Pia Leokadia

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Pia Leokadia (* 8. April 1989 in Braunschweig as Pia Leokadia Bucindika ) is a German actress .

Artistic career

She started working as a model at the age of 17. After graduating from high school, she began studying psychology, but broke it off in favor of a career as an actress and completed an acting training at the drama school der Keller in Cologne from August 2012 to February 2016 . During her apprenticeship, she worked in theater productions and short films.

For her first performance in the role of Leila, who out of loneliness wants a child from a considerably older man, in I wish one by Azar Mortazavi , directed by Sandra Reitmayer and the sensitive and rebellious student Khoumba, who suffers from dyslexia in the class of François Bégaudeau , she received in November 2015 shortly before the completion of their training 26 Puck award as best young actress in the theater community in Cologne . The jury particularly praised her strong stage presence and charisma, her strong ensemble play and her clear, penetrating voice.

In August 2016 she started her first permanent engagement at Theater Kiel immediately after graduating . Leokadia played in the 2016/17 and 2017/18 seasons a. a. In the world premiere of the historical-biographical production Sophie / Clara by Astrid Großgasteiger, the resistance fighter Sophie Scholl and the loyal Hitler supporter Clara Sabrowski in the Third Reich were the first dark-skinned actress in a double role .

In the staging of the youth drama Kleiner Wahn by Dianne Touchell, directed by Christoph Busche, which deals with the subject of friendship and infanticide based on the unplanned pregnancy of a young person, she played the role of best friend Liv for two seasons, and again in the double role of Kantorka and the Tonda in Krabat by Otfried Preußler .

In the 2017/2018 season she played the title role in The Little Mermaid based on Hans Christian Andersen . Under the direction of Karolin Wunderlich, Leokadia took over in the play Darum. the role of Marlene, who takes her own life after being raped and leaves several video messages. The play was not based on the novel Dead Girls Lie .

Filmography (selection)

Theater (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Pia-Leokadia Bucindika. In: schauspielschule-koeln.de , accessed on May 6, 2018.
  2. “Both feel an emptiness within”. In: choices. Retrieved April 30, 2018 .
  3. The Cologne Oscar for young actors ... Who will get the PUCK 2015? Theatergemeinde KÖLN, accessed on April 30, 2018 .
  4. ^ The previous winners of the Cologne dance and theater awards. In: SK Foundation Culture. Retrieved April 30, 2018 .
  5. ^ Employee theater in the shipyard park. In: Theater Kiel. Retrieved April 30, 2018 .
  6. Two ways: resistance or obedience . In: hansen & munk . ( hansen-munk.de [accessed April 30, 2018]).
  7. Kieler Nachrichten, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany: The power of dark sorcery. Retrieved May 2, 2018 .