Kathrin Ackermann (born 30 January 1938) is a German actress.

Early life

Ackermann is a daughter of Hans Ackermann and Elisabeth, née Albert. Her father died during the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...

in the Battle of France, and her mother married the conductor

Wilhelm Furtwängler Gustav Heinrich Ernst Martin Wilhelm Furtwängler ( , , ; 25 January 188630 November 1954) was a German conductor and composer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest symphonic and operatic conductors of the 20th century. He was a major ...

. He was thus Kathrin Ackermann's stepfather. Ackermann's maternal grandmother was the politician Katharina von Kardorff-Oheimb, who was married to Ernst Albert, a son of the industrialist Heinrich Albert; Ackermann's mother Elisabeth came from this marriage.

Career

Growing up in

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, Ackermann graduated from the

Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts The Otto Falckenberg Schule – Fachakademie für darstellende Kunst der Landeshauptstadt München, or Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts, is a higher education academy in Munich training actors and directors, affiliated to the Munic ...

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...

. In 1959, she made her debut at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich, where she worked from 1961 to 1979. After that, she appeared as a freelance actress, particularly on Munich private theaters. She has also appeared in very different roles in films and on television such as: B. in the television series

Die glückliche Familie ''Die glückliche Familie ''(The Happy Family) is a German television series made up of three seasons, and has a total of 52 episodes. The series ran from 1987 to 1991 on Wednesdays. This show tells the story of the Behringer family living throug ...

and

Vater wider Willen is a German family drama television series broadcast on Das Erste from 1995 to 2002. It consists of three pilot films and two seasons of 13 episodes each. Synopsis Successful conductor Max takes over the South German Symphony, whose chief con ...

. She recently gained new popularity in episodes of the crime series

Tatort ''Tatort'' ("Crime scene") is a German language police procedural television series that has been running continuously since 1970 with some 30 feature-length episodes per year, which makes it the longest-running German TV drama. Developed b ...

as the mother of Commissioner Charlotte Lindholm, played by her real-life daughter

Maria Furtwängler Maria Furtwängler-Burda (short version: ; born 13 September 1966) is a German physician and television actress. Early life Maria Furtwängler-Burda is a daughter of architect Bernhard Furtwängler and actress Kathrin Ackermann, great-niece a ...

. As a voice actress, Ackermann lent her voice to actress Katey Sagal in her role as Peggy Bundy in the series Married... with Children. Ackermann teaches acting at the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding in Munich in the musical course. She also voiced the goddess Athena in the German dub of '' Hercules: The Animated Series''.

Personal life

Ackermann was married to Bernhard Furtwängler, a son of Wilhelm's brother Walter Furtwängler. Their daughter is the actress Maria Furtwängler. In addition to Maria, she has two other children.Kathrin Ackermann imdb.com
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ackermann, Kathrin 1938 births Living people Actors from Wiesbaden German film actresses German stage actresses German television actresses German voice actresses 20th-century German actresses 21st-century German actresses