Lena Lauzemis

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Lena Lauzemis (born January 15, 1983 in Berlin ) is a German actress.

biography

Training and success as a teenager

Lena Lauzemis was born in 1983 as the daughter of a primary school teacher and a scriptwriter and radio play writer. She grew up with two older brothers in Berlin-Kreuzberg , where she attended grammar school up to grade 12. Lauzemis came into contact with acting at the age of 13 when she joined the school's own theater group Wild Bunch in 1996 . “It came mainly through the language, through the poems, which fascinated me. The school theater group dealt with Brecht , that interested me, ”said Lauzemis in March 2010. Guest appearances at the Berliner Ensemble and other theaters followed. On the occasion of Bertolt Brecht's 100th birthday , Lauzemis performed with Wild Bunch in 1998 as part of the German Children's and Youth Theater Meeting in Berlin's Caroussel Theater on the Parkaue . Thereupon an acting agent noticed the pupil and arranged her first small television and film roles with The Son of the Crazy Poet ( ZDF - Das kleine Fernsehspiel , 1997) and Leander Haußmanns Sonnenallee (1999).

In the spring of 1998 15-year-old Lauzemis appeared as Lavinia in Heiner Müller's Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome . The production by director Thomas Heise relied on a school ensemble and was organized within three months by theater 89 on a disused factory site in the Marzahn district of Berlin . “That was formative for me. I learned a lot from him [Müller] about the body in space, on stage. What does it mean when two characters run towards each other? ”Says Lauzemis. After the role of the raped and mutilated Roman woman, Lauzemis gave up her plans to become a teacher and sought a career as an actress. By the press screening of Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome was Christine Wiegand attention to the Berlin student. The director then cast Lauzemis in her television film Das Alibi (2000). In the crime drama, she was seen as a teenage outsider who watched the murder of a classmate by several classmates while on a school trip. Torn between feelings of guilt and fear, she covers the perpetrators, since she is secretly in love with one of the boys (played by Jona Mues ).

Lauzemis' first leading TV role made her known to a broad German-speaking audience and earned her a lot of critical praise. Der Spiegel remarked that it was the “true acting art of the 17-year-old Hannah actress Lauzemis” that made the weaknesses in the direction and script quickly forgotten. The Stuttgarter Zeitung pointed to her “fascinating versatility” and made comparisons with the young Nastassja Kinski , while the Berliner Zeitung described Lauzemis as “an outstanding young actress”. In the same year Lauzemis shot the short film Lost in the Woods with her friend Christine Wiegand in Los Angeles , in which she played the leading role of an au pair girl .

Acting training and ensemble member of the Münchner Kammerspiele

A year later, Lauzemis was able to build on the success of Das Alibi with the female lead in Hanno Brühl's TV film Heartbeat (2001). In the drama she was seen as a determined adolescent Isa who falls in love with the restless, aggressive thief Marco ( Antonio Wannek ) and frees him from psychiatry. From 2002 to 2006, she trained as an actress at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin . Lauzemis also attended clown workshops and appeared in front of the camera alongside Stipe Erceg in Yugotrip (2004) and for Jutta Brückner's Hitler cantata (2005) with Hilmar Thate . In the last-named film she was seen as a young and talented music student, whose fanatical admiration for Adolf Hitler turns into a sexual passion, only to turn into a murder fantasy. Although Hitler's cantata received mixed reviews, the film service praised Lauzemis' Ursula as “a fascinating discovery”.

After completing her acting training, Lauzemis was brought to the Münchner Kammerspiele by artistic director Frank Baumbauer as a permanent member of the ensemble . There the androgynous , dark-blonde actress made her debut as “the girl” in Laurent Chétouane's production of Jon Fosse's shadow (2006). In the following years Lauzemis concentrated on her theatrical work and appeared among others as Kreusa in Stephan Kimmig's version of Mamma Medea (2007), in Andreas Kriegenburg's Der Prozess nach Franz Kafka (2008), as Sascha in Anton Chekhov's Platonov and as Victoria in Albert Camus ' state of siege (both 2009). In 2009, the award for young talent from the Münchner Kammerspiele association followed. She was also involved in improvised theater projects such as Kriegenburg's Everything Only Because of Love (2010/11), took part in readings and also leads a youth theater group at the Münchner Kammerspiele.

After five years of abstinence from the screen, Lauzemis took on the leading female role of Gudrun Ensslin in Andres Veiel's feature film debut Who If Not Us (2011), which is based on Gerd Koenen's biography Vesper, Ensslin, Baader . According to her own statements, she had already taken on the part of the terrorist in an experimental film by Suse Beer ( Hans and Grete ) at the age of 18 . The drama Who if not we celebrated its world premiere in the competition of the 61st Berlin International Film Festival and was cast in other leading roles with August Diehl (as Bernward Vesper ) and Alexander Fehling ( Andreas Baader ). Lauzemis was hailed by the critics as an acting discovery and acted as a favorite for the Berlinale Acting Award, which was awarded to the female actors from the Iranian contribution Jodaeiye Nader az Simin . Andreas Kilb ( Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ) spoke of the "birth of a German cinema star". Lauzemis discovered "in the Tuttlinger parsonage maid an amalgam of consuming longing and devastating sharpness, in which Ensslin's whole later fate is mapped out," says Kilb. Rainer Gansera ( Süddeutsche Zeitung ) was equally positive about the “multi-layered shimmering and engaging contours” of the actress, who in the last third of Wer if not we appear “romantically beautiful” in their confusion. The main role brought Lauzemis a nomination for the German Film Prize 2011 .

Lena Lauzemis lives in Munich and Berlin .

Filmography (selection)

Plays (selection)

year Play Director role stage
1998 Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome Thomas Heise Lavinia theater 89
2006 shadow Laurent Chétouane The girl Munich Kammerspiele
2007 Mamma Medea Stephan Kimmig Creusa Munich Kammerspiele
2008 To the beautiful view Christiane Pohle Miss Christine Munich Kammerspiele
2008 The process Andreas Kriegenburg Munich Kammerspiele
2009 poor thing Felicitas Brucker Munich Kammerspiele
2009 Globe Christiane Pohle Amalthea Munich Kammerspiele
2009 Three colors: blue, white, red Johan Simons including pregnant lovers Munich Kammerspiele
2009 Platonov Stefan Pucher Sasha Munich Kammerspiele
2009 State of siege Christoph Frick Victoria Munich Kammerspiele
2010 The day after tomorrow is doubtful // 2012 Chris Kondek Munich Kammerspiele
2010/11 All because of love Andreas Kriegenburg Munich Kammerspiele

Awards

  • 2009: Young Talent Award from the Friends of the Münchner Kammerspiele
  • 2011: Nomination for the German Film Prize for Who if Not Us ("Best Acting Performance - Female Leading Role")
  • 2011: Hessian television award for Who if not we ("Best Actress")

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c cf. Interview at dradio.de, February 17, 2011 (accessed on February 18, 2011)
  2. ↑ a b c d e cf. Raabe, Margarete: Lena, your blue eyes make us so sentimental ... . In: Die Welt , April 28, 2000, p. 41
  3. ↑ a b c cf. Questions about this country ( memento of March 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) - Interview at maerkischeallgemeine.de, March 10, 2010
  4. ↑ cf. Profile at prisma.de (accessed on February 5, 2011)
  5. ↑ cf. Hergeth, Andreas: Base Theater East. In: the daily newspaper , April 12, 1999, p. 23
  6. ↑ cf. Switching on: the alibi. In: Der Spiegel, March 13, 2000, No. 11, p. 131
  7. ↑ cf. Leinkauf, Simone: The end of a class trip. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung, March 13, 2000, p. 16
  8. ↑ cf. Drama in the shower room. In: Berliner Zeitung, March 15, 2000 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft )
  9. ↑ cf. Gehringer, Thomas: In love and criminal. In: Der Tagesspiegel , April 25, 2001, No. 17389, p. 31
  10. ↑ cf. Sociopath in love. In: Frankfurter Rundschau, April 25, 2001, p. 21
  11. ↑ cf. Criticism by Ulrich Kriest in film-dienst 10/2006 (accessed via Munzinger Online )
  12. ↑ cf. Leucht, Sabine: Naked and absent. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 20, 2006, p. 53
  13. ↑ cf. Discomfort  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Berlinale 2011: Andres Veiel on "Who if not we" at film-dienst.km-info.de (accessed on February 5, 2011)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / film-dienst.kim-info.de  
  14. ↑ cf. Rodek, Hanns-Georg: The past for the advanced. In: Die Welt, February 18, 2011, No. 41, p. 23
  15. ↑ cf. A mother abandons her child. In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten , February 18, 2011, p. 13
  16. ↑ cf. Kilb, Andreas: Energy equals experience times hate squared. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 18, 2011, No. 41, p. 34
  17. ↑ Gansera, Rainer: Wake up - and save. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 9, 2011, p. 11
personal data
SURNAME Lauzemis, Lena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin