Christina Drechsler

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Christina Drechsler (* 1982 in Berlin ) is a German actress .

Life

In 1997, while she was still in school, she played for half a year in the RTL2 soap opera All together, each of them the terminally ill Eva Sanders. She then played minor roles at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, including in Berlin Alexanderplatz (with Ben Becker as Franz Biberkopf), and in Die Ratten as Selma Knobbe. Both productions by Uwe Eric Laufenberg .

After graduating from high school, she studied acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin and graduated in 2004 with a diploma.

From 2003 to 2013 she was a permanent member of the Berliner Ensemble (BE). In 2005 she received the Daphne Prize of the TheaterGemeinde Berlin for "outstanding acting performances". She worked a lot with Thomas Langhoff , including as Hedvig in the Wild Duck , or as Lavinia in Desecration , with George Tabori (including as Mitzi in his play Jubiläum ), and with Robert Wilson (as Polly in the Threepenny Opera , in Shakespeare's Sonnets and as Gretchen in Faust ). At the BE she played Kattrin, the silent daughter, in Mother Courage and her children , staged by Claus Peymann .

In addition to her theater engagement, Drechsler shoots for film and television. In 2012 she was nominated for the German Film Prize for her supporting role in Christian Schwochow's drama Die Insichtbare . She plays the main character's disabled sister in the film.

She works as a freelance actress and (as of 2016) plays in several pieces at the Berliner Ensemble, as a guest at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus under the direction of Wilfried Schulz and in Robert Wilson's Der Sandmann , premiered in May 2017.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • 2005: Daphne Prize of the TheaterGemeinde Berlin.
  • 2012 nomination for the German Film Prize as best actress in a supporting role for "The Invisible"

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