Karin Hardt

Karin Hardt Meta Therese (28 April 1910 in Altona, Hamburg – 5 March 1992 in Berlin) was a German actress.
Life
A merchant's daughter, Hardt first took private acting lessons with Alex Otto and received theatrical engagements in Mönchengladbach, Rheydt, and Altenburg. In 1931 she made with Vater geht auf Reisen her film debut and was promoted in the coming years, quickly becoming a popular star. Among her best known films of the 1930s include Ein gewisser Herr Gran (1933), Barcarole (1935), The Roundabouts of Handsome Karl (1938) and Menschen vom Varieté (1939), where she was the naive blonde rival of La Jana. During the war years, the film roles became less frequent. She acted, among other things in Comrades (1941) and Via Mala (1945).
After the war only a few more film appearances followed such as the Queen in Fritz Genschow's fairytale Sleeping Beauty (1955), in addition to Horst Buchholz in Endstation Liebe (1957) and alongside Kirk Douglas in Town Without Pity (1961). Instead, she played mostly on the stage again, in cities including Berlin, Hamburg, Aachen and Cologne. From the 1960s, she increasingly received proposals from television. After appearances on TV shows like Bei uns zu Haus (1963), Der Forellenhof (1965), Die Unternehmungen des Herrn Hans (1976) and as a grandmother in Ein Jahr ohne Sonntag, and movies like Just a Gigolo (1979, directed by David Hemmings), she played from 1985 to 1986 the housekeeper Kati in the successful TV-series The Black Forest Clinic and in 1988 the mother of Robert Liebling in the ARD series Liebling Kreuzberg. In 1991 she stood for Mrs. Harris und der Heiratsschwindler on the side of Inge Meysel one last time before the camera. She also starred in the television series Die Wicherts von nebenan as the Countess of Strelenau.
In 1933, Hardt was married to director Erich Waschneck. Her second, later divorced, marriage was to Rolf von Goth. In 1983 she received an award for outstanding work in many years of German film. Her tomb is located in the cemetery in Wilmersdorf, anonymous burial.
Partial filmography
Vater geht auf Reisen (1932) - Eva Müller
Eight Girls in a Boat (1932) - Christa
Sacred Waters (1932) - Sabine Waldisch
Die blonde Christl (1933) - Christine Schröder
Hände aus dem Dunkel (1933) - Cilly Kastor, Stenotypistin
A Certain Mr. Gran (1933) - Viola Dolleen
Abel mit der Mundharmonika (1933) - Corinna
Schön ist es, verliebt zu sein (1934) - Else, Blumenverkäuferin
Jede Frau hat ein Geheimnis (1934) - Annemie Kolpe
Between Heaven and Earth (1934) - Christine
Love and the First Railway (1934) - Brigitte, beider Tochter
Hermine and the Seven Upright Men (1935) - Hermine, seine Tochter
Die törichte Jungfrau (1935) - Irmgard, ihre Tochter
Barcarola (1935)
If It Were Not for Music (1935) - Thekla, seine Tochter
Love's Awakening (1936) - Hanni - seine Tochter
Arzt aus Leidenschaft (1936) - Elisabeth
Der Abenteurer von Paris (1936) - Mabel
Port Arthur (1936) - Youki, Boris's wife
Liebe geht seltsame Wege (1937) - Delia Vigo - ihre Nichte
Daphne and the Diplomat (1937) - Daphne
The Roundabouts of Handsome Karl (1938) - Grete Wernicke - Tochter
The Man Who Couldn't Say No (1938) - Gasperina
Heiraten - aber wen? (1938) - Ursula Werndorff
The Woman at the Crossroads (1938) - Elinor Weigand
Stärker als die Liebe (1938)
Peter spielt mit dem Feuer (1938) - Charlotte, seine Frau
Menschen vom Varieté (1939) - Gloria Mc'Lean
Fasching (1939) - Lisa Petersen
Dein Leben gehört mir (1939)
Sommer, Sonne, Erika (1939) - Erika
Männerwirtschaft (1941) - Ilske Röhling
Familienanschluß (1941) - Käthe Barkhahn
Kameraden (1941) - Christine von Krusemarck
Sein Sohn (1942) - Brigitte, Frau Hellmers Nichte
Liebe, Leidenschaft und Leid (1943) - Therese
Schicksal am Strom (1944) - Marianne, seine Tochter
The Wedding Hotel (1944) - Brigitte Elling, Verkäuferin
A Man Like Maximilian (1945) - Monika, dessen Frau
Via Mala (1945) - Silvelie
Thank You, I'm Fine (1948) - Martina Holk
Madonna in Chains (1949) - Gerda Wienholt
Der Dorfmonarch (1950) - Christine
Vier Treppen rechts (1950) - Marianne Müller
Island of the Dead (1955) - Erna Kahlmayer
Lost Child 312 (1955) - Aufseherin im Kinderheim
Sleeping Beauty (1955) - Königin
Endstation Liebe (1958) - Frau Lehnhoff
Town Without Pity (1961) - Frau Steinhof
(1968, TV Movie) - Hilde Brocksieben
Just a Gigolo (1978) - Frau Uexkull
The Black Forest Clinic (1985–1987, TV Series) - Käti
Liebling Kreuzberg (1988, TV Series) - Mama Elfriede Liebling
References
External links
Karin Hardt at Virtual History
1910 births
1992 deaths
People from Altona, Hamburg
German film actresses
Actresses from Hamburg
German television actresses
20th-century German actresses