Paula Beer

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Paula Beer (2019)

Paula Beer (* 1. February 1995 in Mainz ) is a German actress . She first gained fame in Germany as a teenager through her lead role in the feature film Poll (2010). For Frantz (2016) she won the Young Actor Award at the Venice Film Festival . For her performance in Undine , she was awarded the Silver Bear of the Berlinale in 2020 and the European Film Prize.

Live and act

training

Paula Beer was born in Mainz in 1995 (other sources incorrectly state Berlin as the place of birth) as the only child of an artist couple and grew up here. Already at the age of eight she took part in a theater course, which, according to her, conveyed the joy of acting: "I was very scared of it, but once on stage I had a feeling of fullness," says Beer. After the family moved to Berlin in 2007, they attended a Montessori school . She gained further acting and dance experience from the age of twelve with the youth ensemble of the Berlin Friedrichstadtpalast , to which she belonged for four years.

In 2013 she graduated from high school and then moved to Paris. Paula Beer lives in Berlin again.

Debut in film

In 2009, as a fourteen-year-old student at her Berlin school, Beer was approached by an acting agent and invited to the casting for Chris Kraus' feature film Poll (2010). Although Beer had little acting experience, she prevailed against more than 2,500 candidates and was given the lead role. In the historical drama, Beer was seen as a fourteen-year-old half-orphan Oda, who traveled to her aristocratic family's estate in the Baltic States in the summer of 1914 . There her father (played by Edgar Selge ) devotes himself to bizarre anatomical studies, while Oda digs into a wounded Estonian anarchist ( Tambet Tuisk) in love, whom she secretly nurses to health. Although Chris Kraus stated that Beer - like other candidates - was not necessarily the best in terms of technique or speed, he praised her great talent and her approach to the role, which is based on the biography of his great-aunt Oda Schaefer . Because of the authenticity, he had insisted on casting an actress of the same age. Before the filming, which took place on the Baltic coast of southern Estonia in summer 2009, Beer received acting lessons and wrote a diary from the perspective of her role, which was later used in the film. Poll earned Beer great critical acclaim. The film service designated the cast of the main role in Pollas a "stroke of luck" and the young actress, still untested in the cinema, as a "natural talent who brilliantly completes the transformation from a highly talented but still childish offspring to an unconditional lover". The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung also found Beer to be “enchanting” and the role of Oda as “well played”, while the Süddeutsche Zeitung also found it to be a great game. Beer portrays the girl "as a charming, eerie, very contradictory being, who is so flesh and blood" that she can transform the film's "morbid energy".

Further work in film and television

Beer at the Austrian premiere of Das finstere Tal (2014)

In 2012 she played the supporting role of Princess Sophie in Bavaria in Marie Noëlles and Peter Sehr's cinema production Ludwig II . Beer also played another leading role alongside Sam Riley and Tobias Moretti in Andreas Prochaska's “Alpenwestern” Das sinstere Tal , which premiered at the 2014 Berlinale . According to her own statements, it was the first film for Beer after finishing school that she could indulge in so fully. She received a nomination for the Austrian Film Prize for portraying Luzi . Also at the Berlinale wasVolker Schlöndorff's Franco-German co-production Diplomatie is shown, in which she originally filmed alongside Niels Arestrup and André Dussollier . The part of Ingrid fell victim to the cut. Nevertheless, Beer stated that he had learned a lot from Schlöndorff, Arestrup and Dussollier. She also said she stayed in Paris to improve her French.

In 2015 Beer made her television debut alongside Sven Gielnik and Joachim Król in Kai Wessel's Pampa Blues . In the film adaptation of the youth novel of the same name by Rolf Lappert , she was seen as brisk Lena, who poses as a reporter in order to find her birth father among the eccentric inhabitants of a Swabian provincial diner. That same year, portrayed Beer in Theresa von Eltz ' four kings together with Jella Haase , Jannis Niewöhner and Moritz Leufour young people who volunteer to spend Christmas in the psychiatry. Beer took over the part of Alex, who is overwhelmed by the claims of ownership of her depressed mother. The specialist critics praised the play of the four young actors and 4 kings and was awarded the bronze film prize in the “Best Feature Film” category at the award ceremony for the German Film Prize. In the summer of 2015, Beer attended an acting class at the Drama Summer School at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London .

Beer with director François Ozon at the performance of Frantz in Paris (September 2016)

In 2016, the release of François Ozone's film Frantz followed , which received an invitation to the competition at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival and Beer won the Marcello Mastroianni Prize for best young actress. In the most part in black and white images designed melodrama Beer is a German war widow to see that shortly after the end of the First World War, a mysterious French in Germany Ex-soldiers (played by Pierre Niney ) across. Beer had after her engagement for FrantzHad six weeks to study Anna's part in German and French. During the shoot, Beer and play partner Niney supported each other with problems in the foreign language. Ozon noticed something mischievous and very melancholy about Beer, who switches back and forth between German and French in the film. He praised her acting spectrum, her credibility and photogenicity: “She was only twenty years old, but her acting showed great maturity. She could embody the innocence of a girl as well as the strength of a woman, ”says Ozon about Beer. The film drew comparisons with the young Romy Schneider , and after filming Frantz , Beer spent a month in Marseilleto further improve her French. In 2017, Beer received nominations for the French film prizes César and Prix ​​Lumières for her work in Frantz , each for best young actress , and for the European film prize for best actress .

In Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 's epic artist drama Werk ohne Autor , Paula Beer played the female lead Ellie Seeband, daughter of the murderous gynecologist Carl Seeband, played by Sebastian Koch , and wife of the artist Kurt Barnert, played by Tom Schilling . The film was nominated for a Golden Globe and two Academy Awards in the USA .

In 2018, Beer was seen alongside Franz Rogowski in Christian Petzold's Berlinale contribution Transit - a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Anna Seghers . The financial thriller series Bad Banks , produced by ZDF and Arte , was also presented at the Berlinale , in which she took on the leading role of a young and ambitious investment banker. For the part of Jana Liekam, Beer received the German Acting Award , the Grimme Award , the German Television Award and the Bambi. A second season of the series followed in spring 2020.

Again Beer worked with Christian Petzold and Franz Rogowski on the feature film Undine (2020). For this she was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Actress in the competition of the 70th Berlinale . In addition, Beer was awarded the European Film Prize in the same year .

In addition to her acting engagements, Beer also speaks radio plays .

Filmography (selection)

Paula Beer at the Berlinale 2018

Radio plays

Awards

Paula Beer with the Silver Bear of the Berlinale 2020

In addition, Beer has been nominated for various film and television awards:

Web links

Commons : Paula Beer  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Actress Paula Beer: The coming world star? In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten. July 2, 2020, accessed July 22, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Armelle Heliot: Paula Beer, la belle aux yeux d'or at lefigaro.fr, August 29, 2016 (accessed via the Nexis press database ).
  3. ↑ In the agency press release at agentur-lambsdorff.de, Beer is referred to as a “Berliner by choice” (accessed on August 29, 2016).
  4. ↑ a b c Maxi Leinkauf: "You only grow with others". In: Friday. July 16, 2020, accessed July 22, 2020 .
  5. ^ Paula Beer agency profile (archive version from April 24, 2016).
  6. ↑ Profile (accessed 6 February 2011) at poll-derfilm.de.
  7. ↑ a b Nina Anika Klotz: Paula Beer is his new Hannah Herzsprung. In: Berliner Morgenpost . February 6, 2011, p. 32.
  8. ↑ Review by Alexandra Wach in film-dienst 03/2011 (accessed via Munzinger Online ).
  9. ^ Rüdiger Suchsland: Only on call in Paradise. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. November 2, 2010, No. 255, p. 34.
  10. ↑ Martina Knoben: The terrible girl. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 2, 2011, p. 13.
  11. ^ A b c "Frantz: interview-portrait de la révélation Paula Beer". AlloCiné. Accessed September 11, 2016 ( allocine.fr ).
  12. ↑ Kirsten Taylor: 4 Kings. In: film-dienst , 24/2015 (accessed via Munzinger Online ).
  13. ↑ Vita at agentur-lambsdorff.de (accessed on August 29, 2016).
  14. ^ "La Biennale di Venezia - Official Awards of the 73rd Venice Film Festival". Accessed September 10, 2016 ( labiennale.org ( September 16, 2016 memento in the Internet Archive )).
  15. ↑ Information leaflet about the theatrical release of Frantz , X Verleih.
  16. ↑ Carolin Ströbele: Christian Schwochow: "Your self-worth can be expressed in numbers" . Ed .: Die Zeit. February 21, 2018 ( zeit.de [accessed March 4, 2018]).
  17. ↑ Paula Beer wins the Silver Bear as best actress. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . February 29, 2020, accessed March 2, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Nominations for the European Film Awards 2020 . In: europeanfilmacademy.org, November 10, 2020 (accessed November 10, 2020).
  19. ↑ Paula Beer honored as best young actress. In: FAZ.net. September 10, 2016, accessed September 11, 2016 .
  20. ^ German Acting Award: The Night of the Winners . Article dated September 14, 2018, accessed September 14, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Beer, Paula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz , Federal Republic of Germany