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Eiger (1974)
Character: Gast
Conquering the 1,800-meter-high north face of the Eiger is a test of endurance for mountaineers. Tiger and Simmi have also set their sights on this tour.
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Fähre in den Tod (1996)
Character: N/A
It is a terrible disaster! Due to a series of wrong decisions, the ferry Castor gets caught in a sea storm and sinks. The tragedy is already foreshadowed in small details: first there is an hour-long delay before departure, then some trucks are not properly secured and on the bridge there is a heated discussion between Captain Eriksen and his deputy van Damme about how to deal with the storm warning received. The captain's sudden heart attack complicates the situation. The next day, it is learned ashore that the Castor has sunk. Herwegh, the head of the commission of inquiry, then tries to find out who is morally responsible for the disaster and who the real culprits are. In the process, several human dramas unfold...
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Frau Jenny Treibel (1982)
Character: Frau Schmolcke
Jenny Bürstenbinder has climbed the social ladder by marrying Kommerzienrat Treibel. The professor's daughter Corinna Schmidt plans to do the same and woos Treibel's son Leopold with charm and wit. But Jenny Treibel lacks an adequate dowry.
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Hürdenlauf (1969)
Character: Frau Wehrle
Film about a working-class boy who fails at secondary school.
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Sturmflut (1987)
Character: Oma Labmann
Television film about the Hamburg storm surge, when on February 16, 1962, the dikes broke and a fifth of the city was submerged in icy floodwaters, killing 315 people.
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Hat er Arbeit? (2000)
Character: Oma
The shipyard in Boizenburg is where welder Karl and his friends and relatives work. Rumours about the traditional company's financial difficulties are circulating, but the young people are initially unfazed. However, the effects of the shipyard crisis are increasingly making themselves felt in their lives. The brother-in-law of Karl's girlfriend, Kitty, loses his job and eventually takes his own life. Shortly afterwards, Karl also receives his notice of termination. After a night of drinking with his shipyard colleagues to drown his frustrations, he cheats on Kitty with another woman. Their great love seems to be coming to an end.
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Ein Polterabend (1955)
Character: Rieke
Berlin 1849: The democrat Adolf Glasbrenner, known as Brennglas, publishes the political satire magazine "Phosphor" on a shoestring budget. He plans to marry his lover, the actress Adele Peroni. But the plan comes to a standstill when Adele is to make a guest appearance at the reactionary Royal Prussian Playhouse. A democratic journalist marrying a court actress? Impossible! Together with his friend Pulecke, Brennglas tries to disrupt Adele's performance with a bachelor party...
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Vom Küssen und vom Fliegen (2000)
Character: Tante Irmchen
"Goal, goal, goal!" That's too much for Father Finkbeiner. The joy of the German team's victory at the '54 World Cup throws the old man onto his sickbed. He quickly summons his sons to him. "The legacy must be settled." The solution is simple: whoever can produce a wife and child first will inherit the coffin fittings company.
Well, out of three sons, only two come into question. Fritz, the eldest, has "something on his head". But while Erwin and Kurt are still fighting bitterly to lose their innocence and win the woman for life, problem child Fritz gives himself over to the consecration of physical love. Even accountant Petra is interested in the dreamer...
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Stück für Stück (1962)
Character: Ms. Jakob
A mother wants to buy a bike for her son, but she doesn't have enough money.
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Švabica (1980)
Character: N/A
A story about forbidden love between student Misa and German girl Ana.
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Sanfte Morde (1997)
Character: N/A
Bernd Schadewald's thriller based on a screenplay by Burkhard Driest.
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Eine Jugendliebe (1977)
Character: Nannis' Mutter
Every year, 17-year-old Wolfgang from Hesse spends his summer vacation with his grandfather in Fischerhude in Schleswig-Holstein. In the north, he always meets his childhood sweetheart Nanni, whom he wants to marry soon. But the two of them are not destined for happiness. The war throws a spanner in the works. Love must fail.
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Die Geschwister Oppermann (1983)
Character: Oberschwester Helene
History of a Jewish family, the Oppermanns, in Berlin at the end of 1932, after Hitler has become the leader of Germany's strongest political party.
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Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (1961)
Character: Bäuerin
During the Thirty Years' War, the camp-follower Anna Fierling, called "Mother Courage", travels the length and breadth of Europe with her covered wagon. She does not care if it's Catholics or Protestants she trades with as long as business thrives. She loses her three children as a result of the war: bold and spirited Eilif, sincere and upright Swiss Cheese and mute Katrin, who saves the children of Halle by beating a drum on a farmstead roof In wartime, the Fierling children's virtues prove to be deadly. Yet, Mother Courage, remains incorrigible. She will not have anyone "spoil the war" for her and so sets out once more after the soldiers with her wagon.
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Born for Hell (1976)
Character: N/A
Loosely based on the notorious Richard Speck murders, this is the grim tale of a disturbed Vietnam vet returning home via Belfast, who invades a house shared by eight nurses and proceeds to terrorize and murder them.
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