Jutta Hoffmann

Jutta Hoffmann ( born March 3, 1941 in Halle an der Saale ) is a German actress. It belonged in the 1970s to the most famous actresses of the GDR.

Life

After high school she studied from 1959 to 1962 at the Film Academy in Potsdam -Babelsberg. Already in 1960 she received her first film role in the DEFA film The bullies cabaret and also debuted as a theater actress in And on Christmas Eve at Berlin's Maxim Gorki Theater, where she was employed until 1973.

She played with Ruth Berghaus, Robert Wilson, Luc Bondy, Thomas Langhoff and Peter Zadek. Above all, Einar Schleef has shaped them. In 1975, she was with him Strindberg's Miss Julie at the Berliner Ensemble in the scandal staging, which provoked the indignation of the SED cultural bureaucrats and had to be stopped promptly. " The craziest thing that ever walked across the stage at the Berliner Ensemble ," wrote theater today. In Schleef spectacular staging Betrayed people Hoffmann played 1995 Rosa Luxembourg and stood in Puntila and his Man Matti (1996 ) at the Berliner Ensemble on stage.

In the early 1980s she left the GDR and stood in the Federal Republic, among others at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg on the theater stage. Especially her work with Peter Zadek they made the West German theater audience known. After Luc Bondy they occupied in Anton Chekhov's Platonov in 1978, she played at the Salzburg Festival in in Dieter Dorn's production of Goethe's Torquato Tasso Leonora d' Este. After that, they played regularly at the Munich Chamber games, in Peter Weiss ' The new process or the Helma in The Park by Botho Strauss (both directed by Dieter Dorn ). The director Thomas Langhoff committed Hoffmann for his TV movie Hedda Gabler (1979 /80). On the side of Jutta Wachowiak and Michael Gwisdek she played in 1982 in Langhoffs idiosyncratic TV adaptation of Goethe's Stella - a piece that she had played last year at the theater in the palace.

Your greatest achievements came at the theater with Peter Zadek as Lorca's Yerma ( for which she was nominated by the magazine Theater heute for " Actress of the Year "). She was the speech impaired Countess GESCHWITZ in Zadek's legendary staging of Wedekind's Lulu with Susanne Lothar, The Duchess of Malfi at the side of Gert Voss and the mother of Uwe Bohm in the musical Andi. In the Vienna Festival in 1995, she played Adolf Hitler and the wife of Hans Frank in Joshua Sobol's father, directed by Paulus Manker.

In feature and television films Jutta Hoffmann repeatedly impressed by their skills. On the screen, Hoffmann had in the GDR in Egon Günther film Lotte in Weimar on the side of Lilli Palmer or in the Arnold Zweig adaptation Young Woman of 1914 as successes such as lambs in the television adaptation of Hans Fallada's Little Man - what now?. With Egon Günther's movie The Third ( 1972), to the film festival in Karlovy Vary and on the Venice Film Festival ( Best Actor award the FIPRESCI jury for Best Actress ) was excellent, she received the FIPRESCI Prize international fame and was at the Biennale as " Best Actress " for the presentation of Margit Flieser accept; the GDR honored their artist with the " National Award ". In the same year Hoffmann was awarded the German Critics Prize. Another collaboration with Egon Günther was the movie The Key (1972 ), which was occupied because of the sensitive subject matter with a performance ban. The exclusion from the party faithful GDR art world is reflected in films such as Herrmann Zschoche Karla, who was banned in 1965 or later The hiding with Manfred Krug (1977).

From 1993 to 2006 she worked at the University for Music and Theatre in Hamburg as a Professor of Performing Arts. During this time she also taught Marie Bäumer, Bibiana Beglau and Marc Hosemann.

2005 Hoffmann was honored by the DEFA Foundation for their contribution to German film. On the occasion of her 70th birthday, her dedicated the Potsdam Film Museum exhibition. Since April 12, 2011 Jutta Hoffmann has a star on the Boulevard of Stars in Berlin.

Jutta Hoffmann was in his first marriage with the director Herrmann Zschoche and is now married to the Austrian actor and director Nicholas Haenel. She lives in Potsdam and has two children.

Filmography

Audiobooks

• Brigitte Reimann: I regret nothing - Diaries 1955-1963, read by Jutta Hoffmann, 2 Audio CDs, MDR 2000 / Audio Verlag 2000, ISBN 9,783,898,130,660th
• Brigitte Reimann: Everything tastes like goodbye - Diaries 1964-1970, read by Jutta Hoffmann, 2 Audio CDs, MDR 2000 / Audio Verlag 2000, ISBN 9,783,898,131,100th
• Brigitte Reimann: Diaries 1955-1970, read by Jutta Hoffmann, 4 Audio CDs, MDR 2000 / Audio Publishing 2004, ISBN 9,783,898,133,623th
• Hans Fallada: Little man - what now, read by Jutta Hoffmann, 4 Audio CDs, MDR 2006 / Audio Verlag 2009, ISBN 9783898138468? .
• Heinrich Zille: whores talks with Dagmar Manzel, Margit Bendokat, Gudrun Ritter, Kathrin Angerer, Winnie Bowe and Mary Kwiatkowsky, Director: Jutta Hoffmann, audio CD, MDR 2007 / Audio Verlag 2007, ISBN 9,783,898,136,990th

Awards (selection)

• Silver Lion for "Best Actress " at the Venice Film Festival ( for The Third ) ( 1972)
• National Prize of the GDR 1972
• German critics award from the Association of German Critics (1972 )
• Critics' Prize of the Berlin newspaper for Minna von Barn-helm at the Maxim -Gorki- Theater ( 1972)
• GDR TV Artist of the Year (1973 )
• Actress of the Year for Yerma at the Munich Chamber Play (1984 )
• Best Actress of the GDR (of 21 critics from East and West in a magazine review of the film and television at the DEFA ) ( 1992)
• Nominated for the German Film Prize ( for Bandits ) ( 1998)
• Caroline Neuber Prize of the city of Leipzig ( 1998)
• Critics' Prize of the Berliner Zeitung for Rosa Luxembourg in Betrayed People (2000)
• Price of the DEFA Foundation for contribution to German film ( 2005)
• Star on the Boulevard of Stars in Berlin ( 2011)