Esther Esche
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.
Filmography
- 1997: Not a Love Song
- 1997; 1999: Rosa Roth ( The Voice ; Wintersaat ) (TV series)
- 1999: Klemperer - A Life in Germany
- 2000: Dr. Sommerfeld - News from the Bülowbogen ( In the vicious circle )
- 2000: Sumo Bruno
- 2001: Sommer and Bolten: Good Doctors, No Angels (3 episodes)
- 2001: The Other (short film)
- 2002: dog heads
- 2004: Dolphin Summer
- 2004: SOKO Wismar ( cat and mouse )
- 2005: Bella Block: The Carpet Layer's Wife (TV series)
- 2005: Out of this world
- 2006: The returnee's wife
- 2006: The dead man on the beach
- 2007: Alarm for Cobra 11 ( family matter )
- 2007: Emergency Call Hafenkante ( The Black Dress )
- 2007: Tatort: Red Death (TV series)
- 2007: Tatort: Power of Fear
- 2007: The Fat One ( Angstpartie )
- 2007: Deadline - Every Second Counts ( Night Without Tomorrow )
- 2008: friendships and other neuroses
- 2010: In all friendship ( struck by lightning )
- 2011: Emergency call harbor edge ( all lies )
- 2012: Tatort: Images of Death (TV series)
- 2012: SOKO Stuttgart ( Bloody Diamonds )
- 2012: News from Büttenwarder ( Survival )
- 2013: cheerful to fatal: capital city district ( counterfeit money )
- 2013: A case for two ( Unterst Lindembaum )
- 2013: The teacher ( is this going to be a date? )
- 2013: Christine. Yesterday was perfect! ( Nice divorce )
- 2014: SOKO Cologne ( grandpa is dead )
- 2014: emergency call harbor edge ( cheated )
- 2015: SOKO Wismar ( The Troublemaker )
- 2015: Chutzpah - Humans need Klops! (TV movie)
- 2015: The Wallensteins - Dresden Demons (TV series)
- 2017: In all friendship - The young doctors ( things of the heart )
- 2018: Ella Schön : The Gift of Island (TV movie)
- 2018: SOKO Hamburg ( death in the lock )
- since 2018: Jenny - really fair (TV series, supporting role)
- 2018: Murders in the North ( Beyond Death )
- 2018: SOKO Cologne ( A wonderful family )
- 2019: Time of Secrets (Miniseries)
- 2020: Katie Fforde: A House by the Sea (TV series)
- 2020: Last Trace Berlin ( Queen of Hearts )
- 2020: Last trace of Berlin ( basic trust )
literature
- Frank-Burkhard Habel : Lexicon. Actor in the GDR. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-355-01760-2 , p. 98.
- Esther Esche (ed.): Eberhard Esche : The art of serving. Letters to a theater enthusiast . Eulenspiegel Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-359-01381-5 .
Web links
- Esther Esche in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Esther Esche at filmportal.de
- Esther Esche - Official website
- Esther Esche - Funke & Stertz Agency
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Esche, Esther |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ash, ester |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1965 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | East Berlin |