Carmen Birk

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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

Plays (selection)

year Play role stage
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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Färber, Detlef: Double debut with sign language . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , September 15, 2004 (accessed via wiso presse )
  2. ↑ cf. Monologue . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 18, 2006 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft )
  3. ↑ Documentation on the Theatertreffen German-speaking Acting Students 1999 (PDF, 3.8 MB), accessed on August 26, 2012
  4. ↑ cf. Göpfert, Peter Hans: Voices tell of love, suffering and grief . In: Berliner Morgenpost, May 19, 2006, No. 136, p. 23
  5. ↑ 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
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