Adriana Altaras

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Adriana Altaras at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2018

Adriana Altaras (born April 6, 1960 in Zagreb , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a German actress , theater director and author .

Life

Adriana Altaras is the daughter of former Jewish partisans from today's Croatia , Jakob Altaras and Thea Altaras . The father went abroad in 1964 and the family was to follow. However, the authorities withdrew her mother's passport. Family members from Mantua then smuggled the four-year-old daughter out of the country. She lived with aunt and uncle in Italy for three years. In 1967 Adriana met her parents in Giessen. She attended the Waldorf School in Marburg and, after graduating from high school, studied acting at the Hochschule der Künste (HdK) in Berlin .

After studying in New York City , she co-founded the independent theater for the western town hirschen , where she was able to work as a director and author in addition to acting. She received guest engagements as an actress at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater and the Freie Volksbühne in Berlin as well as in Stuttgart , Konstanz and Basel .

In the early 1980s she received her first film roles, but the focus of her work was still on various theater projects. After directing work at the Berliner Ensemble and the Neukölln Opera , her staging of the vagina monologues , which was shown with changing actresses in 2001, was a great success. In the cinema she was mainly seen in films by Rudolf Thome , with whom she had worked since the 1980s. In 1988 she received the German Film Award for her role in Thome's film Das Mikoskop .

In addition to her theater and film work, she worked as an interviewer for Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation and as a lecturer at the HdK in the field of musical performance . She regularly writes in Zeit Online in the free text category, including a trip to the land of poets and executioners in May 2016 .

Regina Schilling made the film Tito's glasses (2014) based on the book by Adriana Altaras about her , in which she travels through her Croatian homeland in search of her family past.

Together with the composer Wolfgang Böhmer she has two sons, including Aaron Altaras .

Filmography (selection)

Fonts

  • Tito's glasses. The story of my exhausting family . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 3rd edition 2011, ISBN 978-3-462-04297-9 . Fischer paperback, ISBN 978-3596193042 .
  • Doitscha. A Jewish mother unpacks. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-462-04709-7 .
    • as an audio book, read by the author a. a., Random House 2014, 5 CD 370 min.
  • The sea and I were in our prime: stories from my everyday life . Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2017 ISBN 978-3-462-04958-9
  • The Jewish prompter. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-462-05199-5 .

Web links

Commons : Adriana Altaras  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adriana Altaras unpacks ( memento from November 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), ndr.de, November 22, 2013
  2. ↑ Giessen Jewish Community - Dr. Thea Altaras. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 20, 2015 ; Retrieved April 9, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jg-giessen.de
  3. ↑ Dieter Wunderlich Tito's glasses, table of contents
  4. ↑ Free text. Adriana Altaras. In: Zeit Online. Retrieved January 24, 2017 .
  5. ^ Adriana Altaras: Excursion to the land of poets and executioners. In: Zeit Online. May 19, 2016. Retrieved January 24, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Encounter with the ghosts from the family album in FAZ from December 15, 2014, page 14
  7. ↑ IMDB
  8. ↑ ISBN 978-3837128260 , abridged reading
personal data
SURNAME Altaras, Adriana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and director
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Zagreb , SFR Yugoslavia