In the movie "At Night Bathing", Maria Furtwängler plays the rock musician Pola, a whimsical woman who is not embarrassed about defining the role herself. This provides plenty of fuel with film daughter Jenny, which comes in contrast to the funky mother rather stuffy.
In conversation with the "editorial network Germany" Furtwängler has now emphasized that she is skeptical of eternally young parents in real life. "It's terrible when the parents are cooler than the kids," she said. "If the hooded and skateboarding fathers go through the city, what should the children do?"
Regarding the mother-daughter drama, she said it was "an incredible task to let go of his children - also in terms of their own idea of how they should be." She experiences this with her own children and considers it "an absolutely persistently demanding process".
The opportunities that the Internet offers today, the actress ziegespalten: "We can now track our children thanks to apps even on the way to school," she said. "We can always see where they are right now, and at the same time we say: do not use so much your cell phone - we are constantly on the phone ourselves, we send very split messages."
In early summer Furtwängler recorded a song with Udo Lindenberg for "MTV unplugged". From this experience has benefited in her role as a musician: "I could let my duo experience with Udo flow into the film."
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Maria Furtwängler's wax figure: Preserved appearanceOn the occasion of the unveiling of her wax figure in Berlin, Furtwängler had recently described aging as a "ruthless process" that could only be met with humor and compassion.
Furtwängler plays since 2002 the commissioner Charlotte Lindholm in the NDR Lower Saxony "crime scene". Before she came to acting, she was a doctor. In 1991 she married publisher Hubert Burda, with whom she has two children.