Carmen-Maja Antoni

Carmen-Maja Antoni (born 23 August 1945) is a German actress.

Life

Carmen-Maja Antoni was born into the chaos that followed the Second World War. Her father, Pedro Antoni, was an artist who left the family scene soon after she was born, leaving the baby with her mother, Ursula Antoni-Orendt, an "all-round artist" who later became a production director with the DFF, East Germany's national broadcasting corporation. Carmen-Maja made her camera debut at the age of eleven, as one of the three "Blue Streaks" in a Young Pioneer Cabaret programme on national television.

By the time of the successful completion of her final school exams she had already negotiated her way through the admissions process for the Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg in the Babelsberg quarter of Potsdam. On joining, she became the academy's youngest student. As soon as she had completed her studies she was hired by Potsdam's . Still aged only 18, it was here that in 1964 she appeared as an exceptionally young "Grusche", the heroine in "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" by Bertolt Brecht. Her performance drew praise from Brecht's widow and from Brecht's old friend, the composer Paul Dessau. She later took the part of "Minna" in Lessings's "Minna von Barnhelm". By 1970 Carmen-Maja Antoni had moved on to the People's Theatre in the centre of Berlin.

She has been a member of the Berliner Ensemble Theatre Company since 1976, and has recently (2005) appeared there as the lead protagonist in "Mother Courage and Her Children". Over the years she has played in a very large number of stage plays and films, and her unmistakable voice has also been heard in various radio plays. In addition, she teaches at the in Babelsberg.

Antoni built her career in the German Democratic Republic during the decades of German division, but following reunification hers has become a well-known television presence across German-speaking central Europe thanks in part to her appearances in the long-running (1994–2013) ZDF crime drama series in which she played Karin von Lomanski, a close colleague of Police Commissioner Rosa Roth.

Filmography

• 1959: Diebe im Warenhaus (TV film)
• 1965: Der Reserveheld
• 1965: The Rabbit Is Me
• 1965: Denk bloß nicht, ich heule
• 1965: Das Glück der Maria H. (TV film)
• 1966: ' (unfinished)
• 1967: Das Mädchen an der Orga Privat (TV film)
• 1967: Kleiner Mann – was nun? (TV film)
• 1968: '
• 1968: Hauptmann Florian von der Mühle
• 1968: Ways across the Country (TV miniseries)
• 1969: Zeit zu leben
• 1970: ' (TV film)
• 1970: '
• 1970: Unsere Klasse, große Klasse (TV film)
• 1970: Zeit der Störche
• 1970: Zwei Briefe an Pospischiel (TV film)
• 1970: Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort: (TV series)
• 1971: Rottenknechte (TV miniseries)
• 1971: Pygmalion XII. (TV film)
• 1972: '
• 1972: Eolomea (Robot voice)
• 1973: Wenn die Tauben steigen (TV film)
• 1973: Der kaukasische Kreidekreis (TV film)
• 1973: '
• 1974: Johannes Kepler
• 1974: Nachtasyl (TV film)
• 1974: Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort: Schwester Martina
• 1975: '
• 1975: Heute ist Freitag (TV film)
• 1975: Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort:
• 1975: '
• 1977: Auftrag: Überleben (TV film)
• 1978: ' (TV film)
• 1979: '
• 1979: Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti (TV film)
• 1980: '
• 1980: '
• 1980: Meines Vaters Straßenbahn (TV film)
• 1981: '
• 1981: '
• 1981: Jegor Bulytschow und die anderen (TV film)
• 1982: ' (TV film)
• 1983: Es geht einer vor die Hunde (TV film)
• 1983: Der kaukasische Kreidekreis (TV film)
• 1984: Eine schöne Bescherung (TV film)
• 1985: '
• 1985: Schauspielereien, episode: Balancen (TV series)
• 1986: Der junge Herr Siegmund (TV film)
• 1986: Jungfer Miras Mirakel (TV film)
• 1986: Plumps (Segment of TV series, voice only, animated by Gerhard Behrendt)
• 1987: '
• 1987: '
• 1988: Polizeiruf 110: (TV series)
• 1988: Jeder träumt von einem Pferd (TV film)
• 1988: Gabriel, komm zurück (TV film)
• 1989: '
• 1989: Polizeiruf 110:
• 1990: ' (TV film)
• 1991: ' (TV film)
• 1991: '
• 1991: Ein kleiner Knall am Nachmittag (TV film)
• 1993: : Die Narbe des Himmels (TV series)
• 1993: Polizeiruf 110:
• 1994: Polizeiruf 110:
• 1994: ' (TV film)
• 1994: Rosa Roth: In Liebe und Tod (TV series)
• 1995: ' (TV film)
• 1995: Mein heißgeliebter Führer. Liebesbriefe an Adolf Hitler (TV film)
• 1995: Rosa Roth: Lügen
• 1996: Rosa Roth: Verlorenes Leben
• 1996: Refuge (TV film)
• 1996: Katrin und Wladimir (TV film)
• 1996: Rosa Roth: Nirgendwohin
• 1996: Rosa Roth: Montag, 26. November
• 1996: Das Leben ist eine Baustelle
• 1997: Rosa Roth: Die Stimme
• 1997: Rosa Roth: Berlin
• 1997: Tatort: (TV series)
• 1998: Move on up (TV)
• 1998: ' (TV film)
• 1999: Wohin mit den Witwen
• 1999: Nightshapes
• 1999: In aller Freundschaft (TV series, episode: Die Geister, die ich rief)
• 1999: Medicopter 117 – Jedes Leben zählt (TV series, episode: Die falsche Maßnahme)
• 1999: Klemperer – Ein Leben in Deutschland (TV series, episode: Küss mich in der Kurve)
• 1999: Die Hochzeitskuh
• 2001: Berlin Is in Germany
• 2001: '
• 2001: Inas Geburtstag
• 2001: '
• 2002: '
• 2002: Brüder (TV film)
• 2003: Ein Schiff wird kommen
• 2003: Rosa Roth: Das leise Sterben des Kolibri
• 2004: Land's End (TV film)
• 2004: Rosa Roth: Freundeskreis
• 2005: About a Girl
• 2005: Rosa Roth: Flucht nach vorn
• 2005: Rosa Roth: Im Namen des Vaters
• 2006: Rosa Roth: In guten Händen
• 2007: Rosa Roth:
• 2007: ' (TV film)
• 2008: The Reader
• 2009: The White Ribbon
• 2009: ' (TV film)
• 2009: ' (TV film)
• 2009: Baby frei Haus (TV film)
• 2010: Rosa Roth: Das Angebot des Tages
• 2010: ' (TV film)
• 2011: Crime Scene Cleaner
• 2011: Holger sacht nix (TV film)
• 2011: ' (TV film)
• 2011: Das Kindermädchen (TV film)
• 2013: Rosa Roth: Der Schuss
• 2013: Doc meets Dorf
• 2014: Die letzte Instanz
• 2014: Mord mit Aussicht (TV series, 3rd set)
• 2014: Krauses Geheimnis (TV film)

• 1974: Critics' Prize of the Berliner Zeitung: Best Actress of the year for the role of "Eva" in Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti
• 1975: Critics' Prize of the Berliner Zeitung: Best Actress of the year for the role of Herakes in Herakes V by Heiner Müller
• 1987: Critics' Prize Best Actress of the year for the role of Grandmother in '
• 1988: Critics' Prize of the Berliner Zeitung: Best Actress of the year for the role of the Mother in Baal
• 1988: 5th : National film prize for the best lead actress for the film '
• 1989: Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic for her complete artistic output
• 1990: For the role of Mother-in-law in Der Selbstmörder
• 2008: German Critics' Prize