Early life

Pola Kinski is the daughter of Klaus Kinski

Klaus Kinski

Klaus Kinski, born Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski , was a German actor. He appeared in more than 130 films, and is perhaps best-remembered as a leading role actor in Werner Herzog films: Aguirre, the Wrath of God , Nosferatu the Vampyre , Woyzeck , Fitzcarraldo and Cobra Verde .-Early...

 and his first wife, the singer Gislinde Kühlbeck, making Pola the half sister of Nastassja Kinski

Nastassja Kinski

Nastassja Kinski is a German-born American-based actress who has appeared in more than 60 films. Her starring roles include her Golden Globe Award-winning portrayal of the title character in Tess and her roles in two erotic films , as well as parts in Wim Wenders' films The Wrong Move; Paris,...

 and Nikolai Kinski

Nikolai Kinski

Nanhoï Nikolai Kinski is a film actor, and the only acknowledged son of the prolific actor Klaus Kinski and his third wife, Minhoi Geneviève Loanic. He is the half-brother of actresses Nastassja Kinski and Pola Kinski. Nikolai was born in France, but was raised in California, United States...

. After her parents' divorce in 1955, Pola spent her childhood with both of them.

Career

In the early 1970s she studied acting at the Otto-Falckenberg-Schule

Otto-Falckenberg-Schule

The Otto Falckenberg Schule – Fachakademie für darstellende Kunst der Landeshauptstadt München is a higher education academy in Munich training actors and directors, affiliated to the Münchner Kammerspiele. It was founded in 1946 as the Städtische Schauspielschule but renamed to its present name on...

 in Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

. In addition to early film roles, she then acted at the Schauspielhaus Bochum

Schauspielhaus Bochum

The Schauspielhaus Bochum is one of the largest and most notable theatres in Germany. It is located in the city of Bochum....

 and the Deutschen Schauspielhaus

Deutsches Schauspielhaus

The Deutsches Schauspielhaus is a theatre in the St. Georg quarter of the city of Hamburg, Germany. With a capacity for 1192 spectators, it places it as Germany's largest theatre...

 in Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

. In the 1970s she worked with Peter Zadek

Peter Zadek

Peter Zadek was a German theatre and film director, play translator and screenwriter and is regarded as one of the greatest directors in German-speaking theater. He was the head of the Schauspielhaus Bochum, Bochum , the Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg and the Berliner Ensemble from 1992 to 1996...

 and the director Ivan Nagel

Ivan Nagel

Ivan Nagel is a German theater scientist, critic and former theater director of Hungarian origin.-Life:Ivan Nagel comes from a Jewish family who fled their home because of the Second World War, and therefore survived the Holocaust. After the war, Nagel wanted to study in Budapest...

. From 1977 onwards she worked as a freelance actor and lived in Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

 and Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

. She also appeared in several television films. She now lives with her husband, the lawyer Wolfgang Hoepner, in Ludwigshafen. They have three children - Janina (born 1978), Valentin (born 1986) and one more.

Filmography

• 1977: Das Ende der Beherrschung (TV)
• 1977: Fehlschuß (TV)
• 1978: Zwischengleis (Film)
• 1980: Ohne Rückfahrkarte (Film)
• 1980: Sonntagskinder (Film)
• 1981: Don Quichottes Kinder (TV)
• 1983: Das Dorf (TV)
• 1985: Ein Fall für zwei
  Ein Fall für Zwei
  Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on the broadcasting corporation ZDF. The series, which is situated in Frankfurt am Main, shows two main characters, a defense attorney and a private investigator, who solve crimes.The character of the private...
  
  : Fluchtgeld (TV)
• 1986: Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg (TV)
• 1987: Komplizinnen (TV)
• 2001: Bella Block: Bitterer Verdacht (TV)
• 2004: Tatort
  Tatort
  Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss , crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF 2 in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland...
  
  : Hundeleben (TV)
• 2007: Wir werden uns wiederseh'n (Film)

External links

• Pola Kinski on IMDB