Karin Ugowski née Karin Komischke (born July 11, 1943) is a German
film and stage actress, voice actress, narrator, film producer and
furtherer of art and culture in Germany with various stations of work
in UK, France, Italy, Israel, Russia, Hungary, Poland, Spain, US and
Germany.Karin Ugowski was born in Berlin Johannisthal, Germany during
the last stage of The Battle of Berlin in the middle of the Berlin
bombings, 2 years before the end of Second World War. She grew up in
postwar Germany behind the Iron Curtain and her parents were both
wartime traumatized. After finishing Gymnasiale Oberstufe (comparable
to Highschool in US) she was intended to study medicine. Against the
will of her parents she attended to the Film University Babelsberg in
1962 and received her B.A. in drama from the Film University
Babelsberg, Germany in 1965. She has a younger brother.During her
acting studies she already gained notice and received widespread
recognition for her enchanting but self-confident impersonations of
the princess roles in German classic theatrical motion pictures in the
early 1960s based on historical fairy tales, like Mother Holly (1963),
The Golden Goose (1964) and King Thrushbeard (1965) co-starring German
cult actor Manfred Krug. Her first cinema appearances were heavily
related to an ideal of female youth and beauty in the 1960s of postwar
Germany. In this time she already became an up-and-coming film star
building a fan base, which still remains until today for these old
film classics, which are still airing in German TV frequently.In early
Science Fiction motion pictures like Signale - Ein Weltraumabenteuer
(1970) (English: "Signals") and in historical feature films like the
spy thriller The Invisible Visor (1973) which has already achieved
cult status, co-starring the young Armin Mueller-Stahl, or as the
malicious white farmers daughter in the German film version of the
American Indian legend story Osceola (1971) or even in first episodes
of the German TV classic crime series Police call 110, where she
appears as one of the first officiating female police detectives and
inspectors besides the actress Sigrid Göhler in German TV, she has so
much the more astounded and irritated her fan base knowing her from
the princess roles by showing completely different faces in the 1970s
and exposing as character actress of complex parts. More than once she
has surprised with her versatility, as shown again in the more recent
years, like in the cinema short film Open (2005) of the director
Charlotte Siebenrock, when she turned from an old frustrated canteen
kitchen porter into an attractive buoyant and beautiful looking women
within minutes, leading to the presentation of the short film at
various short film festivals or in the motion picture In All Colours
of the Rainbow (2007) in a role of an older woman falling in love with
a much younger man fighting the social resentment, directed by her
son, Sebastian Ugovsky.
film and stage actress, voice actress, narrator, film producer and
furtherer of art and culture in Germany with various stations of work
in UK, France, Italy, Israel, Russia, Hungary, Poland, Spain, US and
Germany.Karin Ugowski was born in Berlin Johannisthal, Germany during
the last stage of The Battle of Berlin in the middle of the Berlin
bombings, 2 years before the end of Second World War. She grew up in
postwar Germany behind the Iron Curtain and her parents were both
wartime traumatized. After finishing Gymnasiale Oberstufe (comparable
to Highschool in US) she was intended to study medicine. Against the
will of her parents she attended to the Film University Babelsberg in
1962 and received her B.A. in drama from the Film University
Babelsberg, Germany in 1965. She has a younger brother.During her
acting studies she already gained notice and received widespread
recognition for her enchanting but self-confident impersonations of
the princess roles in German classic theatrical motion pictures in the
early 1960s based on historical fairy tales, like Mother Holly (1963),
The Golden Goose (1964) and King Thrushbeard (1965) co-starring German
cult actor Manfred Krug. Her first cinema appearances were heavily
related to an ideal of female youth and beauty in the 1960s of postwar
Germany. In this time she already became an up-and-coming film star
building a fan base, which still remains until today for these old
film classics, which are still airing in German TV frequently.In early
Science Fiction motion pictures like Signale - Ein Weltraumabenteuer
(1970) (English: "Signals") and in historical feature films like the
spy thriller The Invisible Visor (1973) which has already achieved
cult status, co-starring the young Armin Mueller-Stahl, or as the
malicious white farmers daughter in the German film version of the
American Indian legend story Osceola (1971) or even in first episodes
of the German TV classic crime series Police call 110, where she
appears as one of the first officiating female police detectives and
inspectors besides the actress Sigrid Göhler in German TV, she has so
much the more astounded and irritated her fan base knowing her from
the princess roles by showing completely different faces in the 1970s
and exposing as character actress of complex parts. More than once she
has surprised with her versatility, as shown again in the more recent
years, like in the cinema short film Open (2005) of the director
Charlotte Siebenrock, when she turned from an old frustrated canteen
kitchen porter into an attractive buoyant and beautiful looking women
within minutes, leading to the presentation of the short film at
various short film festivals or in the motion picture In All Colours
of the Rainbow (2007) in a role of an older woman falling in love with
a much younger man fighting the social resentment, directed by her
son, Sebastian Ugovsky.
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