Käthe Braun
Kate Brown (actually: Catherine Brown; born November 11, 1913 in Wasserburg am Inn, † September 9, 1994 in Berlin) was a German theater and film actress in Berlin.
Life
After private acting lessons with Magda Lena in Munich followed in 1935 her first engagement at the Bavarian State Theater. In 1938 she moved to the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus and 1941 at the Municipal Theatre of Strasbourg, where she played until the general closure of theater in 1944.
After the Second World War she returned to Munich and toured from 1947 to 1951 at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. In 1951, she appeared in the western part of Berlin at the Schiller Theatre and the Castle Park Theatre, as well as other West German venues on. Her roles included the title role in The Katherine of Heilbronn, Annchen in Max Half youth, Rautendelein in Gerhart Hauptmann's The Sunken Bell, Electra in Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes wear Elektra, Gretchen in Goethe's Faust, the title character in Saint Joan, Hermia and Titania in A Midsummer night's Dream, Othello Desdemona in, Viola in Twelfth Night and Ophelia in Hamlet.
Beginning of the 1950s she also played some major roles in East German film productions of the DEFA, such as the wife of a butcher master and hangman Teetjen in the branch - literary adaptation The Axe of Wandsbek under the direction of her husband, which the environment of the White Rose belonging NS resistance fighter Falk Harnack ( 1913-1991 ). Last Kathe Brown was known as a concerned mother in literary adaptations of Lausbubengeschichten by Ludwig Thoma.