Anja Franke

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anja Franke (2011)

Anja Franke (born September 17, 1964 in West Berlin ) is a German screenwriter , director and actress .

Life

Anja Franke is the daughter of Holger Franke , who co-founded the Berlin children's and youth theater “Rote Grütze” in 1973 , in which Anja Franke later also played. She grew up in a 13-person shared apartment where actors and directors met.

Even as a child, Anja Franke had her first TV appearances in Sesame Street and in the Feuerroten Spielmobil . At the age of 15, she left school to become an actress. She studied two years at the University of the Arts Berlin in the Department of Musical .

Together with her long-time friend and former partner Dani Levy , she developed the scripts for two feature films, helped direct and played a leading role in Du mich auch and in RobbyKallePaul .

She became known to a larger television audience in Germany through the role of Senta Kurzweg in the television series Liebling Kreuzberg alongside Manfred Krug . In addition to a few movies at the end of the 1980s, Anja Franke subsequently worked mainly for television. So she was u. a. seen in the series Polizeiruf 110 and Bis in die Spitzen .

In 2004 she played Jana in the film Alles auf Zucker! by Dani Levy and her father.

Since September 2011 ( ep . 1106) she has played the German-Dutch florist, businesswoman and amateur pilot Merle Vanlohen in the ARD telenovela Rote Rosen .

She is the mother of a daughter (* 2001).

Prizes and awards

  • 1987: Max Ophüls Audience Award
  • 1990: German Actor Award Chaplin-Schuh of the Federal Association of German Film and Television Directors. V. as the best young actress
  • 1992: German Young Talent Award
  • 1997: Goldener Spatz at the Gera Children's Film Festival

Filmography

as a screenwriter:

  • 1986: You me too (with Dani Levy)
  • 1989: RobbyKallePaul (with Dani Levy)

as a director:

  • 1986: You me too (with Dani Levy)

as an actress:

Appearances on entertainment shows

theatre

1981/1982 at the Logo-Theater Berlin:

  • What does love mean here?

1987–1993 at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart:

  • Shine, my star, shine
  • Man, I love you
  • You don't talk about that
  • What does love mean here?
  • Threepenny Opera
  • Foreign guests
  • marathon

Radio plays

Web links

Commons : Anja Franke  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press report Das Erste
personal data
SURNAME Franke, Anja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin