RIP Katharina Matz

 Died at the age of 90

Mourning the actress Katharina Matz

Tagesschau

3/4/2021

Katharina Matz was known to viewers not only from the theater, but also from films and television productions. Now the actress has died at the age of 90 after a short illness.

The actress Katharina Matz is dead. She died on Wednesday in Berlin after a short illness at the age of 90, as confirmed by the Deutsches Theater, citing Matz's environment. "The Deutsches Theater Berlin mourns the loss of a colleague, companion and friend," it said.

Matz was born in 1930 in Haindorf in Bohemia - now Hejnice in the Czech Republic. After training to be an actor in Magdeburg, she was initially engaged in Greifswald. From 1954 on she was part of the ensemble of the Deutsches Theater for four years.

Samples shortly before the outbreak of the pandemic

At the end of the 1950s, theater director Ida Ehre was able to sign the actress in Hamburg, where she first worked at the Kammerspiele and then moved to the Thalia Theater. There Matz worked with directors such as Jürgen Flimm, Leander Haußmann, Stephan Kimmig and Andreas Kriegenburg, who cast her in the title role in "Urfaust".

She has been a regular guest at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin since 2012; most recently, shortly before the outbreak of the 2020 pandemic, Metz was rehearsing for the world premiere of "The Heart of the Octopus" by Nis-Momme Stockmann.

Also films and TV productions

In an obituary, artistic director Ulrich Khuon wrote of an almost intimate relationship with many colleagues and directors. "Katja Matz had the ability to follow paths, not to know what to do, to simply remain curious, also about people."

In addition to the stage, the actress has also appeared in films and TV productions. In the 1950s she took part in Defa films such as "Carola Lamberti - Eine vom Zirkus" or "Hotelboy Ed Martin". In the West she later stood in front of the camera with Hildegard Knef and Hansjörg Felmy, among others. Matz was last seen by television audiences in the SWR series "The Last Will".

MATZ, Katharina

Born: 6/11/1930, Haindorf, Czechoslovakia

Died: 3/3/2021, Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Katharina Matz’s western – actress:

Maximilian von Mexiko (TV) – 1970 (Kaiserin Eugenie)