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Katja Paryla

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Paryla in 1980

Katharina "Katja" Paryla (25 January 1940 – 25 August 2013) was a German actress, stage director and theatre director. She was known especially for her work on stage, including at the Deutsches Theater Berlin.

Life and career[edit]

Paryla was born in Zürich, on 25 January 1940, the daughter of the actor and stage director Emil Paryla and his wife Selly. Her father had adopted the name Emil Stöhr to be not confused with his famous brother Karl Paryla. Her parents had emigrated from Germany under the Nazi regime to Switzerland in 1938. The family moved to Vienna in 1946. When the Neue Theater in der Scala where her father was engaged closed in 1956 due to the Brecht-Boykott and he found no other jobs in Austria, they moved to East Berlin.

Paryla first studied fashion design at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee in Berlin-Weißensee, graduating with an excellent diploma. She then studied acting at the Staatliche Schauspielschule Berlin (later: Hochschule für Schauspielkunst „Ernst Busch“ Berlin, in Berlin-Schöneweide from 1961 to 1963. She made her stage debut, alongside her father, at Deutsches Theater Berlin as Milena Andertschowa in Oldrich Danek's Die Hochzeit des Heiratsschwindlers. Wolfgang Heinz won her in 1963 to the Volksbühne Berlin, and Kurt Veth in 1967 to the Maxim-Gorki-Theater.

From the late 1960s, Paryla also played in film and television. She was particularly successful in films for children, such as the 1978 Spuk unterm Riesenrad and Spuk im Hochhaus in 1981/82.

Paryla belonged to the ensemble of Deutsches Theater from 1978 to 1990, directed by Alexander Lang, who became her partner. She later worke at the Schillertheater in Berlin and at the Nationaltheater Weimar. She directed the drama section of the Theater Chemnitz from 2004, and worked from 2008 at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus.

Paryla was a member of the Akademie der Künste. She was awarded the Kunstpreis der DDR in 1983.[1]

She lived in Wölsickendorf near Bad Freienwalde (Oder). She was married to the actor Kaspar Eichel. She and her partner Alexander Lang had a son, Alexej Paryla [de], born in 1969, who became a graphic designer and stage designer. She finally lived with the actor Iván Gallardo.

Paryla died on 25 August 2013 in Wölsickendorf, Landkreis Märkisch-Oderland.[2]

Theatre[edit]

Roles[edit]

Volksbühne Berlin[edit]

Maxim-Gorki-Theater[edit]

Deutsches Theater Berlin[edit]

Direction[edit]

Films[edit]

Audio plays and features[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Kunstpreise der DDR verliehen. In: Neues Deutschland, 18 May 1973, p. 4.
  2. ^ "Akademie der Künste trauert um Katja Paryla". Akademie der Künste (in German). 30 January 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2024.

Further reading[edit]

  • C. Bernd Sucher (ed.): Theaterlexikon. Autoren, Regisseure, Schauspieler, Dramaturgen, Bühnenbildner, Kritiker. by Christine Dössel and Marietta Piekenbrock with Jean-Claude Kuner and C. Bernd Sucher. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-423-03322-3, pp. 529–530

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