Angela Winkler (born 22 January 1944) is a German actress.Born in
Templin, Winkler trained to be a medical technologist in Stuttgart.
Interested in theater, she went to Munich, where she took acting
classes with Ernst Fritz Fürbringer. In 1967, she had her first role
at the theater in Kassel.In 1969, she played the lead role in Peter
Fleischmann's film Jagdszenen aus Niederbayern. After seeing this
film, Peter Stein offered her a position at the Berliner Schaubühne.
Winkler performed in Berlin from 1971 to 1978.Her next film, The Lost
Honour of Katharina Blum, directed by Volker Schlöndorff and
Margarethe von Trotta, made her a star in 1975. For the role of
Katharina Blum, she received the Filmband in Gold. In 1979, she won
international fame as the mother of Oskar Matzerath in Schlöndorff's
Oscar-winning film The Tin Drum, an adaption of the famous book of the
same name by Günter Grass.
Templin, Winkler trained to be a medical technologist in Stuttgart.
Interested in theater, she went to Munich, where she took acting
classes with Ernst Fritz Fürbringer. In 1967, she had her first role
at the theater in Kassel.In 1969, she played the lead role in Peter
Fleischmann's film Jagdszenen aus Niederbayern. After seeing this
film, Peter Stein offered her a position at the Berliner Schaubühne.
Winkler performed in Berlin from 1971 to 1978.Her next film, The Lost
Honour of Katharina Blum, directed by Volker Schlöndorff and
Margarethe von Trotta, made her a star in 1975. For the role of
Katharina Blum, she received the Filmband in Gold. In 1979, she won
international fame as the mother of Oskar Matzerath in Schlöndorff's
Oscar-winning film The Tin Drum, an adaption of the famous book of the
same name by Günter Grass.
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