Born in Australia, raised in Carinthia and later in Vienna – from there she conquered the musical stages of the world. Caroline (pronounced in English) Frank describes herself as a lucky child. “Yes, I have the feeling that’s how it works. I have an inspiration, I feel like doing it and then it works,” she says in the KURIER TV show “Wonderfully honest – people up close”.
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Wonderfully honest: Caroline Frank
And her inspiration led her successfully in front of the TV and film camera. “I worked very hard on the musical and played good roles. It was really great. When I was 40, I thought it was time to do something else. I noticed that I really enjoyed acting. I always liked the scenes so much, I liked the character development. I liked all of that so much. And I noticed that I didn’t get enough of that in the musical.”
She prepares meticulously for her roles. “I love preparation, it’s fun and it gives me total confidence on set. I’m just not nervous because I know exactly what I want to do and am still free to follow instructions.”
Comedy as a supreme discipline
From September 13th she can be seen in the slapstick comedy “Dracula – the whole truth” at the Viennese cabaret Simpl. For Frank, comedy is the supreme discipline.
“Comedy and tragedy are so close together. You slip on a banana peel and it’s funny, but actually someone really hurts themselves. But my feeling is that people who can act very tragically can also be very funny. If someone wants to be funny, it’s often not funny at all, but the seriousness makes the comedy and I like that. I love people with ‘funny bones’, where you notice that they can’t help but be funny.”
Lisa Trompisch in the “Wonderfully honest – people up close” studio with Caroline Frank
But she is also fascinated by evil – it is fitting that she will be playing in the new ORF/ARD crime series “Murder in Vienna” (expected to be broadcast this year) at the side of August Wittgenstein plays a police detective. “A grumpy 50-year-old, a young grandma who always overestimates herself a little, including her abilities. That was a really great character. It came at just the right time.”
And also in the new ServusTV series “Liesl von der Post” (broadcast is planned for the end of the year) she is part of the cast as the village doctor. “I’m always booked to play the lawyer, the police detective, the doctor, someone who is very strict, which is funny because I feel so humorous and soft and hippie-like in my private life,” she says, laughing.
She would also be particularly interested in an Austrian western. “Yes, that would be my dream. I would really like to do that. I imagine a rough woman with no make-up on, with yellow teeth, who comes and shoots a shotgun and rides into town and then something happens,” she grins. “I definitely want to shoot something big, make big films and have good projects. I wouldn’t mind growing.”
You can find out more about her projects, her two children and why standing still would be bad in the video above.
(kurier.at, LT)
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18.08.2024, 5:00
