Jana Vijayakumaran
Jana Vijayakumaran (born December 10, 1996 in Mönchengladbach ) is a German actress .
Life
Jana Vijayakumaran was born in Germany and grew up there. Due to her above-average academic performance, Jana Vijayakumaran already skipped the second grade, followed by leaving the seventh grade. When she was in the 10th grade at the Cusanus-Gymnasium Erkelenz , she completed training in ballet at the Cologne University of Music and Dance . This was followed by acting training at the Arturo Drama School .
In 2011 she emerged victorious from a duel against Hellmuth Karasek in the family game show Klein gegen Groß , as she was able to correctly answer more questions about Goethe's Faust than the literary critic and Professor Karasek.
She gained her first acting experience through supporting and extra roles in various productions, including in the movies Die Vorstadtkrokodile .
Her first leading role in the short film The Players from 2012, in which she plays a girl kidnapped from Afghanistan, earned her first public attention. Her role as Sunita in the multi-part series “ Pälzisch im Abgang ” produced by Südwestrundfunk , which already achieved a market share of 2.4% when it was first broadcast on SWR, can be described as an acting breakthrough . Thus Jana Vijayakumaran became known to a German television audience of 510,000 people in this episode alone.
Jana Vijayakumaran lives in Mönchengladbach .
Media attention
Jana Vijayakumaran already achieved a special media presence in 2013 when she enrolled at the Ruhr University Bochum at the age of 16 and is therefore the youngest student at the North Rhine-Westphalian University, which has 40,000 students . Vijayakumaran studied comparative literature and theater studies there . Furthermore, she is one of the youngest students from the entire state of North Rhine-Westphalia. She then completed a master's degree in Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London. Since October 2017 she has been a research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and a member of the DFG graduate program Present / Literature-History, Theory and Praxeology of a Relationship.
Filmography (selection)
- 2012: The Players (in the role of a kidnapped girl from Afghanistan)
- 2015: Pälzisch in the end (as the Indian exchange student Sunita)
Web links
- Jana Vijayakumaran agency website
- Jana Vijayakumaran in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jana Vijayakumaran at schauspielervideos.de
- Jana started at the Ruhr University at Die Welt at the age of 16
- High-flyer student: My life, a play at Spiegel Online
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mönchengladbach: Goal: A-level high school diploma and film career. In: rp-online.de. Retrieved November 28, 2015 .
- ↑ Minors at the university: Jana Vijayakumaran, youngest student in Bochum - SPIEGEL ONLINE. In: spiegel.de. Retrieved November 28, 2015 .
- ↑ "Suddenly war?" Starts unspectacularly, "Pälzisch im Abgang" good ›Meedia. In: meedia.de. Retrieved November 28, 2015 .
- ↑ CP AGENCY - film. tv. advertising - Setcard Vijayakumaran Jana. In: cp-agentur.de. Retrieved November 28, 2015 .
- ↑ Abitur in a hurry: At 16, Jana is the youngest student in NRW - Ruhr Nachrichten. In: ruhrnachrichten.de. Retrieved November 28, 2015 .
- ↑ Jana (17): Young student, actress and activist - Mönchengladbach - Local - Westdeutsche Zeitung. In: wz-newsline.de. Retrieved November 28, 2015 .
- ↑ Young students: Jana starts at the Ruhr University at the age of 16 - DIE WELT. In: welt.de. Retrieved November 28, 2015 .
- ↑ University of Bonn
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vijayakumaran, Jana |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1996 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mönchengladbach |