Esther Esche

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Esther Esche (born March 13, 1965 in East Berlin ) is a German actress .

Life

Esther Esche comes from an artistic family. Her father was the actor and reciter Eberhard Esche . She grew up from the age of three with her "second father", the film documentarist Gerhard Scheumann . Esche received classical ballet lessons for years ; She also trained in pantomime for seven years with Eberhard Kube at the Prenzlauer Berg pantomime theater and in the pantomime ensemble of the Deutsches Theater Berlin . From 1984 to 1988 she completed acting training at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin , in Berlin-Schöneweide .

She received her first engagement after completing her studies at the Senftenberg Theater , where she stayed with the ensemble for two years. Esche returned to Berlin in the early 1990s and subsequently appeared on various Berlin theaters. She appeared at the Berliner Ensemble in the piece Blue Horses on Red Grass by Michail Schatrow . She also had engagements at the Volksbühne (as Luciana in Die Komödie der Irrungen ), at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater and at the Deutsches Theater. She had other guest engagements and piece contracts at the Dresden State Theater and the Schwerin State Theater . In 1993 she also appeared at the Landesbühne Rheinland-Pfalz in Neuwied as Kreusa in Franz Grillparzer's tragedy Das goldene Vlies . She played, among others, Elisabeth von Valois in Don Karlos , Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream , Olivia and Viola in What you want , Rosalind in As You Like It , Gertrude in Hamlet and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth . In 2009/10 she played at the Berlin Criminal Theater in the thriller To the Extreme . In the 2010/11 season she appeared at the Staatsschauspiel Magdeburg as Claire Zachanassian in Dürrenmatt's The Visit of the Old Lady . Esther Esche was also active in the free Berlin theater scene. She was one of the founding members of the Hackesche Hoftheater .

Since the mid-1990s, Esther Esche has also appeared in numerous film and television roles. In addition to continuous series roles, Esche was often cast in crime novels. She gained fame in particular through her role as Miss Sonja, the skilled and helpful domestic servant and friend of the Klemperers, in the multi-part television series Klemperer - A Life in Germany .

In 2001 Esche starred in the short film Die Andere , the graduation film by director Beryl Schennen at the University of Television and Film Munich . In 2003 Esche received the actor's award for “Best Actress” at the European Film Festival in Brest . In 2002 she was seen in the film Dog Heads directed by Karsten Laske in the female lead. She embodied the kindergarten teacher Sylvia, who uncovered a secret of her husband Christoph from his past with the border troops of the GDR . In 2010, Esche had an episode lead role in the hospital series In All Friendship ; In it she played the nursery nurse who had long been in love with her boss and who was admitted to the Saxony Clinic after being struck by lightning .

Esther Esche lives with her husband and their son in Berlin.

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