Petra Schmidt-Schaller

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Petra Schmidt-Schaller at the Hamburg Film Festival 2009

Petra Schmidt-Schaller (born August 28, 1980 in Magdeburg ) is a German actress . The Berliner comes from a family of actors and has been working as a freelancer since 2006 after studying acting and working at the theater. In addition to appearances in films such as Ein flehendes Pferd , Almanya - Willkommen in Deutschland and Sommer in Orange , she is best known for numerous leading roles in television films. From 2013 to 2015 she appeared as investigator Katharina Lorenz in six Tatort episodes of the NDR. In 2007 she received the award for best young actress from the Bavarian Film Prize and in 2018 the Golden Camera for best German actress.

Live and act

Childhood and youth

Petra Schmidt-Schaller is the daughter of the actor Andreas Schmidt-Schaller , who became famous as an East German television crime investigator, and the actress, director and acting professor Christine Krüger . She is the half-sister of the actors Tom Radisch (* 1982) and Matti Schmidt-Schaller (* 1996). As a baby, she came to East Berlin with her parents and grew up there in the Prenzlauer Berg district . She got to know very prominent colleagues from her parents at an early age and realized that “everyone only cooks with water”. As an actor's child, initially deterred by the harsh tone of domestic discussions about everyday working life, she discovered her love for acting only during a year as an exchange student in the USA from 1997-1998, when she was persuaded to attend the theater course at her high school . In 2000 she passed her Abitur at the Heinrich-Schliemann-Gymnasium Berlin .

Studies and first theater engagements

From 2001 to 2005, Petra Schmidt-Schaller studied acting at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig , where her parents had already studied together at the previous institution . As part of her main studies in selected theaters, which is customary there, she moved from 2003 to 2005 to the drama studio of the German National Theater Weimar . Together with her fellow students, she was awarded an ensemble prize by the Federal Minister of Education at the drama school meeting in Hanover in 2004 for the performance of Fritz Kater's Time to Love, Time to Die . At the same time as her training, she received an engagement at the Great House of the National Theater. In her third year of studies she played Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream and the female title role alongside Romeo actor Patrick Güldenberg in Georg Schmiedleitner's production of Romeo and Juliet . In Thomas Thieme's staging of three parts of the modern Shakespeare adaptation Battles! In 2005 she embodied the central figure Margaretha di Napoli . Other roles in Weimar were Desirée in Werner Schwab's Destruction of the People or My Liver Is Senseless and Clarice in Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters .

After graduating as a graduate actress, a guest engagement followed in 2005 at the Städtische Bühnen Osnabrück , where she descends as Carol in Tennessee Williams ' Orpheus and played Neasa in the German-language premiere of Conor McPherson's Shining City .

Movie and TV

As early as 2003, the then acting student was seen in the episode Deadly Trap from the TV series SOKO Leipzig . As the friend of a criminal, she was interrogated by Chief Detective Trautzschke , portrayed by her father. Petra Schmidt-Schaller had her first role in a full-length feature film in the summer of 2005 as love-hungry, exalted actress Ada in the prominent but not very successful relationship comedy Reine Formsache . This was followed by a brief appearance as Rosa Teuber in Jo Baier's television film Not all were murderers . In spring 2006 she played her first leading role in the cinema as the ambitious young police officer Ulla in the road movie Balkan Traffic - The Day After Tomorrow Nirgendwo , which only ran in a few cinemas at the end of 2008.

Petra Schmidt-Schaller had her first major success with the literary film adaptation A Fleeing Horse , which started in September 2007 . The newcomer joined the cast with the established greats Ulrich Noethen , Katja Riemann and Ulrich Tukur via a casting . She played the seductive Helene , the young lover of Klaus Buch , who was stuck in the midlife crisis and portrayed by Tukur . For her performance she was awarded the Bavarian Film Prize 2007 for best young actress. She celebrated the laudation as the “most surprising new discovery in the outstanding ensemble of actors” who “combined naivety and naivety with grace and eroticism with convincing ease” and “made a major contribution to the success of this captivating film adaptation with her harmonious play among the four protagonists”. The film earned her nominations for other prizes, as well as being included in the preselection for the 58th German Film Prize in the category Best Acting Performance - Female Supporting Role .

Premiere of the television film Das gefeilte Glück at the Munich Film Festival 2010. Schmidt-Schaller with Udo Wachtveitl , Andreas Warmbrunn and Rüdiger Klink .

In 2007 Schmidt-Schaller was involved in three productions for ZDF : Subsequently, Bernie from SOKO Leipzig (first broadcast in October 2008) played a depressed patient in a psychiatric clinic who was eventually convicted as a murderer. In the second part of the docudrama Die Wölfe she was given a supporting role as well as in the family comedy The best is only coming , from which a four-part film series was created by 2015. In it she was cast again by Rainer Kaufmann , the director of A Fleeing Horse .

In Nacht vor Augen , the multi-award-winning debut film by director Brigitte Maria Bertele , which premiered in the Forum of the Berlinale in 2008 , Schmidt-Schaller played the leading role as the girlfriend of a traumatized Bundeswehr soldier portrayed by Hanno Koffler who returned from Afghanistan .

The ProSieben remake of Der Seewolf , made in 2008 in the Bahamas and Berlin, showed Petra Schmidt-Schaller alongside Thomas Kretschmann and Florian Stetter as the shipwrecked writer Maud Brewster, who was fought over by the main male characters . The first broadcast of the elaborate two-part series in November 2008 earned her greater media attention. Also in 2008 the shooting for the Bodensee - Tatort Bluthochzeit of the SWR with Schmidt-Schaller in a leading role took place. She played a bride who is kidnapped at the wedding party and who is in danger because of her involvement in criminal machinations.

In other leading roles in television films, she embodied very different characters. In the ZDF Sunday film A Summer in Long Island , which was shot in South Africa at the beginning of 2009 , Schmidt-Schaller was seen as the "personified sunshine" alongside Marc Hosemann and Max von Thun . The role in Thomas Freundner's ARD social drama Das shared Glück brought her the first German Actor Award and a nomination for the German Television Award 2011 in the category of best actress . As a Freiburg mother who brings up the child of a lawyer who was swapped shortly after birth in poor circumstances, the Berlin actress speaks broad Baden regional lectures. On the occasion of the television premiere in February 2011, critics certified her “convincing”, “very touching” game, an “outstanding, emphatic, credible, truthful” performance and “great class”. Her “moving”, “finely nuanced” portrayal of a grieving mother at the side of Christian Berkel in the ZDF crime thriller Das dunkle Nest was positively highlighted by the critics. The film, directed by Christine Hartmann at the end of 2010, premiered at the Munich Film Festival in 2011, just like the year before Das shared Glück .

In Yasemin Şamderelis , the tragic comedy Almanya - Willkommen in Deutschland , created at the end of 2009 parallel to Das shared Glück , Schmidt-Schaller was part of the main ensemble as the daughter-in-law of a Turkish family and film partner of Denis Moschitto . Almanya was the prelude to a number of movies in which the actress mostly got bigger roles. First, however, with a brief appearance in the thriller Unknown Identity, filmed in Berlin at the beginning of 2010, she took part in an international large-scale production for the first time: as a border guard she handled Liam Neeson there. Both films ran out of competition in the 2011 Berlinale competition program and were popular with audiences in the cinema.

Schmidt-Schaller received a comedic and dramatic leading role in Marcus H. Rosenmüller's movie Summer in Orange , shot from May to July 2010, as Berlin Bhagwan fanatic Amrita in the Upper Bavarian province of the early 1980s. More than half a million visitors saw the film after its theatrical release in August 2011. In Löwenzahn - The Cinema Adventure , the film for the ZDF children's series Löwenzahn , she played the villain part as the scheming vamp Cora alongside Dominique Horwitz . In the psychodrama Under Neighbors , she played the leading female role alongside Maxim Mehmet and Charly Hübner . The film premiered in the main competition of the Shanghai International Film Festival in 2011.

In April 2013, the ZDF crime drama Der Tote im Watt with Petra Schmidt-Schaller in the leading role as the daughter of Thomas Thieme reached almost seven million television viewers . The broadcast ran a few weeks before the premiere of the crime scene episode Feuerteufel . There the actress was seen for the first time as LKA investigator Katharina Lorenz next to Wotan Wilke Möhring as crime scene commissioner Thorsten Falke of the NDR . According to her own statement, she only found out one day before the start of filming that it was a new offshoot of the most successful German crime series. The films with the investigators take place in different locations in northern Germany. With the third cold start case , which is located in Wilhelmshaven , Falke and Lorenz became the first crime scene investigators to join the federal police . After the sixth case of Burned , broadcast in autumn 2015 , Schmidt-Schaller ended her engagement.

In 2013 she stood for the German-Austrian large-scale TV production Der Wagner-Clan. A family story as Richard Wagner's daughter Isolde with Iris Berben , Heino Ferch , Lars Eidinger and Eva Löbau in front of the camera. In addition to Jürgen Vogel and Moritz Bleibtreu , she played in Maximilian Erlenwein's cinema thriller Stereo , which premiered in the Panorama section of the 2014 Berlinale . In 2017 she was seen alongside Jürgen Prochnow in the movie Leander's Last Journey .

Memberships, other artistic activity

Petra Schmidt-Schaller is a member of the German Film Academy and the Federal Drama Association (BFFS) . In 2013 she was on the jury of the German Actor Award .

In addition to film acting, she works as a speaker. For example, she took part in scenic readings of texts by Kurt Tucholsky . Together with her father and the guitarist Frank Fröhlich , she gave literary-musical readings on The Old Weimar , also published as audio books . Also with her father, she read from Martin Walser's novel A loving man in 2013 . As an audio book speaker, she read in several novels by Joy Fielding and recorded works from GDR children's literature . Her illustrations for a children's musical performed in the Erfurt Theater in 2010 , with which she also appeared artistically, are also aimed at the next generation .

Personal

Schmidt-Schaller lives in Berlin. She is married to the actor Thomas Fränzel and has had a daughter with him since August 2011.

Martin Walser , the author of the book for Ein Flehendes Pferd , who also edited the screenplay and got to know the actors on the sidelines of the shooting in 2006, was “touched” by the encounter and certified Petra Schmidt-Schaller that it was “a great discovery. She doesn't have to do anything, she has everything. ”In the summer following the shooting, he wrote his bestselling novel A loving man about the unhappy love of the aging Johann Wolfgang von Goethe for the 55 years younger Ulrike von Levetzow . He sent the book to Schmidt-Schaller, who was 53 years younger than Goethe, who was born on August 28, with the dedication: “Here is a text that you could play right away. This Ulrike speaks your text. "

Filmography

With Eva Mattes (center) and Sebastian Bezzel at the premiere of the crime scene Bluthochzeit at the Hamburg Film Festival 2009

Speaking roles

Movie

Audio books

radio play

Awards

Won

Nominated

  • 2007: German Film Award , best actress for A Fleeing Horse
  • 2007: Undine Award , Best Young Comedian for A Fleeing Horse
  • 2008: Goldene Henne , category actor in film and television
  • 2008: Undine Award, Best Young Comedian for Balkan Traffic - Nirgendwo the day after tomorrow
  • 2011: German Television Award , Best Actress for Das shared Glück
  • 2012: Prize of the German Film Critics 2011, Best Actress for Das teilte Glück
  • 2015: Golden Camera , Best German Actress for Der Wagner-Clan
  • 2017: German TV Award , Best Actress for A Dangerous Offer , The Village of Silence and A Man Under Suspicion

literature

Web links

Commons : Petra Schmidt-Schaller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c Sabine Schneider: Precarious conditions. In: Stern TV-Magazin, supplement to Stern 5/2011 (double-page cover story with a portrait of Petra Schmidt-Schaller on the occasion of the first broadcast of Das teilte Glück )
  3. ↑ Petra Schmidt-Schaller in a report for the rbb television show Stilbruch from December 4, 2008.
  4. ↑ Petra Schmidt-Schaller in a report on the MDR broadcast Artour from January 29, 2009
  5. ↑ Ulf Manhenke: Romeo and Juliet - 3rd year students play title roles at the Dresden State Theater and at the German National Theater Weimar , in: MT-Journal, magazine of the University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy", No. 17, June 2004, Page 33 (PDF; 106 kB) ( Memento from July 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Listed under the title Margaretha. Eddy. Dirty rich .
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  8. ↑ German Film Academy: Pre-selection 2008 (PDF; 293 kB). The preselection is the preliminary stage for nomination and should not be confused with it.
  9. ↑ So the actress appeared as the title picture and lead story of the most common, with a circulation of more than 9 million copies German TV magazine rtv no. 47/2008 .
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  20. ↑ ZDF wins with “Der Tote im Watt”. In: Meedia of November 15, 2015, accessed April 23, 2013
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  22. ^ Franziska Weisz becomes the new "Tatort" commissioner. In: Rheinische Post of March 29, 2015 (accessed on March 29, 2015).
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  29. ↑ Project information - "Vita Mia and the spark of life" (PDF; 2.2 MB) ( Memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  30. ^ Anne Diekhoff: Actress Schmidt-Schaller: "When, if not now?" In: Berliner Morgenpost. April 26, 2018. Retrieved April 28, 2018 .
  31. ↑ The baby is here! , Bunte .de from August 14, 2011
  32. ↑ Michael Zöllner: The Walser film is so sexy , BZ from August 27, 2007
  33. ↑ Martin Walser: A loving man. Roman, Rowohlt, Reinbek 2008, ISBN 978-3-498-07363-3 .
  34. ↑ Frank Quilitzsch: Just following my career is not enough for me. Interview with Petra Schmidt-Schaller. In: TLZ.de , dated June 22, 2013, accessed on August 29, 2013.
  35. ↑ Directed by Thomas Stuber, project data: Die Form des Wasser by crew united , accessed on January 20, 2009
  36. ↑ Director: Tristan Vostry, student film at the Bauhaus University Weimar , project data: box at crew united , accessed on January 20, 2009
  37. ↑ Director: Lena Libertà, student film at the Bauhaus University Weimar, data at IMDB
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  42. ^ Press kit Goldene Henne 2008 , Hubert Burda Media
  43. ↑ Undine Award 2008 nominations, (PDF; 3 MB) ( Memento from December 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt-Schaller, Petra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg