Isabel Karajan

Biography

Isabel Karajan (born 25 June 1960 in Vienna) is an Austrian actress. She is a daughter of Herbert von Karajan and Eliette von Karajan. After completing her Matura, Isabel Karajan studied acting in Vienna and Paris. She had her first acting engagements with the playhouses in Zurich and Stuttgart, the Thalia theatre Hamburg, the theatre Der Kreis in Vienna and the Théâtre National de la Colline. From 1995 to 1998 Isabel Karajan played the part of the Good Works in Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival. She also performed in Avignon and Adelaide, Australia, as well as at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Schauspielhaus Stuttgart, the Münchner Kammerspiele and at the Schaubühne in Berlin. In 2000, she appeared in Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher by Arthur Honegger at the Saito-Kinen Festival in Japan. It's the extraordinary projects that are close to Isabel Karajan's heart. She has been developing her own projects for solo theatrical performances, chamber music or large orchestra with directors such as Klaus Ortner, Jorge Lavelli, Julian Pölsler, Christina Pfrötschner and others for several years. At the Shostakovich Days in Gohrisch, the Salzburg Easter Festival, the Diaghilev Festival of Cur…

Movies & TV Shows

1. Scene of the Crime (1970) — Dani Karger
2. Of Women and Horses (2012) — Alice
3. Suburbia - Women on the Edge (2015) — Antonia
4. Schnell ermittelt (2009) — Viktoria Throst
5. I Stayed in Berlin All Summer (1994) — Maria
6. Vienna Crime Squad (2005) — Patrizia Manninger
7. Murder in the Mountains (2001) — Frau Terhagen
8. Le Grand Échiquier (1972) — Self
9. Nachtcafé (1987) — Self
10. Blind ermittelt: Tod im Prater (2022) — Bertha Nemecek
11. Ich gehöre dir (2002) — LIna Manz
12. Achterloo IV (1989)
13. Die Toten von Salzburg (2016) — Angelika Holzer