Leonie Rainer

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Leonie Rainer 2018 guest at the Studio Hamburg Young Talent Award

Leonie Rainer (born December 25, 1989 in Münster ) is a German actress .

Life

Origin and education

Rainer was born as the middle of three sisters in Münster, where she also grew up. She gained her first acting experience at the age of 14 in an improvisational theater ensemble, with which she regularly appeared on stage during her high school years.

An intercultural music theater project brought the 18-year-old to Bolivia , where she developed a music theater piece with Bolivian and German youth that was performed in Bolivia and Germany.

After graduating from high school , she studied drama from 2010 to 2014 at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media .

Movie and TV

During her acting studies, Rainer was seen in her first roles on the stage of the State Theater in Hanover and in her first short and television films.

Rainer made her television debut in 2012 under the direction of Niki Stein in the lavishly produced ZDF drama Der Tote im Eis , u. a. alongside Manfred Zapatka , Merlin Rose and Ulrich Gebauer , followed by a historical film role as Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia in the ARD - docudrama 1913 - The last dance of the Emperor (Director: Florian Huber ). In the summer of 2014, Rainer received her acting diploma and then began a one-year permanent engagement at the Marburg Theater . In order to have more time for filming, Rainer ended her involvement in the theater festival in summer 2015 and moved to Berlin . Since then, Rainer has appeared in various film and television roles.

She premiered at the international Hof Film Festival in 2017 with the leading role in ALOHA as the daughter of Deborah Kaufmann and Uwe Bohm . Hamburg Media School graduate Charlotte A. Rolfes directed. ALOHA was received positively by the public and was also shown at international film festivals.

Leonie Rainer 2017 with fellow actor Deborah Kaufmann at the premiere of their joint film ALOHA (director: Charlotte Rolfes) at the Hof International Film Festival 2017

Together with student Oscar winner director Elmar Imanov , Rainer shot a teaser of his new film in Warsaw in the lead role Agata in 2017 .

Also in 2017, Rainer played leading episode roles in the ARD and ZDF crime stories Nord on Nordwest (director: Felix Herzogenrath), last trace Berlin (director: Christoph Stark ) and SOKO Leipzig (director: Robert del Maestro). For Chaos Queens , the ZDF-produced novel adaptation of Kerstin Gier's novel Lügen, which come from the heart , Rainer was cast in a comedic television role in autumn 2017 as a trio of friends with Anna König and Katharina Schlothauer (director: Imogen Kimmel ).

It followed in 2018 and a. Leading episode roles in SOKO Wismar (Director: Kerstin Ahlrichs ) and in Die Bergretter (Director: Steffen Mahnert).

For the Norwegian movie Dyr & Dyr (AT), in which Rainer plays her first English-language leading role, filming began in Norway ( Lofoten ) and Berlin in 2019 . The Norwegian director Truls Krane Meby is directing the film.

In spring 2020, Rainer celebrated its premiere with a role in the historical web series Haus Kummerveldt (director: Mark Lorei) at the Max Ophüls Preis film festival .

theatre

In addition to her film roles, Rainer continues to occasionally play theater . During her acting studies she played her first roles at the State Theater in Hanover , followed by a one-year permanent engagement at the Marburg Theater. In 2017 she appeared in a production by the theater collective machina eX in Germany, Lithuania and Switzerland (director: Anna Fries). From 2016 to 2018 Rainer was seen in guest roles at the Hans Otto Theater Potsdam , a. a. in the stage version of the bestseller Unterleuten by Juli Zeh (director: Tobias Wellemeyer ), in which Rainer played six different roles. Also at the Hans Otto Theater, Rainer played the leading role Elin in the coming of age drama Fucking Åmal (director: Andreas Rehschuh ). Rainer's interpretation of this role was received positively by theater critics :

“The staging has its decisive source of strength in Leonie Rainer, who furiously plays Elin. Leonie Rainer manages to make her Elin explode with liveliness, only to fall back into uncertain thoughtfulness. "( Hartmut Krug : Märkische Oderzeitung) And:" This is mainly due to the great Leonie Rainer, who sweeps across the stage, as if there is no tomorrow. "( Oliver Dietrich : Potsdamer Latest News)

Spokeswoman

Rainer is also active as a spokesperson. While studying acting, she received her first roles as a speaker in radio play and feature productions for Norddeutscher Rundfunk and Südwestrundfunk . The collaboration with director Alexander Schuhmacher and actress Maren Kroymann for the radio play Der Mendelssohnriss  brought Rainer to Deutschlandfunk Kultur in 2014 , where she is still a regular speaker. So far, Rainer has worked with radio play directors Alexander Schuhmacher, Leonhard Koppelmann , Judith Lorentz , Christiane Ohaus , Giuseppe Maio, Beatrix Ackers , Roman Neumann, Cordula Dickmais and Sven Stricker .

In 2018 Rainer stood with fellow actor Bjarne Mädel for the radio play - adaptation of the novel Sörensen catches fire (author: Sven Stricker ) behind the microphone of Deutschlandfunk Kulturs . The author himself directed.

Also in 2018, Der Hörverlag published the large Honoré de Balzac radio play edition, in which Rainer can be heard in two main roles: As Delphine de Nucingen in Father Goriot (with Katharina Schüttler as "sister" and Hans-Michael Rehberg as "father") - and as Hortense in Cousin Lisbeth (directed by Judith Lorentz and Christiane Ohaus ).

In 2019, Rainer spoke the main role Marianne Dashwood in the great Jane Austen three-parter Mind and Emotion , alongside Johanna Gastdorf , Birte Schnöink and Ulrich Noethen ( Hessischer Rundfunk , director: Alexander Schuhmacher ).

Rainer lives in Berlin .

Filmography (selection)

Theater appearances (selection)

Roles as speaker (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Press - Leonie Rainer - Uta Hansen Management. Retrieved October 15, 2018 .
  2. ^ Crew United - The network of the film and television industry. Retrieved October 15, 2018 .
  3. ^ Press - Leonie Rainer - Uta Hansen Management. Retrieved October 15, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Projects. Retrieved October 15, 2018 (American English).
  5. ^ Andreas Rehschuh - Fucking Åmål. Retrieved October 30, 2018 .
  6. ↑ How much different is bearable? Retrieved October 30, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Original broadcast - The Mendelssohn rift . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . ( deutschlandfunkkultur.de [accessed October 15, 2018]).
  8. ^ Crew United - The network of the film and television industry. Retrieved October 15, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Detective radio play : The fear of fear - Sörensen catches fire. Retrieved October 15, 2018 .
  10. ↑ The large radio play edition. Retrieved October 15, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Rainer, Leonie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster