Anja Kling

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Anja Kling (2019)

Anja Kling (born March 22, 1970 in Potsdam ) is a German actress and voice actress . She became known in 1989 with the leading role in Herrmann Zschoche's feature film Green Wedding . In reunified Germany , the role of Helke Hagedorn in the ZDF series Hagedorns Daughter was her breakthrough.

Life

Origin and early years

Anja Kling grew up with her sister, the actress Gerit Kling , who was five years her senior , in Wilhelmshorst near Potsdam . Her father was until 2007 the studio boss in the DEFA Studio for Documentary Babelsberg , her mother is an art teacher and since 1994 (its) actor agent .

She wanted to become a doctor from first grade and study medicine after graduating from high school , but her sister, who made her debut as a child in Egon Günther's Anlauf (1971), advised her to take part in an open casting , which she took to heart and successfully completed. First she was engaged in supporting roles for the DEFA productions Thank You for the Flowers (1987, as the second gardener), With Body and Soul (1988, as Melanie's friend) and Polizeiruf 110: Amoklauf (1989, as a girl) . Finally she cast Herrmann Zschoche for the leading role in the DEFA film Green Wedding , in which she plays the 17-year-old factory worker Susanne, who accidentally becomes pregnant after a night of love with her boyfriend Robert ( Marc Lubosch ), marries and gives birth to twins. With this film she became known to a wider audience. Starting in 1989, she hosted the girls' magazine Paula for two years for the youth program Elf 99 . According to her own statements, Kling and her sister fled to Bavaria via the ČSSR five days before the fall of the Berlin Wall - on November 4, 1989 .

After the turn

In the early 1990s she began her acting studies at the Ernst Busch drama school in Berlin, but broke it off again because Helke Hagedorn offered roles in the ZDF series Hagedorns Daughter . For Kling, the role was the breakthrough in reunified Germany. In 1995 this role brought her the Golden Camera in the category “Best Young Actress”. Kling stated that he later took private acting and speaking lessons. In 1996 she stood for the first time at the side of her five-year-old sister in front of the camera for the ten-part ZDF adventure series Lost in Thailand . She played the supporting role of Katja, while Gerit took on the main role of Constanze Strauten. For her leading role as Barbara Greenberg Altamura in the eighth and ninth seasons of the Italian television series La Piovra 8 , she received the Golden Nymph and the International Critics' Prize of the Monte Carlo TV Festival in 1998 .

At the turn of the millennium , Kling was in the German-Belarusian film drama Von Hölle zu Hölle , which premiered in Belarus in 1996, in the role of the Kielce- born Jew Helena Golde, who is to be deported with her husband Hendrik, but survives her stay in the concentration camp, to see. In Johannes Fabrick's two-part television series Der Seerosenteich , based on the novel of the same name by Christian Pfannenschmidt , she acted as the best friend of the fashion designer Isabelle Corthen, portrayed by Natalia Wörner . At the beginning of 2003 she was seen alongside Lisa Martinek as Gerit Raische in Uwe Janson's crime film Hunt for the Flame Man . In October 2003 she starred alongside Maja Maranow in Matti Geschonneck's melodrama Dear Sister, in the lead role of Judith Wlassek, who had breast cancer. Geschonneck cast her for another leading role in the television film Die Ärztin (March 2004), where she played the vascular surgeon Inga Neumann, who is looking for private happiness and who is promoted by the chief physician by being allowed to operate on transplants herself. In the same year she was in the feature film (T) Spaceship Surprise - Period 1 to see where they took over the role of Queen Metapha, a parody on the Star Wars -Figuren Princess Leia and Padme Amidala . Also in 2004 she began to play with Christian Tramitz in his comedy series Tramitz & Friends and received the German Comedy Award and a Bambi .

In the historical Sat.1 two-part television series We Are the People - Love Knows No Borders (2008), she took on the leading role of the young mother Katja Schell, who wanted to follow her husband, who had fled to the West years ago, across the Hungarian border, where she was picked up and is imprisoned in the remand prison of the Stasi in Hohenschönhausen . For her acting performance there she was awarded three prizes: The Golden Camera (as “Best Actress”), the Bavarian Television Award (as “Best Actress in a TV Film”) and the German Television Award as an ensemble award . In February 2009 she was seen in German cinemas as the mother of Lilli in the children's film Lilli the Witch - The Dragon and the Magic Book . She was also cast as Lilli's mother for the sequels Hexe Lilli - Die Reise nach Mandolan (2011) by Harald Safeitz and the witch Lilli saves Christmas (2017) by Wolfgang Groos , with the witch Lilli being played by three different young actresses.

For the title role in the crime film Hannah Mangold & Lucy Palm by the tough investigator Hannah Mangold, which she played in The Last Days in 2009 , she was awarded the Bavarian TV Prize for “Best Actress in a Series” in 2012. In Thomas Schadt's documentary television film The Resignation (2014), she took on the role of Bettina Wulff, the then wife of the tenth German President Christian Wulff . In the German-Austrian television tragic comedy Chutzpah - Humans need Klops! (2015) she was seen as the daughter of Holocaust survivor Edek Rotwachs ( Dieter Hallervorden ).

In April 2015, ZDF started a new series of crime films under the broadcast title Die Wallensteins with her as chief detective Bärbel Wallenstein in the lead role. After the second episode with the new broadcast title Dresden Mord , the series was discontinued in the summer of 2016 due to bad reviews and a below-expected audience rating of 4.96 million viewers.

Anja Kling (center) at the premiere of Help, I've shrunk my teacher

In the children's film Help, I've Shrunk My Teacher, which premiered in December 2015 based on the children's book of the same name by Sabine Ludwig , she was the strict school principal Dr. Schmitt-Gössenwein, who is shrunk to the size of a thumb by her eleven-year-old problem student Felix, played by Oskar Keymer , can be seen in one of the leading roles. In the sequel Help, I've Shrunk My Parents , she played this role again from January 2018.

In 2019 she was seen as Stefanie in one of the leading roles in Jan Georg Schütte's improvisational film class reunion about a school class that graduated from high school 25 years ago and will meet again after all this time. Since October 2019, Kling has been investigating as head of commission 14 of the Leipzig murder commission in the ZDF crime series Das Quartett . In March 2020 she was seen alongside Philipp Hochmair as Countess Sophia von Szápáry in one of the leading roles in the eight-part Austrian-German-Czech television series Freud from ORF and Netflix .

In addition, it operates since the mid-1990s as a voice actor, including synchronized to 1997, the American actress Meg Ryan by the female lead role of Anastasia in the eponymous cartoon einsprach.

Miscellaneous and private

In 2007, Kling's autobiography was published under the title Meine kleine Großfamilie: 6 adults, 3 children and lots of action by List Verlag. In April 2020, together with her sister Gerit, she published the book Then just without a title in pure dialogue form ... We could not agree again: Two sisters, one story in which they tell personal experiences and private stories about themselves.

Together with her sister, she regularly takes part in the sled dog races of the Baltic Lights, which are committed to Welthungerhilfe .

Kling lives with her sister in Wilhelmshorst near Potsdam, where she grew up. Two children, a son and a daughter, come from a twenty-year relationship with unit manager Jens Solf. In November 2012, Kling announced that she and Solf were living separately. In September 2018 she married the film candlestick Oliver Haas at Blankensee Castle , whom she had met three years earlier while shooting a film.

Filmography (selection)

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Audio books

Autobiographies

  • 2007: My small extended family: 6 adults, 3 children and lots of action. List, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3471795668
  • 2020: Then without a title ... Once again we couldn't agree: Two sisters, one story. ARISTON, ISBN 978-3424202236

Awards

In 1998, at the Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo, the eighth season of the miniseries La Piovra - Lo scandalo ( As long as there is love ), in which Kling played the role of Barbara Greenberg Altamura, both with the "Golden Nymph" and with one Critic award excellent.

Web links

Commons : Anja Kling  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Anja Kling in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  2. ↑ a b c d Jessica Schulte am Hülse: Anja Kling: "I don't want the GDR back" online edition Die Welt from September 11, 2005.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Anja Kling In: Prisma.de .
  4. ↑ a b "We are the people - love knows no borders": Anja Kling fled across the border as a child. In: RP Online from October 6, 2008. Accessed on March 9, 2020.
  5. ↑ Doris Banuscher: People of the world. Anja Klings declaration of love to Hamburg. The Berliner stands with Maja Maranow for the film "First you dream, then you die" in front of the ZDF camera In: Die Welt, September 3, 2002.
  6. ↑ Anja Kling agency profile with vita. Retrieved March 9, 2020.
  7. ↑ Manuel Weis: ZDF puts an end to "Dresden Mord" In : quotemeter.de from February 14, 2018. Retrieved on March 9, 2020.
  8. ↑ New in the cinema: Help, I've shrunk my teacher. In: Nordkurier from December 16, 2015. Retrieved on March 9, 2020.
  9. ↑ Sebastian Loskant: New in the cinema: "Help, I've shrunk my teacher" In: nord24.de on December 18, 2015. Accessed on March 9, 2020.
  10. ↑ Family comedy: "Help, I shrunk my parents" In: Focus Online from January 13, 2018. Retrieved on March 9, 2020.
  11. ↑ Class reunion: The actors and their roles In: Das Erste from March 6, 2019. Retrieved on March 21, 2020.
  12. ^ "Class reunion" on ARD: Impro film with Anja Kling . In: Hamburger Abendblatt of March 6, 2019. Accessed on March 21, 2020.
  13. ^ "The Quartet": New ZDF Saturday crime thriller with Anja Kling . Golden camera. Retrieved October 19, 2019.
  14. ↑ “The Quartet” solves the first case - the start is not very inspiring . TV review. In: Berliner Morgenpost of October 12, 2019. Retrieved October 19, 2019.
  15. ↑ Series from ORF and Netflix: The Sorrows of Young Freud In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 13, 2020. Retrieved on March 21, 2020.
  16. ↑ Literature from and about my small extended family: 6 adults, 3 children and lots of action in the catalog of the German National Library
  17. ↑ Baltic Lights race with TV celebrities and 500 sled dogs In: welt.de on February 26, 2020. Accessed on March 21, 2020.
  18. ↑ Anja Kling takes time out from their relationship. In: RP Online from November 9, 2012. Retrieved on March 9, 2020.
  19. ↑ Ildiko Röd: Actress Anja Kling said "Yes". In: maz-online.de . September 27, 2018, accessed March 9, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kling, Anja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and voice actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilhelmshorst