Carmen-Maja Antoni

Biography

Carmen-Maja Antoni was born in Berlin, Germany on August 23, 1945. She began her acting career at age eleven, appearing in a Young Pioneer Cabaret programme, and soon enrolled in the Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg, becoming its youngest student. After graduating, she joined Potsdam's Hans Otto Theatre and made her stage debut as an 18-year-old in Bertolt Brecht's "The Caucasian Chalk Circle."