Katrin Saß
Katrin Sass (formerly Sass, born October 23, 1956 in Schwerin ) is a German theater, film and television actress.
Life
Her mother is the actress Marga Heiden (1921-2013), known in the East German television by dialect pieces of the Fritz -Reuter- stage Schwerin. At her insistence Katrin Sass first learned the profession of skilled worker for voice traffic ( telephone operator ). The first application attempt at the Berlin drama school failed, the second succeeded in Rostock.
In 1979, she was 23 years her film debut with the lead role in the film Till death do you part, where she played a young wife soon disillusioned. Your great career began in the early 1980s. For her performance in the film guarantee for one year ( 1981), rotated or during their studies, she received at the Berlinale 1982 in West Berlin Silver Bear. Sass itself states, in response to the West German award at the Berlin International Film Festival, to which she was allowed to travel to have received two years no more roll of film from the East German regime. From the mid- 1980s, it was, however, seen in many DEFA films, was crowned in 1987 in the GDR for Actress of the Year and was next to stars like Angelica Domröse as one of the most popular actresses in the GDR.
Your theater career began in the early 1980s at the Kleist Theatre in Frankfurt (Oder ), 1981 brought Peter then they Halle / Saale. This was followed by an engagement at the Schauspielhaus in Leipzig until 1990.
With the exception of the TV series Police 110, she appeared as the main commissioner Tanja Voigt in the 1993 to 1998, she had in the 1990s hardly commitment. Sass suffered since her 19th year of life, and especially after the turn of alcohol addiction that she overcame in 1998 and has addressed this issue from 2001 to the public. Because of their addiction, she was from the ORB (then the producing broadcaster ) terminated in 1998 as Commissioner of Police 110.
Sass ' has claimed that she had her last name in the GDR in Sass must be changed because the former state authorities with the notation Sass would have associated the "Nazi symbol" SA and SS. Sass indicates GDR times by her best friend as well as from friends and colleagues, enlisted to have been spied which had as unofficial employee of the Stasi.
With the lead roles in the social drama Heidi M. ( 2001), and in the international box office hit Good Bye, Lenin! ( 2003), she had a comeback on the big screen. In August 2006, she played the role of Celia Peachum in a production of Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera by Klaus Maria Brandauer at the Metropol Theater Berlin. She has since appeared in several television films and series.
In January 2013 Sass became the focus of attention after the actor and presenter peer Kusmagk verbal attack on the talk show Markus Lanz due to its jungle camp attendance and personally insulted in the opinion of critics. The star, whose reporting Sass had also criticized in the same talk show, described their discussion style as " arrogant pedantry " and " below the belt " and compared Sass with Klaus Kinski.
Sass was married from 1991 to 2007 with the East German director Siegfried Kühn. She has no children and has lived in Mecklenburg and Berlin.
Filmography
Cinema
TV Films (selection )
TV series
TV appearances
- 2011: NDR Talk Show (February 11 )
- 2012: Markus Lanz (29 May )
- 2013: Markus Lanz ( 29 January)
- 2013: Markus Lanz (June 19 )
- 2013: Kroemer - Late Night Show (August 31 )
Music videos
- 2011: main role in the video "We are alive " by Rosenstolz