Karin Hardt Meta Therese (28 April 1910 in Altona, Hamburg â€" 5 March
1992 in Berlin) was a German actress.A merchant's daughter, Hardt
first took private acting lessons with Alex Otto and received
theatrical engagements in Mönchengladbach, Rheydt, and Altenburg. In
1931 she made with Vater geht auf Reisen her film debut and was
promoted in the coming years, quickly becoming a popular star. Among
her best known films of the 1930s include Ein gewisser Herr Gran
(1933), Barcarole (1935), The Roundabouts of Handsome Karl (1938) and
Menschen vom Varieté (1939), where she was the naive blonde rival of
La Jana. During the war years, the film roles became less frequent.
She acted, among other things in Comrades (1941) and Via Mala
(1945).After the war only a few more film appearances followed such as
the Queen in Fritz Genschow's fairytale Sleeping Beauty (1955), in
addition to Horst Buchholz in Endstation Liebe (1957) and alongside
Kirk Douglas in Town Without Pity (1961). Instead, she played mostly
on the stage again, in cities including Berlin, Hamburg, Aachen and
Cologne. From the 1960s, she increasingly received proposals from
television. After appearances on TV shows like Bei uns zu Haus (1963),
Der Forellenhof (1965), Die Unternehmungen des Herrn Hans (1976) and
as a grandmother in Ein Jahr ohne Sonntag, and movies like Just a
Gigolo (1979, directed by David Hemmings), she played from 1985 to
1986 the housekeeper Kati in the successful TV-series The Black Forest
Clinic and in 1988 the mother of Robert Liebling in the ARD series
Liebling Kreuzberg. In 1991 she stood for Mrs. Harris und der
Heiratsschwindler on the side of Inge Meysel one last time before the
camera. She also starred in the television series Die Wicherts von
nebenan as the Countess of Strelenau.In 1933, Hardt was married to
director Erich Waschneck. Her second, later divorced, marriage was to
Rolf von Goth. In 1983 she received an award for outstanding work in
many years of German film. Her tomb is located in the cemetery in
Wilmersdorf, anonymous burial.
1992 in Berlin) was a German actress.A merchant's daughter, Hardt
first took private acting lessons with Alex Otto and received
theatrical engagements in Mönchengladbach, Rheydt, and Altenburg. In
1931 she made with Vater geht auf Reisen her film debut and was
promoted in the coming years, quickly becoming a popular star. Among
her best known films of the 1930s include Ein gewisser Herr Gran
(1933), Barcarole (1935), The Roundabouts of Handsome Karl (1938) and
Menschen vom Varieté (1939), where she was the naive blonde rival of
La Jana. During the war years, the film roles became less frequent.
She acted, among other things in Comrades (1941) and Via Mala
(1945).After the war only a few more film appearances followed such as
the Queen in Fritz Genschow's fairytale Sleeping Beauty (1955), in
addition to Horst Buchholz in Endstation Liebe (1957) and alongside
Kirk Douglas in Town Without Pity (1961). Instead, she played mostly
on the stage again, in cities including Berlin, Hamburg, Aachen and
Cologne. From the 1960s, she increasingly received proposals from
television. After appearances on TV shows like Bei uns zu Haus (1963),
Der Forellenhof (1965), Die Unternehmungen des Herrn Hans (1976) and
as a grandmother in Ein Jahr ohne Sonntag, and movies like Just a
Gigolo (1979, directed by David Hemmings), she played from 1985 to
1986 the housekeeper Kati in the successful TV-series The Black Forest
Clinic and in 1988 the mother of Robert Liebling in the ARD series
Liebling Kreuzberg. In 1991 she stood for Mrs. Harris und der
Heiratsschwindler on the side of Inge Meysel one last time before the
camera. She also starred in the television series Die Wicherts von
nebenan as the Countess of Strelenau.In 1933, Hardt was married to
director Erich Waschneck. Her second, later divorced, marriage was to
Rolf von Goth. In 1983 she received an award for outstanding work in
many years of German film. Her tomb is located in the cemetery in
Wilmersdorf, anonymous burial.
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