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Elisabeth Degen (born January 19, 1971 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German actress .

Life

The daughter of actor Michael Degen and painter Sarah Eckel made her film debut in 1986 in Wolf Gremms Tödliche Liebe and played a year later at the side of her father in Orlando Lübbert's Die Kolonie . Also in 1987 as Ina in the international Vladimir Nabokov film adaptation of Maschenka . She studied acting at the Fritz Kirchhoff School.

The actress ( Die Möwe , Faust 1 ) , who mainly works in the theater with directors such as Cordula Trantow and Volker Lechtenbrink , became internationally known with the role of the Jew Lotte in Max Färberböck's Aimée and Jaguar . The shooting by a police officer of Lotte, who is fleeing on a street, is one of the most harrowing scenes in the film.

On television Elisabeth Degen had guest roles in series such as Edgar Reitz ' Heimat 3 , Sylvia - Eine Klasse für sich , Die Cleveren , Edel and Starck , In the Name of the Law , SOKO Kitzbühel , Da geht Kalle , RIS - The Language of the Dead and SOKO Wismar .

In addition to the TV series, Elisabeth Degen also played in television films: What is particularly moving is her performance as Sarah Maibaum, daughter-in-law of a homosexual conductor ( Walter Kreye ), who rebels against his uncomprehending son ( Philipp Moog ), in the drama After So Many Years ( 2003). Alongside Maja Maranow and Bernhard Schütz , she played the role of Barbara Pfeiffer in the 2005 drama Love after Death and the role of Anja Scheer in the Tatort episode The Smile of the Madonna alongside Eva Mattes .

In 2009 she can be seen again at the side of her father in the short film Kriegerstock . After further short films ("Salomea's Nose", "Scrabbled") and the Serbian-German film Otvoreni Kavez , Elisabeth Degen played a leading role in the film Winterjagd in 2016 , which premiered in 2017 at the Schwerin Film Festival .

In addition to her film career, she continues to play at the theater, under the direction of Anna Bergmann in Mamma Medea and Alkestis , at the Hamburger Kammerspiele with Kai Wessel in All Honors and with Albert Lang in 16 injured . In 2005, Elisabeth Degen also played Blanche in Henry Arnold's production of Tennessee Williams ' End Station Sehnsucht . Further engagements at the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater , the Düsseldorfer Kammerspiele and the Staatstheater Darmstadt .

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SURNAME Sword, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH 19th January 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main