Pamela Knaack (born 12 August 1963) is a German television and stage actress.Pamela Knaack
at IMDB. Born in

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, Knaack plays the mother of Katrin in ''

Katrin und die Welt der Tiere ''Katrin und die Welt der Tiere'' is a German television series. See also *List of German television series The following is a list of television series produced in Germany: Current Drama * '' 4 Blocks'' ( TNT Serie, 2017–2019) * '' A ...

'', which has been running since 1 January 2009 on

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in Germany. Knaack studied acting in New York City. She had her first engagement at the

Deutsches Schauspielhaus The Deutsches Schauspielhaus is a theatre in the St. Georg quarter of the city of Hamburg, Germany. It was established in 1901 by the renowned stage actress Franziska Ellmenreich. Theatre managers Notable actors Marco Albrecht, Ingrid ...

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in 1987. Knaack also played the role of

Alma Mahler-Werfel Alma Maria Mahler Gropius Werfel (born Alma Margaretha Maria Schindler; 31 August 1879 – 11 December 1964) was an Austrian composer, author, editor, and socialite. At 15, she was mentored by Max Burckhard. Musically active from her early year ...

Yehoshua Sobol Joshua Sobol ( he, יהושע סובול; born 24 August 1939), is an Israeli playwright, writer, and theatre director. Biography Joshua Sobol was born in Tel Mond. His mother's family fled the pogroms in Europe in 1922 and his father's family imm ...

's poly drama '' Alma'' at the Bremen

Theater am Goetheplatz The , also incorrectly known as the , is the main theatre of the city of Bremen in the north of Germany, the main venue of Theater Bremen. Completed in 1913 in the Neoclassical style, it is located in the cultural district to the east of the old ...

and the

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Filmography

* 1989: ''

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 ...

– '' (directed by

Jürgen Roland Jürgen Roland, born Jürgen Schellack (25 December 1925 – 21 September 2007) was a German film director. Roland was described as the "father of German TV crime shows". He directed about 80 TV productions and 30 movies. Life and career Ro ...

) * 1991: ''Tatort – Tod eines Mädchens'' (directed by Jürgen Roland) * 1992: ''Tatort – Stoevers Fall'' (directed by Jürgen Roland) * 1998: ''Alma'' (TV miniseries, based on the eponymous play; directed by

Paulus Manker Paulus Manker (born 25 January 1958) is an Austrian film director and actor, as well as an author and screenplay writer. Manker is considered one of the most maverick German-speaking actors, and polarizes public opinion like scarcely no other. H ...

) * 2001: ', as Dora Michaelis * 2003: ''Tatort – Bienzle und der Tod im Teig'' (directed by Hartmut Griesmayr) * 2006: ''

Polizeiruf 110 ''Polizeiruf 110'' ("Police call 110") is a long-running German-language detective television series likened to Poirot. The name links to the emergency telephone number of the ''Volkspolizei''. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the ...

'' – Kleine Frau (directed by Andreas Kleinert) * 2009–2010: ''

'' * 2012: ''Tatort – Hochzeitsnacht'' (directed by Florian Baxmeyer) * 2017: ''

Fack ju Göhte 3 '' Fack ju Göhte 3'' (intentional misspelling of "Fuck you, Goethe") is a 2017 German comedy directed by Bora Dağtekin and starring Elyas M'Barek and Jella Haase, while upcoming actors Max von der Groeben and Gizem Emre appear as supporting ro ...

'' (directed by

Bora Dağtekin Bora Dağtekin (born 27 October 1978) is a German screenwriter and film director who has directed several of the most successful German-language films, notably '' Fack ju Göhte''. Early life Dağtekin was born and raised in Hanover to a Germa ...

)

References

Living people 1963 births German film actresses Actresses from Hamburg {{Germany-film-bio-stub