Alissa Jung

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Alissa Jung (born June 30, 1981 in Münster ) is a German actress and doctor .

Life

Alissa Jung was born as the first daughter of the later Mayor of Leipzig , Burkhard Jung ( SPD ) and Juliane Kirchner. She has three siblings.

From 1992 to 1999 Jung was a member of the children's radio play ensemble of the MDR and dubbed various children's films and series. In 1996 she began to play theater (including in the Leipzig Theaterhaus Schille as Antigone and in the Schauspiel Leipzig in Jeff Noons Gelb ). At the age of 16 she was discovered during a theater performance and took on her first film role in the ARD series In all friendship in 1998 . Since then she has worked in many film and television productions. She became known in 2006 through the leading role of Nelly Heldmann in Sat.1 - Telenovela Butterflies in the Belly , the fairy tale adaptation of The Emperor's New Clothes or the Sat 1 film Im Brautkleid mein Sister . She was internationally successful in 2012 in the title role of the two-parter Her name was Maria and the leading roles in the films Open my Eyes and Zweisitzrakete

In 2017, the trained doctor received her doctorate.

In 2019, Jung returned to the screen with the critically acclaimed little television game Das Menschen Possible , for which she was nominated for the Grimme Prize in 2020.

In 2008, Jung initiated the “Schools for Haiti” campaign, which she has been leading since 2011 as chairwoman of the Pen Paper Peace Association . The association is committed to education in Central America and Europe. Among other things, he finances two schools in Port-au-Prince / Haiti and uses educational projects to sharpen the global sense of responsibility among young people in Germany and Italy.

Jung has two children with the presenter Jan Hahn : Lenius (1999) and Julina (2004). They separated in autumn 2006. Jung lives with her husband, Luca Marinelli in Berlin. They met on the set of Her Name Was Maria (2012).

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ THAT! - Actress Alissa Jung as guest (interview minute 22:05). Retrieved July 11, 2019 .
  2. ↑ https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/bitstream/handle/fub188/13031/Dissertation_AJung.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
  3. ↑ The human possible - review of the film at Tittelbach.tv. Retrieved September 13, 2019 .
  4. ↑ "The Human Possible " on ZDF: a doctor at the limit. Retrieved September 13, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Nominations - Grimme Prize. Retrieved February 27, 2020 .
  6. ^ Pen Paper Peace, Der Verein accessed on October 26, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Young, Alissa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster