Pola Kinski
Pola Kinski | |
|---|---|
| Born | Pola Nakszynski 23 March 1952 |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Spouse | Wolfgang Hoepner |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) | Klaus Kinski Gislinde Kühlbeck |
| Relatives | Nastassja Kinski (half-sister) Nikolai Kinski (half-brother) Kenya Kinski-Jones (niece) |
Pola Kinski (born Pola Nakszynski; 23 March 1952) is a German actress. She is the firstborn daughter of the German actor Klaus Kinski.
Early life
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Under the name Pola Nakszynski, Pola Kinski was born in West Berlin as the only daughter of German actor Klaus Kinski and his first wife, the singer Gislinde Kühlbeck. After her father changed his surname to Kinski, it was changed for his children as well.[citation needed]
Her parents divorced in 1955 when she was three years old. Kinski was brought up by her mother and grandfather in Munich and saw her father only on an irregular basis. As soon as he became a famous actor, he would order his daughter to visit him in Berlin and later in Rome, as well as on film sets. He alternated between fits of rage and showering her with money and extravagant presents.[1]
Her mother remarried and had a second child with her husband Herbert Kuhlbeck. Her father remarried twice and had a child with each of his wives. Kinski is the half-sister of the German actress Nastassja Kinski (born 1961) and the French-American actor Nikolai Kinski (born 1976). The half-siblings spent little time together while growing up.[2]
Autobiography
[edit]In 2013, 20 years after her father's death, Kinski released an autobiography, The Mouth of a Child, 2013 (German: Kindermund). The book's title refers to the original title of her father's memoirs All I Need Is Love (German: Ich bin so wild nach deinem Erdbeermund, literally I am so wild about your strawberry mouth), first published in 1975.
In The Mouth of a Child, she describes being sexually assaulted by her father throughout her childhood, from ages 5 to 19, while her mother claimed not to have noticed.[1][3] A Sunday Times book review describes Pola's portrayal of him as being "furiously intense, disturbingly charismatic, emotionally extravagant — [he] overwhelmed her with attention. He gave her expensive gifts, dressed her in the most beautiful clothes, flattered her with passionate compliments. Little Pola was always "My princess", "My baby doll", "My darling child", whom Kinski insisted he couldn't live a minute without. If they were apart, he might call her a dozen times a day."[4]
Commenting on the autobiography, her younger sister Nastassja said "My sister is a heroine because she has freed her heart, her soul and also her future from the weight of the secret."[5]
Career
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In the early 1970s, Kinski studied acting at the Otto-Falckenberg-Schule in Munich.[citation needed]
In addition to gaining early film roles, she acted at the Schauspielhaus Bochum and the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. In the 1970s she worked with Peter Zadek and the director Ivan Nagel.
From 1977 onwards, Kinski worked as a freelance actor in German-language productions. She lived in Berlin and Paris. She has also appeared in several television films, including some produced in the early 2000s.
Marriage and family
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She married Wolfgang Hoepner, a lawyer, and they live in Ludwigshafen. They have three children.[citation needed] Kinski is the aunt of American fashion model Kenya Kinski-Jones.
Filmography
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- 1977: Das Ende der Beherrschung (TV)
- 1977: Fehlschuß (TV)
- 1978: Yesterday's Tomorrow (Feature film)
- 1980: Ohne Rückfahrkarte (Film)
- 1980: Sunday Children (Film)
- 1981: Don Quixote's Children (TV)
- 1983: Das Dorf (TV)
- 1985: Ein Fall für zwei: Fluchtgeld (TV)
- 1986: Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg (TV)
- 1987: Komplizinnen (TV)
- 2001: Bella Block: Bitterer Verdacht (TV)
- 2004: Tatort: Hundeleben (TV)
- 2007: Wir werden uns wiederseh'n (Film)
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Pola Kinski, Kindermund". Suhrkamp Verlag AG. 2013. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
- ^ Connolly, Kate (10 January 2013). "Klaus Kinski repeatedly raped me during my childhood, claims daughter". The Guardian.
- ^ Jackson, Patrick (10 January 2013). "German actor Klaus Kinski 'abused his daughter Pola'". BBC News.
- ^ "'He was once my hero. Now I see him for the little person he was'". The Sunday Times. 26 May 2013.
- ^ "Nastassja Kinski praises sister for reporting sex abuse". BBC News. 11 January 2013.
External links
[edit]- Pola Kinski at IMDb
