Biography
Karoline Herfurth is a German actress, director and screenwriter. She is best known for appearing in the film Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), as well as The Reader (2008). She is further known for appearing in German comedic films such as Girls on Top (2001) , Suck Me Shakespeer (2013) and We are the Night (2010).
Known For
Complete Filmography

Beautiful!
2025
Original Film Writer
A slice-of-life comedy-drama following the interconnected stories of six female characters at different stages of life, each struggling to overcome pe...

Wunderschöner
2025
as Sonja
The main thing is sexy - no matter whether thin, fat, what skin color, young, old, we can all be sexy in different ways. Almost every woman grows up h...

Wunderschöner
2025
Director, Screenplay
The main thing is sexy - no matter whether thin, fat, what skin color, young, old, we can all be sexy in different ways. Almost every woman grows up h...

A Million Minutes
2024
as Vera Küper
Vera and Wolf Küper live in Berlin with their 5-year-old daughter Nina and their one-year-old son Simon. Vera takes care of the children and the house...

Love Again
2023
Writer
Mira Ray, dealing with the loss of her fiancé, John, sends a series of romantic texts to his old cell phone number… not realizing the number was reass...

Just Something Nice
2022
as Karla
Radio presenter Karla's biological clock is ticking, and it's now very loud and clear. But no matter what she does, she simply cannot find a suitable ...

Just Something Nice
2022
Director, Writer
Radio presenter Karla's biological clock is ticking, and it's now very loud and clear. But no matter what she does, she simply cannot find a suitable ...

Wunderschön
2022
as Sonja
After two pregnancies, Sonja struggles with her body feeling and the relationship with her husband Milan. Frauke, shortly before her 60th birthday, sh...

Wunderschön
2022
Writer, Director
After two pregnancies, Sonja struggles with her body feeling and the relationship with her husband Milan. Frauke, shortly before her 60th birthday, sh...

The Perfect Secret
2019
as Carlotta Keschwari
Seven friends - three women and four men - meet for dinner. Everyone should put their cell phone on the table. No matter what message comes in - anyon...

Sweethearts
2019
as Franziska Kinnert
It's double trouble when fate and an ill-executed diamond robbery throw Mel and Franny together in a race and chase against time.

Sweethearts
2019
Director, Screenplay
It's double trouble when fate and an ill-executed diamond robbery throw Mel and Franny together in a race and chase against time.

The Little Witch
2018
as The Little Witch (Die kleine Hexe)
The little witch is only 127 years old – too young for the annual coven of witches. Although she is not yet old enough to be a real witch she wants to...

Text for You
2016
as Clara
Sports writer Mark is baffled when he receives romantic text messages on his cell phone. What he does not know: His new number once belonged to the de...

Text for You
2016
Director, Writer
Sports writer Mark is baffled when he receives romantic text messages on his cell phone. What he does not know: His new number once belonged to the de...

The Pasta Detectives 3
2016
as Tanja Doretti
The friends and amateur detectives Rico and Oskar experiencing their last adventure together. Here everything is really only one well, because now the...

Suck Me Shakespeer 2
2015
as Lisi Schnabelstedt
A rowdy teacher accompanies a class trip to Thailand to recover some diamonds accidentally sent there and restore the school's reputation.

The Pasta Detectives 2
2015
as Tanja Doretti
For the first time ever Rico has a friend coming over for a sleepover! After weeks of not seeing each other, Rico and Oskar are reunited again and sta...

Ghosthunters: On Icy Trails
2015
as Frau Hoffmann
They couldn't be more different, the members of the trio that allies in the fight against an Ancient Ice Ghost (AIG): Tom, an easily scared boy, Hetty...

Dreamgirls
2015
as Hannah Reimann
Parallel love stories of three young women in Berlin: Hannah - an unhappy attorney who sexually demeans herself in order to get at least some love and...

The Pasta Detectives
2014
as Tanja Doretti
The child-duo Rico and Oskar, one of them is quite more sluggish, but precisely because of fantasy and own world view; the other one is a smart whiz, ...

Suck Me Shakespeer
2013
as Lisi Schnabelstedt
Ex-con Zeki Müller goes undercover as a teacher at a below average Gymnasium to find money he'd stashed prior to incarceration.

Passion
2013
as Dani Wirth
The rivalry between the manipulative boss of an advertising agency and her talented protégée escalates from stealing credit to public humiliation to m...

Festung
2012
as Claudia
Johanna (13) is in love – but how is she to enjoy this rush of emotions when her violent prone father is returning to the family home? Torn between th...

Errors of the Human Body
2012
as Rebekkah
Canadian scientist, Dr Geoff Burton takes up a position at a new institute in wintry Dresden in order to contribute to their most important project—a ...

Zettl
2012
as Verena
A social satire in which a chauffeur accidentally becomes the editor of an online newspaper.

Promising the Moon
2011
as Young Marga Baumanis
Throughout her life Marga has shown little feeling for her daughter Sofia. But now she reveals fear, wounds and a deep longing for her long-deceased h...

We Are the Night
2010
as Lena Bach
One night, 18 year old Lena is bitten by Louise, leader of a female vampire trio that are as deadly as they are beautiful. Her newfound vampiric lifes...

Life Is Too Long
2010
No crisis is as disastrous, overwhelming and unjust as that of Alfi Seliger. The Jewish filmmaker, hypochondriac and family man is up to his neck in p...

Vincent Wants to Sea
2010
as Marie
Vincent, a young man who suffers from Tourette's syndrome, has just lost his mother. His father, a successful politician, does not want to take care o...

Jerry Cotton
2010
as Covergirl
Jerry Cotton is the best agent of the FBI and suspected of murder. So he has to find the real killers from gangster boss Serrano.

Die Gänsemagd
2009
as Prinzessin Elisabeth
Princess Elisabeth, the beautiful only child of a widowed queen is sent off to marry the prince Leopold to whom she is betrothed. Before she leaves, h...

Berlin '36
2009
as Gretel Bergmann
Berlin 36 is a 2009 German film telling the fate of Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann in the 1936 Summer Olympics. She was replaced by the Nazi regime by...

The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos
2008
as Narrator (German version) (voice)
In the remote and forgotten wilderness of Lake Natron, in northern Tanzania, one of nature's last great mysteries unfolds: the birth, life and death o...

The Reader
2008
as Marthe
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only t...

A Year Ago in Winter
2008
as Lili Richter
A renowned artist must uncover a young dancer's secrets in order to truly capture her likeness for a commissioned work.

Das Wunder von Berlin
2008
as Anja Ahrendt
East Germany, 1988: working as a state security service agent, Jürgen Kaiser is loyal to the party line, but worried about his son Marco, a punk. As h...

Pornorama
2007
as Luzi
A free-wheeling chronicle of the Munich sex film industry in the 1970s.

Peer Gynt
2006
as Solvejg
Young Peer Gynt returns home once again after unsuccessfully looking for work. His mother already goes to meet him and he describes his alleged advent...

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
2006
as The Plum Girl
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest pe...

Deutschmänner
2006
as Bianca
Macedonian Don and his buddy Kalle have been friends since childhood and have practically spent their whole lives together. They now live together in ...

Offside
2005
as Hayat
Hayat, a soccer fanatic from Hamburg, has breast cancer. After the operation, the 20-year-old feels disfigured and is no longer allowed to play footba...

Royal News
2004
as Prinzessin Sophia
A princess falls in love with a paparazzo who is using her to become famous.

Anemonenherz
2004
as Olga
Olga likes to escape the real world by delving into literature. Her little world is going to be shattered when the young rebel Judith arrives in her c...

Girls on Top 2
2004
as Lena
Inken and Lucy are facing hard times when their parents' money is radically cut off. Together with Lena, who is fed up with her boyfriend, they desper...

My Name Is Bach
2004
as Prinzessin Amalie
Composer Johann Sebastian Bach is introduced to King Frederick II of Prussia in 1747. The aging composer and the young monarch clash and a battle of e...

Big Girls Don't Cry
2002
as Steffi
Kati and Steffi have been best friends since they were six. Now they're both 17 and enjoying the ups and downs of becoming adults together. While Kati...

Girls on Top
2001
as Lena
The adventures of three teenage girls - Inken, Vicky and Lena - and their quest to have their first orgasm.

Kiss Me, Frog
2000
as Annas Freundin Mary
Modern version of The Frog King. Out of an impulse, 15-year-old Anna kisses a frog which then turns into a prince. But the curse is not solved that ea...

Crazy
2000
as Anna
Benjamin, a 16-year-old with lousy grades, switches to a boarding school in order to eventually reach grammar school. Adjusting to his new environment...