Dennenesch Zoudé

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Dennenesch Zoudé (2019)

Dennenesch Zoudé (born December 14, 1966 in Addis Ababa , Ethiopia ; also known as Dennenesch Ninnig ) is a German film and stage actress . Zoudé mainly plays in television films and appeared at the Nibelungen Festival in Worms and the Berliner Jedermann Festival .

Life

Dennenesch Zoudé is the daughter of an Ethiopian road construction engineer and comes from an old Ethiopian aristocratic family . Its name comes from Amharic : Dennenesch means "forest grove, clearing, refuge", "in which people and animals find protection and security"; Zoudé means "crown". Born in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa , she grew up in West Berlin from the age of two (1968) . After school, at the request of her family, she initially trained as a business correspondent, then she worked as a secretary in a Berlin construction company . During her first foreign TV production Star Command (1995) in Potsdam-Babelsberg, the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater in New York City was recommended to her. There she completed an apprenticeship as an actress. Zoudé also took singing lessons from Cullen Maiden and Veronika Fischer .

In the 1990s, she had a relationship with the publicist and presenter Roger Willemsen from 1996 to 2000 . In 2001 her new life partner became the director and producer Carlo Rola . She married him on October 6, 2009 on Rola's birthday in New York City and lived with him in Berlin until his sudden cardiac death in March 2016. Rola died five weeks after Willemsen. Dennenesch Zoudé has been a member of the Executive Board of the German Film Academy since February 24, 2020.

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Dennenesch Zoudé at the 16th German Television Prize on October 2, 2014 in Cologne

In 1995/1996 she became known with the television series Gegen den Wind , and made her theatrical debut in 1996 with a role in the play Lysistrata by Jürgen Benecke. In 1998 she was seen in three episodes of the television series Klinik unter Palmen . In 1999 she played at the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater in the Hemingway play The Fifth Column , directed by Christian Kohlund . In 2002 and 2003 she was the fanatic of the Berliner Jedermann Festival in Jedermann by Brigitte Grothum .

In 2004, Zoudé played the role of Madlon Goltz in the Utta-Danella film Das Familiengeheimnis alongside Christiane Hörbiger and Hardy Krüger junior . She played investigator Carol Reeding in several episodes of Polizeiruf 110 . From 2004 to 2007 she was seen in the role of Wilhelmina Makhubela in the television series Hinter Gittern - Der Frauenknast .

In 2006, Zoudé played the leading female role of Stella Ahrens in the television drama My mother dancing by Jan Ruzicka alongside Jutta Speidel and Gila von Weitershausen . The adopted Stella Ahrens wants to find out more about her family ancestry shortly before her marriage and meets her biological mother, the white supermarket cashier Beate Gruber. The film tells of the difficult rapprochement between daughter and mother.

Another family secret was the focus of the remake of the Johannes Mario Simmel novel And Jimmy went to the rainbow . Here, under the direction of her partner Carlo Rola, Zoudé played the lead role of Irene Waldeck, LKA investigator and granddaughter of the murder victim, alongside Heino Ferch . In the television game Family Secrets (2011), Zoudé played the leading female role alongside Hardy Krüger , who took on a role again after more than 20 years. 2011 followed an engagement at the Neuköllner Oper Berlin as a singer and actress in the socially critical Wagner description Rheingold Feuerland in the musical arrangement by Simon Stockhausen .

In 2020, Zoudé appeared in the Unorthodox miniseries on Netflix .

social commitment

At the end of 2015, Zoudé became the patron of the Fairchance Foundation , which has been offering language support programs for the integration of foreign children in Germany since 2010. She also promotes the Reading Foundation as a reading ambassador . From 2006 to 2010 she was the special ambassador to several United Buddy Bears exhibitions . Until 2014, Zoudé was also an ambassador for SOS Children's Villages , especially for the Theater AG in the SOS Children's Village in Berlin-Moabit.

publication

Filmography

Web links

Commons : Dennenesch Zoudé  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Armin Lissfeld: 1. Interview after the sudden death of her husband. Dennenesch Zoudé back in life. In: Bild am Sonntag , July 9, 2017, interview with Zoudé.
  2. ↑ Vita. ( Memento of December 31, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). In: denneneschzoude.de .
  3. ↑ Dorothee Röhrig: Because Zoude about their magic moment. In: The five magical moments of life: How we seize the chances that fate gives us , Kailash Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-641-17603-7 , p. 19.
  4. ^ A b Lena Kappei: Sudden cardiac death in Berlin. Dennenesch Zoudé mourns her husband Carlo Rola. In: BZ , March 15, 2016.
  5. ^ Günter Fink: Willemsen's new life as a night watchman. In: Welt am Sonntag , February 10, 2002, interview with Willemsen.
  6. ↑ Peter Zander: Berlin director Carlo Rola died at the age of 57. In: Berliner Morgenpost , March 16, 2016.
  7. ↑ Rola and Zoudé got married. In: BZ , October 13, 2009.
  8. ↑ Rike Schulz, Julika Cisek: After the death of their great love. Dennenesch Zoudé (49): Your bravest appearance. In: Hamburger Morgenpost , April 13, 2016.
  9. ↑ theater. ( Memento from November 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: denneneschzoude.de .
  10. ↑ Photo: Buhlschaft 2002. In: Berliner Jedermann Festspiele [ sic! ] . 
  11. ↑ Photo: Buhlschaft 2003. In: Berliner Jedermann Festspiele  [sic!] .
  12. ^ Press review 2002–2004 - Jedermann Berlin. In: Berliner Jedermann Festspiele , (PDF; 33 pp., 3.7 MB).
  13. ↑ Summary of the feature film: My mother dancing. In: ARD , June 2, 2010.
  14. ↑ Actress Dennenesch Zoudé becomes the patron of the Fairchance Foundation. In: Fairchance Foundation , November 11, 2015.
  15. ^ Prominent reading ambassadors. In: Reading Foundation .
  16. ^ Greetings from the actress and special envoy of the United Buddy Bears Dennenesch Zoudé. In: buddy-baer.com , 2009.
  17. ↑ Barbara Winter: 7 in one go: Dennenesch Zoudé, actress. In: jugendhilfe-bewegt-berlin.de , March 27, 2014, interview.
personal data
SURNAME Zoudé, Dennenesch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zewdle, Dennenesch; Ninnig, Dennenesch; Zwedle-Ninnig, Dennenesch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Addis Ababa , Ethiopia