Jenny King
Jenny König (* 1986 in Eisenach ) is a German actress .
life and work
From 2006 to 2010, König studied acting at the Hanover University of Music and Theater , where she received a scholarship in 2008. During her studies she already took on a number of roles at the Meiningen State Theater and at the Studiotheater Hannover , a. a. in fragment Parzival after Wolfram von Eschenbach and in Fine! by Paula Fünfeck . From 2009 to 2010 she was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Nationaltheater Mannheim . a. in plays by Felicia Zeller , Molière , Anne Rabe and Kathrin Röggla on stage as well as in productions by Burkhard C. Kosminski , Cilli Drexel , Ivo van Hove, Anna-Lena Kühner and Marcus Lobes.
Since the 2011/12 season she has been a member of the ensemble at the Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz in Berlin. There she played and plays u. a. leading female roles in three Shakespeare plays: Ophelia and Gertrud in Hamlet , Isabella in Maß für Maß in a co-production with the Salzburg Festival , and the Hero in Much Ado About Nothing . The productions came from Thomas Ostermeier and Marius von Mayenburg . In 2012 she took over Sonja in Maxim Gorkis Sommergäste, directed by Alvis Hermanis . In 2013 and 2014, König was involved in two new productions by Duncan Macmillan (text) and Katie Mitchell (direction) - as a woman in the German-language premiere of Atmen and as Claire Haber in the world premiere of Forbidden Zone , which took place as part of the Salzburg Festival in 2014 and was then taken over to the Schaubühne.
Web links
- Jenny König , short biography of the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz
- Jenny König , short biography of the Salzburg Festival
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | King, Jenny |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1986 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eisenach |