Corazon Herbsthofer

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Corazon Herbsthofer (* 1996 in Kisumu , Kenya ) is a German actress of Kenyan descent.

life and career

Corazon Herbsthofer was born in 1996 in the Kenyan port city of Kisumu. When she was nine years old, her mother Lily (* 1976) emigrated to Germany with Corazon and her brother . Here the mother married the 25 years older German driver Paul Herbsthofer, who adopted the two children. It was more by chance that she got into acting when she was approached by acquaintances about a casting for a new Tatort episode. Herbsthofer, at the time a student in Berlin , attended this casting and was immediately taken under contract. On 13 days of shooting she played the Somali schoolgirl Eshe Steger in Tatort: ​​Death of a Teacher , who is said to be involved in the death of her teacher. In the years that followed, the native Kenyan was largely calm in terms of acting. It wasn't until 2016 that Herbsthofer, who, in addition to her first mother tongue Swahili and her second mother tongue German, also speaks fluent English and has basic knowledge of French , returned to regular assignments as an actress. For example, she took part in an episode of the US series Berlin Station , which was mainly filmed in Germany , in which she can be seen in the role of Yasmin in the fifth episode of the first season entitled Under Pressure . In the same year she made her debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where she worked on the music theater project Neuland , in which 22 refugees and 22 young people from Berlin took part. In 2017, Tobias Mrosek directed the lead and title role in the short film Yamina , in which she mimes a Nigerian girl who is about to be deported . Herbsthofer played a night nurse in the hospital in the television film Building a House with Obstacles , which premiered on November 24, 2017 on Das Erste .

Filmography (selection)

Theater appearances (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Music theater project “Neuland Blomagal” at the Deutsche Oper Berlin , accessed on November 1, 2017
  2. ↑ Official website of Yamina , accessed on November 1, 2017
  3. ^ Film project Everyday refugees on the big screen , accessed on November 1, 2017
  4. ↑ Building a house with obstacles on filmstarts.de, accessed on November 1, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Herbsthofer, Corazon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Kisumu , Kenya