Karin Hübner (pronounced [ˈkaːʁiːn ˈhyːbnɐ] ; 16 September 1936 – 25 July 2006) was a German stage, film, and television actress. She appeared in more than forty films from 1955 to 1977. Her name is sometimes given as Karin Huebner.
Hübner was born in Gera in Thuringia and grew up in Michendorf, near Berlin (in East Germany after 1945). Her parents were both opera singers. She studied at the Max Reinhardt School of Drama in Berlin. Her first major stage role was as Piroschka at the Hebbel Theater, in 1958; that same year she made her film debut in the title role of Martin Hellberg's production of Lessing's work Emilia Galotti.
Her most famous role was as Eliza Doolittle in the musical play My Fair Lady. She starred in the German-language premiere of the musical, in 1961, at the Theater des Westens (Theatre of the West) in Berlin. Berlin was then in the depths of the Cold War, the Berlin Wall had just been erected, and My Fair Lady was the first production since World War II of a major original Broadway musical in Berlin, so the production was quite important to the cultural life and morale of Berlin, and Hübner was accordingly celebrated. She played the role about 850 times in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Vienna and Zurich. Hübner never regained the heights of her fame and success as Eliza Doolittle, although she remained a sought-after stage and film star and played many other roles.
Hübner was married three times – to film director Peter Beauvais (with whom she had a daughter, Dana Beauvais), actor Günter Pfitzmann, and musician Frank Duval – and was at times personally troubled (she set fire to her apartment in 1982 in a drunken suicide attempt, and was sentenced to six months in prison for arson). She retired from the stage in 1987 and settled in Munich, where she died in 2006.
1972
as Viola
1972
as Gwen Croft
1971
as Mary Jones
1971
as Jeanne de la Motte
1971
as Helga Schulze
1970
as Dr. Hildegard Förster
1970
as Gretchen
1970
as Lady Dorothée India
1969
as Rose Charpentier
1969
as Ms. Muhl
1969
1969
as Yvonne
1968
as Ebba von Rosenberg
1968
as Elsa
1968
as Lady Lilian
1968
as Nastassja
1967
as Gräfin Diane
1966
as Prinzessin Palatine
1966
as Sally Gibbs
1966
as Tatjana
1965
as Jenny
1964
as Self
1963
as Lisa
1962
as Hanna Hofer
1961
as Self
1961
as Nelly Moorbach
1961
as Madame de...
1960
as Perpetua Reedbeck
1960
as Madeleine Dartein, junge Französin
1958
1958
as Emilia Galotti
1958
as Bettina Sandmann