Marijam Agisheva

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Marijam Agischewa (actually Melan Schwarz; born December 22, 1958 in Hangzhou , China ) is an Austrian actress .

Life

The daughter of a Tatar and an Austrian diplomat was born in China in 1958 and came to the GDR when she was two . She spent her youth in East Berlin , where her father Ernst Schwarz accepted a professorship in Sinology at the Humboldt University in Berlin . As a 16-year-old Agischewa in 1975 by a DEFA team to Director Wolfgang Hübner for the lead role in the TV movie siblings cast .

Agischewa later studied at the Ernst Busch drama school in Berlin . In 1980 she was awarded the film prize of the youth magazine New Life for her leading role in Marta, Marta and was voted the most popular actress in the GDR . Agischewa played in 30 GDR films such as Der Leutnant Yorck von Wartenburg (1981) as well as in series such as the Neumann family (1984) and Treffpunkt Flughafen (1986).

In 1989, just a few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall , she did not return to the GDR from a state-approved stay in the USA for a family visit and went to West Berlin .

Since then, Agischewa has appeared in numerous films and TV series such as Wolffs Revier , Die Männer vom K3 , Das Traumschiff , Tatort , Verschollen in Thailand , Air Albatros and Matchball . She was also popular in her series roles in Dr. Sommerfeld - News from Bülowbogen (1998–2002) and Friends for Life (1994–1996 and 1999). From 2008 to 2009 she was in the ZDF - Telenovela Path to Happiness to see. Since 2015 Marijam Agischewa has worked as Prof. Dr. Karin Patzelt in the ARD series In all friendship - To see the young doctors .

In addition, she also works as a voice actor and as a freelance alternative practitioner for psychotherapy in Berlin .

From her first marriage to Wolfgang Häntsch , she has a daughter named Olivia (* 1987). Agischewa has been married to Georg Alexander , a former head of the ZDF feature film department, for the second time since 1995 .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Quote

“What good is all success if you have the feeling of standing still artistically. I've played in around 40 productions over there. The more critical the political situation became, the further the films drifted away from reality. Turning was no longer fun. "

- Marijam Agischewa : About the motives for her flight from the GDR.

literature

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credentials

  1. Domplatz 1: Miriam Agischewa - the chief physician from "In aller Freunde". In: Thüringer Allgemeine , January 16, 2016, accessed on January 2, 2020. (“… But my real name is Melan Schwarz. I was born in China. Melan is a Chinese first name that means something like 'wave von Pflaumenblüten '. And black is the name of my father, he was Austrian. My parents left during the Cultural Revolution. My mother, a Tatar woman, was called Agischewa, which was transferred to me for purely bureaucratic reasons. ")
  2. “The simplest is always the hardest” - Interview with Marijam Agischewa. In: Thüringer Allgemeine, October 1, 2015, accessed on March 20, 2019. ("I am an Austrian citizen. Germany is my home. And Berlin is the most beautiful place in the world for me. I have lived here since I was two years old. Here I am I've practically rooted since I can remember. There is almost something like a bonding gene to Berlin. ")
  3. ^ Tilo Bürger: The female Eastern stars: what are the most famous GDR actresses doing today. In: Berliner Kurier , March 2, 2017, accessed on March 20, 2019.