---
name: "Marita Breuer"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/marita-breuer"
fi1m_id: "marita-breuer"
imdb_id: "nm0108032"
tmdb_id: 28453
wikidata_id: "Q97331"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "20 January 1953"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T11:09:15.354606+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."
---

# Marita Breuer

## Identity

Marita Breuer

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/marita-breuer
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** marita-breuer
- **IMDb ID:** nm0108032
- **TMDB ID:** 28453
- **Wikidata ID:** Q97331
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marita_Breuer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97331, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0108032/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/28453

Actor. Born 20 January 1953 in Düren, Germany.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 20 January 1953, Düren, Germany
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marita_Breuer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97331, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0108032/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/28453

## Biography

Marita Breuer is a German actress. Born on 20 January 1953 in Düren, she trained in acting at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen after earlier studies in rhythmics at the Cologne Music Academy. Her first professional engagement was at the Stadttheater Gießen; she later worked in experimental theatre groups and joined the ensemble at the Aachen Theatre from 2000 to 2005.

Breuer is best known for portraying Maria Simon across all eleven episodes of Edgar Reitz’s *Heimat* (1984). She reprised an ancestor of the character as Margarethe Simon in the prequel *Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision* (2013). Other screen credits include *The Princess and the Warrior* (2000), *Berlin '36* (2009) and multiple episodes of *Tatort* and *Scene of the Crime*.

For her performance in *Heimat* she received the Bavarian Film Award for Best Actress in 1984 and the Deutscher Darstellerpreis in 1985. She continues to work in theatre, film and television.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Heimat* (1984), Fi1m 91, as Maria Simon — [page](https://film.one/tv/heimat.md)

## Complete filmography (56)

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

- *Axiom* (2022), as Angela
- *Ein Wahnsinnstag* (2022), as Adelheid Decker
- *Tonis Welt* (2021), series, as Frau Ellinger
- *Stars Above Us* (2019), as Anita
- *Perfume* (2018), series, as Mutter Suchanow
- *Young Doctors* (2015), series, as Doris Weber
- *Besondere Schwere der Schuld* (2014), as Selma Braun
- *Friesland* (2014), series, as Mara Mensen
- *Helen Dorn* (2014), series, as Frau Zenker
- *Herzensbrecher – Vater von vier Söhnen* (2013), series, as Claudia Voigt
- *Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision* (2013), as Margarethe Simon
- *Als meine Frau mein Chef wurde* (2013), as Frau Schöps
- *Heldt* (2013), series, as Cordula Walden
- *Mensch Mama!* (2012), as Marie
- *Die Chefin* (2012), series, as Annie Schabinsky
- *Heiter bis tödlich - Nordisch Herb* (2011), series, as Edelgard Neubauer
- *Lisas Fluch* (2011), as Agnes Schneider
- *Flemming* (2009), series, as Marianne Krebber
- *Über den Tod hinaus* (2009), as Theresa Kremers
- *Berlin '36* (2009), as Eleonore Ketteler
- *Baltic Crime Watch* (2009), series, as Monika Beckmann
- *Die dunkle Seite* (2008), as Frau Marmann
- *Zeit zu leben* (2008), as Doctor
- *Die Anruferin* (2008), as Zuralski
- *Teufelsbraten* (2008), series, Actor
- *Der geheimnisvolle Schwiegersohn* (2007), as Frau Benning
- *Return of the Storks* (2007), Actor
- *Heimat Fragments: The Women* (2006), Actor
- *Die Österreichische Methode* (2006), as Geschäftsfrau mit Bier
- *SOKO Wismar* (2004), series, as Doris Eckner
- *Inga Lindström* (2004), series, as Pia
- *SOKO Köln* (2003), series, as Margarete Schmidt, Gerda Stein
- *Die Sitte* (2003), series, as Elisabeth Mertens
- *Die Rosenheim-Cops* (2002), series, as Barbara Klauser
- *Das schwangere Mädchen* (2001), as Dr. Conrad
- *Leipzig Homicide* (2001), series, as Renate Förster
- *The Princess and the Warrior* (2000), as Sissis Mutter
- *Verschwinde von hier* (1999), as Wilma Weber
- *Florian - Liebe aus ganzem Herzen* (1999), as Dr. Elisabeth Hilpert
- *A Girl Called Rosemarie* (1996), Actor
- *Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police* (1996), series, as Dr. Keil, Gerichtsmedizinerin Dr. Keil
- *Weihnachten mit Willy Wuff* (1994), as Marietheres
- *Die Wache* (1994), series, as Fr. Lehberg, Frau Weber
- *Geboren 1999* (1992), as Anna Meiberg
- *Fremde, liebe Fremde* (1991), as Els
- *Marleneken* (1990), series, as Irene
- *Die Hexe von Köln* (1989), as Katharina
- *Das Nest* (1989), series, as Katharina
- *Das Winterhaus* (1988), Actor
- *Miscellaneous News* (1986), as Unruhige
- *Der Fahnder* (1984), series, as Frau Lindemann
- *Heimat* (1984), series, as Maria Simon — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/tv/heimat.md)
- *A Case For Two* (1981), series, as Karla Dannek, Vera Kosfeld
- *Uns reicht das nicht* (1979), as Gerda
- *The Old Fox* (1977), series, as Ulrike Dornfeld
- *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, as Mimi Engelbrecht, Rebecca Howald, Vera Zimmer, Anna Hentschel, Erika Stein, Frau Hecht, Gisela Hofer

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