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Katja Hannchen Leni Riemann (born November 1, 1963 in Kirchweyhe ) is a German actress , singer and author .
Life
Katja Riemann was born as the daughter of an elementary school teacher couple in Kirchweyhe, Lower Saxony, where she spent the first twenty years of her life. She has two older siblings who, like their parents, have also taken up apprenticeships.
From 1990 to 1998 she lived with Peter Sattmann , whom she had met while filming the television film From Violence No Speech and with whom she made a total of nine television and cinema films. Their daughter Paula Riemann was born in August 1993 .
Riemann lives in Berlin and is in a relationship with the sculptor Raphael Alexander Beil.
Career
Education and theater
In his early years, Riemann took ballet lessons as well as piano , flute and guitar lessons . After graduating from the Cooperative Comprehensive School (KGS) Leeste in 1983, she studied dance pedagogy for one semester in Hamburg . She then sat in on the Westphalian State Theater in Castrop-Rauxel , where she first developed an interest in acting. Finally, from 1984 to 1986, she attended the Hanover University of Music and Drama and from 1986 to 1987 the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich . Before the end of her training, she came to the ensemble of the Münchner Kammerspiele on the recommendation of the screenwriter Reinhard Baumgart through theater director Dieter Dorn , where between 1986 and 1989 she played roles such as Lieschen in Goethe's Faust , the blind in Botho Strauss ' Visitors , the Ismene in Jean Racine's Phaedra and Galy Gay's wife in Bertolt Brecht's husband is husband took over.
From 1990 to 1992 she had an engagement at the Schillertheater Berlin , where she appeared as Amalia in Friedrich Schiller's Die Räuber (Director: Alexander Lang ), Gerhart Hauptmann's tragicomedy Die Ratten as Sidonie Knobbe and in the Schwank Weekend in Paradise by Franz Arnold and Ernst Bach worked.
At the beginning of 2007 she played the leading role in the play Sex City Relationships in the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin , directed by Amina Gusner . From November 2007 to February 2008, she played the lead role in the Tolstoy -Stück Anna Karenina , which they by Germany and Switzerland went on tour. In 2008 she played alongside Jasmin Tabatabai and Nicolette Krebitz the role of Olga in the play Drei Schwestern (based on Anton Pawlowitsch Chekhov ).
Movie and TV
During Riemann's third semester at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media , her lecturer there, Peter Meinhardt, gave her her first leading film role in the six-part television play Sommer in Lesmona (1987), based on letters from the writer Magdalene Pauli, produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk . She took on the role of 18-year-old Marga Lürmann, who fell in love with the young Englishman Percy Roesner in Lesmona - a Bremen district of Burglesum - in 1893 , but ultimately bowed to her parents' expectations during Percy's five-year stay in England by the art historian Dr. Rudi Retberg gets married. Her performance brought her the Adolf Grimme Prize with gold in 1988, alongside Peter Beauvais (director), Reinhard Baumgart (screenplay) and Herbert Grönemeyer (music) . In December 1989 she was seen in the Schimanski - Tatort Katjas Schweigen as Katja Schaaf in the title role. For her portrayal in these roles, she and Maja Maranow were awarded the Golden Camera 1989 in the Discovery of the Year category. Bernd Fischerauer cast her in the ten-part television series Regina, based on a novel of the same name by Utta Danella , on the steps of the economic miracle as 22-year-old Regina Thorbeke, who fled illegally from Dresden to the west of Munich in 1955. For her role of the traumatized rape victim Leonie Ossowski in the ZDF TV film Von Violence No Talk (1990), she was awarded the Lilli Palmer Memory Camera for Best Young Actress by the Golden Camera in 1991 . In the Hera Lind adaptation, A Man for Each Key (1993), she was seen on the big screen for the first time in the role of the aspiring singer Pauline Frohmut. In Katja von Garnier's one-hour university film Make up! (1993) for the HFF Munich , which made it to cinemas nationwide and reached a total of 1.2 million visitors, she took on the main role of cartoonist Frenzy, who is in a creative crisis, alongside Nina Kronjäger . For these first two cinema roles she received the Actress Award at the Bavarian Film Prize in 1994 . On television she played in the 157th episode Blue Dream - Death in the Rain (1993) of Polizeiruf 110, staged by Bodo Fürneisen , the waitress Rita, who wants to go to Hamburg with her friend Natalie ( Suzanne von Borsody ) to open a boutique there open. She had another film role in Sönke Wortmann's film comedy The Moving Man as Doro, the friend of the main protagonist Axel Feldheim ( Til Schweiger ). In Bandits (1997), which is about four women who found a band in prison and are able to flee unexpectedly, she took on one of the four leading female roles of Emma Moor, the ex-member, alongside Jasmin Tabatabai , Nicolette Krebitz and Jutta Hoffmann a jazz band. During filming, she learned by Curt Cress playing drums and worked with the other actors decisively on the soundtrack of the film with. From October 1997 she was in the Ingrid Noll novel adaptation Die Apothekerin in the title role of the Heidelberg pharmacist Hella Moormann on the big screen. For her acting performance there she received the Berlin Bear in 1998 . Joseph Vilsmaier cast her in his biography Comedian Harmonists (1997) as the partner and later wife Mary of the Polish-US singer Roman Cycowski . In Rainer Kaufmann's crime film Long Hello & Short Goodbye (1999) with Nicolette Krebitz in the leading role, she was seen in the role of Ida.
After the turn of the millennium , Riemann continued to be cast in various cinema and television productions. In the film adaptation Bibi Blocksberg (2002) and its sequel Bibi Blocksberg and the secret of the blue owls (2004) based on the children's radio play series of the same name , she took on the role of the mother of the young witch Bibi Blocksberg alongside Sidonie von Krosigk and Ulrich Noethen as Barbara Blocksberg . On television she was in the mistaken comedy The job of his life (2003) and its sequel The job of his life 2 - again in office (2004) as Heide Achimsen, the wife of Prime Minister Uwe Achimsen ( Wolfgang Stumph ), who has a doppelganger . She played Hitler's secret lover Eva Braun in Kai Wessel's TV film Goebbels and Geduldig (2002) and in Dani Levy's Hitler parody Mein Führer - The Truly Truth About Adolf Hitler (2007) . In Die Relatitätstheorie der Liebe (2011) she slipped into the role of lovers in five interwoven episodes alongside Olli Dittrich . Stefan Krohmer cast her in his film drama Betrayed Friends as Christa, the wife of the entrepreneur Peter Staude ( Heino Ferch ). In the crime scene The truth dies first (2013) with the investigators Saalfeld and Keppler , she took on the role of the BKA officer Linda Groner. In the television film Kleine Schiff (2013), based on a novel by Silke Schütze , she played the 45-year-old physiotherapist Franziska Funk, who, when she found out that she was pregnant, was left by her husband Andreas. In the most successful films of 2013, 2015 and 2017 Fack ju Göthe , Fack ju Göhte 2 and Fack ju Göthe 3 she played the school director Gudrun Gerster. In May 2018 she was seen in Oskar Roehler's film Herrliche Zeiten as garden architect Evi Müller-Todt. In the ARD three-part series Our wonderful years , which takes place in the time of the economic miracle and was broadcast on Das Erste in March 2020 , she was the pianist Christel Wolf.
music
Katja Riemann has released several music albums. In 1997 she was on the soundtrack of the film Bandits . In 2000, she released her solo debut Nachtblende , a pop album with German lyrics that were mostly written by herself. The English-language jazz album Favorites followed in 2003 with the Katja Riemann Octet . In 2004, Ein Stück vom Himmel was published with songs by Jewish composers from the 1920s and 30s, together with Anika Mauer , Natalia Wörner , Imogen Kogge , Burghart Klaußner and Max Hopp . Then she sings the songs Sexappeal , Man Must Have a Home and Monotonous Nights .
In December 2006 she appeared with Johannes Heesters in several performances as a soloist in the Stars go swing concert program of the big band The Capital Dance Orchestra in Berlin's Admiralspalast . At the 31st Evangelical Church Congress in June 2007 she performed as a singer at a concert by the Brothers Keepers music group .
Author
In 1999, Riemann published a children's book entitled The Name of the Sun , which her older sister illustrated. At the invitation of Roger Willemsen for the Mannheim Literature Festival , she wrote a report on her work and experiences in 2015/16, which she published as a book in 2020. The book title “Everyone has. Nobody is allowed to. ”Quotes the beginning of sentences from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights .
social commitment
Katja Riemann is committed to democracy and human rights as well as an open society . It also supports the fight against child poverty , child trafficking and the circumcision of young girls in Africa. She was also appointed to the “Innovation Advisory Board ” of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development . In 2010 she received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for her commitment .
She has been a UNICEF ambassador since 2000 and supports Amnesty International and the ONE organization .
Filmography (selection)
movie theater
- 1992: Make up! , Director: Katja von Garnier
- 1992: Die Distel , directed by Gernot Krää
- 1993: A man for every key , director: Peter Timm
- 1994: The Moving Man , Director: Sönke Wortmann
- 1995: Only about my corpse , directed by Rainer Matsutani
- 1995: Talk of the town , directed by Rainer Kaufmann
- 1996: Just for Love , directed by Dennis Satin
- 1996: The Pharmacist , Director: Rainer Kaufmann
- 1997: Bandits , directed by Katja von Garnier
- 1997: Comedian Harmonists , director: Joseph Vilsmaier
- 1999: Long Hello and Short Goodbye , directed by Rainer Kaufmann
- 2002: Goebbels and Geduldig , Director: Kai Wessel
- 2002: Bibi Blocksberg , directed by Hermine Huntgeburth
- 2003: Rosenstrasse , director: Margarethe von Trotta
- 2004: Agnes and his brothers , director: Oskar Roehler
- 2004: Bibi Blocksberg and the secret of the blue owls , director: Franziska Buch
- 2004: Bergkristall , director: Joseph Vilsmaier
- 2006: I am the other , director: Margarethe von Trotta
- 2007: Blood and Chocolate , directed by Katja von Garnier
- 2007: A Fleeing Horse , Director: Rainer Kaufmann
- 2007: Mein Führer - The Really Truth About Adolf Hitler , Director: Dani Levy
- 2007: Shanghai Baby, directed by Berengar Pfahl
- 2008: Up! Up! To the Sky, directed by Hardi Sturm
- 2011: The theory of relativity of love , director: Otto Alexander Jahrreiss
- 2011: Der Verdingbub , Director: Markus Imboden
- 2012: Turkish for Beginners , directed by Bora Drachtkin
- 2012: Siberia of all places ; Director: Ralf Huettner
- 2012: The Weekend, directed by Nina Grosse
- 2013: Fack ju Göhte , director: Bora Drachtkin
- 2014: Coming In , director: Marco Kreuzpaintner
- 2014: Without You, directed by Alexandre Powelz
- 2014: The Split Village (TV movie), directed by Gabriel Le Bomin
- 2015: Die abhandene Welt , director: Margarethe von Trotta
- 2015: Fack ju Göhte 2 , director: Bora Drachtkin
- 2015: He's back , directed by David Wnendt
- 2016: Defective copy , director: Laura Lackmann
- 2016: SMS for you , directed by Karoline Herfurth
- 2017: High Society , directed by Anika Decker
- 2017: Fack ju Göhte 3 , director: Bora Drachtkin
- 2017: Forget About Nick, directed by Margarethe von Trotta
- 2018: glorious times , director: Oskar Roehler
- 2018: Goliath96, director: Marcus Richardt
- 2019: The Perfect Secret , directed by Bora Drachtkin
- 2020: Four magical sisters , director: Sven Unterwaldt
- 2020: Catweazle (Director: Sven Unterwaldt )
watch TV
- 1987: Summer in Lesmona (TV series), directed by Peter Beauvais
- 1988: Faust - From Heaven through the World to Hell , Director: Dieter Dorn
- 1988: Der Fahnder (TV series, episode family bond )
- 1989: Tatort: Katjas Schweigen (TV series), directed by Hans Noever
- 1990: Love Stories (TV series)
- 1989: Salt for Life (short film), director: Rainer Kaufmann
- 1990: Regina on the steps (TV series), director: Bernd Fischerauer
- 1991: No talk of violence (TV film), director: Theodor Kotulla
- 1992: Der Fahnder (TV series, episode Between the Chairs )
- 1993: Polizeiruf 110: Blue Dream - Death in the Rain (TV series), directed by Bodo Fürneisen
- 1994: Heaven and Hell (TV film), director: Hans-Christian Schmid
- 1994: The Glass House (TV film), director: Rainer Bär
- 1996: Hard but Heartfelt - Operation Jennifer (TV movie), directed by Tom Mankiewicz
- 1998: Macht (television thriller), directed by Miguel Alexandre
- 1999: Men are like chocolate (TV film), director: Uwe Wilhelm
- 1999: Balzac - A life full of passion (TV film), director: Josée Dayan
- 1999: Else - story of a passionate woman (TV film), director: Egon Günther
- 2000: Desire (Desire) , directed by Colleen Murphy
- 2001: Girl, directed by Piers Ashworth
- 2002: Night music, short film, director: Johannes Thielmann
- 2003: The job of his life , directed by Rainer Kaufmann
- 2004: The job of his life 2 - Back in office , director: Hajo Gies
- 2005: The Thief and the General (TV movie), directed by Miguel Alexandre
- 2005: Kiss me, witch! (TV film), director: Diethard Küster
- 2006: The True Life (TV film), directed by Alain Gsponer
- 2009: Romeo and Jutta (TV film), director: Jörg Grünler
- 2009: Vulkan (TV film), director: Uwe Janson
- 2010: The Border (TV film), director: Roland Suso Richter
- 2011: The Foreign Family (TV film), director: Stefan Krohmer
- 2012: Clarissa's Secret (TV film), directed by Xaver Schwarzenberger
- 2012: Baron Münchhausen (two-part television film), director: Andreas Linke
- 2013: Friends betrayed (TV film), director: Stefan Krohmer
- 2013: Tatort: The Truth Dies First (TV series), directed by Miguel Alexandre
- 2013: Totenengel - Van Leeuwen's second case (TV film), director: Matti Geschonneck
- 2013: Small Ships (TV film), director: Matthias Steurer
- 2014: Die Fahnderin (TV film), director: Züli Aladağ
- 2015: Girlfriends - All for One (TV film), directed by Jan Ruzicka
- 2016: Emma after midnight - The Wolf and the Seven Hostages , Director: Torsten C. Fischer
- 2016: Emma after midnight - Frau Hölle , director: Torsten C. Fischer
- 2016: Deadly Secrets - Stolen Truth (TV film), directed by Sherry Hormann
- 2017: Deadly Secrets - Hunt in Cape Town (TV movie), directed by Sherry Hormann
- 2020: Our wonderful years (three-part television film), director: Elmar Fischer
synchronization
- 2001: Queen Camilla in Rudolph and the toy thief
- 2002: Augustine in 8 women
Audio books
- 2005: Fay Weldon , Die Teufelin (with Mechthild Großmann ), Patmos audio, ISBN 978-3-491-91192-5 , abbreviated, 4 CDs, 332 min.
- 2006: David McKee , you started! No you! ... stories of arguing and contracting , Sauerländer audio, ISBN 978-3-411-80881-6 , unabridged, 1 CD, 57 min.
- 2007: Kathy Reichs , Bones to Ashes , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3-86604-708-2 , abbreviated, 6 CDs, 427 min.
- 2008: Kathy Reichs, Death Comes Like Called , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3-86604-894-2 , abbreviated, 6 CDs, 446 min.
- 2011: Dora Heldt , Beloved , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3-8371-0885-9 , abbreviated, 3 CDs
Awards
- 1988: Adolf Grimme Prize with gold for summer in Lesmona (together with Reinhard Baumgart , Peter Beauvais and Herbert Grönemeyer )
- 1990: Golden Camera 1989 as Discovery of the Year (together with Maja Maranow )
- 1992: Golden Camera 1991 Lilli Palmer Memory Camera - Best Young Actress for No Talk about Violence
- 1994: Bavarian Film Award (Actor Award ) for Make-up and A Man for Every Key
- 1994: DIVA Award
- 1994: Bambi for best actress in The Moving Man
- 1996: German film award for talk of the town .
- 1996: Bavarian Film Award (Actor Award) for talk of the town and Only about my corpse
- 1997: Nero Film Award for “Best Female Leading Role” in Just for Love
- 1997: Berlin Bear (BZ Culture Prize) for The Pharmacist
- 1997: Ernst Lubitsch Prize
- 1998: Bavarian Film Prize for Bandits (Best Music in Film)
- 1998: German film award as “Best Actress” for Die Apothekerin and Bandits
- 1999: Málaga Film Festival : "Best Actress" ( The Pharmacist )
- 2003: Coppa Volpi at the Venice Film Festival 2003 for Rosenstrasse (best leading actress)
- 2004: German Film Award (Best Supporting Actress in Agnes and His Brothers )
- 2007: Prize for acting at the Festival of German Film
- 2007: Bambi in the “National Film” category for Real Life and A Fleeing Horse
- 2009: Premio Bacco for her life's work
- 2009: Adolf Grimme Prize for Real Life
- 2010: Bremen Town Musicians Prize
- 2010: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
- 2016: Courage Prize for her diverse and constant social commitment
Publications
- Katja and Susanne Riemann: The name of the sun. Xenos Verlag , 1999, ISBN 978-3933697646 .
- Katja Riemann: Everyone has. Nobody is allowed to. Project trips. S. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 2020, ISBN 978-3-10-397313-6 , reading sample .
biography
- Katharina Blum : Katja Riemann. With charm and power. Heyne, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-453-14056-7 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Katja Riemann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Katja Riemann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Katja Riemann at filmportal.de
- Katja Riemann at schauspielervideos.de
- Katja Riemann at her acting agency
Individual evidence
- ↑ Katja Riemann in the German charts
- ↑ a b c Katja von Garnier : Katja Riemann. (Biography), September 2015.
- ↑ Sandra Basan: "I'm currently in love". In: Berliner Morgenpost , June 1, 2011.
- ↑ a b c Dirk Jasper FilmLexikon ( Memento from February 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Katja Riemann as Christel Wolf. In: The first . Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Our wonderful years (UFA Fiction). In: UFA.de . Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Multi-part series “Our wonderful years” . TV review at tittelbach.tv . Retrieved March 13, 2020
- ↑ Thomas Holl: Kirchentag in Cologne: "I am African - I am your brother". In: FAZ , June 8, 2007.
- ↑ Conversation with Insa Wilke : Katja Riemann about her book “Everyone has. Nobody is allowed. ” In: SWR2 , February 21, 2020, audio file: 54:56 min., 49 MB.
- ↑ Peter Unfried : Katja Riemann on activism: "I already have lint on my tongue". How do you successfully defend the open society? Katja Riemann about her commitment outside of acting - for democracy and human rights. In: taz . June 16, 2018, accessed March 8, 2020 .
- ^ Dagmar Dehmer: Aid Organizations. Katja Riemann is campaigning for Africa. In: Tagesspiegel , March 2, 2011.
- ↑ The Innovation Advisory Board - "Impulses for new ideas". ( Memento from May 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), 2011.
- ↑ a b Press release: Medal awards for the Day of German Unity. In: Bundespräsidialamt , October 4, 2010, accessed on March 8, 2020.
- ↑ "This mission is my duty." The actress Katja Riemann on her social commitment in Africa and the corona crisis. (Interview with Andrea Herdegen) In: Neues Deutschland from June 10, 2020, p. 3.
- ↑ Prize winners. In: nottedellestelle.de .
- ^ Claudia Scholz: Katja Riemann receives the Courage Prize in Bad Iburg. In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , September 23, 2016, accessed on March 8, 2020.
- ↑ The Bad Iburger Courage Prize 2016 goes to Katja Riemann. In: Komitee Courage , 2016, accessed March 8, 2020.
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SURNAME | Riemann, Katja |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Riemann, Katja Hannchen Leni (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress, singer and author |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1963 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kirchweyhe |