Carmen Birk
Carmen Simone Birk (* 1980 in Timișoara , Socialist Republic of Romania ) is a German actress of Romanian origin.
biography
Carmen Birk comes from the western Romanian city of Timișoara ( German Timişoara ). She belongs to the ethnic group of the Banat Swabians and grew up bilingual ( "I [...] was neither completely Romanian nor completely German. The feeling of not belonging has always been with me [...]" ). Birk studied acting at the West University of Timisoara and began her career at the German State Theater there . Impressed by a meeting of drama schools in Germany in 1999, she moved to Leipzig . From 2000 to 2004, Birk studied acting at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theater . During her training, she was a member of the acting studio at the Chemnitz Theater and appeared there in 2003 in Mikhail Bulgakow Glückseligkeit . She also made her first film and television appearances with which she financed her studies, including the part of a punk in Connie Walther's award-winning film Wie Feuer und Flamme (2001) alongside Anna Bertheau , Antonio Wannek and Tim Sander . In 2003 she was in Ralf Schmerberg's poem - I put my foot in the air and she wore to see, in which she was at the side of Meret Becker , Klaus Maria Brandauer , Herbert Fritsch , Richy Müller , Luise Rainer , Anna Thalbach and Jürgen, among others Vogel recited well-known German poems of the avant-garde and classical music.
After completing her acting training, Birk became a permanent member of the ensemble of the New Theater in Halle (Saale) for three years . There she made her debut in 2004 with a small role in the play Colonel, Skull, Brain Dings . In the same year she played a singing role in Franz Wittenbrink's Secretaries (2004), while in 2005 she took on the part of wet nurse Hanna Kennedy in a production of Schiller's Maria Stuart and Christine played in Ödön von Horváth's Zur Schöne Aussicht . Birk became known to a larger audience through her portrayal of Lolita-like Dita in Paul Binnert's Alone the Sea according to Amos Oz in Halle (2005) and at the Berlin Theatertreffen (2006). The Berliner Morgenpost saw in her “a veritable eye- catcher” who would embody the role “fresh and melancholy, nervous and thoughtful” .
After several years of abstinence from film and television, Birk called himself back to the memory of a broad German audience in 2010. In Juliane Engelmann's internationally award-winning short film Scars in Concrete , she was seen as a betrayed and overwhelmed young mother from the Berlin-Marzahn prefabricated building district , who hides another pregnancy and kills the child after birth. According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , the film “thanks to the great Carmen Birk in the leading role, no judgment” , but takes part. In the same year she appeared in Dominik Grafs In the face of the crime (2010). In the critically acclaimed multi-part crime series, she took on a role as a newly divorced police officer in need of consolation alongside the main actors Max Riemelt and Ronald Zehrfeld .
Filmography
- 2001: like fire and flame
- 2002: Inspector Role - Sex Ads (TV Series)
- 2002: Appetizers (short film)
- 2003: Savannah (TV)
- 2003: Poem - I put my foot in the air and carried it
- 2003: A Strong Team - The Great Silence (TV series)
- 2004: Tatort - An Honest Skin (TV series)
- 2004: Customs - Discretion Guaranteed (TV series)
- 2010: Scars in Concrete (short film)
- 2010: In the Face of Crime (TV series)
- 2013: Tatort - Cold Blood
- 2013: Henry - The Movie (short film)
- 2014: Mum and Deiwelsmilch
Plays (selection)
year | Play | role | stage |
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2003 | bliss | Acting studio, Theater Chemnitz | |
2004 | Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story | Maria Elena | Opera House Hall |
2004 | Colonel, skull, brain thing | New theater hall | |
2004 | Secretaries | New theater hall | |
2005 | Michael Kohlhaas | New theater hall | |
2005 | Maria Stuart | Hanna Kennedy | Festival hall Viersen |
2005 | Coma (multimedia staging) | Stadtbad Halle | |
2005 | To the beautiful view | Christine | New theater hall |
2005/06 | The sea alone | Dita | New Theater Halle Berlin Theatertreffen |
Web links
- Carmen Birk in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b cf. Färber, Detlef: Double debut with sign language . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , September 15, 2004 (accessed via wiso presse )
- ↑ cf. Monologue . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 18, 2006 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft )
- ↑ Documentation on the Theatertreffen German-speaking Acting Students 1999 (PDF, 3.8 MB), accessed on August 26, 2012
- ↑ cf. Göpfert, Peter Hans: Voices tell of love, suffering and grief . In: Berliner Morgenpost, May 19, 2006, No. 136, p. 23
- ↑ cf. Rother, Hans-Jörg: 60th Berlin International Film Festival - Everything goes wrong, hope remains . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 11, 2010, No. 35, p. 36
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Birk, Carmen |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Birk, Carmen Simone (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian-German actress of Romanian origin |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1980 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Timișoara , Socialist Republic of Romania |