Julia Jentsch

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Julia Jentsch (2017)

Julia Jentsch (born February 20, 1978 in West Berlin ) is a German actress .

Life

Julia Jentsch grew up in Berlin and attended the Wald-Oberschule in Berlin-Westend , where she graduated from high school in 1997. At the sports-oriented high school she trained rowing, handball and judo. She then received her acting training at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin . Already in 1995 she was on stage and played the Orphise in Die Lästigen by Hugo von Hofmannsthal . Her first theater engagement took her to the Münchner Kammerspiele ; there she was a member of the ensemble from 2001 to 2006 . There she played leading roles in the plays Antigone, The Nibelungs , The Ten Commandments and Othello . Further stations were the Thalia Theater Hamburg and the Schauspielhaus Zurich .

Jentsch became known to a larger audience through the female lead in Hans Weingartner's film The fat years are over , which was awarded the jury's prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival . In 2005, Jentsch received the Silver Bear for best actress, the German Film Prize for best leading actress and the European Film Prize for best for her portrayal of the quiet, serious and strong-willed resistance fighter Sophie Scholl in Marc Rothemund's chamber drama Sophie Scholl - The Last Days at the 55th Berlinale Actress. In 2009 she starred in the title role of Hermine Huntgeburth's literary adaptation Effi Briest . In 2014 she played a young teacher in the drama The Chosen One , directed by Christoph Röhl , who tracked down a network of pedophile teachers at the Odenwald School in the late 1970s .

Jentsch played in the cinema drama 24 weeks , published in 2017, an expectant mother who is faced with a conflict of conscience to legally abort her disabled child in the 24th week of pregnancy. She was nominated again for the German Film Award. In the same year she was appointed to the competition jury of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival .

Jentsch has been married to the freelance Swiss artist and personality trainer Christian Hablützel since 2012. The couple lives with their daughter in a village near Zurich .

Theater roles

Julia Jentsch in Major Barbara

Filmography

Radio plays

Awards

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julia Jentsch . In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 06/2015 from February 3, 2015, supplemented by news from MA-Journal until week 38/2015 (accessed via Munzinger Online ).
  2. ^ BR radio play Pool - Bicker, Egzon ( Memento from April 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ BR radio play Pool - Dath, The abolition of species. Shortcut ( Memento from March 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ European Film Academy: European Film Awards 2005
  5. ↑ Julia Jentsch receives Emder drama award. Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 18, 2018, accessed on August 25, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Awarding of the medal on the Day of German Unity. In: bundespräsident.de. October 2, 2018, accessed October 2, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Jentsch, Julia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin