Biography:

Karin Gregorek was born in Wendorf, Germany, in 1941. She studied at the Academy for Performing Arts in Berlin from 1961 to 1964. Gregorek performed at theaters in Altenburg, Dessau, and Erfurt, until her engagement at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, where she had acted since 1969. She became known as an interpreter of the plays of Peter Hacks and performed the solo-play Ein Gespräch im Hause Stein über den abwesenden Herrn von Goethe over one hundred times between 1973 and 1993.

After many supporting roles in films, in 1973 Gregorek played the lead in Lothar Warneke’s Leben mit Uwe. Thereafter, she worked in film and television productions for a range of well-known directors, including Andreas Dresen (Raus aus der Haut), Margarethe von Trotta (Jahrestage), Andreas Kleinert (Klemperer – Ein Leben in Deutschland), and Bernhard Wicki (Sansibar oder Der letzte Grund).

Karin Gregorek died on April 22, 2023.