Katja Paryla

[1] When the Neues Theater in der Scala [de] where her father was engaged closed in 1956 due to the Brecht boycott in Vienna, and he found no other jobs in Austria, they moved to East Berlin.

[1] Paryla first studied fashion design at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin, graduating with an excellent diploma.

[2] She made her stage debut, alongside her father, at Deutsches Theater Berlin as Milena Andertschowa in Oldřich Daněk's Die Hochzeit des Heiratsschwindlers.

She was described as "a beautiful, powerful and sensual presence with a great sense of comedy",[3] not fixed to one type, but always searching for transformation with attention to detail; in collaboration with Lang, she portrayed especially tragic figures such as Goethe's Iphigenie and Medea by Euripides with psychological clarity.

[3] She became stage director at the Nationaltheater Weimar from 1994 to 2001,[3] and headed simultaneously the drama department of the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig.