Katrin Schaake

Katrin Schaake

Birth : 1931-11-13, Hamburg, Germany

History

Schaake begann ihre Karriere 1959 mit einer Rolle in Aus dem Tagebuch eines Frauenarztes mit Rudolf Prack in der Hauptrolle. Zwei Jahre später drehte sie mit Götz George und Johanna von Koczian Unser Haus in Kamerun. Nach einigen Fernsehauftritten hatte sie eine Nebenrolle im Oscar-prämierten Spielfilm Was gibt’s Neues, Pussy? mit Peter Sellers, Romy Schneider und Woody Allen. Es folgte mit Blüten, Gauner und die Nacht von Nizza mit Jean Gabin und Curd Jürgens in den Hauptrollen eine weitere internationale Produktion. Sie arbeitete ab 1969 mehrfach unter Rainer Werner Fassbinder, unter anderem in Liebe ist kälter als der Tod, Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant und Welt am Draht. Zu dieser Zeit war sie mit Ulli Lommel verheiratet [1], von dem sie sich wieder scheiden ließ. Ab 1974 war Schaake zwölf Jahre die Lebensgefährtin von Marius Müller-Westernhagen[2]. Bis zum Ende der 1980er Jahre arbeitete sie nur gelegentlich als Schauspielerin in Fernsehproduktionen, Wie 1968 in der Fernsehserie Hafenkrankenhaus mit Anneli Granget in der Hauptrolle. Ende der 70er Jahre synchronisierte sie auch pornografische Filme, unter anderem die Darstellerin Jessie St. James. Zwischen 1990 und 1995 trat sie dann wieder vermehrt auf, hauptsächlich in deutschen Fernsehkrimis wie Tatort, Peter Strohm und Schwarz Rot Gold. Zu ihren Theaterstationen gehörte u. a. das Landestheater Detmold (ab 1960).

Profile

Katrin Schaake

Movies

September Song
Anna
The German composer Valentin Reiner receives a letter from his ex-wife Anna, who now lives in Los Angeles with their 18-year-old son Stefan. In her letter, Anna asks Valentin to come and help her with their son. Stefan is engaged to Leila, a young Muslim woman from Palestine, who is three months pregnant with his baby. They live with Anna and Judge Boccia, who hates black Muslims. Stefan and Leila hate Jews. Together with his buddy Riff Mason, Stefan terrorizes the Jewish community with home invasions, where they paint swastikas on the houses and leave fake anthrax letters. Reiner is determined to expose the fascist group and regain the trust of his son.
Schulz & Schulz
Dr. Marquart
Sommer in Lesmona
Fräulein Freese
Dingo
Hedi Neumann
The World That Summer
Mama
Notwehr
Frau Bergmann
A rock band moves into a farmhouse in a little village. They are eyed suspiciously by the citizens of the village.
A Lost Life
In this docudrama, police in the countryside near Berlin attempt to trick a confession out of a Polish guest worker for the 1927 murder of an eight-year-old girl.
Griseldis
Gräfin Alice von Treuenfels
Karussells werden im Himmel gemacht
Helga Damrau
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Sidonie von Grasenabb
Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and invites her to move in.
Dreht euch nicht um – der Golem geht rum
Ehmi Schons
Whity
Katherine Nicholson
"Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American southwest in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive young wife Katherine, and two sons by a previous marriage; the homosexual Frank, and the retarded Davy. Whity tries to carry out all their orders, however demeaning, until various of the family members ask him to kill some of the others.
Pioneers in Ingolstadt
German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder directs the made-for-TV melodrama Pioneers in Ingolstadt, based on the play by Marieluise Fleisser. The film opens as a parade of soldiers are marching through a town square singing patriotic songs. Alma (Irm Hermann) and Berta (Hanna Schygulla) are watching them and musing about their ideas on men and relationships. The soldiers (often referred to as pioneers) have been given the task of building a bridge in the town. Alma seems to understand that the soldiers only want her for short sexual encounters, so she's prepared to live her life accordingly. Meanwhile, romantic Berta falls in love with self-centered soldier Karl (Harry Baer), who all but tells her to get lost. The soldiers get drunk and beat up a random passerby. The women grow to hate Alma for her acceptance of life as a sex object. Naïve Berta is ultimately humiliated.
Rio das Mortes
Katrin
Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's girlfriend, Hanna, humors their plan, but really just wants to get married.
Haytabo
Frau des Professors
A biochemistry professor finds an old manuscript with structure and formula of immortality drug.
The American Soldier
Magdalena Fuller
Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.
Gods of the Plague
Wirtin im zweiten Café
A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets out to find an old friend.
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
(uncredited)
Herr Raab is a technical draftsman. His wife pushes him to seek a promotion, which may be a long shot after he gives a dull and tipsy toast at an office dinner. But why would Herr Raab run amok?
Tanker
Helga
Love Is Colder Than Death
Dame im Zug
Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady crime syndicate he's refused to join.
Die Revolte
Margit Weiss
Katzelmacher
Frau mit Cabrio
A group of young slackers spend most of their time hanging out in front of a Munich apartment building. When a Greek immigrant named Jorgos moves in, however, their aimless lives are shaken up. Soon new tensions arise both within the group and with Jorgos.
Eine Frau sucht Liebe
Freundin
Sets
Margot Riemeck
People from all over the world spend their summer holidays at the Black Sea. German Walter and his girlfriend Gisela check in at the hotel as spouses. Walter uses the passport of his wife. The police find the body of a young woman washes up by the waves. Inspector Damyanov begins an investigation. Walter is not under suspicion, but he is ill at ease. It is because of his wife passport? Ex-Nazi officer Kunze has his own little secret and causes for worry. Dutch musician Jan has something on his conscience, too, after a little love with a Bulgarian girl. Having penetrated the unsavory secrets of all those people, Damyanov leads them to the conviction that it is difficult to live a life of deception.
Ein Sarg für Mr. Holloway
Ann Boyten
La lunga sfida
Komplizin
A child is kidnapped by a secret organization to force his father to be part of a drug-smuggling ring.
The Gardener of Argenteuil
Patricia
Tulipe, is an old man who lives alone in an old railway carriage in the Argentueil region of Paris. His main passions are gardening and oil painting, but he also has a secret source of income. His godson discovers that Tulipe is actually a master forger, producing perfect copies of 10 franc notes. His godson’s girlfriend sees this as an opportunity to get very rich – but she must persuade Tulipe to forge 500 franc notes. Assuming Tulipe’s agreement, his godson and his girlfriend buy an expensive new car and luxury villa in provincial France – but there is a cruel turn of fate in store for them when Tulipe strikes up a friendship with a millionaire playboy.
What's New Pussycat?
Jacqueline
A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
Die Teepuppe
Susan
Das Glück läuft hinterher
Sabine Heinking
Follows the life of several different people in 1960s in Germany for a few days. The story begins, when a juvenile criminal steals an old woman's handbag in a post office and throws it into a parking car, when he feels observed. But there was a lot of money in that bag, and thereby a dozen fortunes become entwined.
Schönes Wochenende
Inge Haffke
Liebe im September
Janet Colby