Pauline Knof
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)
- 1998: Polizeiruf 110 - Kleiner Engel (TV series) Director: Michael Knof
- 2001: Polizeiruf 110 - Murder when the bell rings (TV series) Director: Andreas Kleinert
- 2003: Stubbe - Von Fall zu Fall (TV series, episode victims in the twilight ) Director: Thomas Jacob
- 2004: Ein Einsames Haus am See (TV movie) Director: Sigi Rothemund
- 2004: The Duds ; Director: Bernd Saling
- 2004: Eistag (short film) Director: Florian Cossen
- 2005: Redeemed through love - The secret of the red house (TV film) Director: Jörg Grünler
- 2006: Polizeiruf 110 - Kleine Frau (TV series) Director: Andreas Kleinert
- 2006: King of Hearts (TV film) Director: Helmut Förnbacher
- 2007: Lilly Schönauer (TV series) episode detour into happiness ; Director: Heidi Kranz
- 2007: Kommissar Stolberg (TV series) episode Der Sonnenkönig ; Director: Ulrich Zrenner
- 2008: Love, Babies, and a Big Heart (TV series) episode The Promise ; Directed by John Delbridge
- 2009: Before / After (short film) Director: Sonja Krajewski
- 2009: Iceland - Hearts in the Ice (TV movie) Director: Michael Steinke
- 2010: There comes Kalle (TV series) episode The Man in the Tree ; Director: Bodo Schwarz
- 2010: SOKO Cologne (TV series) episode War in the allotment garden ; Director: Daniel Helfer
- 2012: Coast Guard (TV series) episode The Iron Seal ; Director: Tobias Stille
- 2012: The foundation of an empire / The nervous great power (TV series) Director: Bernd Fischerauer
- 2014: SOKO Kitzbühel (TV series) episode Feine Gesellschaft ; Director: Martin Kinkel
- 2014: The Decent / The Decent One (cinema documentary) Director: Vanessa Lapa
- 2015: The Barschel case (two-part TV series) Director: Kilian Riedhof
- 2015: Twilight over Burma (TV movie) Director: Sabine Derflinger
- 2015: SOKO Donau (TV series, episode Before All Eyes ) Director: Holger Gimpel
- 2018: Teufelsmoor (TV film) Director: Brigitte Maria Bertele
- 2018: SOKO Wismar (TV series, episode Spurlos ) Director: Dirk Pientka
- 2018: Team 13 - Friendship Counts (TV series, 5 episodes) Director: Mario Zozin
- 2018: Der Kriminalist (TV series, episode Pick-up-Artist ) Director: Grzegorz Muskala
- 2019: Krauses Hope (TV film) Director: Bernd Böhlich
- 2020: Krauses Umzug (TV film) Director: Bernd Böhlich
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 |
Web links
- Pauline Knof in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pauline Knof at filmportal.de
personal data | |
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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 |