Ann-Kathrin Kramer

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Ann-Kathrin Kramer (2019)

Ann-Kathrin Kramer (born April 4, 1966 in Wuppertal ) is a German actress and author .

life and work

Origin and education

Ann-Kathrin Kramer was born as the daughter of a freelance painter and sculptor . She has two older brothers. The director and cameraman Willy Zielke is her great-uncle.

Kramer attended a secondary school in Wuppertal, which she left at the age of 16. She worked in Munich as an advertising designer , portrayed tourists in Greece and in 1989 she took her Abitur. At the age of 23 she went to the Gmelin drama school in Munich, where she trained as an actress. She took singing lessons from Anneliese Hofmann de Boer and acting lessons using the Lee Strasberg method from John Costopoulos.

Movie and TV

In September 1993, Kramer was directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb at the side of Mathias Herrmann , Marion Kracht , Maja Maranow and Krystian Martinek in the film comedy No perfect man for the first time on television. In the following years she was seen in several guest roles in various television series, such as SOKO Munich , Love is a private matter and Everything but Murder . She got her first continuous serial role as OR nurse Anna Seidelberg in the Sat.1 hospital series Hallo, Unkel Doc! where she appeared in the first fourteen episodes. In the twenty-six part ARD television series Die Partner , she was seen alongside Jan Josef Liefers and Ulrich Noethen as investigator Caro Koslowski in one of the leading roles.

Since then, Kramer has worked in numerous film and television productions. In the ZDF television film Die Konkurrentin (1997) she cast director Dagmar Hirtz as the dynamic and ambitious business economist Maren Rieger, who falls in love with her competitor and superior Katharina Nordberg ( Charlotte Schwab ). Another collaboration with Schwab followed with the ZDF crime series Das Duo , where she and her as chief detective Lizzy Krüger, who she played from 2002 to 2006, formed the eponymous duo.

In Marc Rothemund's love comedy The Strange Behavior of Sexually Mature City dwellers during the mating season (1998), she played one of the leading roles alongside Christoph Waltz , who plays Charly, as his ex-wife Manuela. In the documentary television film Abgehauen , which, based on the diaries of the actor Manfred Krug, describes actual events that followed the expatriation of the songwriter Wolf Biermann from the GDR , she played the role of the wife of the artist and sculptor Manfred Salow , who is in the film by Peter Donath was embodied. In the Sat.1 thriller Whore Murder - A Priest Is Silent , she was seen for the first time at the side of Harald Krassnitzer , who played the title role of the priest, as her film sister Anna Kleine. Directed by Christiane Balthasar , she took on the role of profiler Michelle Eisner, who works for the BKA Frankfurt, in the Sat.1 erotic thriller Callboys - Every lust has its price (1999) , who she played in the films of the same name in the films Messerscharf - Deadly Paths of Love (2002) and The Order - Murder Case in the Homeland for two more times. She had another similar role in the thriller On the Thin Line , where she falls in love with the police officer Carla, who as an undercover agent tries to solve the mysterious suicide of her friend and colleague, with a prosecutor and finally with a web of corruption and sexism device.

In January 2001 she was seen for the first time in the ZDF crime series A strong team in a guest role. In Peter F. Bringmann's staged episode Lug und Trug , she played the wife of the freight forwarder Lars Buchwald ( Peter Sattmann ), who staged her own kidnapping in order to start a new life with her lover Benno Sommer ( Ingo Naujoks ) with a decent start-up capital. In 2014 (as Gisela Kubasch) and 2015 (as the second wife of the foundation's founder Günther Berger), she again made guest appearances in the crime series. In the ARD television film Alone Among Men , she played the leading role of the young veterinarian Dr. Tana Fechner, who falls in love with the riding stable owner Bernhard Bausch (Harald Krassnitzer). In Peter Keglevic's Sat.1 crime film Der Tanz mit dem Teufel (2001), which traces the kidnapping of the entrepreneur Richard Oetker in December 1976, she played the role of Lena alongside Sebastian Koch .

In the Sat.1 television film Heiratsschwindlerin mit Liebeskummerin (2006), for which Kramer also wrote the screenplay, she embodied the kiosk owner Therese Kötter, who is about to go bankrupt. In the television crime series Die Nun und der Kommissar , she starred in three films in 2006, 2009 and 2012 in the lead role of the idiosyncratic sister Camilla. 2007 Kramer was the first time in the television series crime scene to see where they subsequently Bright future of the Bremen investigation teams Lürsen and Stedefreund took over the role of Frederike Kawentz. In the two-part television series Im Meer der Lügen (2008), she played the single mother Stefanie Ritter, directed by Jörg Grünler , who falls in love with a flight captain, is suspected of murder and ends up in a Mexican prison. In the fifth and final case of the ARD crime series Commissario Laurenti , Totentanz (2009), Kramer played the sister of Laurenti's archenemy Viktor Drakic ( Christopher Buchholz ), who not only commits contract killings , but also, in the heat of the moment , the journalist Alba Guerra ( Natalia Avelon ) slays.

In the thirteenth film in the film series Das Traumhotel , Chiang Mai (2010), she took on a leading role as Susanne Rückert, who missed her husband Holger after a dive in Chiang Mai, Thailand. In the Sat.1 production 380,000 Volt - The Great Power Failure (2010), she was seen in the role of Berlin-based Anja Radtke, the chief engineer of an energy supplier. In 2010 she had a historical role alongside Armin Rohde in the ARD fairy tale film Der Meisterdieb as Countess Greta. In the two-part ORF 1 thriller Missing - Alexandra Walch, 17 (2011), she and Richy Müller impersonate the suffering parents whose daughter Alexandra Walch disappears without a trace on her 17th birthday. She played the wife of oil manager Hubert Fischbach (Harald Krassnitzer) in Michael Riebl's Austrian-German television film The Competition (2011). In the psychological thriller Kleine Morde (2012) she acted alongside Paul Falk as lawyer Julia Corner in one of the leading roles. In the ARD television film Alles für Meine Daughter (2013) she played the Cologne teacher Ines Erdmann, who gave her daughter up for adoption and who will see her again after several years in her school class. In Walter Weber's dramedy The Monastery Stays in the Village (2015), she took on the role of the intriguing psychologist Dr, alongside Suzanne von Borsody and Therese Hämer. Ulrike Purscheck. In the last film in the ARD melodrama series Liebe am Fjord , Das Alter der Erde (2016), she was seen as mountain guide Birthe Haugen, who threatens to lose the ground under her feet when her 20-year-old daughter Tilde moves out of home . From 2016 to 2017 she was seen together with Harald Krassnitzer in the ARD film series Parents Alone at Home as the Schröder couple. In Wedding in Rome (2017) she was seen as the mother of the Cologne-based architect Max Hauser, who fell in love with the attractive waitress Bianca D'Arcadia from Rome. In the ARD television film Verliebt auf Island (2019), she took on the role of single parent Claudia Freydank, who fell in love with her son Patrick's best friend and tried to hide it from her son. In the ZDF Herzkinofilm Ein Sommer auf Mykonos (2020) she played the mother of the main character Jana Johannson, portrayed by Valerie Huber , who sees her ex-husband again in Mykonos.

Kramer is a member of the Federal Drama Association and the German Film Academy .

Activity as an author

In 2005 her children's book Matilda - Or those from the house without windows was published by Edition Riesenrad Verlag. The rights were later bought by Baumhaus Verlag and were re-illustrated in 2013 under the title Matilda, the girl from the house without a window . In March 2014, News from Matilda, the girl from the house without a window, was a continuation of her children's book.

In November 2008, Stefan Loeffler published a book about Ann-Kathrin Kramer with the title Encounters .

Private

Ann-Kathrin Kramer and Harald Krassnitzer ( Romy Awards 2008 in Vienna)

Until 1999, Ann-Kathrin Kramer was in a relationship with her colleague Jan Josef Liefers , whom she met while filming the television series Die Partner , for five years . From this relationship comes a son who was born in 1997.

Since 1999 she has been with the Austrian actor Harald Krassnitzer , whom she met while filming Hurenmord - Ein Priester is silent . On July 7th, 2009 the couple got married after ten years of relationship on a ship on the Danube in the Wachau . They live together in Wuppertal and in Krassnitzer's adopted home Mieming in Tyrol .

Since the 1990s, Kramer has been volunteering for the Dunkelziffer association , which supports sexually abused children. She was also an ambassador for the Federal Children's Hospice Foundation in Olpe .

Filmography (selection)

literature

Secondary literature
  • Ann-Kathrin Kramer: Matilda - Or the one from the house without a window. Edition Riesenrad Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-8339-0077-8
  • Ann-Kathrin Kramer: News from Matilda, the girl from the house without a window. Baumhaus Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8339-0136-2
Primary literature

Web links

Commons : Ann-Kathrin Kramer  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Ann-Kathrin Kramer , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 29/2013 from July 16, 2013, in the Munzinger Archive , accessed on July 16, 2013 ( beginning of article freely available)
  2. ^ Ancestors wanted: Ann-Kathrin Kramer ( memento from March 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). A film by Heiko Schäfer. Broadcast on WDR on March 19, 2010. Accessed on January 5, 2010.
  3. ↑ a b Cf. Sit, Six! - School stories from Germany (3/3). Experiment school . Documentary by Susanne Bausch on behalf of SWR. German premiere on December 22, 2005
  4. ↑ The Partners (26 episodes). Retrieved March 30, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Ann-Kathrin Kramer: character actress and author Official ZDF website ; accessed on April 27, 2020.
  6. ↑ Ann-Kathrin Kramer at Fernsehserien.de
  7. ↑ Ann-Kathrin Kramer: "More and more people are getting involved who want to make a film mass-compatible." Ann-Kathrin Kramer in conversation with Tobias Goltz, Planet Interview from January 3, 2008.
  8. ↑ Commissario Laurenti: Start of shooting for the new episode "Totentanz" with Henry Hübchen in Trieste / Italy on May 6, 2008 on presseportal.de
  9. ↑ Das Erste: "Hochzeit in Rom" (AT): Shooting in Italy with Harald Krassnitzer and Ann-Kathrin Kramer for a romantic ARD Degeto comedy from October 12, 2016 on presseportal.de
  10. ↑ Ann-Kathrin Kramer In: deutsche-filmakademie.de; accessed on August 1, 2020.
  11. ↑ a b c Adultery drama at Wetten, dass ..? In: BZ , online edition of January 28, 2006.
  12. ↑ whores murder - A priest is silent content and film criticism at tvspielfilm.de
  13. ^ Krassnitzer / Kramer: Wedding on the Danube In: Hamburger Abendblatt , online edition of July 15, 2009.
  14. ↑ Love Waltz on the Blue Danube In: Bunte Issue No. 30/2009.
  15. ↑ Jonas Erlenkämper: Krassnitzer raves about the glamor-free life in Wuppertal In: Berliner Morgenpost , online edition of December 2, 2016.
  16. ↑ Ann-Kathrin Kramer and Harald Krassnitzer: Time out at Christmas In: Gala , online edition from December 25, 2016.
  17. ^ "Bundesstiftung Kinderhospiz" introduces new ambassador In: Westfälische Rundschau , online edition of August 12, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Kramer, Ann-Kathrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 4th 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal