Name	Maria Furtwangler
Height
Naionality	German
Date of Birth	13-September-1966
Place of Birth	Munich, West Germany
Famous for	Acting

Maria Furtwangler is a German physician and television actress. She is the daughter of architect Bernhard Furtwängler and actress Kathrin Ackermann and both great-niece and step-granddaughter of the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler.

After school Maria Furtwangler trained and then worked as a medical doctor. In the mid-1990s Furtwangler continued her television career. Since 2002 she has been particularly successful as Hanover-based police detective Charlotte Lindholm in the Tatort series. She focuses her charitable work on Arzte für die Dritte Welt (Physicians for the Third World). In 1991 she married art historian Dr. Hubert Burda (born 1940), the youngest son of publisher Aenne Burda and CEO of Hubert Burda Media, an international media group which publishes more than 180 magazine titles, including many fashion magazines. The couple has two children, Jakob (born 1990) and Elisabeth (born 1992).

Among the awards Furtwangler has won are a Bambi and the Deutscher Fernsehpreis in 2007, the Goldene Kamera in 2008 and the Romy in 2009. She has also been awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2003 and the Bavarian Order of Merit in 2007 for her charitable work.