Nadja Engel

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Nadja Engel (born September 4, 1964 in East Berlin ) is a German actress . She lives in Berlin.

Life

Education and theater

Nadja Engel is the daughter of the actress Petra Kelling and a granddaughter of Rudolf Engel . From 1981 to 1985 she was at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art in Berlin , where she graduated with a diploma.

Engel then had her first permanent theater engagement at the Mecklenburg State Theater in Schwerin under the artistic direction of Christoph Schroth (1984–1989). There she played u. a. Juliet in Romeo and Juliet , Natascha in Nachtasyl , both directed by Christoph Schroth, and Lotte in a stage version of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther (director: Thomas Roth). This was followed by a permanent engagement at the Berliner Ensemble (1989–1997), where she worked with directors including Manfred Wekwerth , Fritz Marquardt , Christoph Schroth, Werner Schroeter and Einar Schleef . Her roles at the Berliner Ensemble included a. a. Natalie in Prince Friedrich von Homburg or the Battle of Fehrbellin (Director: Manfred Wekwerth) and Frau Krause in Before Sunrise (Director: Christoph Schroth).

She has been working as a freelance actress since 1997. She had engagements at the Friedrichstadtpalast Berlin (2005; children's musical favorite color Bunt ) and in the 2006/07 season at the Musical Theater Bremen . There she played the mother in her favorite color, colorful , under the direction of Matthias Komm . From 2008 Engel developed her own theater projects in Berlin, partly in collaboration with her mother Petra Kelling. In the 2010/11 season she had a guest engagement on the stages of the city of Gera ; she played the magical woman in the fairy tale The Snow Queen . In 2012 she gave a guest performance at the Schlosstheater Celle , at the side of Claude-Oliver Rudolph , in the ensemble piece Hauptsache Arbeit by Sibylle Berg .

Movie and TV

Engel already had his first film and television assignments in the GDR (e.g. in the television series Der Sohn des Schützen , 1985). In 1989 she was in the TV movie The Ghostly Driver from the TV series The Public Prosecutor has the word together as mother / daughter at the side of her mother Petra Kelling. She played Janette Baltus, the fiancee of the junior manager of a hairdressing salon. After the fall of the Wall , she initially mainly had small roles in movies in the West , for example in the Wim Wenders film In Far Far Away, So Close! (1993). The feature film Adamski by Jens Becker with Engel in the lead role as Lilli received the long film sponsorship award at the Max Ophüls Film Festival in 1994 . In the movie Oskar and Leni (1999), with Christian Redl and Elisabeth Trissenaar in the leading roles, she played Tanja, a colleague and friend of Leni.

From 2000 television became Engels' main focus. Mainly she played from then on in television series , where she had continuous series roles, episode leading and supporting roles and guest roles. She gained greater prominence through her continuous lead role in the hospital series alphateam - The Lifesavers in the Operating Room (2000–2004). She embodied the nurse and deaconess "Sister Dorothea".

In the film Sonja (2006) by the Finnish director Kirsi Marie Liimatainen , a tenderly poetic love story about the friendship and first emotional confusion of two teenage girls, Engel embodied Sonja's overwhelmed mother who lives with her in a prefabricated housing estate. She had a small supporting role in the box office hit Der Vorleser (2008); she played an employee of the prison mail room.

Nadja Engel appeared several times in the ZDF television series Notruf Hafenkante ; In 2007, Mrs. Kreuzer, the mother of 17-year-old schoolboy Jan Kreuzer, played in the episode On the Run . In the successful series In all friendship she was seen in three appearances, so u. a. In 2007 as Texas driver Iris Dreher in episode 366 ( confrontation ) and in 2011 as Doris Schmidt, wife of the freight forwarder Eberhard Schmidt, in episode 502 ( New Life ). In the television series Dr. In 2010 Kleist played Neue Wegen once again alongside her mother Petra Kelling. She embodied the single mother Martina Thaller, whose daughter is looked after by the grandmother (Petra Kelling) in her small tailor shop .

Since 2009/2010, Engel has also had episode roles in the series SOKO Wismar (2009; as Marion Stieglitz, mother of the loner and teenager Marco Stieglitz), SOKO Leipzig (2010; as Iris Fuchs, the suspected wife of the murdered pediatrician Dr. Fuchs ), murder with a view (2010), Everything Klara (2012), Partly fatal: Act Ex (2013; as a patient Barbara Schroeder that her dentist a malpractice ) assumed SOKO Cologne (2013; as Mary Pietsch, the wife of the farmer and villager Günther Pietsch) and A Fall of Love (2014; as Ms. Kleinschmidt, correctional officer in the remand prison).

Engel had a supporting role in the short film Porn Punk Poetry (2014), which was shown on arte in April 2014 ; she played the bartender Camille. The film was u. a. at the Lünen Kinofest and won the Michael Ballhaus Prize for camera graduates at the First Steps Awards in 2014 .

In April 2015, Nadja Engel was seen again in the ZDF crime series SOKO Wismar . In the episode Glück und Glas she played Karla Weber, the owner of a small grocery store and mother of a murdered criminal. She had other episodic roles in All Friendship - The Young Doctors (2016; as a supposedly suicidal patient Martina Urbanek) and in Der Kriminalist (2016), where she played Rita Möller, the head of a Berlin women's shelter . In October 2016, she was also seen in the ZDF series Notruf Hafenkante in a supporting role as the aging prostitute Eva Schreiner. She had another episode role in the ZDF series SOKO Leipzig (first broadcast: January 2017) as Ms. Drewitz; she played the mother of a Salafist who the Jihad will bring to Germany. Engel has a supporting role in the ZDF television series Zarah - Wild Years (first broadcast from September 2017); she plays Aunt Mathilde, who takes care of the cancerous mother of the new deputy editor-in-chief Zarah Wolf ( Claudia Eisinger ). In September 2017, Engel was seen again in a series role in the ZDF crime series SOKO Wismar , as landlady Anne Tietze, who understands the difficult financial situation of her tenant. In the 5th season of the crime series Morden im Norden (2018), she also took on a supporting role.

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Petra Kelling Vita; DEFA film stars . Retrieved April 12, 2015
  2. ↑ Nadja Engel . Profile at crew-united.com. Retrieved April 12, 2015
  3. Jump up ↑ Theater: Claude-Oliver Rudolph in Berg's "Hauptsache Arbeit!" . In: New Press . dated April 25, 2012. Retrieved April 12, 2015.
  4. ↑ Porn Punk Poetry on kinofest-luenen.de
  5. ↑ Nadja Engel . Profile at crew-united.com. Retrieved April 12, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Angel, Nadja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH 4th September 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin , German Democratic Republic