75th Birthday: Angela Winkler

Whether she's on screen in Volker Schlöndorff's award-winning literary adaptations "Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum" ("The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum") and "Die Blechtrommel" ("The Tin Drum"), which brought her international acclaim in the 1970s, or whether you see her in legendary stage productions such as in 1999 as a female Hamlet, Angela Winkler's performances are always memorable. Rightfully she has long been one of the great names of the German film and theater scene and has been honoured with countless important film and theatre awards over the years. She once said in an interview that the ability to listen was the most important thing in acting, listening to what the other person is saying on stage would make everything come naturally. It's probably safe to say that it also takes some other talents to achieve what she has achieved in her successful career that encompasses more than 50 years and that keeps her in high demand at a more advanced age, too. Today, she is as busy as always, recently starring in prominent supporting roles in the Netflix series "Dark" as well as in Luca Guadagnino's reinterpretation of the horror classic "Suspiria". At the moment she is in Prague at the shooting of a TV mini series about the end of the GDR. Angela Winkler celebrates her 75th birthday on Tuesday. We sincerely congratulate her and look forward to seeing a lot of her in the years to come!