Maria Körber

Maria Körber, daughter of stage director Veit Harlan and actress Hilde Körber, was born and raised in Berlin. She attended drama school at the Berliner Hebbel-Theater with Ernst Schröder and took private lessons from Marlise Ludwig. Maria made her stage debut in Sartre's 'Die Fliegen' in l948. She was offered a first steady working engagement at the Staatstheater Oldenburg. Further stops of her stage career were: Theater im Zimmer Hamburg, Stadttheater Bielefeld, Tribüne Berlin, Theater am Kurfürstendamm Berlin, Nationaltheater Mannheim and Hessische Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Bühnen der Freien Hansestadt Bremen, Renaissance-Theater Berlin and Thalia-Theater Hamburg. From 1960 to 1974 she performed as a freelancing artist on stages like the Theater in der Leopoldstraße München, the Landesbühne Hannover, the Fritz-Rémond-Theater im Zoo Frankfurt/Main, the Wuppertaler Bühnen, the Festspielen Bad Gandersheim, Andernach, Feuchtwangen, Schwäbisch Hall and Herrenhausen. Beginning 1974 she wa