Ursula Karusseit
Ursula Karusseit ( born August 2, 1939 in Elbing, Regierungsbezirk West Prussia, East Prussia ) is a German actress and director. Karusseit advanced in her years at the Berlin Volksbühne to one of the most important personalities of the GDR theater, but also played in over 50 DFF and DEFA films, such as paths across the land (1968 ), Daniel Druskat (1976) and märkische Chronicle ( 1983).
Life
After the expulsion of 1945 Ursula Karusseit grew up in Parchim. After a commercial apprenticeship, the teacher's daughter Karusseit worked as a stenographer and clerk and worked casually in the lay cabaret group with their operation. She was from 1960 to 1962 at the State Drama School in Berlin Schöneweide her acting training and then exposures at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, the Maxim Gorki Theater and many years lasting permanent position in the ensemble of the Berlin Volksbühne. In the era Benno Besson ( 1969-1977 ) celebrated Europe there success. In 1969 she married Besson, their son Pierre Besson ( b. 1967 ) is also an actor. Karusseit shone especially in the plays The Dragon ( Deutsches Theater Berlin, role Elsa) and The Good Person of Szechwan ( Volksbühne, role Shen Te).
In 1984 Karusseit debuted as a director with John M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World. Since the mid- 1980s has Karusseit numerous guest engagements in West Germany, they came about in 1986 as " Mother Courage " at the Cologne Theatre on.
Her film debut is Ursula Karusseit 1963 in Lothar Bellags television film As You Like It. With her portrayal of Gertrude Habersaat in the TV miniseries way across the country by Helmut Sakowski they gained great popularity beyond the borders of the GDR addition. She was known also by films such as the anti-fascist film epic about the resistance group led by Harro Schulze- Boysen, KLK to PTX - The Red Chapel (1971 ), or the fairy tale The reversed Queen (1984). After the reunification Karusseit is mainly engaged in television, including since 1998 as Charlotte Gauss in the ARD television series In aller Freundschaft. She also teaches occasionally at the Academy of Film and Television " Konrad Wolf" in Potsdam -Babelsberg, participates vocally in the production of radio plays and tours with the program " Jazz, Poetry, Prose " by Germany.
Karusseit lives in Senzig south of Berlin and married in 1998 his second wife her longtime partner, the lighting technician John Wegner.
Policy
In the 2009 federal election Karusseit publicly called for a vote for the Left Party.