Career

Caven has appeared in over 50 films. Her film debut was in 1969 in the short film Fernes Jamaica; this was swiftly followed by her first feature film Love Is Colder Than Death directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, to whom she was briefly married (1970-72).

Her career was at its peak in the 1970s and early 1980s, mostly in film. In 1979 she was a member of the jury at the 29th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1981 Caven starred alongside Carole Bouquet in the film Day of the Idiots as a doctor, and the next year she won an award for Outstanding Individual Achievement: Actress at the German Film Awards for her performance as Inga in the film Looping - Der lange Traum vom kurzen Glück.

Currently Caven is living with French writer Jean-Jacques Schuhl, whose book Ingrid Caven won the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2000. Her younger sister Trudeliese Schmidt (1943-2004) was an opera singer and also an actress.

Selected filmography

• Liebe ist kälter als der Tod (1969) Caven's film debut
• Warum läuft Herr R. Amok? (1970) - Nachbarin
• Der amerikanische Soldat (1970) - Sängerin
• Händler der vier Jahreszeiten (1971)
• Ludwig - Requiem für einen jungfräulichen König (1972) - Lola Montez
• Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe (1973) - Dora
• La Paloma (1974)
• Faustrecht der Freiheit (1975) - Sängerin
• Mutter Küsters Fahrt zum Himmel (1975) - Corinna
• Schatten der Engel (1976)
• Goldflocken (1976)
• Violanta (1977)
• In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden (1978) - Die rote Zora
• Malou (1981) - Malou
• Looping (1981) - Inga (Filmband in Gold für darstellerische Leistung beim Deutschen Filmpreis 1981)
• Tag der Idioten (1981)
• Hors Saison (1992)
• Stille Nacht (1995) - Sängerin
• Le Temps retrouvé (Die Wiedergefundene Zeit) (1999)
• Deepfrozen (2006)
• 35 Rhum (35 shot of rum) dir. Claire Denis (2009)

Discography

regular albums

• Au Pigall's (1978 LP Barclay, live in Paris, re-released on CD Barclay in 2001)
• Der Abendstern (1979 LP RCA, re-released on CD Viellieb Rekords in 1999)
• Live In Hamburg (1980 LP RCA, concert at Audimax Hamburg, May 9, 1980)
• Erinnerungen An Édith Piaf (1983 LP RCA, Édith Piaf chansons with German lyrics)
• Spass (1986 LP Schariwari)
• Chante Piaf 'En Public' (1989 LP Clever, recorded in 1988, live at Théâtre de l'Athénée, Paris, re-released on CD Fpr Music in 2001)
• Chambre 1050 (1996 CD Arcade/2000 CD Tricatel, 13 songs from Helle Nacht in French)
• Helle Nacht (1998 CD Viellieb Rekords, 16 songs, German version of Chambre 1050)

soundtrack-recordings

• Chansons und Themen aus Fassbinder Filmen (1994 CD Alhambra, includes 3 Caven songs from the movie "Mutter Küsters Fahrt zum Himmel/Mother Kuesters Goes To Heaven", 1975)
• Hors saison (CD released in Japan in 1993, includes 6 songs sung by Ingrid Caven)

[ Source: Wikipedia ]