Cornelia Schirmer

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Cornelia Schirmer (* 1968 in Schweina ) is a German actress .

Life

From 1987 to 1991 Cornelia Schirmer attended the "Ernst Busch" Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin . Together with Bruno Cathomas she received a solo award at a meeting of German-speaking drama schools and in this way got to know the director and then artistic director of the Hamburg Thalia Theater Jürgen Flimm , who committed her to his house at the Alstertor. Here she played until 1998 and then moved to the German Theater in Berlin. Since 2001 she has been working as a freelancer, and since then she has appeared frequently on Hamburg stages, as a guest at the Thalia Theater, as well as at the St. Pauli Theater , the Kammerspiele and the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater .

Under well-known directors, alongside Jürgen Flimm Robert Wilson , Thomas Langhoff , Katharina Thalbach and Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger , Schirmer played well-known roles such as Luise (at the Thalia Theater) and Lady Milford (at the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater) in Friedrich Schiller's drama Kabale and love , Franziska in Heinrich von Kleist's comedy Minna von Barnhelm that Polly in the Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill or Desdemona in Shakespeare's Othello .

With Fritz the tractor driver , Schirmer has created her own recital that provides information about her childhood in the GDR. The multiple mother wrote children's songs for her sons. She also teaches and directs at the School for Drama in Hamburg .

Cornelia Schirmer had some of her few appearances in front of the camera before the DEFA cameras , including in the film Coming Out , which premiered on November 9, 1989 at the East Berlin Kino International on the day the Wall came down .

Cornelia Schirmer lives in Hamburg.

Filmography

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Profile at schauspielervideos.de , accessed on May 24, 2016
  2. a b biography on the Thalia Theater website , accessed on May 24, 2016