Anja Kruse

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Anja Kruse at the Berlinale 2010

Anja Kruse (born August 5, 1956 in Essen ) is a German actress .

Live and act

Anja Kruse, the daughter of an entrepreneur from Essen, attended the Folkwang School in Essen for acting and singing after graduating from high school . In the 1979/80 season she received her first engagement at the Munster Municipal Theaters . From 1980 to 1983 she played a. a. at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, at the State Theater Oldenburg , at the Musiktheater Gelsenkirchen and at the Theater des Westens in Berlin.

In addition to her successful stage career, she made her first feature film The White Rose by Michael Verhoeven in 1981 . In 1984 she got her first major television role in the ZDF multi-part series Die Schöne Wilhelmine , in which she played the title character Wilhelmine von Lichtenau . As the best young actress, Anja Kruse was awarded the Golden Camera in 1984 . Many television films and roles in well-known series such as Das Traumschiff , Die Schwarzwaldklinik and Der Alte followed . She also played the role of Dr. Angelika Rombach in the Falkenau Forestry House .

Private

Kruse was in a relationship with the operetta buffo Heinz Hellberg until 1989 and lived in Vienna . In 1992 she met the French director Jean-Louis Daniel while filming and followed him to Paris . The couple married in 1995 and lived in a country house in Normandy . After years of separation, the marriage ended in divorce in 2008. From 2004 to 2010 a relationship with the Austrian television producer Norbert Blecha followed . In 2006 she was named the first “traditional costume ambassador” by the Austrian family company Tostmann . Kruse lives in the south of France near Cannes and in Salzburg .

Kruse has been a practicing Buddhist and supporter of the new Soka Gakkai religious movement since the mid-1990s .

Filmography (selection)

Theater (selection)

  • 1980: Luise, Kabale and Love (Schiller)
  • 1985: Nora, Nora (Ibsen)
  • 1986: Eliza, My Fair Lady
  • 1988: Marianne, Tales from the Vienna Woods (Horvath)
  • 1989/1990: Maggie, After the Fall (A. Miller)
  • 1992: Polly, Threepenny Opera
  • 1994: Daliah, The Palestinian Woman
  • 1997/1998: Heather, I'll get out and do my own show
  • 1998–2000: The Unequal Couple (Simon)
  • 2004: Mme. Therbouche, The Free Spirit (EE Schmitt)
  • 2005: Fee, Beauty and the Beast
  • 2006–2009: Mrs. Robinson, The Graduation Examination
  • 2012: The assets of Mr. Süß, Nibelungen Festival Worms
  • 2016: The first name

book

Web links

Commons : Anja Kruse  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Again solo gala.de from January 21, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Kruse, Anja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH 5th August 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH eat