---
name: "Katharina Herberg"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/katharina-herberg"
fi1m_id: "katharina-herberg"
imdb_id: "nm0316261"
tmdb_id: 2735
wikidata_id: "Q95211503"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "27 May 1935"
died: "5 September 2019"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T17:54:32.361759+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Katharina Herberg

## Identity

Katharina Herberg

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/katharina-herberg
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** katharina-herberg
- **IMDb ID:** nm0316261
- **TMDB ID:** 2735
- **Wikidata ID:** Q95211503
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95211503, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0316261/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2735

Actor. Born 27 May 1935 in Oberstdorf, Germany. Died 5 September 2019.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 27 May 1935, Oberstdorf, Germany
- **Died:** 5 September 2019
- **Also known as:** Katharina Gianni
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95211503, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0316261/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2735

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Ali: Fear Eats the Soul*](https://film.one/film/ali-fear-eats-the-soul.md) (88)

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## Biography

Katharina Herberg was a German actress and radio play speaker. Born on 27 May 1935 in Oberstdorf, she trained at the Max-Reinhardt-Schule für Schauspiel in West Berlin and made her stage debut in 1957 as Anne Frank with the Gastspielbühne Berlin, later performing at the Landestheater Hannover.

She began appearing in films in 1960 and took supporting roles in several productions of the 1970s, including erotic films. Herberg is credited as Bardame (Girl in the bar) in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s *Ali: Fear Eats the Soul* (1974). She also worked as a co-editor on *Ritter Orgas muß mal wieder* (1970) and appeared under the name Katharina Gianni in *The Long Swift Sword of Siegfried* (1971). She died on 5 September 2019 in Munich.

*Sources: imdb.com, de.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Ali: Fear Eats the Soul* (1974), Fi1m 88, as Bardame — [page](https://film.one/film/ali-fear-eats-the-soul.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Es muss nicht immer Kaviar sein* (1977), series, as Catherine
- *Wachtmeister Rahn* (1974), Actor
- *Jodeln is ka Sünd* (1974), as Rosl
- *Ali: Fear Eats the Soul* (1974), as Bardame — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/ali-fear-eats-the-soul.md)
- *Housewives on the Job* (1973), as Marika
- *Sex Life in a Convent* (1972), as Eva-Maria's Mother
- *Soft Shoulders, Sharp Curves* (1972), Actor
- *The Long Swift Sword of Siegfried* (1971), as Kriemhild's Maiden in blue
- *Ritter Orgas muß mal wieder* (1970), Actor
- *The Black Sheep* (1960), Actor

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