Katja Danowski

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Katja Danowski (born April 20, 1974 in Hemer ) is a German actress . She works for the theater as well as for the film as well as a speaker for audio books and radio plays .

Life

Career

Katja Danowski completed her acting studies at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin.

theatre

From 2000 to 2002 she was engaged at the Berliner Ensemble , where she played the character Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Queen Isabel in Richard II . Until 2005 she had an engagement at the State Theater Stuttgart . Other important roles for her were Hilde Wangel in Baumeister Solness and Alitta in Grabbe's Hannibal, as well as Grusha in The Caucasian Chalk Circle .

From 2005 to 2013 Danowski was part of the ensemble of the Schauspielhaus in Hamburg . There she played the Maria Forest in Faces , Elisabeth in The Coronation of Richard III., The Grusha in The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Natascha in Down (Lower Depths) , Varya in The Cherry Orchard , Élise in The Miser , Thusnelda in the Hermannsschlacht and Anette in Called Gospodin .

Movie

In 2003 she played the cook Katrin in the film adaptation of Herr Lehmann . For this role she was nominated in 2004 for the German Film Prize for Best Supporting Actress and for the Austrian Undine Film Prize for Best Young Actress.

watch TV

From 2011 to 2014 Danowski could be seen as prosecutor Agnes Sonntag in the television film series Finn Zehender . In 2014 she starred in the television film Without You Clara . In 2015 she made a guest appearance in the episode Bauernopfer in the Bavarian crime comedy series Hubert and Staller .

Since 2015, Danowski has been the head of the twelfth department of the Cologne-Mülheim police force , Chief Detective Viktoria "Vicky" Adam , a leading role in the ARD crime series Pensionnercops alongside Tilo Prückner , Wolfgang Winkler (until 2019), and since 2020 Peter Lerchbaumer and Aaron Le . In 2015 she also played Vera Frenzlau-Schmidt in the ZDF comedy series Come on! . Danowski also played in several Tatort films, including 2013 in Tatort - Puppeteer , 2016 in Tatort - The Story of Bad Friederich and 2017 in Tatort - Borowski and the Festival of the North . In 2017 and 2019 Danowski played in one episode of SOKO Leipzig .

Radio plays

The voice of the actress can also be heard in several audio book productions and in radio plays, for example in the audio versions of the works Ein fabelhafter Lügner by Susann Pásztor , Immortal Beloved. Inflamed by Cate Tiernan and Love Among Fishes by René Freund .

Private

Danowski has a daughter. She has been in a relationship with Samuel Weiss since 2008 .

Filmography

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katja Danowski. In: Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg. Retrieved April 26, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Tom Wyss: Samuel Weiss - The «Tatort» star and his ten siblings. In: blick.ch. February 25, 2013, accessed July 25, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Martina Uckermann: Martina meets ………… actress Katja Danowski. Kölner News Journal, June 30, 2017, accessed on July 25, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Danowski, Katja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Hemer