Alexandra Helmig

Alexandra Helmig

Alexandra Helmig (* 1975 in Düsseldorf ) is a German actress , speaker, author and jazz singer.

Life

Alexandra Helmig was born in Düsseldorf in 1975. She graduated from high school in 1994. After studying French in Paris, she began her acting training in 1996 at the Hamburg drama studio. During her apprenticeship, she worked alongside Mehmet Kurtulus in the play "Wilde Liebe" by Sam Shepard  at the Hamburger Kammerspiele as well as numerous engagements for film and television plays.

Helmig has been an author in the genres of picture books, children's books, theater and screenwriting since 2002. In the same year she studied "Creative Writing" at the  University of Munich . Her first plays were performed in 2006 as part of the Autorentheatertage at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg and during the workshop days at the Vienna Burgtheater . In 2008 Alexandra Helmig received the German State Theaters' Prize for Authors for the play "oder Argentina". Your plays are published by Drei Masken Verlag.

On March 21, 2019, the film “Frau Mutter Tier”, based on the play of the same name by Helmig, was launched throughout Germany and in which she was involved as a screenwriter, producer and actress and contributed a title to the soundtrack.    

In the area of ​​jazz singing, Alexandra Helmig took lessons from jazz singer Karen Edwards and continued her education in numerous workshops. In 2012 she was admitted to the master class with jazz singer Fay Victor at the New York Jazz Workshop School and in 2014 she was selected by Claus Reichstaller for the “Jazz Masters Workshop 2014” at the Burghausen Jazz Academy. Since 2013 she has performed under the stage name "Ada Morghe".

Her debut album "Pictures", which was produced by Hans-Martin Buff in London's Abbey Road Studios , was released on February 15, 2019 by Sony Music. The album, for which Helmig wrote almost all the songs, is assigned to the jazz genre , but also shows popular singer / songwriter influences. Some of the most experienced session musicians on the London jazz scene such as Livingstone Brown (bass), Luca Boscagin (guitar), Josh “MckNasty” McKenzie (drums) and Luke Smith (keyboards) formed a band around the recording .

Helmig also works as a spokesperson for various publishers (including Kein & Aber, Berlin Verlag ). In 2013/14 she accompanied Elizabeth Gilbert as the German voice on her book tour of “The Essence of Things and Love” and Margaret Atwood on her book tour of “The Story of Zeb”. Alexandra Helmig can also be heard on various audio books and apps.

Helmig founded the non-profit Kinderkunsthaus Munich in 2011 and was a member of the board of trustees at Lesefüchse eV Munich from 2008 to 2015.

She lives in Munich, Berlin and London.

Filmography (selection)

• 2019: Frau Mutter Tier (feature film, director: Felicitas Darschin )
• 2017: LUX - Warriors of Light (feature film, director: Daniel Wild)
• 2015/16: Soko Munich: Hopelessly, The Prodigal Son, Katharina's nightmare (ZDF, directors: Katharina Bischof, Johanna Thalmann)
• 2014: Help, I've shrunk my teacher (movie, director: Sven Unterwaldt )
• 2014: Krippenwahn (short film, BR, director: Satu Siegemund)
• 2014: Twinfruit (ZDF, director: Matthias Thönissen)
• 2012: At the end of the day (SWR, director: Johannes Grieser )
• 2007: Die Schnüfflerin - Peggy can't help it (SAT 1, director: Peter Gersina )
• 2006: The Unknown (feature film, director: Daniel Rakete Siegel )
• 2006: The specialists: Kripo Rhein-Main (ZDF, director: Axel de Roche)
• 2005: A devil for the Engel family (SAT 1, director: Rolf Silber )
• 2005: SOKO 5113 (ZDF, director: Florian Froschmayer )
• 2005: Pastor Braun - The Invisible Evidence (ARD, Director: Uli Stark)
• 2005: The Other Half of Happiness (SWR, Director: Chr.Baltasar)
• 2004: Commissioner Ellen Lucas (ZDF, director: Thomas Berger )
• 2001-07: Stratmanns (WDR, director: Klaus Keller)
• 2000: Der Doc (SAT.1, director: Axel Bock)
• 1999: Heaven and Earth (ARD, Director: Dominik Wessely )
• 1999–2001: Friends for Life (TV series)

theatre

• 2008: The German Mother ( Muffathalle Munich, Director: Inga Helfrich )
• 2002: Nathan the Wise ( Bad Gandersheimer Festspiele , director: Alfred Sieling)
• 2002: The Pain / The Human Gender ( Bad Gandersheim Festival , Director: Georg Immelmann )
• 2000: Alberta receives a lover ( Bad Gandersheimer Festspiele , director: Georg Immelmann )
• 1998: The three from the gas station (Altonaer Theater Hamburg, director: Kay Anthony)
• 1998: The Mood of Lovers ( Thalia Theater Hamburg , Director: Peter Roggisch )
• 1998: Wilde Liebe ( Hamburger Kammerspiele , director: Telat Yurtsever )

Publications

Single track

• 2018: Kosmo & Klax. Courage stories, Mixtvision Verlag , ISBN 978-3-95854-124-5
• 2018: Kosmo & Klax. ABC stories, Mixtvision Verlag , ISBN 978-3-95854-061-3
• 2017: Kosmo & Klax. Friendship Stories , Mixtvision Verlag , ISBN 978-3-95854-085-9
• 2016: Kosmo & Klax. Bedtime stories, Mixtvision Verlag , ISBN 978-3-95854-063-7
• 2016: Kosmo & Klax. Seasons Stories, Mixtvision Verlag , ISBN 978-3-95854-062-0
• 2016: In the Land of Clouds, Mixtvision Verlag , ISBN 978-3-95854-052-1
• 2015: Lua and the magic marble, Mixtvision Verlag , ISBN 978-3-944572-10-9
• 2009: Kosmo & Klax - ABC stories to experience, Mixtvision Verlag , ISBN 978-3-939435-20-4
• 2007: Kosmo & Klax - All stories to experience, Mixtvision Verlag , ISBN 978-3-939435-16-7

Audio books

• 2018: Kosmo & Klax. Courage stories, Mixtvision Verlag , ISBN 978-3-95854-125-2
• 2018: Kosmo & Klax. ABC stories, Mixtvision Verlag , ISBN 978-3-95854-113-9
• 2017: Kosmo & Klax. Friendship Stories , Mixtvision Verlag , ISBN 978-3-95854-096-5
• 2016: Kosmo & Klax. Bedtime stories, Mixtvision Verlag , ISBN 978-3-95854-087-3
• 2016: Kosmo & Klax. Seasons stories, Mixtvision Verlag , ISBN 978-3-95854-086-6
• 2010: Kosmo & Klax - ABC stories to experience, Mixtvision Verlag , ISBN 978-3-939435-28-0
• 2007: Kosmo & Klax - All stories to experience, Mixtvision Verlag , ISBN 978-3-939435-17-4

Plays

• 2011: Frau Mutter Tier (Drei Masken Verlag; world premiere in April 2016 in the Sensembletheater Augsburg)
• 2008: The German mother (Megaeins; world premiere on September 24, 2008 in the Muffathalle Munich)
• 2008: or Argentina (Drei Masken Verlag; world premiere on February 18, 2010 in the Theater Hof)
• 2006: Leila Surana (Drei Masken Verlag; world premiere as a scenic reading in 2006 at the Thalia Theater Hamburg)

music

• As "Ada Morghe": Pictures , Sony / Okeh Records , February 2019

Scripts

• Mother Animal (2019)

Anthologies

• 2016: The Sheep in the Sky Blue Dressing Gown (edited by Christine Knödler), Mixtvision Verlag , ISBN 978-3-95854-060-6

Awards

• 2014: Third place at the Coburg Forum for Young Authors with the play "Leila Surana"
• 2008: Prize of the Landesbühnen for the play "oder Argentina"
• 2007: Bronze Award, Rostock Film Festival for the role in "The Unknown"
• 2000: Roswitha-Ring of the Bad Gandersheimer Domfestspiele for the role as Alberta in Alberta receives a lover

Web links

• Official website
• Alexandra Helmig in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Alexandra Helmig on Filmstarts.de
• Literature by and about Alexandra Helmig in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nicole Graner: Munich: Quietly miss something . In: sueddeutsche.de . ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on May 19, 2016]).
2. ↑ “Circus and magic are a popular pair. But a story about the disappearing magic in a circus, as told by Alexandra Helmig in her children's novel Lua und die Zaubermurmel, is new: In it, the nine-year-old heroine has the gift of 'seeing things that others did not see'. ” Unobtrusive and touching . Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 26, 2015
3. ↑ Hamburger Schauspiel-Studio Frese: Awards ~ Schauspiel-Studio Frese. In: schauspielstudio.de. Retrieved June 9, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Sponsorship award of the Landesbühnen to Alexandra Helmig: In Hof "or Argentina". Retrieved April 7, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Barbara Hordych: Scenes from the sandpit . In: sueddeutsche.de . 2019, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed June 13, 2019]).
6. ^ Filmmaker Alexandra Helmig. In: ARD Mediathek. Retrieved June 13, 2019 . 
7. ↑ ADA Morghe & BAND Live in Concert. (No longer available online.) In: what is going on today. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 9, 2016 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
8. ↑ Cologne Verlag Axel Stinshoff: Jazz thing & Blue Rhythm: News, reviews, concerts, festivals, jazz on television and radio. Retrieved June 13, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Tour Archive | Official Website for Best Selling Author Elizabeth Gilbert. Retrieved July 6, 2016 (American English). 
10. ^ The first time I met Margaret Atwood. In: www.berlinverlag.de. Retrieved July 6, 2016 . 
11. ^ The story of Zeb - Literaturhaus Munich. In: www.literaturhaus-muenchen.de. Retrieved July 6, 2016 . 
12. ↑ FOCUS Online: Alexandra Helmig. In: FOCUS Online. Retrieved May 19, 2016 . 
13. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine: The mother, the dubious being. In: Augsburger Allgemeine. Retrieved June 9, 2016 . 
14. ↑ Interview with the author Alexandra Helmig about her play "oder Argentina" at the theater hof. Retrieved March 24, 2019 . 
15. ↑ Author's Theater Days. In: Literaturhaus Hamburg. Retrieved June 9, 2016 . 
16. ↑ gutschik.de: Funded projects: FFF Bayern. In: www.fff-bayern.de. Retrieved June 9, 2016 . 
17. ↑ CLICKSPORTS Digital Solutions: Leila Surana - Landestheater Coburg. (No longer available online.) In: www.landestheater-coburg.de. Archived from the original on June 9, 2016 ; Retrieved June 9, 2016 .