Ina Weisse

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Ina Weisse at the award ceremony of the German Academy for Television 2015

Ina Weisse (born June 12, 1968 in West Berlin ) is a German actress and film director .

Life

Ina Weisse grew up in West Berlin. Her mother worked as a teacher at the French grammar school in Berlin; her father Rolf D. Weisse is an architect. She attended the Waldorf School and, after graduating from high school, studied acting at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich . First engagements followed at the Münchner Kammerspiele and at the Nationaltheater Mannheim . From 1992 to 1996 she studied philosophy at the University of Heidelberg and at the Paris Sorbonne.

In 1996 she made her cinema debut in the comedy Echte Kerle (1996). From then on she could also be seen in television productions, including several times in the television series Tatort . In Uwe Janson's TV comedy Single sucht Nachwuchs , based on the book by Ulrich Limmer , she played a leading role as a single widow alongside Heino Ferch in 1998 . In the television thriller Liebestod (2000) she took on the lead role of Julia Nebe at the side of Henry Hübchen and Leonard Lansink .

In 2002 she completed a degree in film directing with Hark Bohm at the Hamburg Media School . Her graduation film Alles Anders received the First Steps Award . In 2003 she played the role of wife and mother in the comedy film Sams in Danger, alongside Ulrich Noethen . In Torsten C. Fischer's television play Katzenzungen , a character study of three friends, she embodied the disturbed Claire in 2004 at the side of Meret Becker and Birge Schade . In 2005, along with Iris Berben , Ulrich Noethen and Christoph Waltz , she was part of the cast of the award-winning multi-part television series The Patriarchin . In Martin Gypkens ' episode film Nothing but Ghosts (2006) based on the book of stories of the same name by Judith Hermann , Weisse portrayed the architect Irene, who numb the pain of a failed love by seducing her best friend during a trip to Iceland together. This was followed by appearances in the television series Doktor Martin (2007) and in the television thriller Duell in der Nacht (2007) alongside Jürgen Vogel and Iris Berben.

In 2008 she made her feature film debut as a director with The Architect , for which she had also written the screenplay with Daphne Charizani. Matthias Schweighöfer , Josef Bierbichler and Sandra Hüller played the leading roles in the film drama, which was also shown at the Berlinale in 2009 and received the award for the best screenplay at the Max Ophüls Film Festival .

Weisse often embodies people on the abyss, who initially appear objective and controlled, but reveal their complex personalities in the course of the plot, for example in Duell in der Nacht and In the Dschungel (2010). Hans W. Geißendörfer , who cast it in 2003 in his film drama Schneeland , characterized Weisse as a "human reader" who can think into a character "down to the smallest corner of the soul" and who can also convey intellectual knowledge sensually. For her participation in the television films The End of a Night and A Great Awakening , she was awarded the German Television Prize for Best Actress in 2012 and 2016 . In 2013 she received the Adolf Grimme Prize for The End of a Night .

After her documentary Die Neue Nationalgalerie , she made the feature film Das Vorspiel with Nina Hoss in the lead role in 2018 , a German-French co-production.

Ina Weisse is married to the director Matti Geschonneck , with whom she worked for the television films Duell in der Nacht (2007), Death in Istanbul (2009), The Suspicion (2010), The End of a Night (2011) and A Great Awakening (2015 ) worked together.

Filmography

Ina Weisse (2010)

As an actress

As a director

  • 2000: Lünow (short film)
  • 2001: Sundays (short film)
  • 2002: Everything else (short film)
  • 2004: Klara (short film)
  • 2008: the architect
  • 2017: The New National Gallery (documentary)
  • 2019: the foreplay

Roles in the theater

Awards

Web links

Commons : Ina Weisse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Geuenich: Psychogram of a broken family. The actress and director Ina Weisse and her debut film “The Architect” , Deutschlandradiokultur, January 26, 2009
  2. ↑ Martin Scherer: The thought player . In: Focus , November 27, 2007
  3. ↑ Ina Weisse. In: Grimme-Preis.de, accessed on August 17, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Weisse, Ina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and film director
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin