Lea van Acken

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Lea van Acken (2020)

Lea van Acken (* 20th February 1999 in Luebeck ) is a German actress . She played her first leading roles in the films Kreuzweg and Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank .

Life

Lea van Acken grew up in Schleswig-Holstein . As a child she was interested in riding and dancing, among other things. She was on stage for the first time in 2011 as an extra in the performance of Der Ölprinz at the Karl May Games in Bad Segeberg . In an interview with the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , she reported that she had studied other actors in films.

In 2014 van Acken played the leading role of the deeply religious adolescent Maria in the film drama Kreuzweg by director Dietrich Brüggemann . The film won a Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2014 . In Brüggemann's next film Heil , a satire about neo-Nazis , van Acken played a teenager. She also played a small role in Bernadette Knoller's RBB film Ferien .

In 2015 she was seen in a supporting role in the fifth season of the US series Homeland , which was filmed entirely in Germany. She also appeared in the SWR film Tell Me Nothing and in the Spreewald crime thriller Game with Death ( ZDF ). Van Acken played the title role of Anne Frank in the literary film adaptation of Anne Frank's Diary , which was shot in spring 2015 and was released in cinemas on March 3, 2016 . In preparation for the role of the Jewish girl made famous by his diary , she wrote fictional letters to Anne Frank. For the final scene, which takes place in the concentration camp , the actress had her hair shaved off for an authentic representation.

Filmography (selection)

Recordings for the film The Diary of Anne Frank in Amsterdam (2015)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Lea van Acken  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b More leeway. (PDF) Madame, March 2016, archived from the original on February 23, 2016 ; accessed on February 23, 2016 .
  2. ^ Press booklet for the film Bibi & Tina - Tohuwabohu total , page 15
  3. ↑ Julia Schaaf: We can go out and live. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 21, 2016, archived from the original on February 23, 2016 ; accessed on February 23, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b Portrait at the Next Generation Acting agency ( memento from February 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Elisabeth von Thadden: End of Childhood. Die Zeit , February 11, 2016, accessed on February 28, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Lea van Acken: A face that you won't forget. Hamburger Abendblatt , February 11, 2014, accessed on February 23, 2016 .
  7. ↑ IMDB, Cast & Crew zu Heil
  8. ↑ Eikon Film, Don't Tell Me
  9. ↑ Start of shooting for ZDF- "Spreewaldkrimi - Das Duell im Moor" with Christian Redl. Press portal, September 8, 2015, accessed on February 23, 2016 .
  10. ↑ a b Anna Wollner: "I realized how important moral courage is". RBB , February 16, 2016, accessed February 22, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Acken, Lea van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German young actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1999
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany