Monika Gossmann

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Monika Gossmann (* 1981 in Alma-Ata , Kazakh Socialist Soviet Republic , today Kazakhstan ) is a German actress and dancer.

Life

Origin and family

Monika Gossmann was born in the former Soviet Union, not far from the Chinese border. Her ancestors were Germans who came to Russia in the 18th century under Tsarina Catherine II . During the Stalin rule, their ancestors had to resettle to the Volga and to Siberia .

Gossmann grew up bilingually with Russian and German ; her grandmother spoke the Volga German- Swabian dialect with her . Grossmann's mother was a teacher , his father an ophthalmologist . Monika Gossmann was secretly baptized Protestant . When she was three years old, the family moved to Tajikistan . Gossmann grew up in Russia until she was 6, before the family left for Germany in 1988.

Education and theater

From the age of 4, Gossmann had already received dance lessons. In Germany, she attended the Stage School in Hamburg from 2000 and then trained as a dancer at the Contemporary Dance School Hamburg from 2001 to 2004 . In 2004 she and two other dancers formed the short-lived girl group Ashana , which went on to play the dance-pop title U Gonna Get It! entered the German and Austrian charts.

Her acting studies completed Gossmann 2003-2007 at the Moscow Art Theater (Moscow Art Theater School). In the last year of her studies she played Anna Petrovna in Chekhov's Platonov in a production in Moscow that was awarded the “Golden Leaf”, a Moscow theater prize.

Theater roles such as Miss Julie and Lady Milford followed in Germany . Gossmann had theater engagements a. a. at the Hof-Theater-Tromm (2007) and from 2008 several times at the “Salon-Theater Taunusstein” in Wiesbaden . In 2010 she made a guest appearance at the Schauspielhaus Graz as Ophelia in Hamlet . From 2011 to 2014 she studied at Yale University in Boston , where she got to know the acting technique "Lucid Body" developed by the choreographer and director Fay Simpson , artistic director and co-founder of the "Impact Theater", which she now teaches herself. Gossmann also works as a theater director and develops her own theater projects in which she emerges as an actress and director. In 2017, her production Venus in Fur, based on the play by David Ives, premiered in Kater Blau in Berlin .

Movie and TV

Gossmann has worked in several Russian, German and international film and TV productions.

She made her TV debut in Germany in October 2010 as a young Lithuanian Aljona , married to a wealthy entrepreneur from Wismar, in the ZDF series SOKO Wismar . In the 10th season of SOKO Wismar (2014) she took on one of the main roles of the episode as the mysterious city guide Marina Lombardi, with whom Commissioner Nils Theede ( Jonas Laux ) begins a passionate affair. She was also seen on German television in two episodes of the ZDF series Coast Guard .

Together with the screenwriter Nira Bozkurt, whom she met while shooting a music video, she founded the Berlin film production company Stormrider Films .

Private

Gossmann has been married to the Russian actor Anton Pampushnyy (* 1982) since 2007 and lives in Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

  • 2010: SOKO Wismar : A Little Longing (TV series, an episode)
  • 2011: Coast Guard : False Trust (TV series, episode)
  • 2013: Mission Backup Earth (TV series)
  • 2014: SOKO Wismar : Star Wars (TV series, one episode)
  • 2014: Coast Guard : Lady, King, Murder (TV series, episode)
  • 2014–2019: Jekaterina ( The Rise of Catherine the Great , TV series)
  • 2017: The Optimists (TV series)
  • 2017: Anna Fucking Molnar (movie)
  • 2018: Unforgiven ( Neproshchennyy , feature film)
  • 2020: The Kangaroo Chronicles (movie)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Monika Gossmann at schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved April 10, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Monika Gossmann . Vita and profile at CASTFORWARD. Retrieved April 8, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Sigrid Brinkmann: Creative between Moscow and Berlin . Portrait on Deutschlandfunk Kultur on October 2, 2013. Accessed April 8, 2020.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Jörg Joachim: Surprising . Portrait at jjschreiben.de from 7 July 2017. Retrieved on 8 April 2020.
  5. ↑ LUCID BODY room Berlin . Retrieved April 11, 2020.
  6. ↑ Monika Gossmann in "Venus in furs" . Retrieved April 11, 2020.
  7. ↑ VENUS IN FUR . Retrieved April 11, 2020.
  8. ↑ Monika Gossmann-Soko Wismar . Retrieved April 8, 2020.
  9. ↑ SOKO Wismar: Star Wars . Plot and cast. Official website of the ZDF . Retrieved April 11, 2020.
  10. ↑ stormrider films berlin - Monika Gossmann & Nira Bozkurt . Retrieved April 11, 2020.
  11. ↑ Anton Pampushnyy and Monika Goss man . IMDb.com. Retrieved April 11, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Gossmann, Monika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and dancer
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Alma-Ata , Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic , today Kazakhstan