Franca Kastein
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)
- 1998: Tatort - A touch of Hollywood
- 2000: The silence after the shot
- 2000: Lost Killers
Web links
- Franca Kastein in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The silence after the end , welt.de
- ^ Franca Kastein Ferreira Alves: An unconditional one , tagesspiegel.de
- ↑ Lulu was her last role: actress Franca Kastein died , berliner-zeitung.de
- ^ Janine , tagesspiegel.de
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SURNAME | Kastein, Franca |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kastein Ferreira Alves, Franca (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1969 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Mozambique |
DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 2000 |
Place of death | Berlin , Federal Republic of Germany |