Angelica Domröse
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Angelica Domröse is a German actress, who became famous in the role of Paula in Heiner Carow
Heiner Carow
Heiner Carow was a German film director and screenwriter. His 1986 film So Many Dreams was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. The following year, he was a member of the jury at the 38th Berlin International Film Festival...

's film "The Legend of Paul and Paula
The Legend of Paul and Paula
Die Legende von Paul und Paula is a 1973 tragicomic East German film directed by Heiner Carow. It was based on the novel of the same name by Ulrich Plenzdorf....

". Her Mediterranean appearance is the result of her biological father being a prisoner of war from France.

Life

After training as a shorthand typist Domröse worked in a state-run foreign trade enterprise in East Germany. In 1958 she was discovered by the director Slatan Dudow
Slatan Dudow
Slatan Theodor Dudow was a Bulgarian born film director and screenwriter who made a number of films in the Weimar Republic and East Germany....

 and in 1961 attended the film university Potsdam-Babelsberg
Potsdam-Babelsberg
Babelsberg is the largest district of the Brandenburg capital Potsdam in Germany. The affluent neighbourhood named after a small hill on the Havel river is famous for Babelsberg Palace and Park, part of the Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin UNESCO World Heritage Site, as well as for Studio...

. In 1966 she joined the Berliner Ensemble
Berliner Ensemble
The Berliner Ensemble is a German theatre company established by playwright Bertolt Brecht and his wife, Helene Weigel in January 1949 in East Berlin...

, where among other things she performed in Brecht
Brecht
Brecht is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises the towns of Brecht proper, Sint-Job-in't-Goor and Sint-Lenaarts. On January 1, 2006 Brecht had a total population of 26,464...

's Dreigroschenoper, Schwejk im zweiten Weltkrieg and Die Tage der Commune, as well as in Helmut Baierl
Helmut Baierl
Helmut Johannes Baierl was a German playwright and vice president of the Akademie der Künste of East Germany. He was born in Rumburk and died in Berlin...

's Frau Flinz. She later worked with the Volksbühne Berlin until 1979, with whom she performed in plays by George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60...

, William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...

 and Peter Hacks
Peter Hacks
Peter Hacks was a German playwright, author, and essayist.Hacks was born in Breslau , Lower Silesia. Displaced by World War II, Hacks settled in Munich in 1947, where he made acquaintance with Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht...

. She also worked for the Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft
Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft
Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft, better known as DEFA, was the public-owned film studio in East Germany throughout that country's history.-History:...

 (DEFA) and Deutscher Fernsehfunk
Deutscher Fernsehfunk
Deutscher Fernsehfunk , known from 1972 to 1990 as Fernsehen der DDR , was the state television broadcaster in East Germany.-Foundation:...

. In 1971, 1973 and 1975 she was nominated television actress of the year, and in 1976 she won the National Prize of East Germany
National Prize of East Germany
The National Prize of the German Democratic Republic was an award of the German Democratic Republic given out in three different classes for scientific, artistic, and other meritorious achievement...

.

In 1980 she left the GDR and moved to West Germany.

Filmography

  • Love's Confusion, 1959
  • Papas neue Freundin, 1960, TV film
  • Vielgeliebtes Sternchen, 1961, TV film
  • At A French Fireside
    At A French Fireside
    At A French Fireside is an East German film directed by Kurt Maetzig. It was released in 1963.-Plot:Bundeswehr soldier Klaus' regiment is stationed in France, to take part in NATO maneuvers...

    (1963)
  • Chronik eines Mordes
    The Story of a Murder
    The Story of a Murder is an East German drama film directed by Joachim Hasler. It was released in 1965.-Cast:* Angelica Domröse as Ruth Bodenheim* Ulrich Thein as Dr. Martin* Jirí Vrstála as Dr. Hoffmann* Bohumil Smída as Dr. Schäure...

    , 1964–65, DEFA film, based on work by Leonhard Frank
    Leonhard Frank
    Leonhard Frank was a German expressionist writer. He studied painting and graphic art in Munich, and gained acclaim with his first novel, The Robber Band...

  • Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt
    Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt (Film)
    Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt is an East German film. It was released in 1965.-Plot:Werner Holt, a young Wehrmacht soldier stationed on the eastern border of Germany in the last days of World War II, is awaiting the attack of the Red Army with his friend and commander Gilbert Wolzow...

    , 1965, DEFA film, based on work by Dieter Noll
    Dieter Noll
    Dieter Noll was a German writer. His best known work is the two volume novel Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt from the early 1960s which had sold over two million copies by his death.-Life:...

  • Schatten über Notre-Dame, 1966, based on work by Herbert Schauer, Otto Bonhoff
  • Ein Lord vom Alexanderplatz, 1967
  • Wege übers Land
    Ways across the Country
    Ways across the Country is a 1968 East German television miniseries, directed by Martin Ackermann.-Episode I:...

    , 1968, TV film
  • Já, spravedlnost
    I, Justice (film)
    I, Justice is a 1968 Czechoslovak psychological thriller, directed by Zbyněk Brynych.-Plot:...

    , 1968, ČSSR
    CSSR
    CSSR may refer to:*Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric *Congregatio Sanctissimi Redemptoris, Latin name of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, abbreviated to C.Ss.R...

     film
  • Effi Briest
    Effi Briest
    Effi Briest is widely considered to be Theodor Fontane’s masterpiece and one of the most famous German realist novels of all time. Thomas Mann once said that if one had to reduce one’s library to six novels, Effi Briest would have to be one of them...

    , 1969–70, based on the novel by Theodor Fontane
    Theodor Fontane
    Theodor Fontane was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist writer.-Youth:Fontane was born in Neuruppin into a Huguenot family. At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to an apothecary, his father's profession. He became an...

  • Unterm Birnbaum, based on the novel by Theodor Fontane
    Theodor Fontane
    Theodor Fontane was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist writer.-Youth:Fontane was born in Neuruppin into a Huguenot family. At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to an apothecary, his father's profession. He became an...

  • Die Legende von Paul und Paula, 1972–73, directed by Heiner Carow
  • Die Brüder Lautensack, 1972–73, TV film based on the work by Leon Feuchtwanger
  • Mein lieber Mann und ich, 1975
  • Daniel Druskat, 1976, TV film
  • Abschied vom Frieden, 1977, TV film
  • Bis dass der Tod euch scheidet, 1978, directed by Heiner Carow
  • Polizeiruf 110
    Polizeiruf 110
    Polizeiruf 110 is a long running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic , and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD...

     - Kleine Dealer, grosse Träume
    , 1996. TV film by Urs Odermatt
    Urs Odermatt
    Urs Odermatt is a Swiss film director and author.After working for several years as a freelance journalist, film critic and photographer, Urs Odermatt trained to be a film director and screenwriter under the two Polish pastmasters Krzysztof Kieślowski and Edward Żebrowski...

    .

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