Karin Hardt

Karin Hardt Meta Therese (28 April 1910 in Altona, Hamburg – 5 March 1992 in Berlin) was a German actress.

Early life and education A merchant's daughter, Hardt first took private acting lessons with Alex Otto.

Career She received theatrical engagements in Mönchengladbach, Rheydt, and Altenburg. In 1931, she made with Vater geht auf Reisen her film debut and was promoted in the coming years, quickly becoming a popular star. Among her best known films of the 1930s include Ein gewisser Herr Gran (1933), Barcarole (1935), The Roundabouts of Handsome Karl (1938) and Menschen vom Varieté (1939), where she was the naive blonde rival of La Jana. During the war years, the film roles became less frequent. She acted, among other things in Comrades (1941) and Via Mala (1945).

After the war, only a few more film appearances followed such as the Queen in Fritz Genschow's fairytale Sleeping Beauty (1955), in addition to Horst Buchholz in Endstation Liebe (1957) and alongside Kirk Douglas in Town Without Pity (1961). Instead, she played mostly on the stage again, in cities including Berlin, Hamburg, Aachen and Cologne. From the 1960s, she increasingly received proposals from television. After appearances on TV shows like Bei uns zu Haus (1963), Der Forellenhof (1965), Die Unternehmungen des Herrn Hans (1976) and as a grandmother in Ein Jahr ohne Sonntag, and movies like Just a Gigolo (1979, directed by David Hemmings), she played from 1985 to 1986 the housekeeper Kati in the successful TV-series The Black Forest Clinic and in 1988 the mother of Robert Liebling in the ARD series Liebling Kreuzberg. In 1991 she stood for Mrs. Harris und der Heiratsschwindler on the side of Inge Meysel one last time before the camera. She also starred in the television series Die Wicherts von nebenan as the Countess of Strelenau.

Awards In 1983, she received an award for outstanding work in many years of German film.

Personal life In 1933, Hardt was married to director Erich Waschneck. Her second, later divorced, marriage was to Rolf von Goth.

Karin Hardt died 5 March 1992. Her tomb is located in the cemetery in Wilmersdorf, anonymous burial.

Partial filmography

Vater geht auf Reisen (1932) - Eva Müller Eight Girls in a Boat (1932) - Christa Sacred Waters (1932) - Sabine Waldisch Die blonde Christl (1933) - Christine Schröder Hände aus dem Dunkel (1933) - Cilly Kastor, Stenotypistin A Certain Mr. Gran (1933) - Viola Dolleen Abel mit der Mundharmonika (1933) - Corinna Schön ist es, verliebt zu sein (1934) - Else, Blumenverkäuferin Jede Frau hat ein Geheimnis (1934) - Annemie Kolpe Between Heaven and Earth (1934) - Christine Love and the First Railway (1934) - Brigitte, beider Tochter Hermine and the Seven Upright Men (1935) - Hermine, seine Tochter The Foolish Virgin (1935) - Irmgard, ihre Tochter Barcarola (1935) If It Were Not for Music (1935) - Thekla, seine Tochter Love's Awakening (1936) - Hanni - seine Tochter A Doctor of Conviction (1936) - Elisabeth The Adventurer of Paris (1936) - Mabel Port Arthur (1936) - Youki, Boris's wife The Ways of Love Are Strange (1937) - Delia Vigo - ihre Nichte Daphne and the Diplomat (1937) - Daphne The Roundabouts of Handsome Karl (1938) - Grete Wernicke - Tochter The Man Who Couldn't Say No (1938) - Gasperina Heiraten - aber wen? (1938) - Ursula Werndorff The Woman at the Crossroads (1938) - Elinor Weigand Stärker als die Liebe (1938) Peter spielt mit dem Feuer (1938) - Charlotte, seine Frau Stars of Variety (1939) - Gloria Mc'Lean Fasching (1939) - Lisa Petersen Dein Leben gehört mir (1939) Sommer, Sonne, Erika (1939) - Erika Männerwirtschaft (1941) - Ilske Röhling Familienanschluß (1941) - Käthe Barkhahn Comrades (1941) - Christine von Krusemarck His Son (1942) - Brigitte, Frau Hellmers Nichte Liebe, Leidenschaft und Leid (1943) - Therese Schicksal am Strom (1944) - Marianne, seine Tochter The Wedding Hotel (1944) - Brigitte Elling, Verkäuferin A Man Like Maximilian (1945) - Monika, dessen Frau Via Mala (1945) - Silvelie Thank You, I'm Fine (1948) - Martina Holk Madonna in Chains (1949) - Gerda Wienholt Der Dorfmonarch (1950) - Christine Vier Treppen rechts (1950) - Marianne Müller Island of the Dead (1955) - Erna Kahlmayer Lost Child 312 (1955) - Aufseherin im Kinderheim Sleeping Beauty (1955) - Königin Endstation Liebe (1958) - Frau Lehnhoff Town Without Pity (1961) - Frau Steinhof (1968, TV Movie) - Hilde Brocksieben Just a Gigolo (1978) - Frau Uexkull The Black Forest Clinic (1985–1987, TV Series) - Käti Liebling Kreuzberg (1988, TV Series) - Mama Elfriede Liebling