Franziska Ritter

Franziska Ritter (* 1964 in Berlin ) is a German actress , theater director and radio play speaker .

Franziska Ritter (October 2017)

Life

Franziska Ritter grew up in Berlin and, after graduating from high school, attended the "Ernst Busch" Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin from 1982 to 1986 , from which she graduated with a diploma and grade "very good". During her studies, she also completed vocal training at the “Hanns Eisler” University of Music in Berlin and was awarded the Berliner Zeitung's Critics' Prize in 1985. Ritter had her first engagement from 1986 to 1990 at the Volkstheater Rostock , where she also took further singing lessons. In 1990 she moved to the Freie Kammerspiele Magdeburg, which she co-founded . From 2000 to 2005, Ritter worked as a freelancer before accepting another permanent engagement at the Berlin Theater an der Parkaue in 2005 , which ended in 2015. In Berlin, Ritter was also seen as guest at the Deutsches Theater and the Maxim Gorki Theater . In 2015 she directed the play The Second Princess at the Theater der Junge Welt in Leipzig and in 2016 staged The Cow Rosmarie by Andri Beyeler at the Neue Bühne Senftenberg . At the beginning of 2017, a new production of At the fire brigade, coffee is cold according to Hannes Hüttner, followed at Theater Plauen Zwickau , with the book also being written by Ritter. At the Mecklenburgisches Landestheater Parchim , Dangerous Obsession by NJ Crisp premiered on April 29, 2017 . Franziska Ritter produced again in the fourth quarter of the year at the Theater Plauen Zwickau. The official Christmas fairy tale King Drosselbart premiered there on November 30, 2017, in a version written by Franziska Ritter. In 2018 she staged for the first time at the German-Sorbian People's Theater in Bautzen .

Franziska Ritter has also worked as a director since the early 1990s and regularly stages children's and youth plays on numerous stages in eastern Germany.

In 1983, Ritter made his camera debut in the DEFA feature film Das Luftschiff , directed by Rainer Simon . Since then she has carried out other tasks for film and television, including at the scene of the crime , on the police call or on the harbor edge .

Her mother is the actress Gudrun Ritter .

Theater roles (selection)

Volkstheater Rostock

Sascha in Iwanow by Anton Chekhov - Director: Axel Richter
First love on behalf of Heiner Müller - Director: Klaus Noack
Varya in Der Kirschgarten by Anton Chekhov - Director: Axel Richter
Title role in Lulu by Frank Wedekind - Director: Klaus Noack
Recha in Nathan der Weise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Director: Axel Richter

Free Chamber Games Magdeburg

Juliet in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare - Director: Wolf Bunge
Eve in Der zerbrochne Krug by Heinrich von Kleist - Director: Axel Richter
Desdemona in Othello by William Shakespeare - Director: Wolf Bunge
Desiree in Illness of Youth by Ferdinand Bruckner - Director: Axel Richter
Dascha in Zement by Heiner Müller - Director: Hermann Schein
Luise Miller in Kabale und Liebe by Friedrich Schiller - Director: Klaus Noack
Mascha in Drei Schwestern by Anton Chekhov - Director: Axel Richter
Title role in Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht - Director: Klaus Noack
Title role in Penthesilea by Heinrich von Kleist - Director: Wolf Bunge
Title role in Iphigenie auf Tauris by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Director: Wolf Bunge

Theater on the Parkaue

Bertha von Bruneck in Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller - Director: Sascha Bunge
Claudia Galotti in Emilia Galotti by GE Lessing - Director: Sascha Bunge
Sitah in Nathan the Wise by GE Lessing - Director: Kay Wuschek
Title role in Minna von Barnhelm by GE Lessing - Director: Sascha Bunge
Shen Te and Shui Ta in The Good Man of Sezuan by Bertolt Brecht - Director: Sascha Bunge

Maxim Gorky Theater

Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare - Director: Thomas Langhoff
Marja in Platonow by Anton Chekhov - Director: Thomas Langhoff

Directorial work (selection)

Free Chamber Games Magdeburg

1991: What does love mean here?
1992: Jochen's grandma's organ or Who is Alfred?
1993: Everything is free - chair occupied by Horst Hawemann (UA)
1994: Sisyphos (musical) by Dirk Heidicke
1995: Snow white and rose red after the Brothers Grimm
1997: Haha, the last narrator from Horst Hawemann (UA)
1999: A Christmas carol based on Charles Dickens

Thalia Theater Hall

2001: What does love mean here?
2001: Creeps by Lutz Hübner
2002: The little red prince by Marcel Cremer

Volkstheater Rostock

1989: What does love mean here?
2003: Ronja the robber's daughter after Astrid Lindgren
2003 TülliKnülliFülli by Horst Hawemann (WP)

Theater on the Parkaue

2007: The trip to Brazil by Daniel Charms
2009: Coffee gets cold at the fire brigade according to Hannes Hüttner (own version)
2010: The protector of thieves according to Andreas Steinhöfel (own version)
2012: Dreier is upside down