Corinna Harfouch

The daughter of the teacher Wolfgang Meffert and his wife Marianne born. Glue attended from 1961 to 1973 the school in Großenhain. At the pioneer theatre "Natalia Sats," she acquired her first acting abilities and skills. At the Advanced high school she made her Abitur. After an apprenticeship as a nurse, she began in 1976 at the TU Dresden studying to be a textile engineer. Harfouch studied 1978 to 1981, acting at the Hochschule für schauspielkunst Ernst Busch in Berlin and was a master student at Vera Oelschlegel in the theatre in the Palace. One of her greatest Theatre successes to the times of the GDR, the Lady Macbeth under the direction of Heiner Müller at the Berliner volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. After a few minor film tasks, she took over in 1988, the title role in The actress. Here she played a woman who disguises herself in the time of national socialism as a Jew, in order to lose your Beloved. Similar attention she found in Meeting in the Travers as the wife of a revolutionary. After the reunification in 1989, she was first at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, but moved to the Volksbühne, where she was one of the most important protagonists of artistic Director Frank Castorf. Sensational Interpretation of the General Harras in The devil's General by Carl Zuckmayer (Director: Frank Castorf) was. For this role she was elected in 1997 by the German critics for actress of the year. At the Berlin schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, she played the title role in Phaedra's love by Sarah Kane, directed by Christina Paul Hofer. In addition, she plays since November 2004, very successfully, together with Ulrich Matthes at Deutsches Theater (DT) in Berlin in the role of Martha in Edward Albee Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? under the direction of Jürgen Gosch. The German TV audience due to its sensitive embodiment of the in the 1960s for murder, convicted title character of the documentary movie Vera Brühne (2001) was known. In Bernd Eichinger's feature film The downfall (2004), she assumed the role of Magda Goebbels poisoned their own children.