An interview with Annekathrin Bürger - a German stage, film and television actress. Born in the Nazi-era, surviving WWII, first cinema experiences; school days and training as a commercial advertiser; stage design assistant; prop maker; her first role in the "Berlin Romance" (1956) and her acting training at the film school in Potsdam-Babelsberg. Bürger became a prominent actress in East Germany appearing in a large number of films made by the state-run DEFA film studio.—DEFA