“She shaped a generation and will never be forgotten. ”It is tearing a big hole – not only in our family,but in berlin and all of Germany,” said Therese Lohner and Thomas Baal,children of the actress. She has appeared in many films and series.For example in the productions “The Girl Rosemarie” (1958) about the murder of the prostitute Rosemarie Nitribitt, “The Juvenile Judge” (1960) and “the Young Sinner” (1960).
Her female character in “The Half-Strongs” is still captivating today. She played her sissy – “with an upsilon like Romy”, as one scene says – boldly and confidently. There is a great dance scene with Horst Buchholz as Freddy. They are black and white photos where women are called “Miss” and people order “Coca” in a cafe.
over the course of the film, the character of Baal showed that he was cunning and violent. When they attack a man, freddy decides to let him have his jewelry. “Why?” asks Sissy. “It’s his mother’s,” he cried. “What then!” says Sissy. she is the one who picks up the gun and shoots.A rarely seen sight. Baal was chosen from hundreds of applicants for the role. She was still a teenager at the time and her name was Karin Blauermel. For a long time, Baal could not get rid of the image of the femme fatale that had been built up among young people.
The “Stuttgarter Nachrichten” once called her “the ugly blonde poison of the German pea soup cinema”, and she was later picked up by the New German Film.She appeared in “Berlin Alexanderplatz”, “Lili Marleen” and “Lola” for Rainer Werner Fassbinder. She worked with Reinhard Hauff, Margarethe von Trotta and Wim Wenders.
Baal performed regularly in the theater and appeared in a television series. She was seen in “Liebling kreuzberg”, “The Black Forest Clinic” and “Praxis Bülowbogen”. And in the films of Edgar Wallace. Baal also had repeated crises and low blows. Two marriages – including the one with austrian actor helmuth Lohner – failed, and her third husband died of cancer.His death sent her into depression and alcoholism. In 2000 she married the kurdish actor Cevdet Celik, who was 30 years her junior and was under threat of deportation. The relationship fell apart.
In 2018 she was honored for her life’s work with the inaugural George Götz Award.The Götz George Foundation honored Baal as “a great actress and an admirable woman.” It was said at the time that she opened up to her characters with a pleasing devotion and thereby made even the finest nuances of her wide range of emotions visible.
This can also be seen in “the Half-Bloods”. The film is also an examination of the young people who grew up in Berlin after the war. “Most young people have nothing to do with what teenagers look like,” he says in the film’s opening credits. “But the elite stand out, and that’s why people talk about them.” The film should also serve as a warning “to all young people who are at risk of going astray.” It is still worth seeing today. Also as of Karin Baal.
In pictures in recent years, Baal has been seen in a wheelchair. But even though she thought several times during her old age about moving to Vienna to be with her daughter, the actress lived in Berlin until the end, as her daughter Therese Lohner said. “She liked Berlin too much and wanted to stay in her beloved Charlottenburg.”
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