Andrea Sixt
Andrea Sixt (born May 4, 1958 in Regensburg ) is a German screenwriter and writer .
Career
Sixt was born and raised in Regensburg. She studied supply engineering in Munich where, as a graduate engineer, she managed a building technology company for several years. She gained additional professional experience in the Principality of Monaco where she lived for some time. In 1995 Sixt went freelance as a screenwriter. She celebrated her breakthrough with the box office success Workaholic with Christiane Paul , Tobias Moretti and Ralf Bauer in the lead roles, in which she was involved as an author.
Five years after her breast cancer, Sixt wrote the autobiographical novel Once Again Love , which was filmed in April 2005 - also based on her script. Since 2004, novels such as Dream Daughter and The Transparent Man, as well as the Counselor Finally Healthy! , 7 Backups for a Post-Cancer Life and Everybody is Perfect . The film adaptation of her novel A Very Hot Number , also based on her script, advanced to the second most successful German arthouse production of 2011 with more than 1.3 million visitors . The play of A Very Hot Number that she then wrote had its world premiere in the Komödie im Bayerischen Hof and is still played throughout Germany today. Since 2009 Sixt has been the managing partner of ATrack Film GmbH, which among other things co-produced a very hot number .
Private life
In 1995 Sixt was diagnosed with breast cancer. For the first few years after the illness, she lived mainly abroad, mainly in Los Angeles . Sixt is co-founder of Breast Cancer Germany eV and ambassador for the Society for Biological Cancer Defense.
Filmography (selection)
- 1996: Workaholic
- 2005: love again
- 2007: How do you kiss a millionaire?
- 2008: The dream hotel - Caribbean
- 2011: A very hot number
- 2012: On the trail of the lion
- 2016: Change of page
- 2019: A very hot number 2.0
Web links
- Official website
- Andrea Sixt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Andrea Sixt at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andre Sixt at diekinokritiker.de
- ↑ Andrea Sixt, Finally Healthy My 7 Backups
- ↑ Film hit list: Annual list (German) 2011 . In: Filmförderungsanstalt . FFA.de. Retrieved February 10, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sixt, Andrea |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German screenwriter and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4th 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | regensburg |