Lenka Reinerová a speech to the German Bundestag.
In 2011 she released her debut album I Love You, I can not say on which they interpreted, among other songs by Barbara and Édith Piaf and songs by Sophie Hunger and Element of Crime. In 2010 Winkler was with Max Raabe, Thomas Quasthoff and Udo Samel with the folk songs program Thoughts are free occurred.
Angela Winkler lived with the sculptor Wigand Witting in Berlin and France and is the mother of four children. Her daughter Nele, was born with Down's syndrome; they followed in the footsteps of her mother and is regularly prominent in the Berlin theater Ramba Zamba on stage.
Filmography
Theater
Awards
Movie Documentary
- 2011: Simple and Pride - The actress Angela Winkler. 85 min, Director: Christoph Rueter. * Summary Christoph Rueter film production