Sara Sommerfeldt

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Sara Sommerfeldt (* 1976 in Munich ) is a German actress .

Life

Childhood and youth

Sara Sommerfeldt grew up in Munich. At the age of six she began to play the violin and piano, sang in the church choir and was later a member of the youth orchestra of the Bavarian Philharmonic. At the same time she was enthusiastic about the theater. As a schoolgirl, she wrote a play that she performed with her classmates.

Studies and first theater engagements

From 1997 to 2001 Sara Sommerfeldt studied acting at the State University for Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart . Already as a drama student she celebrated a great success when she appeared in the university's Wilhelmatheater as the child murderer Estelle in Sartre's private company . Critics attested her "in terms of facial expressions and gestures sparse play that makes the performance an experience". It is "impressive what charisma the actress" develops in her role. During her studies she also appeared as a sister in The Name of Jon Fosse at the Städtische Bühnen in Freiburg.

After graduating as a graduate actress, stage engagements followed at the Staatstheater Stuttgart , the Nationaltheater Mannheim and the Schauspielhaus Bochum ., Sara Sommerfeldt's repertoire ranges from classic Shakespeare roles such as Ophelia and Lavinia to contemporary authors. For example, she took on the female lead in the world premiere of the play Nachtschwärmer by Thomas Oberender at the Nationaltheater Mannheim. Here, too, her “outstanding” “convincing” portrayal of the lively and rebellious Lauretta was positively highlighted by the critics. In 2002 "she" "shone" with all facets of her acting skills "as a supermarket saleswoman in Die 81 min. of Miss A by Lothar Trolle at the State Theater Stuttgart. With the actor Antonio Lallo and the pianist Sebastian Kirsch she developed the recital adventure , in which she appeared as Adele Sandrock and which premiered in the Rauchbar of the Oberhausen Theater.

Movie and TV

Sara Sommerfeldt, Entertainment Night 2012

In 2004, Bernd Fischerauer discovered the Sommerfeldt for television and cast it in the two-part TV series Apollonia alongside actors such as Götz Otto and Hans-Michael Rehberg . In the historical drama she played the deeply religious miller's daughter Thekla, who unintentionally became pregnant shortly before the outbreak of the First World War.

Since then she has been in front of the camera regularly for film and television productions. In 2005 Sara Sommerfeldt played the daughter of Juliane Köhler and Henry Hübchen in Markus Imboden's two-part television series Auf Ewig und ein Tag , which was nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize. In the same year she also played one of 7.5 women in the film of the same name by Georgian director Bidzina Kanchaveli, which was awarded the title of “Best experimental short film” by jury president Ridley Scott at the 2008 “I've seen films” festival in Milan . At the “International Pentedattilo Festival” 7.5 women won the “Best short film” award.

Sara Sommerfeldt appeared in several episodes in 2007 as Doris Rabl in the BR series Der Kaiser von Schexing (director: Franz Xaver Bogner ) . She also continued her collaboration with Bernd Fischerauer in several television productions, including a. as the modern “Lady Macbeth” in the main ensemble of the multi-part show Zur Ding, Lena! at the side of Uschi Glas , Jytte-Merle Böhrnsen and Michael Roll . In 2008 and 2010 her role as Helene Hanfstaengl followed in the ARD television games Hitler in front of the court and The Seizure of Power , also directed by Bernd Fischerauer.

Sara Sommerfeldt also took on leading episode roles in crime series such as Die Rosenheim-Cops and SOKO 5113 , in which she embodied very different characters. She was seen in The Sweet Death as a sullen chocolate maker. In Devil in White , as the seductive nurse Annegret , she wrapped inspector Tobias Hartl (alias Michael A. Grimm ) around her little finger with her charm. In Last Halt: Sophienplatz , she played a merciless young manager who bullies her older colleague. In David Schalko's film How one should live , she made a brief appearance as the weird Swabian hairdresser who gave Karl Kolostrum (played by Axel Ranisch ) a focu mask.

In 2012 Sara Sommerfeldt took on the continuous role of secretary Marianne Zaglmann in the ZDF crime series Die Garmisch-Cops alongside Thomas Unger , Franziska Schlattner , Tim Wilde and Christoph Stoiber. This role brought her a lot of media attention. The press confirmed that she was hiding “a clever mind and a large portion of curiosity” “behind the naive face”.

In the same year chose Hans Steinbichler Sara Sommerfeldt for a starring role in his theater experiment Q and A from. 2013 followed an appearance in the ARD television film Let's go by Michael Verhoeven , which premiered in 2014 at the Munich Film Festival.

Career as a singer

Album cover HEART OF GLASS

In March 2019 Sara Sommerfeldt released the first single from her debut album Herz aus Glas . Die Fee is a retro pop song that she wrote and composed herself. Max Weissenfeldt played the drums (including Poets of Rhythm, Polyversal Souls). The second single Herz aus Glas followed in April , a melancholy, atmospheric ballad with trip-hop elements. Sara Sommerfeldt published music videos for both singles, which she conceived and produced herself and which she also directed. In May, the album Herz aus Glas followed the third single Gegengift . The lyrics for it come from Sara Sommerfeldt and were mostly set to music by the musicians Florian Popp and Bernd Oettinger. The album was positively received by the press. Sara Sommerfeldt appears with “a little chanson, a little pop, a little trip hop and lots of cleverly nostalgic puns on the musical horizon” and “wraps the listener with her songs lightly and yet sustainably around her vocal finger”. What is striking is the “artistic and elaborate instrumentation of the songs”, which enchants and fascinates the senses with “complex soundscapes.” Sara Sommerfeldt's “multi-layered singing” inspires “with an enormous range of expressive possibilities from velvety to darkly daring.” an "exciting, timeless and ambitious" album was created.

Memberships, other artistic activity

Sara Sommerfeldt is a member of the Federal Drama Association (BFFS) . In 2014 she was part of the jury for the German Actor Award .

In addition to acting, she also works as a speaker. She has worked in over thirty radio play productions by SWR Stuttgart, SWR Baden-Baden, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, RBB and in various audio book productions.

In addition, Sara Sommerfeldt repeatedly designed and implemented her own projects. The recital adventure , which she staged in 2004 in the Rauchbar of the Oberhausen Theater, was followed by the staged reading Mozart - a life in letters with her twin sister Lisa Sommerfeldt and the musicians of the Duo Con espressivo for the Stummer Schrei festival in Austria in 2006 . In 2008 she conceived the musical Ringelnatz reading Expedition into the world of small things together with her colleague Julia Heinze, saxophonist Wanja Slavin and cellist Boris Bojadzhiev on behalf of the Lustspielhaus director Till Hofmann . The staged reading was performed in Munich and Friedrichshafen and triggered "a real rush" from the audience.

Personal

Sara Sommerfeldt's twin sister Lisa Sommerfeldt is also an actress. Like the writer Theodor Fontane , they both descend from Louis Henry Fontane and Emilie Fontane (née Labry) and are Theodor Fontane's great, great, great-niece. Theodor Fontane's sister Jenny, who married the pharmacist Hermann Sommerfeldt and was the model for the title character of his novel Frau Jenny Treibel , is her great, great, great grandmother. In honor of her great, great-great-great-uncle Theodor Fontane, she appeared in various readings in the Neuruppin Museum and for the Theodor Fontane Society in 2019 as part of the # fontane200 series of events .

Filmography (selection)

Theater engagements (selection)

  • 2000: Der Reigen (Wilhelmatheater Stuttgart)
  • 2000: Titus Andronicus (Wilhelmtheater Stuttgart)
  • 2000: Closed society (Wilhelmatheater Stuttgart)
  • 2000–2001: The name (Städtische Bühnen Freiburg)
  • 2000–2002: The 81 Min. Of Miss A. (State Theater Stuttgart)
  • 2001: Leonce and Lena (Gengenbacher Kultursomme)
  • 2002: Night owls (Nationaltheater Mannheim / schnawwl)
  • 2002–2005: The double Lottchen (State Theater Stuttgart)
  • 2003: Elektra (Festival of the Regions)
  • 2003: The Blood (Team Theater Munich)
  • 2004: Adventure (Theater Oberhausen / Rauchbar)
  • 2004–2005: The Nutcracker (Schauspielhaus Bochum)
  • 2006: Mozart - a life in letters (musical reading)
  • 2006: The German Small Towns (Heppenheim Festival)
  • 2006: Hamlet (Bruneck City Theater)
  • 2007–2008: Eight Women (Comedy in the Bayerischer Hof Munich)
  • 2008: Expedition into the world of little things (staged reading)
  • 2011: Kasimir and Karoline (Theater in Kempten, City Theater Bruneck)
  • 2019: Effi Briest / ballad reading (Fontane Society / Altes Gymnasium Neuruppin)
  • 2019: My Childhood - Reading (# fontane200 / Museum Neuruppin)
  • 2019: Effi Briest - reading (# fontane200 / Museum Neuruppin)
  • 2020–2021: Tranquilla Trampeltreu (Konzerthaus Berlin)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official website of Sara Sommerfeldt. Retrieved June 2, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Stuttgarter Nachrichten of October 28, 1999, press review Sara Sommerfeldt [1]
  3. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung of October 26, 1999, press review Sara Sommerfeldt [2]
  4. ↑ Theater engagements according to profile at Crew united [3] accessed on July 11, 2016
  5. ↑ Rhein-Nackar-Zeitung, press review Sara Sommerfeldt [4] , March 19, 2002
  6. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung, Press Review Sara Sommerfeldt [5] , March 26, 2002
  7. ↑ Esslinger Zeitung, Press Review Sara Sommerfeldt [6] , October 15, 2001
  8. ^ Website Bayerischer Rundfunk [7] accessed on July 11, 2016
  9. ↑ Wikipedia entry Forever and One Day, accessed on July 11, 2016
  10. ↑ Bidzina Kanchaveli website [8] accessed on July 11, 2016
  11. ^ Website Bayerischer Rundfunk [9] accessed on July 11, 2016
  12. ↑ To the point, Lena! at fernsehserien.de [10] , accessed on July 11, 2016
  13. ^ Profile at Crew united [11] , accessed on July 11, 2016
  14. ↑ The Rosenheim Cops, Teufel in Weiss at fernsehserien.de [12] from July 11, 2016
  15. ↑ Article tz [13] from May 25, 2012
  16. ↑ Beate Obermann Press Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 11, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.beateobermann.de
  17. ^ Crew united, Q and A [14] , accessed July 11, 2016
  18. ^ Website Münchner Filmfest [15] accessed on July 11, 2016
  19. ↑ Official YouTube page of Sara Sommerfeldt video credits for DEUTSCHLAND WILL VERZAUBERT, YouTube channel for Sara Sommerfeldt video credits for HERZ AUS GLAs, YouTube channel for Sara Sommerfeldt accessed on August 9, 2019
  20. ^ Official website of Sara Sommerfeldt Website of Sara Sommerfeldt accessed on August 9, 2019
  21. ↑ Album review at Buch und Ton [16] accessed on August 9, 2019
  22. ↑ Album review at er-em-online [17] accessed on August 9, 2019
  23. ↑ Album review at gaesteliste [18] accessed on August 9, 2019
  24. ^ BFFS member list , Bundesverband Schauspiel, bffs.de, accessed on July 11, 2016
  25. ^ BFFS : The German Actor Award - Archive.Retrieved July 11, 2016.
  26. ↑ According to profile on actor videos: [19] Retrieved on September 8, 2016.
  27. ↑ According to profile on actor videos: [20] Retrieved on September 8, 2016.
  28. ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung from April 1, 2008, press review Sara Sommerfeldt [21]
  29. ↑ VOICE. Retrieved April 8, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Sommerfeldt, Sara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich