Annette Mayer

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Annette Mayer (born March 27, 1962 in Düsseldorf ) is a German actress and chanson singer .

Life

Annette Mayer received her training at the Hildburg Frese drama school in Hamburg. In addition, she studied singing with Noëlle Turner. After her first roles at the Thalia Theater in the Hanseatic city and the Kammerspiele there , she went to the Rheinisches Landestheater Neuss for two seasons in 1985 . In 1988 she appeared again in the title role at the Hamburger Kammerspiele, directed by Gerlach Fiedler in The Diary of Anne Frank . Other stages in her stage career included the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater in Hamburg , the Theater im Zimmer , the comedy Winterhuder Fährhaus and the Ohnsorg-Theater , in Stuttgart the State Theater , the Alte Schauspielhaus and the Comedy in Marquardt , the Fritz Rémond Theater in Frankfurt , the Theater am Kurfürstendamm in Berlin and the Bernhard Theater in Zurich .

In addition to classical roles such as Franziska in Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm or Ophelia in Hamlet by William Shakespeare or Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire was and Mayer often seen in musical pieces, as Polly in The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill , as Sally Bowles in Cabaret by John Kander and Fred Ebb , as Hodel in Anatevka after Scholem Alejchem or as LaVerne , one of the three Andrews Sisters , in Sing Sing Sing . From 2000 to 2003 Mayer was Princess Sophie of Bavaria in the musical Ludwig II - Longing for Paradise on the stage of the Musical Theater Neuschwanstein . She also played the title roles as Edith Piaf , Judy Garland and Marlene Dietrich in the pieces Piaf , Judy and Marlene . She was also on the road with the solo theater evening Die Eisprinzessin by FK Waechter and played the play Big Blind Date specially written for her by Karin Drechsel at the Kammerspiele in Hamburg . From 2012, Annette Mayer appeared in revues such as hot times .

Annette Mayer began working in front of the camera in the late 1980s. She became known from 1989 as a consultation assistant Britta at the side of Christian Quadflieg in the ZDF series Der Landarzt . In the following years she had recurring roles in other series, for example in Friends for Life , Die Pfefferkörner , Die Rettungsflieger or Animals up to the Roof . In 2007 she took part in the controversial Tatort episode Whom Honor is due and directed the short film E + U with Anne Zohra Berrached , which was shown at the Hof International Film Festival . She was to be seen as the head of care in Notruf Hafenkante , as the managing director in Heldt , as a Polish housekeeper next to Michael Degen in winter hunting and in 2018 in the criminalist as a mother. This was followed by the cinema productions I've never been to New York , Hello Again - A Day Forever and Rubble Girl .

In addition, Mayer performs as a chanson interpreter with texts by Georg Kreisler , Friedrich Hollaender or Günter Neumann at various cabaret stages in German-speaking countries. With Lieven Brunckhorst she celebrated in Alma Hoppe's Lustspielhaus with Herzschmerz Première and with Michael Bayer in 2004 with ScheinWelten . In her program Oh la-la l'amour she sings chansons that have become popular with Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel and Juliette Greco . Excerpts from their programs I can't help but find myself beautiful and When the circus was on fire are released on a CD. In 2012 she toured with her evening Wärmefrei - Annette Mayer und die Stadtnomaden . She was on the road with Ulrich Stolpmann with her musical reading Des Meeres and Liebe Wellen .

Annette Mayer lives in Stuttgart.

Filmography

Awards

  • Boy Gobert Prize (1992)
  • Wolfsburg Cabaret Prize
  • 1st prize in the Ralph Benatzky Chanson Competition
  • Relexa Artist Prize

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography at theapolis.de , accessed on March 9, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c website of Annette Mayer
personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Annette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and chanson singer
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf