Nadja Uhl

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Nadja Uhl with the director Torsten C. Fischer at the German Television Award 2018

Nadja Uhl (born May 23, 1972 in Stralsund ) is a German actress .

Life

Nadja Uhl grew up in Hennigsdorf . After graduating from high school from 1990 to 1994, she completed her acting training at the Leipzig University of Music and Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy . She received her first engagement in 1994 at the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam . There she played the viola in Shakespeare's Was ihr wollt , Polly Peachum in Brecht's Die Dreigroschenoper , Gretchen in Goethe's Faust and Paula in Plenzdorf's Die Legende vom Glück ohne Ende . Uhl had her first film appearance in 1993 towards the end of her studies in Der Grüne Heinrich . From 1995 onwards, she preferred working in film and television. She was nominated for the New Faces Award for Best Young Actress in 2000 for her portrayal in the snow on New Year's Eve . Her breakthrough came in the same year in Schlöndorff's film The Silence after the Shot as the freaky worker Tatjana .

Above all, Uhl's talent for acting is her great versatility and her convincing portrayal of personalities in borderline situations: In Uli Edels and Bernd Eichinger's film The Baader Meinhof Complex , she portrayed the terrorist Brigitte Mohnhaupt , in the film Mogadishu , which was made at the same time, she played as the stewardess of the hijacked aircraft a victim of terrorism. She was nominated for the German Film Prize for her supporting role in Simon Verhoeven's comedy Men Hearts (2009), in which she can be seen as a saleswoman who is persecuted by her choleric ex-husband (played by Wotan Wilke Möhring ) .

Private

After many years in Berlin-Mitte , Uhl now lives in Potsdam. In 2005 she and three friends bought the old Villa Gutmann and renovated it into a multi-generation house with a lot of work on her own .

She has two daughters with her partner and manager Kay Bockhold.

Filmography (selection)

Documentation:

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Nadja Uhl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. The woman with the extreme something. In: Der Tagesspiegel , November 24, 2008.
  2. Film star Nadja Uhl bought a villa with friends - leftists are calling for the house to be kept open Winter in front of the dream castle berliner-zeitung.de from January 9, 2006, accessed on January 19, 2018
  3. Your second daughter is on Welt Bunte.de from October 1, 2009, accessed on January 19, 2018