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
- Ein lasterhaftes Pärchen as Käthe Mühlmann
- Fassbinder's Women as Self
1999
- Volle Kanne as Self
1998
- Alpha Forum as Self
- Der Clown as Hildegard
1997
- Dr. Sommerfeld - Neues vom Bülowbogen as Ria
- The sweetness of strangers as Mieterin
- Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz as Self
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
- Klippen des Todes as Doris
- Die Spur führt ins Verderben as Frau im 'House of Usher'
- Der Showmaster as Frau 1
1992
1991
- DAS! as Self
- Murderous Decisions as Mrs. Blondell
- Gesucht wird Ricki Forster as Old Lou
- Die Mike Krüger Show as Self
1990
- Rosamunde as Oma Kaminski
- Zeil um Zehn as Self
1989
- Killer kennen keine Furcht
- Zwei Münchner in Hamburg as Tante Käthe
- Spreepiraten as Frau Brachvogel
1988
- Justitias kleine Fische as Betty Hansemann
- Trouble im Penthouse as Mrs. Kluge
- Dem Tod auf der Spur
- Alles Nichts Oder?! as Self
- Geschminkte Jugend
1987
- Der Landarzt 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
- Girl in a Boot as Toilettenfrau
- Die Spur der anderen as Barfrau Erna
- Alte Gauner as Lore
- Schwarzer Lohn und weiße Weste as Gemüsefrau
1984
- Goldene Kamera as Self
- Sigi, der Straßenfeger as Mrs. Niendorf
- Berliner Weiße mit Schuß as Imbißbudenfrau
1983
- Die wilden Fünfziger as Frau Willmsen
- Der Tod kommt durch die Tür as Frau Friedrichs
- Leute as Self
- Kein Reihenhaus für Robin Hood as Frau Meyerdierks
1982
- Kamikaze '89 as Personnel Director
- Krimistunde as Tante Louise
- Leben im Winter as Martha
- So oder So ist das Leben
- Drei gegen Hollywood as Helen Hobart
- Ab in den Süden as Gerti
- Zwei Tote im Sender und Don Carlos im PoGl as Frau Mürbes
- Die Murmel as Berta
- Bühnenbild mit Dame as Garderobiere
1981
- A Case For Two as Blumenfrau Moos
- Das Traumschiff as Mrs. Mayer
- Wetten, dass..? as Self
- Lili Marleen as Nachbarin
- Kintopp-Kintopp as Frau Prof. Adele Klinge-Stumm
- Und ab geht die Post
- After Midnight as Denunziantin
1980
- Heut' abend as Self
- Berlin Alexanderplatz as Frau Bast
- Achtung Zoll as Gerda Groth
- Primel macht ihr Haus verrückt as Frau Kulicke
- Leute wie du und ich
- Fabian as Frau Hohfeld
- Pension Schöller as Wanda Staudinger
1979
- Nachbarn und andere nette Menschen
- Locker vom Hocker as Ehefrau
- Die Protokolle des Herrn M as Schlesier-Grete
1978
- The Woman Across the Way as Simons Mutter
- Die beiden Freundinnen as Mutter Link
- MS Franziska
- Wenn die Liebe hinfällt as Ellie Grutsch
- Wann heiraten Sie meine Frau? as Minni - Tante Germinats
- Die Geburtstagsfeier as Meg
1977
- Der Alte as Hanna Lubach
- Drei Damen vom Grill as Margarete Färber
- Adolf and Marlene
- Chinese Roulette as Kast
- Love Living, Live Loving as Hauswartfrau
1976
- Satan’s Brew as Walter's mother
- Anita Drögemöller und die Ruhe an der Ruhr as Oma Wuttke
- Ein Fall für Stein as Frau Schott
- Die Unternehmungen des Herrn Hans
- Everyone Dies Alone as Frau Häberle
1975
- Musik ist Trumpf as Self
- Fox and His Friends as Shopkeeper #2
- Fear of Fear as Mutter
- Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven as Emma Küsters
- The Secret Carrier as Betty Hopfen
- Nonstop Nonsens as Didis Schwiegermutter
- Like a Bird on a Wire as Herself
1974
- Derrick as Frau Hässler
- Die Montagsmaler as Self
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul as Emmi Kurowski
- Käpt'n Senkstakes Abenteuer - Ehrenhäuptling der Watubas
- The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser as Haushälterin Käthe
- Loriots Telecabinet as Gloria Miranda
- 1 Berlin-Harlem
1973
- Je später der Abend as Self
- Tenderness of the Wolves as Louise Engel
- Kleiner Mann, was nun?
- Sechs unter Millionen as Wirtin
1972
- Frau Jenny Treibel as Frau Schmolke
- Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day as Mother of Marion
- Semesterferien as Prof. Kaiser
- Der Fall Opa as Frau Löffler
1971
- Dalli Dalli as Self - Candidate
- Zwanzig Mädchen und die Pauker: Heute steht die Penne kopf as Wirtin
- Dreißig Silberlinge as Mrs. Scholler
- Wir hau’n den Hauswirt in die Pfanne as Hauswirtin Bauer
- Die Computer-Show as Green Widow
1970
- Das Stunden-Hotel von St. Pauli as Rose Schuh
- Drüben bei Lehmanns as Else Lehmann
- Recht oder Unrecht
- Der Vetter aus Dingsda as Tante Wilhelmine
- Prozeß Mariotti
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
- Bei Pfeiffers ist Ball as Molly Zwitscherini
- Wilhelmina as Tante Sophie
- Wie lernt man Reisen?
- Schwarzer Peter - Märchenoper für kleine und große Leute as Erste Amme
1965
- Der Forellenhof as Frau Reinhardt
- Unser Pauker as Anna Eulalia Clothilde Puhlke
- 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
- Berlin-Melodie
- Feuerwerk as Köchin
- Jack and Jenny as Thea
- Die Belagerung der Josephine as Madame Helene
1962
- So toll wie anno dazumal as Frau Sommer
- Jedermannstraße 11 as Frau Lehmann
- Bubusch as Mama
- The Tragedy of Silence as Frau Ohl
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
- Schlag auf Schlag as Frau Hinze
- Die Liebe des Jahres as Lady Schocker, Journalistin
- Du bist wunderbar as Madame Dupont
- Drei Orangen as Sophia
1958
- So ein Millionär hat's schwer as Madame Pillar
- ...und abends in die Scala as Frau Mertens
- Wehe, wenn sie losgelassen as Frau Knax
- 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