Julia Hummer

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Julia Hummer with Too Many Boys at Karlstorbahnhof in Heidelberg , May 2005

Julia Hummer (born April 24, 1980 in Hagen ) is a German film actress and singer-songwriter.

Life

Julia Hummer, the youngest of five siblings, spent her childhood and youth in northern Germany and Switzerland. At the age of 17 she dropped out of school in the eleventh grade and was discovered on a street in Hamburg by the photographer Daniel Josefsohn . Your picture was on the cover of the now magazine of the Süddeutsche Zeitung . After she was recognized by director Sebastian Schipper in Hamburg from this cover picture, he hired her for Absolute Giganten in 1998 . She has never attended drama school.

She then starred in a number of German films and was seen, among other things, in a supporting role in the episode film Stadt als Beute and in a leading role in Ghosts by Christian Petzold , who also took part in the competition at the Berlinale 2005. She then scaled back her film presence to focus on her musical career, which she began in 2002.

Julia Hummer sings, plays acoustic guitar and harmonica and writes pieces (in English); she describes her style as " Folk - Pop ". "Sgt. Hummer “was the name of their first band. In Northern Star , directed by Felix Randau , she was seen and heard as a musician; During the credits, a piece runs out of this phase. Only Christopher "Krite" Uhe remained from the cast , with whom she recorded her debut album Downtown Cocoluccia and, reinforced by other musicians, gave concerts under Julia Hummer & Too Many Boys. However, she has since separated from this group in order to record songs as a solo artist. In 2007 Julia Hummer and other celebrities appeared in commercials for the GEZ , in which the population was called upon to pay radio license fees. Her voice can also be heard in many radio play and audio book productions.

In 2010 she took on the role of terrorist Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann alias "Nada" in Carlos - The Jackal, directed by Olivier Assayas . In 2017, the longtime enthusiastic skateboarder suffered a serious sports accident. The multiple broken ankle could only be properly restored after a few operations and a total of one and a half years of time off.

Julia Hummer is mother of one son and lives in Hamburg again after living in Berlin for a few years.

Filmography

Audio books and radio plays

Discography

Julia Hummer with Too Many Boys in Café Trauma in Marburg, December 16, 2005

Julia Hummer:

  • Boxy, Where Are the Spangles? / Bowling in Woodstock (7 ″ single, Earsugar Jukebox, 2004)
  • Oh lord! # 1 / Oh Lord! # 2 (7 ″ single, Strange Ways Records, 2006)

Julia Hummer and Too Many Boys:

  • Our Empire Is / Too Many Boys (7 ″ single, Strange Ways Records, 2005)
  • Downtown Cocoluccia (Album CD / LP, Strange Ways Records, 2005)
  • Katharina (Katharina / Boxy, Where Are the Spangles? / I Want More (Demo)) (Maxi-CD, Strange Ways Records, 2005)

Schneider TM / Paul Plamper and the prisoners feat. Julia Hummer:

  • Release (double CD, radio play, videos and songs, Favorite Song Records, 2004) (Julia Hummer contributes the chorus on Lie vs. Truth )

Schneider TM:

  • Škoda Mluvit (CD, Rough Trade, 2006) (including Erlend Øye and Julia Hummer as guests)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Julia Hummer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Actress Julia Hummer in conversation , Deutschlandfunk Kultur, published and accessed April 16, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Lobster, Julia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film actress and singer-songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen