Barbara Auer

Barbara Auer (German: [ˈbaʁbaʁa ˈaʊ̯ɐ] ^ⓘ; born (1959-02-01)1 February 1959) is a German actress. She has appeared in multiple television shows and films including My Daughter Belongs to Me (for which she won a German Film Award for "Best Actress"), Impossibly Yours [de], Waiting for Angelina [de], and The Book Thief.

Awards

• 1989: Goldene Kamera for The Boss from the West
• 1991: Special Prize of the German Academy of Performing Arts for Die Arbeitersaga: Das Lachen der Maca Daracs
• 1993: German Film Awards "Best Actress" for My Daughter Belongs to Me
• 1995: Telestar "Best Actress" in a Move Made For TV" for Der große Abgang
• 2019: Fünf Seen Filmfestival "Hannelore-Elsner-Award" for Best Art of Acting

Selected filmography

• The Boss from the West (dir. Vivian Naefe, 1988, TV film), as Jessica
• The Play with Billions (dir. Peter Keglevic, 1989, TV film), as Larissa Asselt
• Verfolgte Wege (dir. Uwe Janson, 1989), as Marie
• Mit Leib und Seele (1989–1990, TV series, 19 episodes), as Annemarie Bieler
• Herzlich willkommen (dir. Hark Bohm, 1990), as Elke Kramer
• Café Europa [de] (dir. Franz Xaver Bogner [de], 1990), as Nana Schröder
• A Crazy Couple (dir. Sönke Wortmann, 1990), as Jana
• Heart in the Hand (dir. Uwe Janson, 1991), as Ena
• The Terrible Threesome (dir. Hermine Huntgeburth, 1991), as Maria Grund
• My Daughter Belongs to Me (dir. Vivian Naefe, 1991, TV film), as Ruth
• Die Arbeitersaga [de]: Das Lachen der Maca Daracs (dir. Dieter Berner [de], 1991, TV film), as Maca Daracs
• Night on Fire [de] (dir. Markus Fischer [de], 1992), as Uta Schwengeler
• Madregilda (dir. Francisco Regueiro, 1993), as Madregilda
• Women Are Simply Wonderful [de] (dir. Sherry Hormann, 1994), as Kim
• Der große Abgang (dir. Nico Hofmann [de], 1995, TV film), as Irmgard Bode
• Nikolaikirche (dir. Frank Beyer, 1995, TV film), as Astrid Protter
• Reise nach Weimar (dir. Dominik Graf, 1996, TV film), as Mafalda La Rocca
• Solo for Clarinet [de] (dir. Nico Hofmann [de], 1998), as Lydia Kominka
• Waiting Means Death [de] (dir. Hartmut Schoen [de], 1999, TV film), as Gertrud Venske
• The State I Am In (dir. Christian Petzold, 2000), as Clara
• Donna Leon (2000–2002, TV series, 4 episodes), as Paola Brunetti
• The Other Woman (dir. Margarethe von Trotta, 2004, TV film), as Yvonne Schumacher
• Impossibly Yours [de] (dir. Torsten C. Fischer [de], 2006), as Marlene
• Nachtschicht [de] (since 2006, TV series, 15 episodes), as Lisa Brenner
• The Other Boy (dir. Volker Einrauch [de], 2007), as Sylvie Wagner
• Waiting for Angelina [de] (dir. Hans-Christoph Blumenberg [de], 2008), as Marlene
• At Any Second [de] (dir. Jan Fehse [de], 2008), as Anna Frick
• Effi Briest (dir. Hermine Huntgeburth, 2009), as Johanna
• The Last 30 Years (dir. Michael Gutmann [de], 2010, TV film), as Resa Schade
• The Weekend (dir. Nina Grosse, 2012), as Tina Kessler
• Where Friendship Ends [de] (dir. Stefan Krohmer [de], 2013, TV film), as Heike Rogel
• Take Good Care of Him (dir. Johannes Fabrick [de], 2013, TV film), as Lene
• The Book Thief (dir. Brian Percival, 2013), as Ilsa Hermann
• Death of a Girl [de] (dir. Thomas Berger [de], 2015, TV film), as Hella Christensen
• Grzimek [de] (dir. Roland Suso Richter, 2015, TV film), as Hildegard Grzimek
• Jonathan (dir. Piotr J. Lewandowski, 2016), as Martha