Sass, Katrin

Biography:

Katrin Sass was born on October 23, 1956 in Schwerin, East Germany, and studied acting in Rostock. She started acting at the Schwerin Theater, before moving on to the Landestheater in Halle and the Theaterbühne in Leipzig.

 

While she was still a student, Sass was chosen to play the lead role of Sonya in Heiner Carow’s Bis daß der Tod euch scheidet. This popular hit film brought her immediate fame in East Germany.

 

She became internationally known after playing the role of Nina Kern, a single mother fighting for custody of her three children, in Herrmann Zschoche’s Bürgschaft für ein Jahr. This role also won her the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival. Sass subsequently appeared on television in Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort and as Detective Tanja Voigt in Polizeiruf 110 in the 1990s.

 

Sass experienced a major comeback on the big screen when she played the lead in Michael Klier’s Heidi M., for which she received the German Film Prize and the German Film Critics’ Critics Prize. Shortly afterwards, she played Christiane Kerner in the international hit Good Bye, Lenin!, for which received a Bambi and the Audience Award for Best Actress at the European Film Awards.

 

Festivals & Awards:

2003 Bambi Award for Goodbye, Lenin!
2003 European Film Awards’ Audience Award, Best Actress, for Goodbye, Lenin!
2002 German Film Critics’ Prize, Best Actress, for Heidi M.
2001 German Film Prize, for Heidi M.
1986 "Clapper Board" Critic's Prize for Best Actress, Division for Theory and Criticism, GDR Association of Film and Television Professionals, for Das Haus am Fluss and Der Traum vom Elch
1982 Silver Bear for Best Actress, Berlin International Film Festival, for Bürgschaft für ein Jahr

 

Filmography:

2010 Weissensee (TV series)
2010 Das letzte Schweigen (The Silence)
2009 Die Freundin der Tochter (The Daughter’s Girlfriend, TV)
2008 Donne-moi la main (Give Me Your Hand)
2006 Verschleppt – Kein Weg zurück (Six Weeks of Fear, TV)
2004 Problemzone Schwiegereltern (Problem Area: Parents-In-Law, TV)
2004-10 Der Alte (The Old Man, TV series)
2003 Goodbye, Lenin!
2001 Heidi M.
2000 Die Polizistin (Policewoman, TV)
1997 Sperling und der brennende Arm (Detective Sperling’s Burning Arm, TV)
1993-2008 Tatort (Crime Scene, TV series)
1990 Heute sterben immer nur die andern (Nowadays Only the Others Die)
1989 Zum Teufel mit Harbolla – Eine Geschichte aus dem Jahre 1956 (To Hell with Harbolla)
1988 Fallada ­– Letztes Kapitel (Fallada-The Last Chapter)
1986 Der Traum vom Elch (The Dream about the Elk)
1985 Das Haus am Fluss (The House on the River)
1984 Meine Frau Inge und meine Frau Schmidt (My Wife Inge and My Ms. Schmidt)
1981 Bürgschaft für ein Jahr (On Probation)
1980 Die Verlobte (The Fianceé)
1978 Bis daß der Tod euch scheidet (Until Death Do Us Part)

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