Senta Berger receives honorary Lola

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Actress Senta Berger: Glamor and Political Awareness

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Senta Berger is one of the few German actresses who can look back on a real international film career.

She played alongside stars like Alain Delon, Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner and Marcello Mastroanni.

She was seen in Hollywood productions such as Sam Peckinpah's "Major Dundee" or "The Spy with My Face", but also in central works of New German Cinema, such as Volker Schlöndorff's "The Moral of Ruth Halbfass" or Wim Wenders "The Scarlet Letter" .

The German Film Academy has now announced that Berger will receive the honorary award for outstanding services to German film.

Previous winners include Edgar Reitz (2020), Margarethe von Trotta (2019), Hark Bohm (2018), Regina Ziegler (2016) and Helmut Dietl (2014).

Directed by Dietl, Berger also had a big television hit with the Munich satire "Kir Royale" (1985).

The actress, who celebrated her 80th birthday in May, succeeded in many of her roles in bringing together a radiance for a large audience and critical awareness.

With her husband, the director Michael Verhoeven, she founded Sentana Filmproduktion in 1965 and developed, among other things, the Nazi drama "The White Rose" and the refugee comedy "Willkommen bei den Hartmanns".

Again and again, Berger dealt critically with German history in her work, for example in the television film "In the best years", in which she played a woman whose husband had been murdered by the RAF.

• Read an interview here in which the actress talks about political television and good entertainment.

Senta Berger will receive the honorary Lola on October 1st in the Palais am Funkturm in Berlin.

The gala will be broadcast on ZDF that same evening at 11 p.m.

Berger was one of the founders of the German Film Academy in 2003 and then until 2010, alongside Günter Rohrbach, its first president.

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