Anja Laïs

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Anja Laïs (born January 23, 1968 in Berlin ) is a German actress and radio play speaker .

Life

Anja Laïs completed an acting degree at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich . She initially had engagements at well-known German-speaking theaters such as the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam and the Theater in der Josefstadt , at the Wiener Festwochen and the Salzburg Festival . In Berlin, Laïs worked at the Grips Theater , the Maxim Gorki Theater and in the bar of every reason . From 1998 to 2013 she had a permanent engagement at the Schauspiel Köln , after which she moved together with its director Karin Beier to the Deutsche Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, of which she is currently a member. Here she was seen as Jeléna in Anton Chekhov's drama Uncle Wanja , as well as the mad doctor Mathilde von Zahrnd in the physicists of Friedrich Dürrenmatt and in Yasmina Reza's comedy The God of Carnage .

Since the mid-1990s, Anja Laïs has also occasionally worked in front of the camera, preferably as a guest actress in well-known series such as Wolffs Revier , Wilsberg , The Last Bull or SOKO Cologne . Her work as a radio play speaker is more extensive. Primarily between the turn of the millennium and 2013 she took part in several dozen productions of the West German Broadcasting Corporation .

Anja Laïs was nominated twice for well-known theater prizes: in 2000 for the Ulrich Wildgruber Prize and in 2001 for the Nestroy Theater Prize . She lives in Hamburg with her children.

Filmography

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait on the website of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus , accessed on May 4, 2016
  2. ↑ Profile at filmmakers.de , accessed on May 4, 2016
  3. ^ Heinrich Oehmsen: Premiere of Dürrenmatt's Mad Doctor in the Schauspielhaus , Hamburger Abendblatt, April 24, 2015 , accessed on May 4, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Laïs, Anja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lais, Anja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin