Janina Elkin

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Janina Elkin (born December 20, 1982 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) is a German actress .

Life

Education and theater

Elkin began taking ballet lessons at the age of three . From 1986 to 1991 she attended the State Dance Academy in Kiev. At the age of 10, she came to Germany with her family from the Ukraine in 1993. From 1998 she received lessons at the State Ballet Academy in Mannheim . From 2001 to 2004 she studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York City on a scholarship . From 2012 to 2014 she was at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin . She also completed acting seminars in method acting and in Meisner technique .

She had her first theater engagements in Hamburg at the Altonaer Theater (2003; as Yvonne in The most beautiful day in the year by Nick Walsh ), in the Theater am Kampnagel (2004; as “Sie” in Whole Days, Whole Nights by Xavier Durringer ), at the theater in Zimmer (2005; as Carlotta Barra in Tamara by John Krizanc ), at the Sprachwerk Hamburg (2005) and at the Lichthof Theater (2006; as Joy in Lost by Jane Martin ).

She was a guest at the National Academic Drama Theater in Kiev in the plays Der Kirschgarten (2004; as Anja) and Der Taxifahrer (2007; as Lena) and at the Schauspielhaus Bochum (2008).

From 2009 to 2010 she played the role of Baby in the musical Dirty Dancing in the Theater am Potsdamer Platz .

Cinema and television work

Elkin's first film work included the television film Kissing Forbidden, Dredging Allowed (2003) by Lars Montag , in which she played the mistress. In the ZDF crime series Stubbe - From Case to Case , she portrayed the deaf assistant in the film Harte Kerle (2005).

Since the 637th episode (first broadcast: January 2011) she has played the role of biology and chemistry teacher Anna-Carina Levin in the children's and youth series Schloss Einstein .

In 2011 she took on a leading role as Sophie in the film Bela Kiss: Prologue by Lucien Förstner , a horror thriller about the Hungarian serial killer Béla Kiss , alongside Kristina Klebe , Fabian Stumm and Rudolf Martin ; the film was released in theaters in January 2013. In the Austrian-American production Stille Nacht (2012) by Christian Vuissa , which was released in German cinemas in 2013, she played the role of the villager Maria, who is considered scum and rabble due to her allegedly dubious lifestyle in the village. In the feature film foreign bodies (2015), in which Elkin on the side of Thorsten Merten the female lead took, she played the young Ukrainian Irina illegally to the carrier Wolfgang their kidneys donated . The film was awarded the audience award at the 2015 Max Ophüls Prize film festival .

In March 2015 Elkin was seen in a supporting role in the ZDF television series Spring . In the TV film Spring for Two , she is the young Anja Weiher, the ex-girlfriend of the late son of the old farmer Maria Sindlfinger, played by Cornelia Froboess . In the children's and youth film Ente Gut! Girl at home alone , which was shown for the first time at the 66th Berlinale in February 2016, she played a supporting role; she was Frau Schneider. In September 2016, the drama Death on installments (international title: Short Term Memory Loss ) was shown for the first time at the Zurich Film Festival , in which Elkin plays the best friend of the female main character ( Veronica Ferres ). In the movie comedy East Frisian for Beginners , which premiered at the Hamburg Film Festival in October 2016 , Elkin plays the rigid businesswoman Svetlana.

She had episode roles u. a. also in the TV series SOKO 5113 (2009; as Maria, the mistress of Stefan Gubser ), In allerfreund (2012; as a patient suffering from multiple sclerosis ), Der Landarzt (2013; as a Georgian and alleged prostitute Natascha Salenko), SOKO Stuttgart ( 2015; as the daughter of a red-light businessman) and SOKO Leipzig (2016; as Polina Daschkowa, the new police investigator of "Sitte" from Russia). In March 2017 Elkin was also seen in an episode role in the ZDF series Notruf Hafenkante ; she played Maike Lenhart, a young woman with an unfulfilled desire to have children who kidnaps a baby. In the 4th season of the TV series In All Friendship - The Young Doctors (2019) Elkin took on a leading role in the episode as a blind patient who received a tragic diagnosis.

Dubbing and private matters

Elkin also occasionally works as a voice actress and as a spokesperson for computer games . She lent u. a. Olga Kurylenko and Annet Mahendru have their voices.

From 2017 to 2018 she taught as a lecturer at the Stagefactory in Berlin. Janina Elkin speaks German and Russian. She lives in Berlin .

Filmography (selection)

Cinema and television

Synchronous

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Janina Elkin at filmportal.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e Janina Elkin at schauspielervideos.de
  3. ↑ Klaus Witzeling: Worth seeing parade of broken types. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , September 14, 2006. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  4. ↑ Janina Elkin: role name: Anna-Carina Levin. In: schloss-einstein.de . Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  5. ↑ Bela Kiss: Prologue. In: bela-kiss.com . Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Fremdkörper", ZDF: Organ trade thematized. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , June 22, 2015. Accessed August 28, 2016.
  7. ↑ TV film "Fremdkörper". In: Tittelbach.tv , June 22, 2015. Accessed August 28, 2016.
  8. ↑ dizziness . Official website Das Erste . Retrieved January 5, 2019.
  9. ↑ Janina Elkin. In: SprecherDatei.de . Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  10. ↑ Archived copy ( memento from January 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ).
  11. ↑ Tumbling Leaf, Short Feature Film, 2004 | Crew United. Retrieved December 23, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Elkin, Janina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev , Ukrainian SSR