Andrea Sawatzki

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Andrea Sawatzki (2019)

Andrea Sawatzki (born February 23, 1963 in Schlehdorf ) is a German actress , audio book speaker and author .

Life

Origin, education and theater

Andrea Sawatzki was born as the daughter of a nurse and a journalist in Schlehdorf , Bavaria , and grew up in Vaihingen an der Enz . After graduating from high school, she began studying at the New Munich Drama School , which she graduated in 1987. In addition, she completed an internship at the Münchner Kammerspiele . Sawatzki played from 1988 to 1992 at theaters in Stuttgart , Wilhelmshaven and Munich .

In 2004 she made her stage debut at the Renaissance Theater Berlin at the side of her husband Christian Berkel in Edward Albee's Die Ziege or Wer ist Sylvia? (Director: Felix Prader ).

Film, television, dubbing and audio books

Beginnings and 1990s

Andrea Sawatzki took on her first film role in 1988 at the age of 25 under the direction of Dieter Dorn in Faust - From Heaven through the World to Hell . This was followed in the 1990s by episode roles in TV series such as Florian (1990), Der Fahnder (1993), Wolffs Revier (1994) and Adelheid and their murderers (1996). She had a continuous series role in 1993 as Luise Gehbauer in the ARD television series Aufachse . From 1995 to 1998 she was Sonja Hersfeld in the TV series AS .

From 1995 Sawatzki was also cast for roles in television films, such as in Helden haben'shart (1996; as Gabi Solms), Atemlos durch die Nacht (1996; as Elvira) and alongside Oliver Stritzel as Iris Dohmann in Marijan Vajdas Champagne and Chamomile Tea (1997) based on a novel by Franziska Stalmann. In the six-part Sat.1 television drama The King of St. Pauli (1998) she was seen in the role of Regine Fischer. In addition, Sawatzki was seen in numerous successful movies. In 1997, she was in Ingrid Noll -Romanverfilmung The pharmacist to see in the role of Alma Siebert, the suicide wants to commit when she learns that her husband Pawel has a relationship with the pharmacist Hella Moormann. In Bandits (1997), which is about four women who form a band in prison and suddenly escape, she took on the role of Ludwig. In 1999 she cast Helmut Dietl as Sonja Vogel in his feature film Late Show .

2000s

Even after the turn of the millennium, Andrea Sawatzki was cast in numerous film and television productions. In the movie Harte Jungs (2000) she took on the role of Aunt Zelda. She played the actress and translator Pamela Wedekind in the three-part television film The Manns - A Novel of the Centuries (2001) . In Joseph Vilsmaier's Leo and Claire (2001) she was Helga Steinheil. In the Mario Giordano novel adaptation The Experiment (2001), she embodied the role of Dr. Jutta Grimm.

The presentation of Adina Gabriel in the television series arms millionaires (2005/06) brought her the German Comedy Award as Best Actress one. At the World Film Festival Montréal she was also named Best Actress for her role as Evchen Morell in the television film The Other Boy (2007). In the fairy tale film Little Brother and Sister (2008), she took on the role of the evil stepmother. She embodied Vera Targensee in the two-part ZDF thriller Abducted .

2010s

From 2010 to 2014 Andrea Sawatzki played the housewife Isabella "Bella" Jung in the six-part ZDF film series Bella . For her portrayal in the pilot episode Bella Vita , she was awarded the Bavarian TV Prize for best actress in the TV film category in 2011 . In the also six-part ZDF television series Klimawechsel (2010), Sawatzki played the art teacher Desirée Dische, who is desperately trying to reconcile her relationship with her boyfriend and yoga teacher Ronnie ( Kai Schumann ) with child and job. She also played the role of Adriana De Mila in the international series Borgia (2011).

In the media satire The Great Comeback (2011), she was seen alongside Uwe Ochsenknecht in one of the two main roles as television editor Ute Meier-Thiel. Critics praised her acting performance there, so Sawatzki achieved as a “nymphomaniac Zimtzicke” the genre “owed precision and sharpness”.

As part of the Bundschuh family television series , Sawatzki has been a protagonist in the film adaptations of her own novels about Gundula and Gerald Bundschuh alongside Axel Milberg , who plays her film husband, since 2015 . Other permanent roles include Uwe Ochsenknecht , Judy Winter , Stephan Grossmann and Eva Löbau .

In the opening episode Trojan Horses (2016) of the ARD Thursday crime series Der Athen-Krimi , she played Victoria Pappas, who runs a publishing house. As part of the ZDF film series Lotta , she was seen in the fifth film Lotta & der dicke Brocken (2016) in the role of Mrs. Platow. In October 2016, Sawatzki was also seen in the ZDF television comedy Two Lost Sheep , alongside Franz Hartwig . She played the unemployed actress Rebecca Fritz. In the German-Austrian cinema production Help, I've Shrunk My Parents , she was seen as a disturbing ghost in the form of the former, deceased school director Hulda Stechbarth. The Handelsblatt praised Sawatzki for the performance she showed there, according to a film review: “The actor's highlight [...] is the appearance of Andrea Sawatzki as the director risen from the dead: Sawatzki puts on an award-winning, terrifying and hilarious performance from". For Matti Geschonneck's film drama Südstadt , she played one of the leading roles in front of the camera alongside Anke Engelke , Matthias Matschke and Dominic Raacke . In the television film Divorce for Beginners , which first aired in January 2019 , she and her husband Berkel stood in front of the camera as the Bremermann couple, who want to divorce after 24 years of marriage.

Crime scene and police call 110

Sawatzki was seen several times on the ARD television series Tatort . In 1991 she had a supporting role as secretary to Mr. Zech ( Alexander Radszun ) in The Schimanski Case . The following year she was seen as Anita Joest in Implacable . In 1994 she played Alice Rains in The Woman on the Street . In The Black Scorpion (2000) she embodied Dr. Natascha Severin.

From 2001 to 2009, Andrea Sawatzki took on the permanent role of Tatort Chief Commissioner Charlotte Sänger , who, alongside her colleague Fritz Dellwo ( Jörg Schüttauf ) , solved a total of 18 cases in and around Frankfurt am Main . For her acting achievements there, she has received several awards, such as the 2005 Adolf Grimme Prize for the crime scene: Heart failure , which she received together with Jörg Schüttauf, Stephan Falk and Thomas Freundner , and in 2006 the Hessian television award for her performance in the crime scene: The last race .

From 1995 to 2004 she embodied in the crime series Polizeiruf 110 in the episodes of the WDR Gabi Bauer from the homicide department, who has a relationship with the patrol officer Sigi Möller ( Martin Lindow ) in the Bergisches Land .

Speaking activities

In addition to her work in film and television, Andrea Sawatzki also works as a speaker. Among other things, she reads in audio books, for example for the series TV-Kommissare read crime novels the title Die Maus in der Ecke (2006) or the novel Glennkill (2006) for the Brigitte audio book edition Strong Voices .

Sawatzki also works as a voice actress. In 2010, she voiced the lead role of Mrs. Fox in the Roald Dahl film adaptation of The Fantastic Mr. Fox . Her future husband Christian Berkel dubbed the title role of Mr. Fox, voiced by George Clooney in the original version . In 2012 she received the German Animation Spokesperson Award at the Stuttgart Animated Film Festival for her speaking role in the animated film Puss in Boots .

Activity as an author

Andrea Sawatzki during a reading in 2015

Andrea Sawatzki's first novel, An all too braves girl , was published on March 12, 2013 . There is also an audio book recorded by Sawatzki himself (at Audiobook Hamburg ) and an e-book version. In October of the same year, her second novel, Deep Breath, The Family Comes , was published, which was filmed in 2015 and is the first about the fictional Bundschuh family. In 2014 the second Bundschuh novel was published. There was never any talk of recovery . With her fourth novel The View of Stranger Eyes (2015), she published her second detective novel, which is without the Sawatzkis Bundschuh family. In 2016 the third part of the Bundschuh book series was published You are of course invited by Piper Verlag . In October 2019, the fourth publication of the Bundschuh series of novels followed, with others doing this professionally .

Miscellaneous and private

In 2003, Sawatzki was in front of the camera for an erotic photo series in the April issue of Playboy . In 2007 she was the sponsor of the German Children's Prize . In 2011 Sawatzki danced in the 4th season of the RTL dance show Let's Dance with the Italian professional dancer Stefano Terrazzino and took eighth place.

Since July 2015 she has been a moderator for the TLC crime documentary series Deadly Sins - You shouldn't kill .

In 2020 she appeared on the game show Did you know? as an expert on the subject of dogs .

Andrea Sawatzki has lived with her colleague Christian Berkel (* 1957) since 1997 , they married in December 2011. The couple have two sons (* 1999 and * 2002) and live in Berlin-Schlachtensee .

Filmography (selection)

Audiobooks (selection)

Sawatzki with her husband Christian Berkel at the 2009 German Television Award ceremony

Radio plays

bibliography

Bundschuh novels

  1. Take a deep breath, the family is coming . Piper, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-492-05636-6 .
  2. There was never any talk of recovery . Piper, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-492-05672-4 .
  3. You are of course invited . Piper, Munich 2016.
  4. Others do it professionally . Piper, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-492-06089-9 .

Awards

Web links

Commons : Andrea Sawatzki  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Andrea Sawatzki  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrea Sawatzki in the Munzinger Archive , accessed on September 14, 2019 ( beginning of article freely available)
  2. ↑ The goat or Who is Sylvia? on renaissance-theater.de; accessed on January 20, 2017.
  3. ↑ Bella at Fernsehserien.de; accessed on January 17, 2017.
  4. ^ ZDF comedy: Hansi im Pech. In: Tagesspiegel . October 12, 2011; accessed on January 20, 2017.
  5. ^ The Bundschuh family at Fernsehserien.de; accessed on January 19, 2020.
  6. ↑ ZDF-Film: Comedy "Zwei Lost Sheep" is sport for the muscles of the laugh . Television review. In: DerWesten . October 22, 2016. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Help, I've shrunk my parents" . Handelsblatt, January 18, 2018
  8. ↑ The German Children's Prize. (PDF) World Vision Germany , 2007, archived from the original on July 12, 2010 ; Retrieved July 12, 2010 .
  9. ↑ We were able to win Andrea Sawatzki as host for our new crime series “Deadly Sins - You shouldn't kill”.
  10. ^ Sawatzki marries Christian Berkel after 14 years . In: Welt Online . December 18, 2011; Retrieved December 18, 2011.
  11. ↑ Gold / platinum database of the Federal Association of the Music Industry, accessed on May 30, 2016
  12. ↑ Claudia Fromme March 26, 2013: History of being overwhelmed .
  13. ↑ Bavarian TV Prize ( Memento from December 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on Bayern.de
  14. ^ Prize for Drama , festival-des-deutschen-films.de, accessed on June 2, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Sawatzki, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Schlehdorf , Bavaria, Germany