Karoline Herfurth

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Karoline Herfurth (2009)

Karoline Herfurth (born May 22, 1984 in East Berlin ) is a German actress , film director and screenwriter .

Career

childhood and education

Karoline Herfurth was born in Berlin-Pankow as the second child of her parents, who separated when she was two years old. As a child of a large blended family , she grew up in both households in Berlin-Mitte and Hohenschönhausen . She has seven siblings.

From 1990 to 1999 she attended the Free Waldorf School in Mitte , in 1999 she switched to the Rudolf Steiner School in Berlin, where she graduated from high school in 2003 . Herfurth was a student at a music school in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen for seven years. She danced in the children's dance group of the FEZ Wuhlheide and was a member of the Cabuwazi children's circus for several years .

In 2008 Herfurth graduated from the Ernst Busch Acting School and then began studying sociology and political science at the Humboldt University .

Career

Herfurth had her first film role at the age of ten in the ZDF television film Holidays beyond the Moon (1995) from the children's film series Achterbahn . Those responsible for the cast had looked for children in their dance theater group and invited them to the casting. She made her first feature film, Crazy , in 2000. She gained greater fame a year later with the cinema comedy Girls, Girls , whose dubbed versions were also successful in Eastern Europe , and the sequel Girls, Girls 2 in 2004. More serious She played roles in films such as Big Girls Don't Cry (2002), as Anna Amalie in Mein Name ist Bach (2003) and alongside Thierry van Werveke in Another League (2005).

She became internationally known in 2006 for the role of the mirabelle plum girl in Tom Tykwer's large-scale production Das Parfum - The Story of a Murderer , of which Der Spiegel wrote: “Quite a few claim that her appearance as a mirabelle plum girl caused trauma and lust for murder in the hero Grenouille on young girls, which are ten minutes that the viewer will remember best after 147 minutes of great art. ”
In Marc Rothemund's comedy Pornorama (2007) she played a commune who got into the scene of the Munich sex film industry. In 2008 she starred alongside Heino Ferch and Veronica Ferres under the direction of Roland Suso Richter in the female lead of Anja in the television drama Das Wunder von Berlin . In the same year she starred at the side of Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes as Marthe under the direction of Stephen Daldry in the film adaptation The Reader of the international bestseller of the same name by Bernhard Schlink .
For her role as the dance student Lilli Richter in Caroline Links' film, which won the Bavarian Film Prize In Winter One Year , she received the Young Actor Award in January 2009 for "her powerful and nuanced game", as the jury justified the award. In the same year she played the main role of Princess Elisabeth in the ARD remake Die Gänsemagd . In Vincent will Meer (theatrical release April 22, 2010) she embodied the anorexic Marie . The vampire thriller Wir sind die Nacht (directed by Dennis Gansel ) with Herfurth, Nina Hoss and Anna Fischer in the leading roles celebrated its premiere in October 2010. In June 2011, the 2010 film Das Blaue vom Himmel , directed by Hans Steinbichler , in which Herfurth can be seen alongside Hannelore Elsner and Juliane Köhler , was released in German cinemas.

In February and March 2011, Herfurth stood in front of the camera at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden and shot the international film Errors of the Human Body , directed by Eron Sheean, alongside Michael Eklund . She then shot the comedy Zettl with director Helmut Dietl , in which she embodies the friend of the title hero played by Michael Herbig . In March 2012, filming began in Berlin on Passion , Brian De Palma's English-language remake of Alain Corneau's last film Love and Intrigue . Herfurth plays a supporting role alongside Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace . In 2012 she had a child. Until July 2013, she stood alongside Elyas M'Barek in the comedy film Fack ju Göhte by Bora Drachtkin as the teacher Elisabeth Schnabelstedt in front of the camera. The film opened on November 7, 2013 and attracted over 7 million viewers to the cinemas. Herfurth was also involved in the similarly successful sequel Fack ju Göhte 2 .

In the film adaptations of Andreas Steinhöfel 's children's books about Rico and Oskar , Herfurth plays Tanja Doretti, Rico's mother. In 2014 Rico, Oskar and the Tieferschatten first came to the cinema, two more films followed in 2015 and 2016.

In 2011 and 2012, Herfurth was the advertising face for a women's perfume by Jil Sander . At the Hof Film Festival in 2012, she presented her first directorial work with the short film Mittelkleiner Mensch . Herfurth played the lead role in the film SMS für Dich 2016 and is directing a feature film for the first time. Herfurth played the title role in the 2018 film The Little Witch, based on Otfried Preußler 's children's book of the same name .

Private

Herfurth lives in Berlin and has two children (* 2012, * 2014).

Filmography

play

Speaking roles

Director

Others

theatre

Radio plays

  • 2011: Bibi Blocksberg , episode 101:… And Piraten-Lilly (as Piraten-Lilly )

Awards

Web links

Commons : Karoline Herfurth  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julia Möhn: Actress Karoline Herfurth: "What I can't stand is the term half-siblings". In: current news . Retrieved April 23, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Karoline Herfurth. In: kino.de. Retrieved February 28, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Nina Anika Klotz: Karoline Herfurth, biography. (No longer available online.) In: Gala. Archived from the original on September 6, 2011 ; Retrieved February 28, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gala.de
  4. ↑ Anja Daeschler: “I couldn't go on”. In: Bunte . November 13, 2008, accessed February 28, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Almost 250,000 US dollars in grossing income in Russia alone according to the Internet Movie Database , accessed on January 27, 2010
  6. ^ Moritz von Uslar: The professional angel. In: Der Spiegel. September 11, 2006, accessed February 28, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Bavarian Film Prize goes to “Baader Meinhof Complex”. In: Der Tagesspiegel . January 16, 2009, accessed February 28, 2012 .
  8. ↑ www.spielfilm.de , accessed on September 26, 2011
  9. ↑ Max Planck Institute becomes a film set: Karoline Herfurth is shooting thriller in Dresden. ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Dresdner Latest News , March 21, 2011, accessed on March 31, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dnn-online.de
  10. ↑ Cult director starts shooting at Lankwitz. In: Berliner Morgenpost , March 7, 2012
  11. ↑ Bea Peters: Herfurth becomes a Hollywood star In: BZ , March 14, 2012
  12. ↑ Karoline Herfurth , gala.de
  13. ↑ The scent of the Mirabelle girl. In: Gala. April 11, 2011, accessed February 28, 2012 .
  14. ↑ Wolfgang Höbel : Our ridiculous grimaces In: Spiegel Online , October 29, 2012
  15. ↑ Karoline Herfurth - Star portrait, news, pictures. January 10, 2020, accessed July 12, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Herfurth, Karoline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin