Brigitte Mira
Born: 1910-04-20 in Hamburg, German Empire [now Germany]
Died: 2005-03-08
Known For: Acting
Biography
Brigitte Mira (20 April 1910 – 8 March 2005) was a German actress. She worked in both theater and film, often with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Brigitte Mira's mother was German and her father was Jewish Russian. During the Nazi dictatorship, Mira took part in the propaganda series Liese und Miese. She played Miese (germ. bad one)--the bad role model according to Nazi ideology that listened to enemy radio stations and stockpiled rationed food. But her acting skills turned the "bad" character she portrayed into a likeable one. The series was soon cancelled for being counter productive. The propaganda directors did not know that Mira was half-Jewish. Even though she insisted on her naivete as a young woman and the fact she had to hide her identity, she was criticized later by some for taking part in these ads at all. Even if Mira was born in Hamburg she early on moved to Berlin and through her TV work came to embody the typical Berlin sense of humor. Notable performances include Emmi Kurowski in Fear Eats the Soul (1974), a role for which she won a German Film Award. In the 1980s Mira achieved another big success with the television series Drei Damen vom Grill. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brigitte Mira, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2022
- Kino im Rausch - Die Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo as Self (archive footage)
2018
- Große Klappe, großes Herz as Self (archive footage)
2007
- When Fear Eats the Soul as Emmi Kurowski (archive footage)
2006
2002
- Ein roter Teppich für.... as Self
- Angst isst Seele auf as Emmi
2001
- Aszendent Liebe as Olga von Reichenbach
2000
- Menschen der Woche as Self
- Fassbinder's Women as Self
- Ein lasterhaftes Pärchen as Käthe Mühlmann
1999
- Volle Kanne as Self
1998
- Alpha Forum as Self
- Der Clown as Hildegard
1997
- Dr. Sommerfeld - Neues vom Bülowbogen as Ria
- Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz as Self
- The sweetness of strangers as Mieterin
1996
- Willi und die Windzors as Queen Mum
1995
- Die Harald Schmidt Show as Self
- Für alle Fälle Stefanie as Hiltrud Steinmetz
- Kanzlei Bürger as Emma Tamm
1994
- Briefgeheimnis
- Alles Glück dieser Erde as Clemma
1993
- Die Spur führt ins Verderben as Frau im 'House of Usher'
- Der Showmaster as Frau 1
- Klippen des Todes as Doris
1992
1991
- DAS! as Self
- Die Mike Krüger Show as Self
- Murderous Decisions as Mrs. Blondell
- Gesucht wird Ricki Forster as Old Lou
1990
- Zeil um Zehn as Self
- Rosamunde as Oma Kaminski
1989
- Zwei Münchner in Hamburg as Tante Käthe
- Spreepiraten as Frau Brachvogel
- Killer kennen keine Furcht
1988
- Alles Nichts Oder?! as Self
- Justitias kleine Fische as Betty Hansemann
- Dem Tod auf der Spur
- Geschminkte Jugend
- Trouble im Penthouse as Mrs. Kluge
1987
- The Country Doctor as Lilli Merz
- Vicky und Nicky as Vicky Fendrich
1986
- Großstadtrevier as Madame Chantal
- Die Wicherts von nebenan as Conny
- Unternehmen Köpenick as Suhrbiers Schwester
- Was zu beweisen war as Mrs. Pecari
1985
- Funkes Laden as Brigitte Funke
- Alte Gauner as Lore
- Girl in a Boot as Toilettenfrau
- Schwarzer Lohn und weiße Weste as Gemüsefrau
- Die Spur der anderen as Barfrau Erna
1984
- Goldene Kamera as Self
- Berliner Weiße mit Schuß as Imbißbudenfrau
- Funkes Werkstatt as Brigitte Funke
- Sigi, der Straßenfeger as Mrs. Niendorf
1983
- Leute as Self
- The Roaring Fifties as Frau Willmsen
- Der Tod kommt durch die Tür as Frau Friedrichs
- Kein Reihenhaus für Robin Hood as Frau Meyerdierks
1982
- Krimistunde as Tante Louise
- Kamikaze '89 as Personnel Director
- So oder So ist das Leben
- Drei gegen Hollywood as Helen Hobart
- Leben im Winter as Martha
- Zwei Tote im Sender und Don Carlos im PoGl as Frau Mürbes
- Bühnenbild mit Dame as Garderobiere
- Die Murmel as Berta
- Ab in den Süden as Gerti
1981
- Wetten, dass..? as Self
- A Case For Two as Haushälterin Anni
- Das Traumschiff as Mrs. Mayer
- Kintopp-Kintopp as Frau Prof. Adele Klinge-Stumm
- Lili Marleen as Nachbarin
- After Midnight as Denunziantin
- Und ab geht die Post
1980
- Berlin Alexanderplatz as Frau Bast
- Heut' abend as Self
- Achtung Zoll as Gerda Groth
- Leute wie du und ich
- Fabian as Frau Hohfeld
- Pension Schöller as Wanda Staudinger
- Primel macht ihr Haus verrückt as Frau Kulicke
1979
- Locker vom Hocker as Ehefrau
- Die Protokolle des Herrn M as Schlesier-Grete
- Nachbarn und andere nette Menschen
1978
- MS Franziska
- Wenn die Liebe hinfällt as Ellie Grutsch
- Die Geburtstagsfeier as Meg
- The Woman Across the Way as Simons Mutter
- Wann heiraten Sie meine Frau? as Minni - Tante Germinats
- Die beiden Freundinnen as Mutter Link
1977
- The Old Fox as Hanna Lubach
- Drei Damen vom Grill as Margarete Färber
- Chinese Roulette as Kast
- Love Living, Live Loving as Hauswartfrau
- Adolf and Marlene as Fortune Teller
1976
- Ein Fall für Stein as Frau Schott
- Satan’s Brew as Walter's mother
- Die Unternehmungen des Herrn Hans
- Everyone Dies Alone as Frau Häberle
- Anita Drögemöller und die Ruhe an der Ruhr as Oma Wuttke
1975
- Musik ist Trumpf as Self
- Nonstop Nonsens as Didis Schwiegermutter
- The Secret Carrier as Betty Hopfen
- Fox and His Friends as Shopkeeper #2
- Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven as Emma Küsters
- Fear of Fear as Mutter
- Like a Bird on a Wire as Herself
1974
- Derrick as Frau Hässler
- Die Montagsmaler as Self
- The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser as Haushälterin Käthe
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul as Emmi Kurowski
- Käpt'n Senkstakes Abenteuer - Ehrenhäuptling der Watubas
- 1 Berlin-Harlem
- Loriots Telecabinet as Gloria Miranda
1973
- Je später der Abend as Self
- Sechs unter Millionen as Wirtin
- Tenderness of the Wolves as Louise Engel
- Kleiner Mann, was nun?
1972
- Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day as Frau Andreas
- Semesterferien as Prof. Kaiser
- Der Fall Opa as Frau Löffler
- Frau Jenny Treibel as Frau Schmolke
1971
- Dalli Dalli as Self - Candidate
- Dreißig Silberlinge as Mrs. Scholler
- Zwanzig Mädchen und die Pauker: Heute steht die Penne kopf as Wirtin
- Wir hau’n den Hauswirt in die Pfanne as Hauswirtin Bauer
- Die Computer-Show as Green Widow
1970
- Drüben bei Lehmanns as Else Lehmann
- Recht oder Unrecht
- Das Stunden-Hotel von St. Pauli as Rose Schuh
- Prozeß Mariotti
- Der Vetter aus Dingsda as Tante Wilhelmine
1969
- Alle Hunde lieben Theobald as Fahrgast mit Bernhardiner
1968
- Der Partyphotograph as Mrs. Bütow
- Im Ballhaus wird geschwoft
1967
- Im Ballhaus ist Musike as Molly Zwitscherini
1966
- Wilhelmina as Tante Sophie
- Bei Pfeiffers ist Ball as Molly Zwitscherini
- Schwarzer Peter - Märchenoper für kleine und große Leute as Erste Amme
- Wie lernt man Reisen?
1965
- Unser Pauker as Anna Eulalia Clothilde Puhlke
- Der Forellenhof as Frau Reinhardt
- Mrs. Cheney's End as Sängerin
- Annie Get Your Gun as Dolly Tate
1964
- Einer wird gewinnen as Self
- Frau Luna as Frau Pusebach
1963
- Jack and Jenny as Thea
- Feuerwerk as Köchin
- Berlin-Melodie
- Die Belagerung der Josephine as Madame Helene
1962
- Jedermannstraße 11 as Frau Lehmann
- Bubusch as Mama
- The Tragedy of Silence as Frau Ohl
- So toll wie anno dazumal as Frau Sommer
1961
- Wie einst im Mai as Mechthilde von Kiefernspeck
- Die Marquise von Arcis as Clementine Duquenoy
1960
- Der Prozeß Mary Dugan as Marie Ducrot
- Im Namen einer Mutter as Mutter Reitner, Strafgefangene
1959
- Drei Orangen as Sophia
- Schlag auf Schlag as Frau Hinze
- Du bist wunderbar as Madame Dupont
- Die Liebe des Jahres as Lady Schocker, Journalistin
1958
- ...und abends in die Scala as Frau Mertens
- Wehe, wenn sie losgelassen as Frau Knax
- So ein Millionär hat's schwer as Madame Pillar
- Der Stern von Santa Clara as Tante Theresa
1957
- Zum blauen Bock as Self
1951
- German Film Award as Self
1948
- Bambi as Self
- The Berliner as Dirne