Laura-Jo Schumacher

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Laura-Jo Schumacher (also Laura Jo Schumacher ; born July 29, 1976 in Krefeld ) is a German theater, film and television actress , theater director and film producer .

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Coming from a dropout and artist family, Laura-Jo Schumacher grew up multilingual in the USA, Germany, Portugal and Spain. She completed her training as an actress at the Center for Drama in Cologne in 2004.

Schumacher was first seen on television in 2002 in a small role in the RTL crime thriller “Mädchen, bad girl”. Her film career began in the short feature film “Together” (working title: “Cold Feelings”), which director Sebastian Fritzsch shot with her and Esther Roling in the lead roles in 2005 at the Art Academy for Media in Cologne . “Together” had its world premiere at the 2007 Max Ophüls Prize film festival .

Shortly after her acting training, she was nominated for the puck in 2005 for her role as presenter Anna Lichter in the play of the same name, which the Pailou Theater staged under the direction of Laura Bravo .

This was followed by further theater engagements in the Cologne off-scene and in the Theater am Schlachthof Neuss ; here she played in Lee Hall's comedy “Cooking with Elvis” in 2007 , and the Neuss-Grevenbroicher Zeitung praised her for her role : “Great cinema” was mainly offered by Laura Jo Schumacher, who excelled in her complex role, both shrill and sensual embodied. ". At the Theater am Schlachthof she also played in a double role Kriemhild and Brunhild in the school project “Der Ring. Die Nibelungen. ”And Marisa in“ Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown ”directed by Jens Kipper . For television she was in supporting roles for the ARD - Telenovela Verbotene Liebe and the ZDF Sunday film “Little Lie for Love” in front of the camera; at the cinema she gave a day role as a patient in Marleen Gorris ' film Mitten im Sturm .

In 2008 she emigrated to Spain. After she could not get roles in Madrid due to the economic situation, she went to the Sierra Nevada, where she had already spent time as a child in a family home: to Villacarillo in the province of Jaén. She founded and directed the Teatro MirlaMirlo. In 2012 she brought her first directorial work, “Cachorros de negro mirar”, to the stage in Villacarrillo; she played one of the protagonists herself. In addition to other plays, she staged the play “Los amantes de Aranjuez” by Rocío Punzano in 2013 with MirlaMirlo as director and actress.

Schumacher was featured twice in 2014 in the Teatrerías series on the Spanish television channel 9LaLoma. In episode 125 on June 4, 2014, Llámame Ofelia was shown, a two-person production by Vicente Ruiz Raigal for Profinteatro; for episode 129 on September 26, 2014, she played “Eva Braun” in a one-person play by Borja de Diego in a Teatro Arena production directed by Luis Centeno. She appeared on the Spanish television channel CanalSur in the series "The Last Kingdom", as Queen Isabella, and "Ponme una nube".

In Germany, Schumacher was in the series Falkenberg in 2019 - Murder in boarding school? on RTL II in a leading role as Clara, Daniel Auberland's stepmother.

Her film “How women tick”, directed by Svetlana Schotte, premiered as a feature film at the Berlin Independent Film Festival in February 2020. She plays one of the main roles in the comedy and was also responsible for the casting as a co-producer .

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ "Together" at crew-united.com, accessed on February 2, 2020
  2. ^ Program of the short films on the website of the Max Ophüls Prize 2007 in the Internet Archive, accessed on February 3, 2020
  3. ^ Note for the premiere on the TAS website in the Internet Archive, accessed on February 3, 2020
  4. ↑ Daniel Brinckmann, Kutteln für den King , NGZ from May 14, 2007, accessed on February 3, 2020
  5. ↑ Interview with Schumacher , Diario cultural de Villacultura y Anejos from October 17, 2012, accessed on February 2, 2020
  6. ↑ Le damos la bienvenida a Mirla-Mirlo. Los amantes de Aranjuez , Diario cultural de Villacultura y Anejos from November 20, 2013, accessed February 3, 2020
  7. ↑ Teatrerías 125 , website of 9LaLoma TV from June 4, 2014, accessed on February 3, 2020
  8. ↑ Teatrerías 129 · Citas de verano y Teatro Ap-arte “Eva Braun” , website of 9LaLoma TV from September 26, 2014, accessed on February 3, 2020
  9. ↑ Falkenberg - Murder in the boarding school? at Crew-United.com, accessed February 3, 2020
  10. ^ Program of the BIFF , there on February 27, 2020 under the English title What Makes Women Tick , accessed on January 24, 2020
  11. ↑ The film's website , accessed January 24, 2020

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SURNAME Schumacher, Laura-Jo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schumacher, Laura Jo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, theater director, film producer
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld