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Christine Neubauer is the daughter of a printer. Her ancestors came from Munich, Lower Bavaria and Swabia. She attended Mary Ward Secondary School in Nymphenburg and graduated in 1978 with an intermediate certificate. She studied psychology for two semesters and then took acting lessons. She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York. In the early 1980s she was engaged at the Munich Volkstheater and the Theater der Jugend.
Film and television
After her television debut as the mother of a missing baby in the series The Andro-Jäger (1984) Neubauer made her film debut in the film Knock on the Wrong Door [de]. After she had been involved in other television films in small roles, she earned wide recognition in 1987 in the television series Löwengrube.
In 1992 she won an award for her portrayal of Traudl Grandauer.
Besides her work as an actress Neubauer made a name as an author of books.
Private life
Neubauer married her childhood sweetheart Lambert Dinzinger, a sports journalist and presenter at the Bayerischer Rundfunk. They have a son (born 1992), who played a supporting role in Neubauer's film Eva Zacharias in 2004. Even after announcing their separation in January 2011[2] the couple lived together in Pullach. In November 2011, Neubauer filed for divorce,[3]
which took place in November, 2014. Since mid-2012, she is in a relationship with the Chilean photographer José Campos.[4]
Social engagement
Since 2007, Christine Neubauer committed to the children's charity Save the Children. In addition, she was appointed in October 2007 to the Ambassador of the German Red Cross. She is also a mentor of LILALU and committed to Plan International.
