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

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. In 1967, she had her first role at the theater in

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. In 1969, she played the lead role in Peter Fleischmann'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 Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta, made her a star in 1975. For the role of Katharina Blum, she received the

Filmband in Gold The German Film Award (), also known as Lola after its prize statuette, is the national film award of Germany. It is presented at an annual ceremony honouring cinematic achievements in the German film industry. Besides being the most important ...

. In 1979, she won international fame as the mother of Oskar Matzerath in Schlöndorff's Oscar-winning film '' The Tin Drum'', an adaption of the famous book of the same name by

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. More recently, Winkler appeared in '' Dark'' (2017), the first German-language Netflix original series, and as Miss Tanner in Luca Guadagnino'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, with a role in ''

Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents ''Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents'' (german: Dora oder Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern) is a 2015 Swiss drama film directed by Stina Werenfels. It was screened in the Panorama section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festi ...

'' and regularly on stage 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) * '' The Tin Drum'' (1979) * ''Letzte Liebe'' (1979) * '' La provinciale'' (1981) * '' War and Peace'' (1982) * '' Danton'' (1983) * '' Heller Wahn'' (1983) * ' (1983) * '' De grens'' (1984) * ' (1991) * ''

Benny's Video ''Benny's Video'' is a 1992 Austrian- Swiss psychological thriller film directed by Michael Haneke and set in Vienna. The plot of the film centers on Benny ( Arno Frisch), a teenager who views much of his life as distilled through video images, a ...

'' (1992) * ''Der Kopf des Mohren'' (1995) * ' (1998) * ''Das Geheimnis im Moor'' (2006) * '' Die Flucht'' * ''Ferien'' (2007) * ''House of the Sleeping Beauties'' (2008) * '' Three'' (2010) * ''

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'' (2011) * '' Clouds of Sils Maria'' (2014) * ' (2014, TV film) * '' Dark'' (2017) * ''

'' (2018)

Awards

*2006: Ibsen Centennial Commemoration Award

Theater

* 1996 ''

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, Wien), director: Peter Zadek * 1999 ''

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'' by

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), director: Peter Zadek * 2000 ''

Rosmersholm ''Rosmersholm'' () is a play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in Danish—the common written language of Denmark and Norway at the time—and originally published in 1886 in Copenhagen by the Danish publisher Gyldendal. ''Rosmersholm'' ...

'' by

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

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'' by Arthur Schnitzler (as Gabriele, Burgtheater, Wien), director: Luc Bondy * 2003 '' The Night of the Iguana'' by

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(as Hannah Jelkes, Burgtheater, Wien), director: Peter Zadek * 2003 ''

Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder ''Mother Courage and Her Children'' (german: Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder, links=no) is a play written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), with significant contributions from Margarete Steffin. Four theatrical ...

'' 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 ''

The Winter's Tale ''The Winter's Tale'' is a play by William Shakespeare originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the comedies, many modern editors have relabelled the play as one of Shakespeare's late romances. Some criti ...

'' by William Shakespeare (as Paulina, Berliner Ensemble), director: Robert Wilson * 2007 ''

Die Dreigroschenoper ''The Threepenny Opera'' ( ) is a "play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, ''The Beggar's Opera'', and four ballads by François Villon, with music b ...

'' by Bertolt Brecht (as Jenny, Berliner Ensemble), director: Robert Wilson

References

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