Esther Schweins

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Esther Schweins (2018)

Esther Schweins (born April 18, 1970 in Oberhausen , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German actress and director who became known as a comedian through her appearances on the television program RTL Saturday Night .

Life

Schweins spent the first years of her life in Oberhausen . Her family later moved to Viernheim . She took acting lessons in Karlsruhe and in 1991 played the role of Lilith in Goethe's Faust I at the Karlsruhe Theater die insel and at the Gengenbach Festival under the direction of Werner Wedekind . She attended the Westphalian Drama School in Bochum for a year . No great future was foretold here. So she worked at the Bavaria Film Park in Bottrop . During this time she made her first major public appearance as the presenter of the avant-garde fashion show Art Couture . After that she was on the theater stage a few times before she was hired for RTL Saturday Night . She was one of the show's regular cast and became a crowd favorite. They had great success there with a parody of the former MTV presenter Kristiane Backer , Kristiane Kacker.

The comedy series was discontinued in 1998. Since then, Schweins has played leading and supporting roles in numerous film and television productions. From 2002 to 2011 she presented the magazine programs Foyer and Theater Landscapes for the then ZDFtheaterkanal and for 3sat .

Before the federal elections in 2002 and 2005 , Schweins was publicly involved in the election campaign for the SPD .

In December 2004, while on vacation in Sri Lanka, she almost fell victim to the flood disaster in Asia . She and her mother were swept away by a tsunami wave, but survived it fairly unscathed. Under the impact of the event, Schweins reduced their material possessions. Since then she has been committed to helping the tsunami victims in Sri Lanka. She also gave up her permanent residence in Germany and lived temporarily with friends and in hotels. Since 2008 she has had a permanent residence on Mallorca again .

In 2002, Schweins directed the play Caveman , which was performed in several German cities. Also with its sequel Hi Dad! in 2009 she directed again. For a five-part documentary series about yoga in India (arte, 2019) she met u. a. the yoga blogger Garima Bhandari.

Private

From 1995 to 1997, Schweins and her colleague actor Ralf Bauer were a couple. From 2006, Schweins was in a relationship with a farmer in Mallorca and had a daughter (* 2007) and a son (* 2008) with him. Her significant other died of stomach cancer in September 2017.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Esther Schweins on the red carpet for the Studio Hamburg Young Talent Award 2012

literature

  • Niki Greb, Esther Schweins; Anne Enderlein (Ed.): Saft & Kraft. Healthy eating that is fun. Eichborn , Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-8218-7303-9 .

Audio books

Web links

Commons : Esther Schweins  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Program of the Gengenbach Festival 1991, page 21; Newspaper review for the performance of Faust in Karlsruhe, Badische Latest Nachrichten from April 15, 1991
  2. ↑ Christian Richter: The TV cemetery special: What happened to the stars of “RTL Saturday Night”? quotenmeter.de, February 18, 2010, accessed October 2, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Prominent election campaigners: Star crowd in party advertising , Spiegel Online from August 30, 2002, accessed on October 7, 2014
  4. ↑ “Samba-Kids” against posters , Stern from September 4, 2005, accessed on October 7, 2014
  5. ↑ Esther Schweins is homeless , in: Rheinische Post online from August 27, 2006, online , accessed on February 25, 2012
  6. ↑ Esther Hoffmann: Why Esther Schweins does not want to marry . BZ , September 6, 2014
  7. ↑ Stuttgarter Nachrichten: ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Esther Schweins. She mourns her partner , September 12, 2017 )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de
personal data
SURNAME Schweins, Esther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and comedian
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen , North Rhine-Westphalia , Federal Republic of Germany