Brigitte Mira

Biography

Brigitte Mira (20 April 1910 – 8 March 2005) was a German actress. She worked in both theater and film, often with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Brigitte Mira's mother was German and her father was Jewish Russian. During the Nazi dictatorship, Mira took part in the propaganda series Liese und Miese. She played Miese (germ. bad one)--the bad role model according to Nazi ideology that listened to enemy radio stations and stockpiled rationed food. But her acting skills turned the "bad" character she portrayed into a likeable one. The series was soon cancelled for being counter productive. The propaganda directors did not know that Mira was half-Jewish. Even though she insisted on her naivete as a young woman and the fact she had to hide her identity, she was criticized later by some for taking part in these ads at all. Even if Mira was born in Hamburg she early on moved to Berlin and through her TV work came to embody the typical Berlin sense of humor. Notable performances include Emmi Kurowski in Fear Eats the Soul (1974), a role for which she won a German Film Award. In the 1980s Mira achieved another big success with the television series Drei Damen vom Grill. Description above fro…

Movies & TV Shows

1. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) — Emmi Kurowski
2. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) — Haushälterin Käthe
3. Fox and His Friends (1975) — Shopkeeper #2
4. Chinese Roulette (1977) — Kast
5. Lili Marleen (1981) — Nachbarin
6. Derrick (1974) — Frau Hässler
7. Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) — Frau Bast
8. Tenderness of the Wolves (1973) — Louise Engel
9. Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975) — Emma Küsters
10. Satan’s Brew (1976) — Walter's mother
11. Fear of Fear (1975) — Mutter
12. Kamikaze '89 (1982) — Personnel Director
13. The Old Fox (1977) — Hanna Lubach
14. Wetten, dass..? (1981) — Self
15. Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day (1972) — Frau Andreas
16. A Case For Two (1981) — Blumenfrau Moos
17. Die Harald Schmidt Show (1995) — Self
18. Das Traumschiff (1981) — Mrs. Mayer
19. Der Clown (1998) — Hildegard
20. Großstadtrevier (1986) — Madame Chantal
21. So ein Millionär hat's schwer (1958) — Madame Pillar
22. Everyone Dies Alone (1976) — Frau Häberle
23. The Berliner (1948) — Dirne
24. Fassbinder's Women (2000) — Self
25. Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz (1997) — Self
26. Fabian (1980) — Frau Hohfeld
27. Like a Bird on a Wire (1975) — Herself
28. Volle Kanne (1999) — Self
29. Willi und die Windzors (1996) — Queen Mum
30. Drei Damen vom Grill (1977) — Margarete Färber
31. Nonstop Nonsens (1975) — Didis Schwiegermutter
32. The Country Doctor (1987) — Lilli Merz
33. DAS! (1991) — Self
34. Das Stunden-Hotel von St. Pauli (1970) — Rose Schuh
35. Wehe, wenn sie losgelassen (1958) — Frau Knax
36. Der Partyphotograph (1968) — Mrs. Bütow
37. After Midnight (1981) — Denunziantin
38. Anita Drögemöller und die Ruhe an der Ruhr (1976) — Oma Wuttke
39. Du bist wunderbar (1959) — Madame Dupont
40. Angst isst Seele auf (2002) — Emmi