Käthe Braun

Käthe Braun (11 November 1913 – 9 September 1994) was a German stage and film actress. She was married to director Falk Harnack and acted in several of his films.

Career

Katharina Braun was born in

After World War II, she returned to Munich and, from 1947 to 1951, worked periodically at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. She also played major roles in East German DEFA productions, such as Stine Teetjen, the wife in Das Beil von Wandsbek, adapted from the book by Arnold Zweig and directed by her husband.^{[note 1]} Braun also became known for her role as the mother in several screen adaptations of Ludwig Thoma's five-part series of Scoundrel Stories (Lausbubengeschichten).

In 1952, her husband's first film was banned, and he ran into trouble with the

Käthe Braun-Harnack died in Berlin in 1994 at the age of 80. In addition to her man, who died three years earlier, she was buried in the Zehlendorf cemetery.[4]

Filmography

• The Three Around Christine (1936) - Bärble
• Semmelweis – Retter der Mütter (1950) - Marie Lanthaler
• Das Beil von Wandsbek (1951) - Stine Teetjen
• Before God and Man (1955) - Katharina
• Roman einer Siebzehnjährigen (1955)
• Anastasia: The Czar's Last Daughter
  (1956) - Frau von Rathleff-Keilmann
• Drayman Henschel [de] (1956) - Frau Henschel
• The Night of the Storm (1957) - Beate Hoberg
• Ein wahrer Held (1961) - Violet
• Die Laokoon-Gruppe (1963) - Mutter
• Mein Bruder Alf (1963) - Ellen Borlay
• Tales of a Young Scamp [de] (1964) - Therese Thoma
• Aunt Frieda (1965) - Therese Thoma
• Hocuspocus (1966) - Frau Engstrand
• Onkel Filser – Allerneueste Lausbubengeschichten (1966) - Therese Thoma
• Unwiederbringlich (1968) - Julie von Dobschütz
• Ludwig auf Freiersfüßen (1969) - Therese Thoma
• Einladung ins Schloß oder Die Kunst das Spiel zu spielen (1970) - Mademoiselle Capulat
• Ein Fall für Herrn Schmidt (1971) - Frau Schurek
• Der Verfolger, Rolle der Oberin (1974)

Television

• Das Kriminalmuseum episode: Die Postanweisung (1968)

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