Melanie Straub

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Melanie Straub (* 1976 in Waiblingen ) is a German actress .

Life

Straub, born near Stuttgart , wanted to be an actress as a child. For the acting, however, she initially felt too shy and began pantomime . At the urging of her parents, she first trained as a physiotherapist after graduating from high school . She then worked for about a year in a psychiatric institution, where she led a theater group with addicts. After a successful audition, at which she was immediately accepted, she completed her acting training at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art in Berlin from 2000 to 2003/04 . In 2004 she received the ensemble award at the 14th Theater Meeting of German-Speaking Drama Students in Graz for her participation as Grand Duchess in the bat studio production of Albert Camus ' Die Gerechten .

After graduating, she received her first engagement and since the beginning of 2004 has been a permanent member of the ensemble at Schauspiel Magdeburg . To Magdeburg it was from the director and artistic director of Magdeburg Tobias Wellemeyer been brought. In 2006 she was awarded the advancement award for young artists at the Magdeburg Theater. Her big theater roles there included Effi Briest (director: Matthias Brenner ), Heavenly Finney in Süßer Vogel Jugend (director: Tobias Wellemeyer), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth (director: Sebastian Hartmann ), Julie in Liliom (director: Angelika Waller ) and the title roles in Mary Stuart (directed by Katka Schroth ), Iphigenia in Tauris (directed by Annette Pullen ) and Emilia Galotti (directed by Andreas Kriegenburg ).

In 2010 she received the Otto Kasten Prize for young theater artists.

From the 2009/10 season until the end of the 2016/17 season Melanie Straub was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam . Wellemeyer had also hired her there after moving to Potsdam. There she played, among others, Blanche Dubois in Endstation Sehnsucht , Manuela Rosenberg in the German-language premiere of The Snake Egg by Ingmar Bergman , Dr. Vera Hangart in Solzhenitsyn -Uraufführung Cancer Ward (Director: Tobias Wellemeyer), the "mysterious beauty" Countess Doralice in the premiere of Eduard von Keyserling waves , Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew , the "crazy" Carol Cutrere in Orpheus descends from Tennessee Williams (Director: Elias Perrig ) and Aurelie in Comedy of Seduction by Arthur Schnitzler (Director: Tobias Wellemeyer).

In 2014 she played Anja Ranjewskaja at the Hans Otto Theater in the world premiere of Kirschgarten - The Return of John von Düffel , a remake of the Chekhov play. In 2015 she received the Potsdam Theater Prize. In the 2015/16 season she performed at the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam a. a. as Olga in Chekhov's Three Sisters . In the 2016/17 season she played the role of Vera, the wife of the rapist Chuck, who first became a friend and later a traitor to the main character Grace, in a stage version of the film Dogville by Lars von Trier .

In the 2017/18 season she was a guest at the Schauspiel Frankfurt in the world premiere production The Ministry of Lost Trains (director: Viktor Bodó ) and alongside Heidi Ecks and Anton Weil in the Whodunit crime play Der alten Schinken .

Straub has also appeared in a number of film and television roles. In the ZDF film Willkommen auf dem Land (2013) with Senta Berger and Günther Maria Halmer in the leading roles, she was Senta Berger's single stepdaughter with a drug past. In the TV movie Neufeld, come with me! (2014) by director Tim Trageser she played the teacher Ms. Schild at the side of Christina Große .

In the film Hedi Schneider is stuck , which premiered in February 2015 at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival in the “Forum” section, she played the deaf Viviane. In the movie As Wir Träumten , which also premiered in February 2015 at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival, she played the mother of the teenager Dani ( Merlin Rose ).

In February 2016, Straub was seen in a leading role in the ZDF crime series SOKO Wismar ; she played, at the side of Peter Becker , the supposedly seriously ill Svenja Harthof, the wife of an undertaker. In the ZDF television film Letter to my Life , which was first broadcast in April 2016, she played the anorexic patient Sarah Döring, about whom it is told at the end of the film that she had separated from her husband but was permanently ill. In the 5-part ZDF crime series Die Protokollantin (2018) with Iris Berben as the title character, Straub played the mother of a missing girl who was sexually abused in an episode role.

Straub is married to her acting colleague Wolfgang Vogler , who is engaged at Schauspiel Frankfurt, and is the mother of two children.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Melanie Straub Profile and Vita at Schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved April 26, 2016
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Actress Melanie Straub: Die Ratwanderin portrait in: Potsdamer Latest News from April 22, 2015. Accessed on April 26, 2016
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k "Sometimes I'm 30, sometimes three years old". Melanie Straub on the world premiere of “Kirschgarten - The Return” in: Zitty on February 7, 2014. Accessed April 26, 2016
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Nachwuchspreis Nachtkritik.de from January 15, 2010. Accessed on April 26, 2016
  5. ↑ a b c Melanie Straub receives the Potsdam Theater Prize ; in: Theater der Zeit from April 22, 2015. Retrieved April 26, 2016
  6. ↑ ABOUT THE PERSON: “Off to Moscow!” . Farewell talk with Melanie Straub. In: Potsdamer Latest News from July 13, 2017. Accessed October 1, 2018.
  7. ^ "Dogville" at the Hans Otto Theater - lesson in malignancy . Performance review. In: Potsdamer Latest News from July 13, 2017. Accessed October 1, 2018.
  8. ↑ THE MINISTRY OF THE LOST TRAINS . Production details, cast and photos of the scene. Official website of Schauspiel Frankfurt . Retrieved October 21, 2019.
  9. ↑ THE OLD HAM . Production details, cast and photos of the scene. Official website of Schauspiel Frankfurt . Retrieved October 1, 2018.
  10. ^ Letter to My Life - Actors, Cast & Crew . www.moviepilot.de, accessed on January 30, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Straub, Melanie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Waiblingen