Angela Winkler (born 22 January 1944) is a German actress.

Life and career

Born in Templin, Winkler trained to be a medical technologist in Stuttgart. Interested in theater, she went to Munich, where she took acting classes with Ernst Fritz Fürbringer. In 1967, she had her first role at the theater in

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. In 1969, she played the lead role in

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's film ''Jagdszenen aus Niederbayern''. After seeing this film, Peter Stein offered her a position at the Berliner Schaubühne. Winkler performed in Berlin from 1971 to 1978. Her next film, '' The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum'', directed by

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and

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, made her a star in 1975. For the role of Katharina Blum, she received the Filmband in Gold. In 1979, she won international fame as the mother of Oskar Matzerath in Schlöndorff's Oscar-winning film ''

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'', an adaption of the famous book of the same name by

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. More recently, Winkler appeared in ''

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'' (2017), the first German-language Netflix original series, and as Miss Tanner in

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's ''

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'' (2018). Nele and Angela Winkler

Winkler lives with sculptor Wiegand Wittig and has four children. Her daughter Nele, who has Down's syndrome, is also an actress; she had a role in '' Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents'' and is a member of the ensemble at RambaZamba theatre in Berlin.

Filmography

* '' Jagdszenen aus Niederbayern'' (1969) * '' The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum'' (1975) * '' Die Linkshändige Frau'' (1978) * '' Messer im Kopf'' (1978) * '' Germany in Autumn'' (1978) * ''

'' (1979) * ''Letzte Liebe'' (1979) * '' La provinciale'' (1981) * ''

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'' (1982) * '' Danton'' (1983) * '' Heller Wahn'' (1983) * '' Edith's Diary'' (1983) * '' De grens'' (1984) * ' (1991) * '' Benny's Video'' (1992) * ''Der Kopf des Mohren'' (1995) * ' (1998) * ''Das Geheimnis im Moor'' (2006) * '' Die Flucht'' * ' (2007) * ''House of the Sleeping Beauties'' (2008) * ''

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'' (2010) * ''

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'' (2011) * '' Clouds of Sils Maria'' (2014) * ' (2014, TV film) * ''

'' (2017) * ''

'' (2018) * '' Sisi & I'' (2023)

Awards

*2006: Ibsen Centennial Commemoration Award

Theater

* 1996 ''

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, Wien), director:

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* 1999 ''

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), director: Peter Zadek * 2000 ''

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'' by

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(as Rebekka, Burgtheater, Wien), director: Peter Zadek * 2002 '' Anatol'' by

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(as Gabriele, Burgtheater, Wien), director: Luc Bondy * 2003 ''

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(as Hannah Jelkes, Burgtheater, Wien), director: Peter Zadek * 2003 '' Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder'' by

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(as Mutter Courage,

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), director: Peter Zadek * 2004 ''

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'' by Henrik Ibsen (as Aase, Berliner Ensemble), director: Peter Zadek * 2005 ''

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'' by William Shakespeare (as Paulina, Berliner Ensemble), director: Robert Wilson * 2007 '' Die Dreigroschenoper'' by Bertolt Brecht (as Jenny, Berliner Ensemble), director: Robert Wilson

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Winkler, Angela 1944 births Living people People from Templin Actors from the Province of Brandenburg German stage actresses German film actresses German television actresses 20th-century German actresses 21st-century German actresses Best Actress German Film Award winners Actresses from Brandenburg