Janina Sachau

Janina Sachau in When Wishing Still Helped , staging at the Schauspiel Essen, 2013 (Photo: Diana Küster)

Janina Sachau (born March 17, 1976 in Dortmund ) is a German actress .

Life

Janina Sachau already played as a pupil at the Dortmund children's and youth theater . After graduating from the Gartenstadt Comprehensive School in 1995, she trained as an actor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main . Theater engagements in Darmstadt, Freiburg, Düsseldorf and Essen followed . Sachau appears as a speaker in numerous radio plays.

Sachau also starred in feature films and television series. While still a student, she received the Max Ophüls Prize for Best Young Actress in 1999 for the lead role of Auguste Bußmann in Dagmar Knöpfel's film Requiem for a romantic woman .

Filmography

• 1993: north curve
• 1999: Requiem for a Romantic Woman
• 2008: Commissioner Stolberg - death in the forest
• 2010: Nemesis
• 2012: The wedding video
• 2020: Between us

Radio plays

• 2014: Mark Zak : Gaube, Liebe, Mafia - The godfather's wife - Director: Thomas Leutzbach (radio play - WDR )
• 2014: Robert Weber : The Infection II - The Island - Director: Annette Kurth (crime radio play - WDR)
• 2014: Francis Durbridge : Paul Temple and the Gregory case (Paul Temple's wife) - Director: Leonhard Koppelmann / Bastian Pastewka (detective radio play (2 parts) - WDR / SWR )

Awards

• 1999: Max Ophüls Prize
• 2006 Dortmund sponsorship award for young artists
• 2007 Audience Award Gustaf of the Rheinische Post.

Web links

• Janina Sachau in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Portrait at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
2. ↑ Portrait at the Essen theater
3. ↑ Contributors (VT): "Janina Sachau" in HörDat (www.hördat.de)
4. ↑ RP-Online on July 26, 2007 (accessed on September 15, 2012)