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Growing up as the daughter of teacher Wolfgang Meffert and his wife Marianne née Kleber, she attended school in Großenhain from 1961 to 1973. She completed her Abitur at an extended high school. After training as a nurse, she began studying textile engineering at TU Dresden in 1976. From 1978 to 1981, she studied at the Ernst Busch Drama School in Berlin before moving to Chemnitz, then known as Karl Marx City. There, she made her acting debut in Goethe's play "Faust II." In 1982, under Heiner Müller, she performed in Shakespeare's "Macbeth" at the Berlin Volksbühne. She continued acting in Berlin, including roles in "The Threepenny Opera" and "Now Only Brecht." Corinna Harfouch became a renowned film actress in the GDR and gained fame on German television and film after the fall of communism. During the GDR era, she appeared in films such as "The House by the River," "Fallada - Last Chapter" (1987), "The Little Public Prosecutor" (1987), "The Actress" (1988), "The Big Mouth," and "Meeting in Travers" (1989).
Following reunification, she captivated TV audiences in the series "Our Teacher Dr. Specht," the TV film "5 Hours of Fear - Taking Hostages in Kindergarten," and crime dramas like "Tatort" and "Kommissar Beck." Corinna Harfouch took on additional film roles, impressing in her first leading role in Joseph Vilsmaier's "Charlie & Louise" (1993) and later in "The Promise." She appeared in numerous successful productions, acting alongside Helmut Berger and Jürgen Vogel in "Come Back, Sexy Sadie" (1995), in "Damn, He Loves Me," with Katharina and Anna Thalbach in "Dangerous Girlfriend" (1996), and with Til Schweiger and Jan Josef Liefers in "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" (1997). Other notable films include "To Err Is Male" (1996), "Solo for Clarinet" (1998), "The Great Bagarozy" (1999), "Fandango - Members Only" (2000), and "Now or Never - Time Is Money" (2000). She also garnered attention in 1996 for her role in "Eva, Hitler's Lover."
On stage, she performed at the Berliner Volkstheater in "The Woman from the Sea" and "Des Teufels General." Corinna Harfouch starred alongside Katja Riemann in the children's film "Bibi Blocksberg," released in German cinemas in 2002, followed by the sequel "Bibi Blocksberg and the Secret of the Blue Owls" in 2004. She has received multiple awards, including the Critics' Prize for Best Actress twice—1989 for "The Actress" and 1990 for "Meeting in Travers." In 1995, she won the Bavarian Film Prize for "Irren ist Mann," and in 1997, she received both the Golden Lion and Bavarian Film Prize for "The Outbreak" and "Dangerous Girlfriend." One of her most notable roles was portraying Magda Goebbels in Oliver Hirschbiegel's drama "Downfall," which depicts the final days in Hitler's Führerbunker, with Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler.
In November 2005, the film "Through This Night I Don't See a Single Star" was released, featuring Corinna Harfouch as Bozena Nemcová (1820–1862), the most famous Czech writer known for her unconventional life. Harfouch was named Best German Actress at the 2007 Golden Camera awards.
Corinna Harfouch has a son from her marriage to Michael Gwisdeck.
