Karoline Eichhorn


Karoline Eichhorn is a German stage, film, television, and voice actor.

Life and career

Eichhorn went to a Waldorf school in Stuttgart, graduated in 1986, and then attended the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen until 1989. From 1989 until 1995, she held engagements at Schaubühne and Schauspielhaus Bochum theaters. Starting in 2017, Eichhorn starred as Charlotte Doppler in the ensemble cast of the acclaimed Netflix production Dark.
She became known to movie audiences in 1995 in the films Drei Tage im April and Der Sandmann. In the latter, she plays a journalist who as part of her research, spies on a shady crime writer played by Götz George. Eichhorn mainly works in theater, such as the Thalia Theater in Hamburg and the Burgtheater in Vienna, but she consistently appears in television and film productions.
Eichhorn is married to Danish writer Arne Nielsen and lives with him and their daughter Jule in Hamburg. In 2012, she was a member of the international jury of the 61st International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg.

Selected filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1995Drei Tage im AprilAnna Baisch
1995Der SandmannIna Littmann
1998Gegen Ende der NachtKarin Katte
1998AbgehauenOttilie KrugDocumentary
1999After the TruthRebekka Rohm
2002A Map of the HeartKatrin Engelhardt
2007Du bist nicht alleinSilvia Wellinek
2010In the ShadowsDora Hillmann
2010The SilenceRuth Weghamm
2012Die Kirche bleibt im DorfChristine Häberle
2012Tod einer BrieftaubeChristiane Garde

YearTitleRoleNotes
1988Oh Gott, Herr Pfarrer1 episode
1997Balko1 episode
1998Anwalt Abel - "Todesurteil für eine Dirne"1 episode
1998Die Neue – Eine Frau mit Kaliber1 episode
2000Rosa Roth - "Tod eines Bullen"Jenny Palenta1 episode
2004Der letzte Zeuge1 episode
2004Bella Block - "Die Freiheit der Wölfe"Anette Hansen1 episode
2005–2006Vier gegen ZJulia Lehnhoff27 episodes
2007Doppelter Einsatz1 episode
2008Der Kriminalist1 episode
2009Stolberg1 episode
2009Der kleine MannLydia8 episodes
2009Der Dicke1 episode
2011Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall1 episode
2011Stuttgart Homicide1 episode
2011Ein Fall für zwei1 episode
2012Flemming1 episode
2012SOKO München1 episode
2013Bella Block - "Angeklagt"Jana Larson1 episode
2013–2017Die Kirche bleibt im DorfChristine Häberle
2017–2020DarkCharlotte Doppler

Awards