Karin Hardt
Karin Hardt Meta Therese (born 28 April 1910 in Altona, Hamburg, † 5 March 1992 in Berlin) was a German actress.
Life
A merchant's daughter, Hardt first took private acting lessons with Alex Otto and received theatrical engagements in Mönchengladbach, Rheydt and Altenburg. In 1931 she was with her father goes on a journey and her film debut in the next few years became popular quickly became a star. Among her best known films of the 1930s include A Certain Mr. Gran (1933), Barcarolle (1935), The Detours of the Beautiful Charles (1938) and People from Variety (1939), where she was naive blonde rival of La Jana. During the war years, the film roles became less frequent. She acted, among other things in Comrades (1941) and Via Mala (1944).
After the war was followed by only a few more film appearances such as the Queen in Sleeping Beauty fairytale Genschows Fritz (1955), in addition to Horst Buchholz in A Streetcar Named Love (1957) and alongside Kirk Douglas in Town Without Pity (1961). Instead, she played mostly on the stage again, in cities including Berlin, Hamburg, Aachen and Cologne. From the 1960s, they received higher bids because of the role of television. After appearances on TV shows like With Us at Home (1963), The Forellenhof (1965), The Exploits of Mr. Hans (1976) and as a grandmother in A Year without a Sunday, and movies like Schoner Gigolo Gigolo (1979, directed by David Hemmings), she played from 1985 to 1986, the housekeeper Kati in the successful TV-series The Black Forest Hospital and in 1988 the mother of Robert starred in the ARD series Liebling Kreuzberg. In 1991 she stood for Mrs. Harris and the con man on the side of Inge Meysel one last time before the camera. She also starred in the television series The Wicherts next door, the Countess of Strelenau.
In 1933, Hardt got married to director Erich Waschneck. Her second, later divorced, was to Rolf von Goth. In 1983 she won an award for outstanding work in many years of German film. Her tomb is located in the cemetery in Wilmersdorf, anonymous burial.
Selected filmography
- Vater geht auf Reisen (1932)
- Acht Mädels im Boot (1932)
- Sacred Waters (1932)
- Die blonde Christl (1933)
- Hände aus dem Dunkel (1933)
- Zwischen Himmel und Erde (1934)
- Wenn die Musik nicht wär (1935)
- Der Abenteurer von Paris (1936)
- Port Arthur (1936)
- Daphne and the Diplomat (1937)
- Die Frau am Scheidewege (1938)
- Menschen vom Varieté (1939)
- Fasching (1939)
- Sein Sohn (1942)
- Schicksal am Strom (1944)
- Das Hochzeitshotel (1944)
- Via Mala (1945)
- Ein Mann wie Maximilian (1945)
- Madonna in Ketten (1949)
- Town Without Pity (1961)
- Liebling Kreuzberg (1988)
References
External links
- Karin Hardt at the Internet Movie Database
- Karin Hardt at Virtual History