Gesine Cukrowski

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Gesine Cukrowski at the German Television Award 2019

Gesine Cukrowski [ t͡suˈkrofski ] (born October 23, 1968 in Berlin-Neukölln , West Berlin ) is a German actress . She became known in 1995 for her leading role as saleswoman Petra Rentrop in the RTL series Und Tschüss! and through her continuous series lead role as coroner Dr. Judith Sommer at the side of Ulrich Mühe in the ZDF crime series The Last Witness , which she played from 1998 to 2007. Since then she has appeared in numerous cinema and television productions. In early 2000 she made her film production company "affect film" independently .

Life

Origin and education

Gesine Cukrowski was born as the daughter of a trained nurse and freelance artist with a focus on color woodcuts and a graduate engineer and grew up with three siblings. Her ancestors were Polish farmers who emigrated to Berlin.

She attended the Catholic high school St. Marien in Berlin-Neukölln . After graduating from high school, she completed basic studies in German and theater studies and then studied religious studies and psychology for one semester in Berlin. She then left the church. After collecting some stage experience, she completed her studies at the Maria Körber Drama School from 1992 to 1994 , where she also graduated.

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theatre

From the late 1980s to the early 2000s, Cukrowski was regularly on the theater stage alongside her work in film and television. She played her first roles at the studio stage of the FU Berlin, for example in Ödön von Horváth's folk play, Italian Night . She worked several times with the Swiss theater director Stefan Bachmann . In the Affekt theater, which he co-founded , she played in the 1991/92 season in Bertolt Brecht's Baal the friend of Baal's disciple Johannes Schmidt, Johanna and in 1995 in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's singspiel Lila the role of Sophie, which gave her the Friedrich-Luft- Price brought in. In the 1996/97 season she was also seen at the Volksbühne Berlin under the direction of Bachmann in Goethe's The Triumph of Sensibility . At the Salzburg Festival in 1999 she played the leading role of Cressida in William Shakespeare's drama Troilus and Cressida. In 1999 she was part of the permanent ensemble of Theater Basel , where she worked in the Bachmann production of Tankred Dorst's Merlin or Das wüsten Land and in Jacques Offenbach's operetta Maya the Bee . At the Renaissance Theater Berlin she was from April 2014 to 2,016 as Hannah alongside Hans-Werner Meyer in Moritz Rinke's love and we know nothing to see. In the 2018/19 season she appeared at the Komödie am Kurfürstendamm under the direction of Martin Woelffer in the stage version of the film Willkommen bei den Hartmanns .

Movie and TV

She made her television debut in 1987 in the ARD early evening series Praxis Bülowbogen as sister Irene, which she played in 45 episodes until 1995. She first appeared on the big screen in 1993 as Elke in Hellmuth Costard's science fiction film Uprising of Things . She had her breakthrough as a saleswoman Petra Rentrop at the side of Benno Fürmann in the RTL series from the Ruhr area And bye! , where she also appeared in the two series feature films And bye in Mallorca (double role as Petra Rentrop and Bonny Bender) and And bye in America . In 1996 she took on a major episode role as Eva Seifert at the side of Iris Berben and Alexander May in the third episode Lost Life of the ZDF crime series Rosa Roth . In March 1998, Cukrowski took over in the ZDF crime series The Last Witness , in which she played alongside Ulrich Mühe and Jörg Gudzuhn from 1998 to 2007 , as coroner Dr. Judith Sommer one of the three permanent series lead roles. After Mühe's death, after talks with ZDF via the Süddeutsche Zeitung , she stated that she would not be available for further episodes “out of respect and affection for her deceased series partner Ulrich Mühe”; the series was then discontinued. She had another bigger role as the young and mentally disturbed Claire Castien in the Pro7 thriller The Sleepers (1998). The director Roman Kuhn compared her with the American Sharon Stone in relation to this film .

Gesine Cukrowski at the Berlinale 2009

Since the 2000s, Cukrowski has regularly played leading and supporting roles in various film and television productions. She played a supporting role as Jeannine in the US psychological thriller FearDotCom , which premiered in 2002 and was panned by the criticism . The main roles were played by Ronin- known Natasha McElhone and Academy Award- nominated Irish actor Stephen Rea . In the Donna Leon novel adaptations Venetian Finale (2003) and Acqua Alta (2004), she played the homosexual archaeologist Brett Lynch. In the Dostoevsky film adaptation of The Gambler (2005) she was seen alongside Hannelore Elsner as Annegret Reuther. In the television film A Seal to Love (2006) and its sequel A Seal and the Great Luck (2007) she took on the role of the single fisherwoman Anne Petersen, who lives with her seal William in a house on the Baltic Sea and is in the Hanoverian Veterinarian Thomas Krugmann ( Oliver Mommsen ) fell in love and eventually got married. The director Roland Suso Richter cast her as Stasi wife Marion Niemann in his TV film Das Wunder von Berlin (2008), which is based on the recordings of the former NVA soldier Tilo Koch. In the RTL thriller Das Papst-Assentat (2008) she was the BKA officer Sara Stertz, who is supposed to prevent an assassination attempt on the Pope. In Ilse Hofmann's Tulips from Amsterdam (2010) she was seen alongside Chiara Schoras as her sister Lilli in the role of the Amsterdam-based flower wholesaler Anna Lechner. From 2015 to 2018 she played the wife of chief detective Oliver Radek (Hans-Werner Meyer) in the ZDF crime series Last Trace Berlin .

engagement

Cukrowski supports people in need in particular with the Hamburg association Sternipark eV . The association takes care of expectant mothers who want to give birth to their baby anonymously. Since 2010 she has been chairwoman of the Hamburg-based foundation Findel-Baby Mütter in Not . In 2012 she was awarded the Hans Rosenthal Prize for Social and Humanitarian Commitment. In addition, she is committed to Welthungerhilfe and visited projects of the aid organization in Uganda in July 2015. In November 2016 she was elected to the Board of Trustees of Welthungerhilfe.

Private

Gesine Cukrowski lives in Berlin with her daughter, born in 2001, and her partner, the screenwriter Michael Helfrich. After the death of actress Susanne Lothar in July 2012, Cukrowski and Helfrich took over the guardianship of one of the children from the marriage of Lothar and Ulrich Mühe, who died in 2007 and with whom Cukrowski had worked from 1998 to 2007 in the crime series The Last Witness .

Filmography (selection)

Audio books

Radio plays

Theater (selection)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Gesine Cukrowski  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Rainer Tittelbach : Interview Gesine Cukrowski in: A seal and the great happiness. In: Tittelbach.tv . September 14, 2007, accessed April 1, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Alexandra Kilian: Lunch with Gesine Cukrowski. In: Berliner Morgenpost . October 22, 2014, accessed April 1, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Gesine Cukrowski: Life and Work . In: Kino.de .
  4. ^ Gesine Cukrowski In: Prisma.de .
  5. ↑ a b c d Gesine Cukrowski , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 38/2018 from September 18, 2018, in the Munzinger archive , accessed on September 18, 2018 ( beginning of article freely available)
  6. ↑ a b Gesine Cukrowski . Profile and vita at Castupload.com.
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Höbel: THEATER: The war of the trumps . In: Der Spiegel . No. 35 , 1998 ( online ).
  8. ↑ Archive / Pieces / Portraits: We love and know nothing about Moritz Rinke . TV interviews, plot, reviews at renaissance-theater.de.
  9. ^ Gesine Cukrowski. In: zdf.de. December 27, 2010, accessed January 28, 2018 .
  10. ↑ FearDotCom at rottentomatoes.com
  11. ↑ The player: film plot and background . In: Kino.de (with photo by Gesine Cukrowski).
  12. ↑ Media: Tulips from Amsterdam. In: Focus Online . May 7, 2010, accessed April 1, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Foundation Findelbaby at sternipark.de
  14. ↑ Gesine Cukrowski at schlag-agentur.de. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
  15. ↑ Gesine Cukrowski talks about her commitment to various social projects on the red sofa. In: Norddeutscher Rundfunk . Retrieved November 30, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Welthungerhilfe - Board of Trustees. In: http://www.welthungerhilfe.de . Retrieved November 30, 2016 .
  17. ^ Berliner Morgenpost - Berlin: Gesine Cukrowski . ( Morgenpost.de [accessed on January 22, 2018]).
  18. ↑ Biography: Gesine Cukrowski at wdr.de ( Memento from November 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Cukrowski, Gesine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Neukölln , West Berlin