Maria Dragus

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Maria Dragus at the Berlinale 2017

Maria-Victoria Dragus (*  1994 in Dresden ) is a German actress and dancer .

biography

Maria Dragus was born into a family of artists. Her Romanian father, Silviu Dragus, was a cellist with whom she also appeared on stage. Her mother Jana Dragus is a dancer. Since the fifth grade, like her mother, she attended the Palucca School in Dresden , where she studied dance. In 2009, Dragus, who is enthusiastic about neoclassical dance, stated that she would be a dancer. Originally, she planned to take the dance exam after graduation in 10th grade and to do her bachelor's degree at the Palucca School . In 2014 she wanted to take her Abitur via distance learning.

In parallel to her dance training, the self-taught acting actress successfully applied to a Berlin child and youth agency at the suggestion of a friend. Since then, Dragus has appeared in film and television as an actress. In 2007, she played the role of the Polish immigrant child Jola in the German children's series An Angel for All . As an immigrant child , she was cast in Bernd Böhlich's tragic comedy You are not alone with Katharina Thalbach , before an appearance in the TV series SOKO Leipzig (both 2007) followed. Her younger siblings Josef (* 1997) and Paraschiva (* 2001) are also active as actors.

Maria Dragus (third from right) at the presentation of The White Ribbon 2009 in Cannes

A highlight in Dragus' acting career came with the supporting role of the pastor's daughter Klara in Michael Haneke's multi-award-winning historical drama The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story (2009). The 15-year-old was awarded the German Film Prize 2010 for the European co-production, which reports on puzzling incidents in a north German village shortly before the First World War . "Michael Haneke showed me what I would like to do for the rest of my life: Acting", said Dragus in her acceptance speech and accepted the award on behalf of all the child actors in the film who "did great things". In 2009 she also worked as a ballet dancer in the television series Dance Academy on the Australian television channel ABC .

In 2010, the filming of Andres Veiel's film production Who if Not Us followed , in which Dragus played the sister of RAF terrorist Gudrun Ensslin (played by Lena Lauzemis ). In the same year she was in front of the camera in Kill Me . In Emily Atef's road movie, Dragus took on the lead role of an unloved country girl who joins a fugitive prisoner ( Roeland Wiesnekker ).

Dragus played her leading role in Romanian in Cristian Mungius' drama Bacalaureat , which won a directorial award in the 2016 Cannes Festival competition . In 2017, leading roles followed in the cinema production Tiger Girl by Jakob Lass and the television film Tod einer Kadettin by Raymond Ley . Dragus was seen in the first-mentioned film as a passive security worker who rose to self-proclaimed avenger of society through an encounter with a tried and tested, extremely unpredictable Amazon (portrayed by Ella Rumpf ), while the death of a cadet is based on the fate of Jenny Böken , a medical officer -A candidate for the German Navy , who went overboard while on duty on a sailing training ship and drowned in the North Sea.

In addition to her dance training, she received lessons in classical singing and plays the cello and piano. She has also appeared in performances by the Central Saxon Theater ( Der Rattenfänger von Hameln , 2002; La Bohème , 2004; Hänsel & Gretel , 2005).

Maria-Victoria Dragus lived in Dresden until 2012 and since then in Berlin .

Maria Dragus at the presentation of Tiger Girl at the Berlinale 2017

Filmography

Awards

Web links

Commons : Maria Dragus  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Kunze, Hagen: Youth Theater: Audience Favorite Sold out . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , January 29, 2007, Ed. Döbelner Allgemeine, p. 13
  2. ↑ a b cf. Koch, Karin: Palucca student Maria-Victoria Dragus as a movie star . In: Dresdner Morgenpost , June 2, 2009 (accessed on March 22, 2010 via facebook.com)
  3. ↑ a b cf. First came a rejection, then came the big part . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung, October 16, 2009, p. 19
  4. ↑ At 19 already Berlinale shooting star Maria Dragus ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Report on www.stern.de from February 10, 2014
  5. ↑ cf. Angels for everyone: third season - Weimar . In: Thüringische Landeszeitung , September 13, 2006, S.ZCTV113
  6. ↑ cf. German Film Award: Award for "The White Ribbon" at orf.at, April 23, 2010 (accessed on April 23, 2010)
  7. ↑ cf. Tilmann, Christina: The formula for happiness . In: Der Tagesspiegel , April 24, 2010, p. 23
  8. ↑ cf. DDP : "The White Ribbon" wins the German Film Prize . April 23, 2010 10:18 PM GMT.
  9. ↑ “I don't know how I earned it.” Maria Dragus in conversation with Susanne Burg. In: Deutschlandradio Kultur on May 21, 2016.
  10. ↑ Oliver Reinhard: Maria behind the mirrors , in: Sächsische Zeitung of February 11, 2014, p. 3
personal data
SURNAME Dragus, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dragus, Maria-Victoria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and dancer of Romanian descent
DATE OF BIRTH 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Romania