Maryam Zaree

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Maryam Zaree ( Persian مریم زارع, Born July 22, 1983 in Tehran , Iran ) is a German actress , filmmaker and author .

Life

Maryam Zaree was born in Evin Prison in the Iranian capital Tehran . In 1985 her mother, today's Frankfurt local politician Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg , fled with her to Germany because of political persecution . From the age of two, she grew up in Frankfurt am Main . She completed her acting studies from 2004 to 2008 in the Brandenburg state capital Potsdam at the state university for film and television "Konrad Wolf" in the media city of Babelsberg . Already during her apprenticeship she worked in several film and television productions.

She became known through the lead role Maryam in the movie Shahada by Burhan Qurbani . The film was screened in the official competition of the Berlin International Film Festival in 2010 and was awarded prizes in Germany and at various international festivals (including the Hessian Film Prize , Studio Hamburg Young Talent Prize , Gold Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival ). Zaree has received several awards for her portrayal of Maryam , including the Best Leading Performance award at the Monterrey Film Festival in Mexico and a special mention for her acting performance at the 37th Ghent International Film Festival .

Maryam Zaree with Marvin Kren and Kida Khodr Ramadan , awarding of the Grimme Prize 2018 for 4 blocks

She played leading roles in films such as Abgebrannt and Marry Me . In 2012 she appeared in a double role in the Turkish-French-Greek coproduction I am not him by Tayfun Pirselimoglu . The film celebrated its world premiere at the Film Festival in Rome and was awarded as “Best Film” at the International Istanbul Film Festival . In recent years she has appeared more and more frequently in European films, including a. in a leading role in the Franco-Belgian cinema production Le Chant des Hommes . On German television, she was seen from 2015 to 2019 in the continuous role of forensic doctor Nasrin Reza in the Berlin Tatort around the investigative team Rubin and Karow . In the series 4 Blocks she plays Khalila , one of the leading female roles.

Zaree is a guest actress at various German theaters, a. a. at the Schauspielhaus Hannover and in Berlin at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater , at the Schaubühne at Lehniner Platz and at the Ballhaus Naunynstraße .

She also works as a writer and director. With her first play Kluge Emotions , she won the 2017 Heidelberger Stückemarkt Authors' Prize. Andrea Getto edited it for a radio play version for Norddeutscher Rundfunk in 2019 . With Born in Evin , her debut as a film director in 2019, Zaree returned to the beginning of her life in Evin Prison, where human rights violations and massacres of opposition activists took place. The film was awarded the German Film Prize in 2020 . In the same year, Zaree was a member of the jury for the Amnesty International Film Prize at the Berlinale .

Filmography

theatre

Radio plays

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gunda Bartels: Our tears are political. Documentary "Born in Evin" at the Berlinale. In: Der Tagesspiegel. February 9, 2019, accessed October 24, 2019 .
  2. ↑ hessenschau de, Frankfurt Germany: Born in the torture prison - "Born in Evin" now in the cinema. June 28, 2019, accessed on May 24, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ lastrada.doell's: Maryam Zaree agency profile, accessed February 25, 2019
  4. ↑ Susan Vahabzadeh: Footprint on the Soul. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved October 23, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Ruben Donsbach: Maryam Zaree: "It was about breaking people inside" . In: The time . February 9, 2019, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed October 24, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Prize winners 2020 . In: deutscher-filmpreis.de (accessed April 25, 2020).
  7. ↑ The Amnesty Film Prize at the Berlinale 2020 , accessed on February 28, 2020.
  8. ^ Edition 2010 - Festival Internacional de Cine Monterrey. Retrieved October 24, 2019 (American English).
  9. ↑ Schiller Memorial Prize 2019: Nino Harati wili honored , Börsenblatt from August 16, 2019, accessed on August 16, 2019.
  10. ^ Hessian Film Prize in the Shadow of the Mendig Cause. In: hessenschau .de. September 20, 2019, accessed September 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Zaree, Maryam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran , Iran