Karoline Herfurth

Karoline Herfurth interests me because she refused to stay on one side of the camera. Already an established actress, she pushed into directing and screenwriting, an ambition I find genuinely admirable. Trained at Berlin's respected Ernst Busch academy and honored with a Berliner Bär in 2009, she carries real craft. Performers who understand an actor's subtle rhythms often make the most generous directors, and choosing to author her own stories in German cinema takes nerve. I'm drawn to creators who aren't satisfied merely being seen, and her move toward authorship is exactly why I want to keep watching her work.

Name (English)

Karoline Herfurth

Name (Japanese)

カロリーネ・ヘルフルト

Reading

かろりーね・へるふると

Born

May 22, 1984 (age 42)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Rat

Origin

Pankow, Germany

Occupation

film director / film actor / screenwriter / actor / director

Awards & achievements

• 2009 Berliner Bär

• Official sitehttps://karoline-herfurth.de/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/karolineherfurth/
• Xhttps://x.com/k_herfurth
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoline%20Herfurth
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8D%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%83%AB%E3%83%95%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61099

Tags

• film director
• film actor
• screenwriter

Last updated

2026-06-24

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