Geno Lechner

Geno Lechner (* 1965 ) is a German actress .

Life

Lechner began her career in the theater at the age of 19 and made her debut at the Staatstheater Stuttgart under Ivan Nagel at that time . She starred in the world premiere of Taking Sides in London , directed by Harold Pinter, and appeared in Paris with Michel Bouquet and Claude Brasseur for a year . At the Brooklyn Academy of Music, she played the lead role in The Forest , directed by Robert Wilson . In 2007 she played Medea in Heiner Müller's Medea material in Budapest.

Since 1990 she has been shooting mainly for the cinema. She was among others in Schindler's List to see where he played the Majola called mistress of the SS camp commandant Amon Goeth . In Immortal Beloved by Bernard Rose and Hal Hartley Flirt they also occupied roles. In 1997 she won the award for best actress in Argentina for Gesche's Gift von Walburg von Waldenfels , in which she plays a serial killer who was up to mischief in Bremen between 1785 and 1831. She played the leading female role in the New York cinema productions Going Under by Eric Werthman and Love by Vladan Nikolic . She worked with Raoul Peck , Wim Wenders , Don Askarian , Rudolf Thome , Harald Bergmann , Yolande Zauberman , Laurent Benegui , and played in many independent productions , among others directed by Jon Jost , Arto Lindsay , Joan Jonas and Fouad El Khoury .

Geno Lechner founded Volume57 , an international platform for actors, musicians, composers, dancers and circus artists, together with Birol Ünel and Tony Gatlif .

Filmography (selection)

• 1991: love at first sight
• 1993: Schindler's List
• 1994: Le joueur de violon
• 1994: Ludwig van B. - My immortal lover
• 1995: Flirt
• 1996: adrenaline
• 1995: Murderous Twins
• 1997: Gesches Gift
• 1997: Schimanski: The Squadron
• 1997: Schimanski: Blood Brothers
• 1997: Schimanski: Hard at the limit
• 1999: Merci mon chien
• 1999: love is stronger than death
• 2000: Two women in Paris
• 2002: Bella Block : In the Name of Honor
• 2002: The Investigator - The Profile of the Murderer
• 2002: At the lake
• 2003: The Water Lily Pond (2-part TV film)
• 2003: The Rosenheim cops - dead in the boat
• 2003: Alarm for Cobra 11 - The Autobahn Police - Farewell
• 2003: In the Name of the Law - Deadly Hatred
• 2004: En Garde
• 2004: Charlotte
• 2004: going under
• 2004: SK Kölsch - art comes from ability
• 2005: Tatort - Single-handedly
• 2005: days out of night
• 2005: The Investigator - Blind Lane
• 2005: Two Christmas dogs
• 2006: SOKO Kitzbühel - His last case
• 2006: dad and mom
• 2006: Inspector Stolberg - witch hunt
• 2007: Through heaven and hell
• 2007: Polska Roadmovie
• 2008: Tatort - Hard on the border
• 2009: Police call 110 - Pig's Life
• 2009: Coast Guard - The Phantom
• 2010: SOKO Kitzbühel - fears to death
• 2012: SOKO Wismar - Duck crispy
• 2012: The old man - royal children
• 2012: kill me
• 2013: Circles

Radio plays and features

• 2012: Beate Becker : Herzog - Portrait of a Passion - Director: Beate Becker ( Feature - DKultur)

Awards

• 1996: Actor Award for Gesche`s Gift at the Mar del Plata film festival in Argentina
• 1996: Actor Award for Gesche`s Gift at the Mar del Plata film festival in Argentina
• 2004: Special mentions for Geno Lechner in Charlotte at the international festival in Lille and Poitiers
• 2004: Silver Leopard for En Garde , Locarno International Film Festival
• 2005: First Steps Award for Days out of Night
• 2008: Nomination for the Grand Off Film Award as best actress for Polska Roadmovie

Web links

• Geno Lechner in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography at schauspielervideos.de, accessed on February 15, 2015.
2. ↑ Awards ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at schlag-agentur.de, accessed on February 15, 2015.