Susanne Lothar

Susanne Lothar
Lothar at the Cinema for Peace gala, 27 June 2011
Born	(1960-11-15)15 November 1960 Hamburg, West Germany
Died	21 July 2012(2012-07-21) (aged 51) Berlin, Germany
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1983–2012
Spouse(s)	Ulrich Mühe (1997–2007; his death)
Children	2
Parent(s)	Hanns Lothar and Ingrid Andree
Website	www.susannelothar.de

Susanne Lothar (15 November 1960 – 21 July 2012) was a German film, television and stage actress.

Early life and education[]

Susanne Lothar was born on 15 November 1960 in Hamburg, Germany. She was the daughter of actors Hanns Lothar and Ingrid Andree, who divorced in 1965, the year before her father's death.^[1] She studied drama at the Hochschule für Theater und Musik (School of Theatre and Music) in Hamburg.^[2]

Career[]

Lothar was a member of the company of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus theatre in Hamburg for many years and her performances include roles in Frank Wedekind's Lulu plays (Erdgeist (Earth Spirit) and Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box)), produced by Peter Zadek.^[2] For her first film Strange Fruits (Eisenhans) in 1983, she received the German Federal Film Prize.^[3] With Ulrich Mühe, she appeared as the victimised married couple in the original version of Michael Haneke's Funny Games released in 1997. Lothar worked again with Haneke as Mrs Schober in The Piano Teacher (2001) and in The White Ribbon (2009).^[4] Lothar's three films with Haneke were shown at the Cannes Film Festival.^[5]

Personal life[]

Lothar married actor Ulrich Mühe in 1997; the couple had two children. Mühe died of stomach cancer in 2007.^[1]

Death[]

Susanne Lothar's death was announced in a written statement by lawyer Christian Schertz, representing her family, on 25 July 2012. Though the cause of death was never publicly disclosed,^[6] Michael Haneke confirms that she committed suicide in a special feature on the Criterion Collection release of Funny Games. Lothar died just a day before the fifth anniversary of her husband's death.

Filmography[]

• Strange Fruit (1983)
• The Mountain (1991)
• The Democratic Terrorist (1992)
• Benito (The Rise and Fall of Benito Mussolini) (1993)
• Funny Games (1997)
• The Castle (1997)
• The Piano Teacher (2001)
• Snowland (2005)
• Under the Ice (2006)
• Madonnas (2007)
• The Reader (2008)
•  [de] (2008)
• The White Ribbon (2009)
• Nemesis (2010)
• Murder on the Orient Express (2010; TV)
• The Coming Days (2010)
• If Not Us, Who? (2011)
• Remembrance (2011)
• Dust on Our Hearts (2012)
• Anna Karenina (2012)

References[]

External links[]

• Susanne Lothar at IMDb
• "Das erste Mal – Frau Lothar, wann sind Sie Sie selbst?", NZZFolio
• Peitz, Christiane; Mayer, Verena (20 April 2008). "Vielleicht wollte Ulrich noch einmal 'Halt' sagen". Der Tagesspiegel (in German).
• Traueranzeige (deutsch)