Barbara Romaner

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The heavily pregnant Barbara Romaner is honored as best actress at the Austrian Film Prize 2011 .

Barbara Romaner (* 1978 in Bozen , Trentino-South Tyrol ) is a South Tyrolean actress . She made a name for herself above all as a longstanding ensemble member of the Munich Volkstheater . She also became known to a wide audience through the female lead in Percy and Felix Adlon's feature film Mahler on the Couch (2010).

biography

Training and first theater roles

Barbara Romaner was born in Bolzano, where she grew up bilingual (German and Italian). Although her family was not connected to the theater, she began to be interested in the stage as a child. After graduating from high school in her hometown, she attended the “Claudio Monteverdi” Music Conservatory in Bolzano, where she studied piano ( “Back then, at the Conservatory, I was more likely to press the keys than make music” ). At the age of 19, Romaner moved to Germany, where she settled in Munich after stays in Hamburg and Berlin . From 1999 to 2003 she studied acting at the Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding . As part of her training, Romaner worked as "You" in Xavier Durringers ... kills the lovers ... Whole Days - Whole Nights II (2001), as the Princess of France in William Shakespeare's Love and Pleasure , as Arikia in Biljana Srbljanović ' Belgrade Trilogy (both 2002) as well as in the plays Das Fest by Thomas Vinterberg and Ingeborg Bachmann's Der gute Gott von Manhattan (both 2003).

After completing her acting training, Romaner had her first theater engagement at the Städtische Bühnen Bielefeld. In 2004 she played Celia in the Shakespeare comedy As You Like It at the Luisenburg Festival , which brought her the young talent award of the city of Wunsiedel . Romaner also appeared at the Luisenburg Festival in the following years. In 2005 she played her first leading role with the Geierwally under the direction of Michael Lerchenberg , which again earned her praise from the critics and is her favorite role to this day. The following year followed in the production by Wolfgang Maria Bauer, the part of Nina in Anton Chekhov's Die Möwe and the title role in Pippi Longstocking (2006).

Member of the ensemble at the Munich Volkstheater and first film roles

In addition to Romaner's engagements at the Luisenburg Festival, he performed at theaters in Würzburg , Fürth and Augsburg until 2007 ( Schöne und das Biest , 2005; Weg mit Dir , 2006). In the spring of 2007 she impressed at an audition at the Munich Volkstheater and then became a new permanent member of the ensemble at the Schauspielhaus together with Nico Holonics , Friedrich Mücke and Xenia Tiling under the management of the risk-taking Christian Stückl ( “A casual authority” ). Romaner made his debut in Munich in the 2007/08 season in Stückl's production of Friedrich Schiller's Don Karlos . This was followed by the self-confident gallery owner Maike in Juli Zeh's crime novel Schilf, adapted for the stage by Bettina Bruinier, or the part of the 14-year-old pregnant Nawal in Wajdi Mouawad's Burns . For their roles in the 2007/08 season ( "The first year was the hammer" ) received Romaner a nomination from the journal Theater heute as Best Young Actress awarded.

Further nominations followed for Christian Stückl's production of Peer Gynt (2008), in which she was seen as the kidnapped bride Ingrid and the desert beauty Anitra, as well as for her title role of a clumsy student who clings to her ideals in the funny-melancholy grotesque Lilly Link (2008). In its criticism of Ewald Palmetshofer's play , the Süddeutsche Zeitung pointed out living. unter glas (2008) referred to the “intelligent kind of eroticism” with which Romaner has known how to impress in all previous roles at the Volkstheater. In 2009 she took on the title role in Bettina Bruinier's stage version of Alice in Wonderland at the Munich Volkstheater , followed by Anna Karenina in a production by Frank Abt in 2010 .

Parallel to her theater work, Romaner took part in readings and began to take advantage of film offers from time to time. In 2002 she took on the title role in Ingo Knopf's experimental short film Cyberheidi 3D . She made her feature film debut in 2009 with the female lead in Wolfgang Weigls Blindlings , in which a man (played by Mirkus Hahn ) kidnaps his former lover in order to force her to speak in a remote hut. This earned her a nomination as best actress for the German Film Award . Romaner became known to a larger German-speaking audience through Percy and Felix Adlon's film Mahler auf der Couch (2010), which the actress discovered through the performance of Schilf at the Munich Volkstheater. In the drama, she can be seen as the devoted and long-suffering wife of the composer Gustav Mahler (played by Johannes Silberschneider ), who visits the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud ( Karl Markovics ) because of a marital crisis . For the part of Alma Mahler , Romaner was hailed by critics as a discovery and in 2011 was awarded the Austrian Film Prize for the first time as best actress .

Barbara Romaner is in a relationship with her ensemble colleague Friedrich Mücke , with whom she lives in Don Karlos , Schilf , Peer Gynt , among others . performed under glas , Hamlet and Anna Karenina . He also appeared at her side in Mahler on the couch as Walter Gropius . In 2011 the two became parents.

Plays (selection)

year Play role stage
2003 the snow Queen Gerda Bielefeld Theater
2004 As you Like It Celia Luisenburg Festival
2005 The Geierwally Geierwally Luisenburg Festival
2006 The seagull Nina Luisenburg Festival
2006 Pippi Longstocking Pippi Longstocking Luisenburg Festival
2007 Don Karlos Princess of Eboli Munich Volkstheater
2007 reed May Munich Volkstheater
2008 Burns Nawal Munich Volkstheater
2008 Peer Gynt Ingrid, the green one, Anitra Munich Volkstheater
2008 dwell. under glass Jeani Munich Volkstheater
2008 fist Gretchen Munich Volkstheater
2008 Lilly Link or Hard Times for the Rev ... Lilly Link Munich Volkstheater
2009 Alice in Wonderland Alice Munich Volkstheater
2009 Hamlet Ophelia Munich Volkstheater
2010 Oresty Clytaimnestra Munich Volkstheater
2010 Anna Karenina Anna Karenina Munich Volkstheater
2010 The visit of the old lady various roles Munich Volkstheater

Filmography

Awards

  • 2004: Young talent award from the city of Wunsiedel for the play As You Like It (Luisenburg Festival)
  • 2008: Nominated by Theater heute as the best young actress for her roles in the 2007/08 season at the Munich Volkstheater
  • 2008: Nominated by Theater heute as best young actress for her role in Peer Gynt at the Munich Volkstheater
  • 2008: nominated for the Merkur Theater Prize
  • 2009: Nominated as best actress for the German Film Award for Blindlings
  • 2009: Nominated by Theater heute as best young actress for her role in Lilly Link at the Munich Volkstheater
  • 2011: Austrian Film Award for Best Female Actress for Mahler on the Couch

Web links

Commons : Barbara Romaner  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Interview at aviva-berlin.de, December 2010 (accessed on December 21, 2010)
  2. ↑ a b cf. Laudation ( memento from July 15, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Michael Lerchenbergs for the young talent award of the city of Wunsiedel at luisenburg-aktuell.de (accessed on December 21, 2010 via Google Webcache)
  3. ↑ a b c cf. Tholl, Egbert: The glow of longing . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 8, 2010, p. 59
  4. ↑ a b cf. Profile. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed October 7, 2016 .
  5. ↑ cf. New prizes for young talent . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten , July 19, 2004 (accessed via wiso presse )
  6. ↑ cf. Ziegler, Susanne: The splendid Adler Hansl is the star of the evening . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten, June 28, 2005 (accessed via wiso presse )
  7. ↑ cf. "The Geierwally" opens the festival at the Luisenburg . In: Bayerische Staatszeitung, July 1, 2005, p. 22
  8. ↑ cf. Course to the northeast . In: Abendzeitung , September 18, 2007, p. 18
  9. ↑ a b cf. Langhammer, Franziska: The truth behind the nonsense . In: Abendzeitung, January 22, 2009, p. 16
  10. ↑ cf. Drössel, Christine: Threesome with a climax . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 26, 2008, p. 17
  11. ↑ cf. Stenzel, Oliver: In bed with Alma . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten , July 8, 2010, p. 20
  12. ↑ cf. Zander, Peter: Symphony from lovesickness . In: Die Welt , July 8, 2010, p. 21
  13. ↑ cf. Offspring . In: Berliner Morgenpost , January 17, 2011, No. 16, p. 30
personal data
SURNAME Romaner, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian actress (South Tyrol)
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolzano , Trentino-Alto Adige , Italy