Jennifer Ulrich

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Jennifer Ulrich at the premiere of the film Wir sind die Nacht in October 2010 in Vienna

Jennifer Ulrich (born October 18, 1984 in Berlin ) is a German actress .

Life

In 2001, at the age of 16, Jennifer Ulrich stood in front of the camera for the first time in the film drama Big Girls Don't Cry by Maria von Heland . She then starred in Elementary Particles and in the award-winning film about a fictional nuclear accident, The Cloud . This was followed by various guest appearances in various television series, including Tatort , before she played her first major film starring role in 2008 alongside Jürgen Vogel in the literary film Die Welle (director: Dennis Gansel ).

In 2009 she was seen in her first English-language role alongside Barbara Hershey and Jeroen Krabbé in the film Albert Schweitzer - A Life for Africa before she shot the horror film Zimmer 205 in early 2010 , which opened in German cinemas on April 4, 2013. In October 2010 the film Wir sind die Nacht was released , again a film directed by her partner Dennis Gansel , in which she played the vampire Charlotte. For this role, she received the Fantasy Horror Award in Orvieto in the category Best Interpretation New Talent in 2011 .

In the summer of 2011 she directed, in one of the leading roles, the Italian political drama Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood , directed by Daniele Vicari . After the film ran successfully in the Panorama Special section at the Berlinale 2012 and won 2nd place in the audience award, it was shown in Italian cinemas on April 13, 2012. At the end of 2011 she was allowed to take up another English-language role in the film Meet me in Montenegro , this time alongside Rupert Friend .

In 2012 she took on the leading role of society journalist Lissie Lensen in the Sat.1 film Herztöne , based on the novel by Katja Kessler , directed by Sven Bohse .

At the end of 2014, ARD-alpha showed the film Tolerance as part of the ARD theme week “Different from you think” , in which Ulrich plays the main role of handball player Karoline Benzko, which shows parallels to the case of rower Nadja Drygalla .

This was followed by other leading roles in the Sat.1 films Wüstenherz - The Trip of My Life and Hangover in High Heels , the latter again directed by Sven Bohse , as well as u. a. Appearances in the two-part Taunus thriller - Bad Wolf based on the novels by Nele Neuhaus and in the ZDF series Die Bossin .

In March 2017, Ulrich was in the Sat.1 film Don't mess with Klara as BND agent Klara, which was directed by the up-and-coming director Mia Spengler . At the end of the same year Ulrich played the main role in the ZDF drama Ein Sommer im Allgäu , for which she had to learn to use a wheelchair.

In summer 2018 she played alongside Andrea Sawatzki in the TV comedy " It stays in the family " produced for Sat.1 .

Also in 2018, Ulrich shot on Mallorca with Harald Krassnitzer and Michael Gwisdek for the ARD television film Familie Wöhler on Mallorca .

In 2019, Jennifer Ulrich traveled to Chile for a long time to film the series Dignity . The series was produced by the German Story House Filmproduktion and the Chilean Invercine & Wood for the German streaming provider Joyn and the Chilean TV broadcaster MEGA . The story is based on true events of the former German sect Colonia Dignidad under the leadership of Paul Schäfer (sect founder) | Paul Schäfer in the south of Chile, but also includes fictional parts and characters. The first episode of the series celebrated its world premiere in October 2019 at the MIPCOM in Cannes and was then nominated for the Canneseries , whose award ceremony is to take place in October 2020.

At the end of 2019 Ulrich shot the short film Unspoken in Rome with his Italian colleague Margherita Buy, directed by Maria Sole Tognazzi . Unspoken is one of six short films in the Together Now project by the non-profit production company WDIT-We Do It Together, which campaigns for women empowerment in the film business. Part of the other five short films are expected to be. a. Margot Robbie , Juliette Binoche , Halle Berry and Freida Pinto .

Jennifer Ulrich lives in Berlin.

engagement

Ulrich received death threats on the social media portal Facebook in 2016 . There she fought publicly for more transparency and better cooperation between the company and the police and criticized Facebook's tolerance of hate speech and crimes. After the press reported, politicians also took their case as an opportunity to demand better laws on social media platforms. The Hessian State Justice Minister Eva Kühne-Hörmann took Ulrich's case in the Hessian State Parliament as an example to demand “legal regulations” that companies such as For example, Facebook, commit themselves in hate speech and incitement to act concretely, even if they have their headquarters abroad.

Furthermore, Ulrich has been very committed to organ donation since 2005 . In 2005 she became part of the non-profit association Junge Helden eV, with which she has been conducting educational work in schools, at youth events, festivals and other media events since then. The aim is to remove the taboo on the subject of organ donation and, above all, to encourage young people to make a decision for or against organ donation based on knowledge and to record this on the organ donation card. Jennifer Ulrich also interviewed the doctor Dr. med. Gregor Warnecke, then senior physician and profile area head transplantation at the Hannover Medical School (MHH), for the educational film, the decisive factor is the decision , which has been available free of charge on YouTube since 2015 or can be ordered as teaching material in the form of a DVD. In 2019, Junge Helden eV fought together with Jennifer Ulrich and many other prominent faces for the objection regulation in Germany. Ulrich was invited to the Bundestag in 2019 to give a speech on the objection regulation and the resulting improvement in the health system with regard to transplants.

photography

In December 2018 Ulrich opened her first professional photo exhibition Adore & Endure in Berlin. 30 photographs of her long-distance trips between 2012 and 2018 were shown. With Sony Xperia phones, she predominantly photographs people she meets on her travels, such as B. Residents of various indigenous tribes of South America, children in the streets of Madagascar or visitors to demonstrations and markets.

Filmography

movie theater

Television films

TV Shows

Web links

Commons : Jennifer Ulrich  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fantasy Horror Award ( Memento from July 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Death threat: Berlin actress in dispute with Facebook (Morgenpost)
  3. ↑ Death threats on Facebook - The hate machine (SpiegelOnline)
personal data
SURNAME Ulrich, Jennifer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ulrich, Jenny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin