Marion Kracht

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Marion Kracht
Marion Kracht (2014)

Marion Bettina Kracht (born December 5, 1962 in Munich ) is a German actress .

life and career

At the age of five, the daughter of the dramaturge and author Fritz-André Kracht was in front of the camera for a television film and for advertising. During her school days, she commuted between school and film studio. At the age of 14 she got the role of the adolescent Tony Buddenbrook in the television adaptation of Thomas Mann's novel Die Buddenbrooks . Her brother Claudius played the young Christian Buddenbrook in the film. At the age of seventeen she played firmly in the children's series Das feuerrote Spielmobil and in Babbelgamm .

From 1982 to 1984 she took acting lessons with Ursula Neureuther in Munich , and in 1988 she attended the Herbert Berghoff Acting School in New York . In addition, from 1991 to 1995 she completed further training in improvisation with Keith Johnstone in Berlin . From 1998 she took voice training lessons with Annette Goeres and in 2004 she did coaching with Jens Roth.

Kracht made the transition to adult actress with the title role in the television series Christian and Christiane . Her breakthrough came in 1985 with the role of Tina in the family series Die Drombuschs . To date she has played over 100 different television, stage and cinema roles.

Since 1988 Kracht lent her voice to the animated character Bessie, a cat. Bessie and Bingo were animation characters that the Südwestrundfunk broadcast in its commercials between the individual spots, alternating weekly with Äffle and Pferdle .

Kracht has been socially committed for many years. Among other things, she has been sponsoring the children's aid organization Plan International since the early 1990s, is a member of the board of trustees, deputy chairwoman of the Fair Play Foundation, supporting member of the Berliner Tafel and sponsored the organic bread box campaign (2009-2011).

The winner of the Golden Camera played the deaf Sarah in God's Forgotten Children 250 times and has been campaigning for the deaf since then. In 2002 she received the Federal Cross of Merit. The committed climate protector has been a vegetarian for 20 years, has developed her own organic delicatessen line and, with a few exceptions, is vegan. Your many stays abroad and a. for Plan International it meant that the promotion of girls and the protection of the climate and the environment were particularly important to her.

Marion Kracht lives with the architect Berthold Manns and two sons in Berlin .

Filmography (selection)

Theater engagements

Memberships

Awards

Web links

Commons : Marion Kracht  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Kilian thirty: Marion Kracht in an interview on veganism. (YouTube video, 3:05 minutes) In: vegpool.de. May 10, 2014, accessed May 22, 2018 .