Maria Simon

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Maria Simon (2016)

Maria Simon (born February 6, 1976 in Leipzig ; civil today: Maria Lade ) is a German actress and musician .

family

Maria Simon's father comes from Leipzig and studied mathematics in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg ). There he met her mother Olga, a Soviet citizen from Kazakhstan who was studying electronics there , and married her. Her sister, the actress Susanna Simon , was born in Alma-Ata (now Almaty ).

After completing their studies, her parents moved to Leipzig in the GDR in 1973 . When her father later took up a job as a UN employee in New York as a computer specialist , the girls were not allowed to move abroad with their parents, which is why Maria grew up with her grandparents in Leipzig after an initial boarding school. In 1990 she followed her parents to New York, where she graduated from an international school. She then returned and studied acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin until she graduated in 1999 .

Simon is married to the actor and director Bernd Michael Lade . Both brought one child into the marriage and have three children together (* 2005, 2007 and 2011). Simon's first child Ludwig , meanwhile also active as an actor, comes from a relationship with her fellow student at the drama school Devid Striesow . The family lives in Berlin-Pankow .

job

Simon achieved her first success with the lead role in her first film Angry Kisses (Switzerland) alongside Jürgen Vogel , for which she received the award for best actress at the Moscow International Film Festival . After receiving the Max Ophüls Prize in 2003 as best young actress for her portrayal in First Marriage (2002), she made her breakthrough at the 2003 International Film Festival in Berlin, where she was represented with two films in the competition. She played the sister of the main character portrayed by Daniel Brühl in Good Bye, Lenin! and the translator for Russian-German in lights .

Since then she has been seen more often in television films, for example five times in the crime series Tatort . She also appeared in episodes of other series. Since June 2011 she has played police chief inspector Olga Lenski in the crime series Polizeiruf 110 for the Berlin-Brandenburg radio station .Her eldest son Ludwig took on a role as a suspect student in 2014 in Police Call 110: Witch Hunt at his mother's side. In February 2019, Simon announced her exit at police call 110.

Since the end of 2007, she and her husband have also performed as a singer and guitarist in the neo-punk band Ret Marut , named after a pseudonym of the writer B. Traven .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Awards

Web links

Commons : Maria Simon  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maria Simon. Radio interview by Bettina Rust . Audible Rust - today with Maria Simon ( MP3 - podcast ). In: rbb -ender radioeins ; Podcast now via download.radioeins.de (since the original radioeins.de page with that broadcast (currently?) Is no longer available ( “404” )) . P - Babelsberg . May 5, 2013.
  2. ↑ Other information: 1970 in Morgenpost.de
  3. ↑ Maria Simon in the Munzinger archive , accessed on May 17, 2013 ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  4. ↑ Bernd Michael Lade plays punk instead of “Tatort”. In: Welt.de of December 3, 2008
  5. ↑ Joachim Schmitz: Maria Simon: Between "police call", punk and children. Interview. In: New Osnabrück Newspaper . January 11, 2014, accessed April 12, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Maria Simon puts an end to the "Police Call 110". Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Andreas Kurtz: I gave birth to the children, you talk. In: Berliner Zeitung. December 27, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Simon, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ark, Maria (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig