Franca Kastein

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Franca Kastein Ferreira Alves (* 1969 in Mozambique ; † August 13, 2000 in Berlin ) was a German actress .

Life

Franca Kastein was born in Mozambique and grew up in Bremen . She studied acting at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich . Then she played from 1993 theater in Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1996 she was brought to the Maxim-Gorki-Theater by the theater director Günter Gerstner to play the leading role of Luise in Friedrich Schiller's play Kabale und Liebe . After the great success, she played a leading role again. This time Marie in the play Clavigo, written by Johann Wolfgang Goethe . Then she ended her theater engagement and tried to gain a foothold in film. She played in Urs Odermatt 's Tatort: ​​A Touch of Hollywood, which was broadcast in 1998, in a minor supporting role as a maid and was already cast in her next film engagement by Volker Schlöndorff for the lead role in his drama The Silence after the Shot .

On August 13, 2000, Kastein died of suicide at the age of 31 . She jumped from the fourth floor of a building in the second backyard of Haus Schwarzenberg in Rosenthaler Strasse in Berlin-Mitte and succumbed to her injuries.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. The silence after the end , welt.de
  2. ^ Franca Kastein Ferreira Alves: An unconditional one , tagesspiegel.de
  3. Lulu was her last role: actress Franca Kastein died , berliner-zeitung.de
  4. ^ Janine , tagesspiegel.de