Thalbach, Katharina

(1954- )

   Actress, director. Thalbach began her career playing children's roles in productions by her father Benno Besson. She made her Berliner Ensemble debut in 1968 and remained with that company until 1972, when she began working with the East Berlin Volksbühne. Thalbach left East Berlin in 1977 to work with the Schiller Theater company in West Berlin, and after 1983 worked extensively in Zurich. She returned to the Schiller Theater in 1989 as a director, and in 1990 her Hamburg Thalia Theater production of Macbeth in 1990 was invited to the Berliner Theatertreffen.