Marina Frenk

Marina Frenk (* 1986 in Chișinău , Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic ) is a German actress , radio play speaker , musician and author of Russian - Jewish origin.

life and career

Marina Frenk came to Germany with her parents in 1993. From 2005 to 2008 she studied acting at the Folkwang University of the Arts . She took part in various theater performances and films. Frenk was a member of the ensemble at the Grillo-Theater Essen, Schauspielhaus Bochum , Leipziger Centraltheater and Schauspiel Köln . From 2013 to 2015 she was a member of the ensemble at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin.
She has been a freelance actress, musician and author since 2015. In 2018 she was invited to the Radikal Jung Festival at the Volkstheater Munich with her self-staged and written piece, played as a one-woman performance, "Valeska Gert - The Animal Show" .

Frenk wrote an autobiographical radio play, Beyond the Chestnuts , in which she tells of her Moldovan origins, the flight of her family and her integration into German society. The MDR produced the radio play in 2016, edited and directed by Stefan Kanis , in which Frenk speaks and sings himself. The radio play received the European CIVIS Radio Prize in 2017 .
Marina Frenk was a longtime singer of the folk jazz band "Kapelsky" and often plays with the noise - electro band "Baba Dunyah". She also plays with Daniel Kahn and Yuriy Gurzhy in the klezmer rock band "The Disorientalists".

On January 30, 2020, her debut novel was published by Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Forever and Not True . Like the author Marina Frenk, the protagonist Kira Liebmann was born into a Jewish-Russian family in the Republic of Moldova and came to Germany with her parents in the 1990s. The fragmentary stream of memories of several generations, the hallucinations of the protagonist and the break-in of her daydreams into everyday Berlin life as well as the absolute uprooting of the people determine the action of the first novel by Frenk.

Radio play (selection)

• 2011: Turksib (MDR)
• 2013: Inside the country (MDR)
• 2015: And now: the world! (MDR)
• 2015: Some women (NDR / HR / SWR)
• 2015: Maschenka (NDR)
• 2016: The cleaning women (MDR)
• 2016: Beyond the chestnuts (MDR) - author and composition
• 2016: The Heart Eater (rbb)
• 2016: Blackbird (SWR)
• 2017: Germans among the victims (WDR)
• 2017: Birdland (NDR)

Filmography

• 2011: Totem - also composition
• 2012: Domoj (short film)
• 2013: Everyone is running for happiness
• 2018: In all friendship - The young doctors (TV series, episode overprint )

plant

• forever ago and not at all true , Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-8031-3319-9 .

Awards

• 2009 Bochum Theater Prize , Young Artist category "
• 2014 Creole - Global Music Contest , with the band "Kapelsky"
• 2016 Radio Play Award of the War Blind for And Now: The World! (together with the author Sibylle Berg )
• 2017 Civis - Europe's media prize for integration , radio category in the "Long Programs" section, for Beyond the Chestnuts .
• 2019 scholarship from the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe

Web links

• Marina Frenk in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Marina Frenk at filmportal.de
• Radio plays and features with Marina Frenk in the HörDat audio play database
• Marina Frenk at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marina Frenk, actress - Vita. In: castforward.de. Retrieved September 9, 2017 .  
2. ^ Ensemble: Marina Frenk. In: gorki.de. Retrieved September 9, 2017 .  
3. ^ CIVIS radio laureates on the CIVIS website. ( Memento of the original from August 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Theresa Hein: Hold on, please. Retrieved March 22, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Tom Thelen: Marina Frenk is returning to the Schauspielhaus as a musician. In: derwesten.de. March 4, 2014, accessed September 9, 2017 .  
6. ↑ MDR KULTUR receives the War Blind Radio Play Award 2016 for a production with actress Marina Frenk. In: presseportal.de. May 4, 2016. Retrieved September 9, 2017 .  
7. ↑ European Media Prize for Integration 2017: MDR radio play wins Civis. (No longer available online.) In: MDR.de. June 8, 2017, archived from the original on September 28, 2017 ; Retrieved October 19, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
8. ↑ Work and research grants awarded to 29 Berlin authors , report on Buchmarkt.de from November 26, 2019, accessed on November 30, 2019.