Katharina Wackernagel

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Katharina Wackernagel 2015 in Saarbrücken at the Max Ophüls Prize film festival

Katharina Wackernagel (born October 15, 1978 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German actress who is primarily involved in film and television roles and who has also worked as a director .

Life

Her mother is the actress Sabine Wackernagel , her father the director and actor Valentin Jeker , her grandmother the actress Erika Wackernagel , her half-brother the screenwriter and director Jonas Grosch , her uncle the author, actor and former RAF terrorist Christof Wackernagel . Katharina Wackernagel spent her school days in Kassel from 1983 to 1996 , moved to Berlin in 1998 and lived in a shared apartment with her brother for nine years.

In 1997 Wackernagel got the lead role in the television series Tanja , directed by Berengar Pfahl , for which she was awarded the Golden Lion in the category Best Actress in a Series in 1998. Since the first series from 2002 to 2008, she starred in the television series Bloch the role of the daughter of the psychotherapist Dr. Maximilian Bloch.

For the first time, Wackernagel received more attention in a movie in 2003 in Sönke Wortmann's film Das Wunder von Bern , which was viewed by 3.6 million viewers. Here she played Anette Ackermann, the wife of a sports reporter. In the same year she played the young nurse Anneliese Stegmeier in the television film Das Wunder von Lengede , whose friend was one of the miners buried in the tunnel.

In 2005 she was seen as Leni, the best friend of the protagonist Louise in the television film The Airlift - Only Heaven Was Free at the side of Henning Baum , Ulrich Noethen and Heino Ferch . In the same year she received her first leading role in the movie Die Boxerin . She was nominated for the 2008 Grimme Prize for her portrayal of the boxer Johanna alias "Joe" .

The television film Contergan - a single tablet , in which she portrayed the mother of a girl severely damaged by Contergan , was nominated for the 2008 Grimme Prize. She was nominated for the Golden Camera 2008 as best German actress, won the FIPA D'or 2008, the Golden Nymph of the 48th Monte Carlo Television Festival and received the Bavarian TV Prize 2008 for best actress in the TV film category and in 2007 together with Benjamin Sadler and Denise Marko the Bambi Special Prize of the Jury.

Since the beginning of production in 2008 until today, Wackernagel has played the detective inspector Nina Petersen in the ZDF crime series Stralsund . For the soundtrack of the film Résiste - Uprising of the Interns , she recorded the title Résiste in 2009 with the ska band The Busters . In addition, three more songs emerged from the collaboration, which were published on the album Waking The Dead , which was released in the same year . In 2011 and 2012 she took part as a co-producer on the films The Last Lie and A Silent Rockumentary by her brother Jonas Grosch. In 2014 she produced the comedy film Bestefreunde together with her brother Jonas Grosch , in which she also played the lead role. The film opened in German cinemas in February 2015 and was released on DVD two months later.

In November 2018, Wackernagel was an interview guest with Nicole Köster in SWR1 People and with Doris Maul in SWR2 Zeitgenossen .

Work (selection)

watch TV

movie theater

Director

  • 1998: Think positive ( short film )
  • 2018: When flies dream

theatre

Radio plays and audio books

Awards and nominations

  • 1998: Golden Lion TV Award : Best Actress in a Series for Tanja
  • 2007: Bambi : Special Jury Prize for Contergan (Benjamin Sadler, Katharina Wackernagel, Denise Marko)
  • 2008: FIPA d'Or : Best leading actress in the TV series / multi-part Contergan section ; 21st Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels, Biarritz
  • 2008: Golden Camera : nomination for Best Actress for Contergan and My Murderer is back
  • 2008: Bavarian TV Award: Best Actress in the “TV Film” category for Contergan and Mein Mörder comes back
  • 2008: Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo : Golden Nymph for acting in Contergan
  • 2008: German Television Award: nomination for Best Actress for Contergan and Mein Mörder comes back
  • 2008: Hessian TV Award: Best Actress for My Murderer Comes Back
  • 2018: Askania Award : Best Actress

Web links

Commons : Katharina Wackernagel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katharina Wackernagel: The answer to adaptation. Retrieved June 26, 2020 .
  2. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt- Hamburg: Katharina Wackernagel presented her new film. April 6, 2011, accessed December 10, 2018 (German).
  3. ↑ Leslie Brook: When Mothers Don't Love Their Babies. In: Rheinische Post . October 24, 2012, accessed October 24, 2012 .
  4. ↑ http://www.morgenpost.de/kultur/tv/article131570613/Kommissarin-Wackernagel-twittert-nicht-beim-Fernsehen.html
  5. ↑ www.grimme-institut.de ( Memento from December 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Katharina Wackernagel sings about oral sex. In: Bild (newspaper) . November 5, 2009, accessed January 8, 2013 .
  7. ↑ https://www.swr.de/swr2/programm/sendung/zeitgenossen/swr2-zeitgenossen-katharina-wackernagel-schauspielerin/-/id=660664/did=22925954/nid=660664/1fc1z6p/index.html
  8. ↑ https://www.swr.de/swr1/bw/programm/haben/schauspielerin-katharina-wackernagel/-/id=1895042/did=22966252/nid=1895042/mh2fhl/index.html
personal data
SURNAME Wackernagel, Katharina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg , Germany