Katrin Saß

Katrin Saß
Born	(1956-10-23) 23 October 1956 Schwerin, East Germany
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1979–present

Katrin Sass in 2012

Katrin Saß (written internationally as "Sass") is a German actress. She has an uncommon distinctively firm feminine voice, and became known internationally for playing the idealistic socialist mother Christiane Kerner in the 2003 tragicomedy Good Bye, Lenin!

She was born in Schwerin, in the former East Germany, which is now the capital of the Federal State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Before German reunification, she was a well-known film and stage actress in the German Democratic Republic. She made her film debut at age 23 in the 1979 film Bis daß der Tod euch scheidet, where she portrayed a disillusioned young wife. She won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival for her role in the 1981 film Bürgschaft für ein Jahr. In 2011, she appeared in the music video of "Wir Sind am Leben" by the Berlin music duo Rosenstolz.

Filmography

• Bis daß der Tod euch scheidet (1979)
• Bürgschaft für ein Jahr (1981)
• The House on the River (1986)
• Fallada: The Last Chapter (1988)
• Heidi M. (2001)
• Good Bye, Lenin! (2003) (with Daniel Brühl, Chulpan Khamatova, Michael Gwisdek and Alexander Beyer)
• The Silence (2010)

External links

• Katrin Saß at the Internet Movie Database
• Katrin Saß by CastingDB.eu