Bastienne Voss

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Bastienne Voss , also Bastienne Voss-Büttner , (born November 19, 1968 in Berlin ) is a German actress and writer .

Life

Voss grew up mainly in her grandparents' house in Berlin-Blankenburg , since her parents, who were both ballet dancers, studied ballet teachers together in Moscow for several years.

At the age of 14, Voss came to the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Gymnasium , which is connected to a boarding school , today's State High School for Music , in Wernigerode , where he attended special classes for music education. After graduation, she worked as chief secretary at the Center for Art Exhibitions in the GDR. In the 1990s she trained to be an actor and then began studying singing at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Applied Sciences in Dresden. During her studies she had her first roles in television soaps such as Gute Zeiten, Bad Zeiten and Forbidden Love .

From 1999 to 2006 she was a member of the ensemble of the Berlin cabaret Die Distel and took part in seven major stage programs. Voss is also a dubbing and documentary speaker.

Her first work as a writer was published in 2007 under the title Drei Irre unterm Flachdach as a print edition and audio book by Verlag Hoffmann und Campe . It describes their family history. Her second book, the novel Mann für Mann , was published by Piper-Verlag in March 2010.

In 2015, Bastienne Voss published postponed satirical texts by Peter Ensikat (* 1941) under the title Believe me not a word , with whom she lived for the last twelve years until his death in 2013. Together with the actor Wolfgang Winkler , she keeps the work of Ensikat in memory with literary and musical programs.

Voss lives with her daughter in Berlin.

Filmography

Publications

  • Three lunatics under the flat roof. Verlag Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-455-50020-2 .
  • Three lunatics under the flat roof. Paperback special edition. Piper-Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-492-26339-9 .
  • Three madmen under the flat roof - a family story. read by the author. Verlag Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-455-30537-1 . (2 CDs, 140 min)
  • Man for man . Piper-Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-492-05370-9 .
  • with Peter Ensikat (ed.): Don't believe a word. Lagged satire. edition q in be.bra verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86124-691-6 .

Quotes

“The staff is as weird as the ambience: Wilma, Gustav and Bastienne live in an American bungalow on the outskirts of East Berlin, cobbled together from tar paper, aluminum foil and sheets. "Three lunatics under the flat roof" - these are grandma, grandpa and a granddaughter, whose Francophone dowry alone breaks the loyal GDR cosiness. Rebellion is the order of the day in this household, and the resistance often aims by a hair's breadth at sheer madness (...) In addition, Bastienne Voss creates the Brueghelian moral image of a society trapped in self-deception and hypocrisy. Beyond government control, everyone remains his neighbor under socialism. The triumph of capitalism in 1989 is almost the logical consequence. Bastienne and Wilma are shaken by the post-reunification blues and make terrible, and also terribly accurate observations - for example, that Berlin's megalomania gives birth to a monstrous "Kassel-wants-to-be-cosmopolitan architecture" at Potsdamer Platz. Gustav doesn't have to experience any of this anymore. He died of colon cancer long before the fall of the Berlin Wall. In 1998 the granddaughter discovered his notes: "A stranger writes." Three hundred and fifty pages of memoirs - the career of a communist who leaves the Nazi concentration camp as a house tyrant because he can only roaringly keep the ghosts of the past at bay. Bastienne Voss is blessed with so much dry wit that she has wrested a wonderfully cryptic book from this familiar tragic comedy - a true story, the cheery fictions à la "Good bye, Lenin!" looks pretty tired. "

- Dorion Weigmann: Bullerbü in Blankenburg - A tragicomic childhood in the GDR. Review. to: Three madmen under the flat. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. August 20, 2007, p. 20.

“Some critics said that Peter Ensikat was the Dieter Hildebrandt of the East. "I agree," said Ensikat, "if Hildebrandt is the Ensikat of the West." The actress and author Bastienne Voss quotes this bon mot from her partner in the afterword. She is the editor of the volume "Believe me not a word". The book brings together unprinted satires from the estate of the great cabaret artist. "Quite a few of his texts have no expiry date," writes Voss. The Berliner died in March 2013 at the age of 71. His stylistically brilliant texts are directed against dumbing down and transfiguration, the becoming god of money and the lies of politics. He considers the current democracy to be as threatened as the environment. What the higher values ​​are in post-moral times, "you can read off the Dax". Ensikat's derisive rule of thumb for dealing with history is: "The worse the memory, the more beautiful the memories." As in every serious cabaret artist, there is a piece of do-gooder in him. For him, satire begins where the fun ends. He wants to encourage his audience to show moral courage and encourage them against cowardice, adaptation and resignation. "

- Rainer Kasselt: I think, so I'm wrong - Without an expiry date: A book from the estate brings together satires by the great cabaret artist and author Peter Ensikat. In: Saxon newspaper. January 9, 2016, p. 36.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Profile at the Hoffmann & Campe publishing house. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Vita on Voss ′ official homepage. Retrieved August 24, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Dieter Wunderlich: Book Tips & Film Tips. Retrieved April 22, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Profile at be.bra Verlag. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Voss, Bastienne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voss, Bastienne; Voss-Büttner, Bastienne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 19th November 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin