According to her family, the German actress Karin Baal died on Tuesday in Berlin at the age of 84. “She shaped a generation and will never be forgotten. “It’s tearing a big hole – not only in our family – but in Berlin and all of Germany,” saeid Therese Lohner and Thomas Baal, the actor’s children, in a press release today.
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In the 1950s Baal was known as “The Half-Strongs”. The black and white film tells about young people in post-war Berlin, their living conditions and their criminal activities. Born in Berlin in 1940, Baal then began training as a fashion designer. Out of hundreds of applicants, she was hired for “die Halbstarken”, in wich Horst Buchholz also took part. Baal took the lead female role of sissy.
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The film became a classic of post-war German cinema – and Baal was later celebrated as Germany’s answer to Brigitte Bardot. After that she was seen in several films and series. These include “The girl Rosemarie”, “We Cellar Children” and “The Young Sinner”.
Baal also appeared in Edgar wallace’s films and in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s “Berlin Alexanderplatz”. She also had roles in series such as “Liebling Kreuzberg” and “Schwarzwaldklinik”.She also appeared more often in TV crime dramas - such as “Tatort”. Her second marriage was to Austrian actor Helmuth Lohner, who died in 2015.
In 2018,Baal was honored for her work with the inaugural George Götz Award. At the time, 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 endlessly and with an engaging devotion, which made even the finest nuances of her wide range of emotions visible.