Maren Kroymann

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Maren Kroymann, 2018
Maren Kroymann, 2017

Maren Kroymann (born July 19, 1949 in Walsrode ) is a German actress , cabaret artist and singer .

Live and act

Maren Kroymann, 2006

Kroymann was born in Walsrode in 1949 and grew up as the youngest child of the university professor and classical philologist Jürgen Kroymann with four brothers in Tübingen . Her mother had a doctorate in Romance languages ​​and one of her brothers is Albrecht Kroymann . After graduating from Uhland-Gymnasium in 1967, she began studying English , American and Romance studies at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and played theater at the same time. After stays in the USA and Paris, she went to Berlin in 1971 and worked there, among other things, in the Hanns Eisler Choir . In 1977 she passed the first state examination for higher teaching qualifications.

She was discovered for television a few years later through her first stage program Auf du und du mit dem Stöckelschuh (1982). In 1985 she worked in Dieter Hildebrandt's windshield wiper . She became known to a wider audience in 1988 on the side of Robert Atzorn in the television series Oh God, Herr Pfarrer, produced by the SDR . Two years later she took on the title role in the Vera Wesskamp series . From October 1993 to December 1997 she had her own satirical program with night nurse Kroymann .

In 2000 she received the Berlin Women's Prize for her “work as a cabaret artist and actress and especially for her courageous and pioneering feminist cabaret”. At the same time, she began performing ballads and country songs in her Used Songs program . A CD of the same name was created for this. Between 2001 and 2007 she appeared in the television series Mein Leben & Ich . In 2006 she played together with Kostja Ullmann in Angelina Maccarone's relationship film Persecuted , which was awarded the Golden Leopard in the Cineasti del Presente competition at the 59th Locarno Film Festival . In 2007 she received the German Film Critics' Prize for her portrayal as a probation officer involved in a dangerous liaison with a juvenile offender . In the same year, Kroymann took part in the documentary Dead Schwule - Lebende Lesben by Rosa von Praunheim , which premiered at the 2008 Berlinale.

In 2010 she was awarded the Augspurg Heymann Prize by the “LAG Lesbians in NRW” for her commitment to lesbian politics . On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of puberty, Kroymann developed the stage program In My Sixties . After previews in Bremen, their program premiered in September 2011 at the Berlin cabaret Bar every Vernunft . In June 2014 she was awarded the special prize of the Prix ​​Pantheon , the cabaret prize of the Bonn Pantheon Theater, in the category Reif & Crazy for her life's work . In April 2015 she received the honorary award of the Baden-Württemberg Cabaret Prize . In November 2015 the Curt-Goetz-Ring was passed on to her by Harald Martenstein .

Since March 2017 she can be seen with the satirical show Kroymann in the first . For this she received in 2018, together with Philipp Käßbohrer and Matthias Murmann from the German Academy for Television, the award in the television entertainment category , in 2019 both the Bavarian TV Prize and the German TV Prize and in both years the Grimme Prize . The reasons given by the jury emphasize Kroymann's speed, her craft and her comedic timing, where “attitude becomes entertainment”.

Kroymann is an ambassador for the Coming out day eV association and a member of the Federal Drama Association (BFFS) . She lives in Berlin-Charlottenburg.

In December 2019 she received the Rose d'Or television award for her life's work and in 2020 Kroymann was awarded the Carl Zuckmayer Medal of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Discography

  • 1983: Maren Kroymann - On you and you with the high-heeled shoe (double LP, live recording from the Berlin Grips Theater)
  • 2000: Used songs (together with the Jo Roloff Band)
  • 2012: In My Sixties (CD for the stage program of the same name, premiere October 2012)
  • 2019: Fredrik Vahle - encore (Maren Kroymann sings Anne Kaffeekanne ), Sauerländer audio

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Audiobooks (selection)

Awards

literature

  • Karin Theis-Sina: Maren Kroymann. Cabaret artist and actress . In: Lots of women. Detected in Baden-Württemberg. 47 portraits, Stuttgart: Theiss 2000, ISBN 3-8062-1525-1 , pp. 90–92.

Web links

Commons : Maren Kroymann  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Interviews

Individual evidence

  1. Maren Kroymann: "68? Isn't that a great age!" Retrieved June 19, 2020 .
  2. Maren Kroymann and her Tübingen childhood with music In: Schwäbisches Tagblatt from September 5, 2010.
  3. Silke Weber: Never again sidekicks. Maren Kroymann was the first female cabaret artist to run her own TV show and was already joking about sexism when her male colleagues thought women were stage accessories. Today she's 70 - and still proves how fun feminism can be. In: Die Zeit , No. 22 of May 20, 2020, p. 28.
  4. 1989-2003: Kroymann, Albrecht Dr. atkreis-tuebingen.de. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
  5. https://www.br.de/fernsehen/ard-alpha/sendung/alpha-forum/maren-kroymann-sendung-100.html
  6. Anselm Lenz: Maren Kroymann is 70 years old: More than just cabaret . In: The daily newspaper: taz . July 19, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed September 5, 2019]).
  7. Axel Schock : Maren Kroymann on the '68: Between Liberation and Dogma. Retrieved March 2, 2019 (d).
  8. German Satire Prize Prix Pantheon 2014 - Honorary Prize to Maren Kroymann at marenkroymann.de. Retrieved June 17, 2014.
  9. Laudation to Maren Kroymann. Retrieved August 18, 2016 .
  10. ^ Kroymann - Comedy & Satire in the first - ARD | The first. Retrieved June 19, 2020 .
  11. DWDL de GmbH: These are the winners of the Bavarian TV Prize 2019. Accessed on August 19, 2020 (English).
  12. Christine Dössel: A classic late bloomer . In: sueddeutsche.de . July 19, 2019, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed July 19, 2019]).
  13. Coming Out Day Ambassador Maren Kroymann at coming-out-day.de
  14. ^ BFFS member list , Bundesverband Schauspiel, bffs.de, accessed on December 8, 2015
  15. "Why aren't older women on the screens?" In: sueddeutsche.de . 2018, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed July 19, 2019]).
  16. DWDL de GmbH: Rose d'Or makes Kroymann, Gervais and "Chernobyl" shine. Retrieved December 2, 2019 .
  17. Maren Kroymann honored with the Zuckmayer Medal. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . January 18, 2020, accessed January 19, 2020 .
  18. a b c Susan Vahabzadeh: Give us a voice. Retrieved June 19, 2020 .
  19. Prize Winner - Grimme Prize. Retrieved June 19, 2020 .