Susanne Lothar
Susanne Lothar (* November 15, 1960 in Hamburg, † July 21, 2012 in Berlin) was a German actress. She became known as an actress difficult and broken characters on the stage and in film and television.
- 2.1 Cinema
- 2.2 television
Life
Origin and theater
Susanne Lothar came from a family of artists. She was the daughter of actor - couple Ingrid Andree and Hanns Lothar (born Neutze ) born. Her half-brother Marcel Werner and her uncle Michael Horst Günther Neutze and Neutze were also an actor.
Lothar studied at the Hamburg Academy of Music and Drama Theatre and received while she was still studying a contract at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg. In 1981, she was the first recipient of the Boy Gobert price. She had another successful engagements in Cologne, Vienna, Stuttgart, Berlin and Salzburg. In Vienna, she was honored in 1986 with the Kainz Medal. Above all, the title role of Lulu in Peter Zadek's production from 1988 at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, she was known. In addition, the actress critical acclaim and audience in the three- times life (directed by Luc Bondy, 2000) in the Burgtheater in Vienna, in 2001 at the Schauspielhaus Zurich also directed by Luc Bondy in Countryside and two years later as Blanche du Bois in A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Burkhard C. Kosminski. In 2006, Susanne Lothar was seen on the stage in Berlin as Clytemnestra in Elektra, directed by Thomas Ostermeier Meier.
Film and Television
Her first film role as a retarded daughter Marga Schroth in Iron John, directed by Tancred Dorst wore Susanne Lothar 1983 German Film Award a. It was not until the early 1990s, she took her film career again. In the eve - crime series The investigators she was seen in the first run in October 1990 episode of Romeo as Gina. In 1993 she received for her portrayal of Vera Holtz sea in the television miniseries The deadly eye together with Ulrich Mühe 1993 Golden Gong. It was followed by 1999 numerous roles in film and television, such as Edgar Reitz ' The second home - Chronicle of a youth, Peter Bird Drama Just get out as well as several episodes of the series Tatort. In 1997 there was the first collaboration with the Austrian film director Michael Haneke. She turned, he directed four movies: she was seen in 1997 as victims of violence in the thriller Funny Games, embodied in The Castle (1997) The role of Frieda, starred in The Piano Teacher (2001) from the novel by Elfriede Jelinek with and in the multi-award- winning drama The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story ( 2009).
From 2000, worked Susanne Lothar in other film and television productions. In the TV movie from kissing and of flying by Hartmut Schoen she put the role of Petra Maier dar. In Peter Patzak business thriller The eighth deadly sin: Tuscany carousel she played the lead role of Marion Hansen, who is employed by the European Anti-Fraud Office. Other notable films with her are The Austrian method, meat is my vegetables ( 2008), the German - American film The Reader (2008) and Who if not us ( 2011).
In April 2012 Susanne Lothar was as cucumbers Queen Luise King in the television crime series The cucumbers Queen of the police call 110 to see. In Hanna Dooses feature film of dust on our hearts, she had the leading role at the side of Stephanie Stremler. Posthumously ran into the German cinemas in December 2012, the novel adaptation of Anna Karenina, in which they embodied in a smaller role Princess Schtscherbatzki.
Family and death
Lothar was married from 1997 to actor Ulrich Mühe ( 1953-2007 ), whom she had in 1990 The Jewess of Toledo met at the Salzburg Festival in a performance of the play. In the following years she worked repeatedly with him. She lived until his death with him and their two children in Berlin. The death of Susanne Lothar announced the family's lawyer on 25 July 2012. Her ashes were buried in front of the north German coast at sea.
Filmography (selection)
Cinema
TV
Plays ( selection)
Documentary
- 2010: Susanne Lothar - My Life. Written and directed by Claudia Müller