Susanne Lothar

Susanne Lothar (15 November 1960 – 21 July 2012) was a German film, television and stage actress.

Early life and education
Susanne Lothar was born on 15 November 1960 in Hamburg, Germany. She was the daughter of actors Hanns Lothar and Ingrid Andree, who divorced in 1965, the year before her father's death. She studied drama at the Hochschule für Theater und Musik (School of Theatre and Music) in Hamburg.

Career
Lothar was a member of the company of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus theatre in Hamburg for many years and her performances include roles in Frank Wedekind's Lulu plays (Erdgeist (Earth Spirit) and Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box)), produced by Peter Zadek. For her first film Eisenhans (Strange Fruits, 1983), she received the prize for best young actress at the German Film Awards. With her real-life husband Ulrich Mühe, she appeared as the victimised married couple in the original version of Michael Haneke's Funny Games released in 1997. Lothar worked again with Haneke in The Castle (which also featured Mühe, 1997), as Mrs Schober in The Piano Teacher (2001), and The White Ribbon (2009).

Personal life and death
Lothar married actor Ulrich Mühe in 1997; the couple had two children. Mühe died from cancer in 2007.

Lothar's death was announced in a written statement by lawyer Christian Schertz, representing her family, on 25 July 2012. The cause of death was not publicly disclosed. Lothar died just a day before the fifth anniversary of her husband's death.

Filmography

 * Strange Fruits (film) (1983)
 * Das Geheimnis des gelben Geparden (1990, TV film)
 * The Mountain (1991)
 * The Democratic Terrorist (1992)
 * Benito (The Rise and Fall of Benito Mussolini, 1993, TV miniseries)
 * Geschäfte (1994, TV film)
 * Little Angel (1996 film) (1996, TV film)
 * Funny Games (1997)
 * The Castle (1997, TV film)
 * Vom Küssen und vom Fliegen (2000, TV film)
 * The Piano Teacher (2001)
 * Snowland (2005)
 * Under the Ice (film) (2005)
 * Madonnas (film) (2007)
 * The Reader (2008)
 * Krauts, Doubts & Rock 'n' Roll (2008)
 * The White Ribbon (2009)
 * Nemesis (2010)
 * Murder on the Orient Express (2010, TV film)
 * The Coming Days (2010)
 * If Not Us, Who? (2011)
 * Remembrance (2011)
 * Dust on Our Hearts (2012)
 * Anna Karenina (2012)