Pauline Knof

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Pauline Knof , born in Pauline von Schnitzler (born June 27, 1980 in East Berlin ), is a German theater and film actress .

Life and accomplishments

Pauline Knof comes from a theater family: her mother, Barbara Schnitzler , her grandmother, Inge Keller and her father Dieter Mann are or were actors at the Deutsches Theater Berlin . Her grandfather was Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler . She grew up on Alexanderplatz in Berlin . She began to learn to play the piano at the age of five and took ballet and singing lessons from the age of 13. She was discovered for the film by her stepfather, the television director Michael Knof : In 1998 she starred in the series Polizeiruf 110 in episode 200, Little Angel . She completed her training from 2000 to 2004 at the Rostock University of Music and Theater . At the drama school meeting in Graz in 2003 she received the solo prize for her portrayal of Esther in the play Victor or the Children in Power . During her studies she performed at the Rostock Volkstheater .

From 2004 to 2009 Knof was a member of the ensemble of the Burgtheater Vienna, until 2019 she was still engaged as a guest there. In the summer of 2012 she made her debut at the Salzburg Festival as Princess Natalie von Oranien in Kleist's Prince Friedrich von Homburg in a production by Andrea Breth , which was then also seen at the Burgtheater. From 2013 to 2019 she played Cordelia at the side of Klaus Maria Brandauer in Peter Stein's production of King Lear at the Burgtheater. She was also engaged at the Schauspiel Köln , the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and the Staatstheater Stuttgart . From the 2015/16 season to 2019/20 she was part of the ensemble of the Theater in der Josefstadt . In summer 2020 she played again at the Salzburg Festival and took on the role of “debt servant's wife” in the one hundred year anniversary of Jedermann . On television, Knof starred in several episodes of the series Polizeiruf 110 and in various television films.

Pauline Knof lives in Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

Theater (selection)

2002: Germania - Heiner Müller project (D: Lutz Graf) Volkstheater Rostock
2003: Beate Stenzel in Swinging St.Pauli (musical) (D: Johanna Schall ) Volkstheater Rostock
2004: Mozart Werke Ges.mbH (D: Franz Wittenbrink ) Burgtheater
2005: Anja in the cherry orchard (D: Andrea Breth ) Burgtheater
2005: You in pas de deux (D: Barbara Nowotny) Burgtheater
2005: Franziska in Minna von Barnhelm (D: Andrea Breth) Burgtheater
2006: The bed is too short (D: Barbara Nowotny) Burgtheater
2006: The Christmas goose Auguste , solo program (D: Barbara Nowotny) Burgtheater
2007: Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream (R: Theu Boermans ) Burgtheater
2007: Black virgins (D: Lars-Ole Walburg ) Burgtheater
2007: Thekla in Wallenstein (D: Thomas Langhoff ) Burgtheater
2008: Granddaughter in zero point five calm (D: Cornelia Rainer ) Burgtheater
2008: Alexander Pope , The robbery of curls (Reading, piano: Herbert Schuch ) Wiener Konzerthaus
2008: Beautiful lies - confessing impostors (D: Bastian Kraft ) Burgtheater
2009: Exploded (D: Cornelia Rainer) Burgtheater
2009: Elektra in My Elektra (D: Barbara Nowotny) Burgtheater
2009: That's how we live and always say goodbye (D: Franz Wittenbrink ) Burgtheater
2009: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , The Confessions (Reading, piano: Nataša Veljković ) Wiener Konzerthaus
2009: Stendhal , About love (Reading, piano: Stefan Stroissnig) Wiener Konzerthaus
2010: Stella in the last stop of longing (D: Stephan Rottkamp ) Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
2010: Jeanne in burns (D: Anna Badora ) Schauspielhaus Graz
2010: Margot in Familiar Faces, Mixed Feelings (D: Stephan Rottkamp) Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
2011: Grete in The Blue Boll (D: Stephan Rottkamp) State Theater Stuttgart
2011: Theodor Storm , Pole Poppenspäler (Reading, piano: Christoph Berner) Wiener Konzerthaus
2012: Anna Mahr in Lonely People (D: Janusz Kica ) State Theater of Lower Austria
2012: Sian in Wastwater (D: Dieter Giesing ) Cologne theater
2012: Princess Natalie in Prince Friedrich von Homburg (D: Andrea Breth ) Salzburg Festival / Burgtheater
2012: Lady Windermere in Lady Windermere's fan (D: Janusz Kica) Theater in the Josefstadt
2013: Ivan Goncharov , " Oblomov's Dream" (Reading, piano Severin von Eckardstein ) Wiener Konzerthaus
2013: Cordelia in King Lear (R: Peter Stein ) Burgtheater
2015: Marianne in stories from the Vienna Woods (D: Lore Stefanek ) City Theater Klagenfurt
2015: Bettina in Before Sunset (D: Janusz Kica) Theater in the Josefstadt
2015: Lucienne Vatelin in "The Gockel" (D: Josef Ernst Köpplinger ) Theater in the Josefstadt
2016: Jacqueline in "La Cage aux Folles" (D: Werner Sobotka ) Theater in the Josefstadt
2016: Antoinette in The Difficult One (D: Janusz Kica) Theater in the Josefstadt
2017: Margret Wittmer in "Galapagos" (D: Stephanie Mohr ) Theater in the Josefstadt
2017: Leontine in "How to Hunt Rabbits" (D: Folke Braband ) Theater in the Josefstadt
2017: Pilot Lara Koch in "Terror" (D: Julian Pölsler ) Theater in the Josefstadt
2018: Ganymede: nature (D: Jacqueline Kornmüller ) Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
2018: Helene Schwaiger in In der Löwengrube (D: Stephanie Mohr ) Theater in the Josefstadt
2018: Pierrette in "8 Women" (D: Herbert Föttinger ) Theater in the Josefstadt
2019: Marianne in Jacobowsky and the Colonel (D: Janusz Kica ) Theater in the Josefstadt
2019: Kathi Slama / Eva Demant in Radetzky March (D: Elmar Goerden ) Theater in the Josefstadt
2019: Etelka von Stangeler in "The Strudlhofstiege" (D: Janusz Kica ) Theater in the Josefstadt
2020: Debt servant's wife in everyone (D: Michael Sturminger ) Salzburg Festival

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personal data
SURNAME Knof, Pauline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schnitzler, Pauline von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin