Andrea Clausen

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Andrea Clausen (born January 17, 1959 in Oldenburg ) is a German actress and member of the Vienna Burgtheater ensemble . She is the great niece of the theater photographer Rosemarie Clausen and also the theater actor Claus Clausen .

Stage career

Andrea Clausen began her acting training with Étienne Decroux in Paris and then studied at the Folkwang School in Essen . After graduation she was first to the State Theater in Oldenburg , then at the spectacle of Cologne committed and in 1986 she was appointed the new director of the Schauspielhaus Bochum , Frank-Patrick Steckel . Her collaboration with the director Andrea Breth , which continues to this day, began here . Theater heute magazine voted her the best young actress of 1987 for her roles in the Andrea Breth productions South by Julien Green and Sommer by Edward Bond .

In 1991 she moved to the Burgtheater in Vienna with directors such as Claus Peymann (" Clavigo " by Goethe with Ulrich Mühe ), Paulus Manker (Julie in Ferenc Molnár's " Liliom " alongside Karlheinz Hackl ), Wilfried Minks and Hans Neuenfels (for their portrayal in his Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf? production at the side of Klaus-Maria Brandauer they received the Kainz Medal ), together. In 1994 she was brought to Berlin by the artistic director of the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz , Andrea Breth . After two years in Berlin, she returned to the Wiener Burg, where she still belongs to the ensemble today. Since her return, her directors have included Andrea Breth, Matthias Hartmann , Luc Bondy ("Drei Mal Leben" and " König Lear ") and Karin Henkel .

She was nominated three times for the Nestroy Theater Prize in the category “Best Actress” : 2001 for her role in Drei Mal Leben , 2003 as Countess Orsina in Emilia Galotti and 2005 as Ranjewskaja im Kirschgarten .

On December 10, 2005 she was Otto Brusatti's guest on the Ö1 Saturday program “Klassik-Treffpunkt” at the RadioKulturhaus / ORF KulturCafé. In 2006 her portrait was photographed by Ilse Haider and exhibited in the Burgtheater's new portrait gallery.

At the Salzburg Festival she was seen for the first time in 1997 in a Peter Stein production of Libussa , and more times in Andrea Breth productions, in 2002 in Das weite Land and 2012 in Prince Friedrich von Homburg . In 2017 she will again be seen in a production by Andrea Breth in Salzburg, this time as Meg in Die Birthday Party , a play by Harold Pinter .

In 2007 the actress received the radio play award "Actress of the Year 2006" from the ORF jury, which was presented to her on March 23, 2007 in the Radiokulturhaus during the Long Night of the Radio Play , after the laudation from her fellow actor Sven-Eric Bechtolf . At the Wiener Festwochen 2007 she played the role of Goneril in Luc Bondy's production of King Lear . Andrea Clausen's voice is not alien to radio play lovers either: She is often used as a speaker.

Private life

She is married to the Austrian graphic designer and illustrator Helmut Pokornig and is the mother of twin daughters Marie and Jelena, who were born in 2003. Because of the birth she had to sit out on stage for a short time in the 2003/2004 season; Corinna Kirchhoff took over her role as Countess Orsina in Emilia Galotti . She lives in Vienna.

Stage roles

At the Schauspielhaus Bochum

At the Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz, Berlin

At the Burgtheater and the Akademietheater, Vienna

Film rolls

Radio plays

Awards

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  1. ^ Article by Andrea Schurian on Andrea Clausen, 2008
  2. ↑ Broadcast Klassik-Treffpunkt with Otto Brusatti, Ö1, December 10, 2005
  3. ↑ Profile , No. 21 May 21, 2007

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personal data
SURNAME Clausen, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg