German actress and director
Gabriele Gysi (born 13 July 1946) is a German actress and director.
Life.
Gysi was born in Berlin as the daughter of the politicians Irene and Klaus Gysi and is the older sister of Linkspartei politician and lawyer Gregor Gysi.
On her father's side, she comes from a Berlin family whose progenitor, the silk dyer Samuel Gysin (1681), in the early 18th century from Läufelfingen (Gabriele Gysi also has Jewish ancestors, including a Jewish great-grandfather on her mother's side and a Jewish grandmother on her father's side. She attended the Staatliche Schauspielschule Berlin and before the Wende (1989/90) at the Volksbühne Berlin, but also at other theaters (e.g. the Theater in Anklam). She directed at the Theater Karl-Marx-Stadt, the Volkstheater Rostock and the Compagnie de Comédie Rostock.
From 1973 to 1981, she also took part in several radio plays on GDR radio as a narrator.
In 1984, she left the GDR. From 2007 to 2008 she was chief dramaturge of the Volksbühne Berlin.
Gysi lives in Berlin-Johannisthal.
Theater.
Director
Actress