# Barbara Auer

Barbara Auer (German: ; born (1959-02-01)1 February 1959) is a German actress. She has appeared in multiple television shows and films including My Daughter Belongs to Me (for which she won a German Film Award for "Best Actress"), Impossibly Yours [de], Waiting for Angelina [de], and The Book Thief.

## Awards

* 1989: Goldene Kamera for The Boss from the West
* 1991: Special Prize of the German Academy of Performing Arts for Die Arbeitersaga: Das Lachen der Maca Daracs
* 1993: German Film Awards "Best Actress" for My Daughter Belongs to Me
* 1995: Telestar "Best Actress" in a Move Made For TV" for Der große Abgang
* 2019: Fünf Seen Filmfestival "Hannelore-Elsner-Award" for Best Art of Acting

## Selected filmography

* The Boss from the West (dir. Vivian Naefe, 1988, TV film), as Jessica
* The Play with Billions (dir. Peter Keglevic, 1989, TV film), as Larissa Asselt
* Verfolgte Wege (dir. Uwe Janson, 1989), as Marie
* Mit Leib und Seele (1989–1990, TV series, 19 episodes), as Annemarie Bieler
* Herzlich willkommen (dir. Hark Bohm, 1990), as Elke Kramer
* Café Europa [de] (dir. Franz Xaver Bogner [de], 1990), as Nana Schröder
* A Crazy Couple (dir. Sönke Wortmann, 1990), as Jana
* Heart in the Hand (dir. Uwe Janson, 1991), as Ena
* The Terrible Threesome (dir. Hermine Huntgeburth, 1991), as Maria Grund
* My Daughter Belongs to Me (dir. Vivian Naefe, 1991, TV film), as Ruth
* Die Arbeitersaga [de]: Das Lachen der Maca Daracs (dir. Dieter Berner [de], 1991, TV film), as Maca Daracs
* Night on Fire [de] (dir. Markus Fischer [de], 1992), as Uta Schwengeler
* Madregilda (dir. Francisco Regueiro, 1993), as Madregilda
* Women Are Simply Wonderful [de] (dir. Sherry Hormann, 1994), as Kim
* Der große Abgang (dir. Nico Hofmann [de], 1995, TV film), as Irmgard Bode
* Nikolaikirche (dir. Frank Beyer, 1995, TV film), as Astrid Protter
* Reise nach Weimar (dir. Dominik Graf, 1996, TV film), as Mafalda La Rocca
* Solo for Clarinet [de] (dir. Nico Hofmann [de], 1998), as Lydia Kominka
* Waiting Means Death [de] (dir. Hartmut Schoen [de], 1999, TV film), as Gertrud Venske
* The State I Am In (dir. Christian Petzold, 2000), as Clara
* Donna Leon (2000–2002, TV series, 4 episodes), as Paola Brunetti
* The Other Woman (dir. Margarethe von Trotta, 2004, TV film), as Yvonne Schumacher
* Impossibly Yours [de] (dir. Torsten C. Fischer [de], 2006), as Marlene
* Nachtschicht [de] (since 2006, TV series, 15 episodes), as Lisa Brenner
* The Other Boy (dir. Volker Einrauch [de], 2007), as Sylvie Wagner
* Waiting for Angelina [de] (dir. Hans-Christoph Blumenberg [de], 2008), as Marlene
* At Any Second [de] (dir. Jan Fehse [de], 2008), as Anna Frick
* Effi Briest (dir. Hermine Huntgeburth, 2009), as Johanna
* The Last 30 Years (dir. Michael Gutmann [de], 2010, TV film), as Resa Schade
* The Weekend (dir. Nina Grosse, 2012), as Tina Kessler
* Where Friendship Ends [de] (dir. Stefan Krohmer [de], 2013, TV film), as Heike Rogel
* Take Good Care of Him (dir. Johannes Fabrick [de], 2013, TV film), as Lene
* The Book Thief (dir. Brian Percival, 2013), as Ilsa Hermann
* Death of a Girl [de] (dir. Thomas Berger [de], 2015, TV film), as Hella Christensen
* Grzimek [de] (dir. Roland Suso Richter, 2015, TV film), as Hildegard Grzimek
* Jonathan (dir. Piotr J. Lewandowski, 2016), as Martha