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 Frbringer. 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 Schaubhne.
Winkler performed in Berlin from 1971 to 1978.Her next film, The Lost
Honour of Katharina Blum, directed by Volker Schlndorff 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 Schlndorff's Oscar-winning film
The Tin Drum, an adaption of the famous book of the same name by Gnter
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 Frbringer. 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 Schaubhne.
Winkler performed in Berlin from 1971 to 1978.Her next film, The Lost
Honour of Katharina Blum, directed by Volker Schlndorff 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 Schlndorff's Oscar-winning film
The Tin Drum, an adaption of the famous book of the same name by Gnter
Grass.
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