Steffi Kühnert

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Steffi Kühnert (born February 19, 1963 in East Berlin ) is a German actress and radio play speaker .

Life

The trained men's tailor studied from 1981 to 1985 at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin . She received her first engagement in 1985 at the Thuringian State Theater Eisenach , where she stayed until 1988. She was seen here as Eve in The Broken Krug , Wendla in Spring Awakening and Eliza in My Fair Lady .

In 1988 she moved to the National Theater Weimar , to whose ensemble she belonged until 1992. Here she embodied, for example, Dorine in Tartuffe , Rosetta in Leonce and Lena and particularly successfully in 1990 under the direction of Leander Haußmann, the title character of Nora or a doll's house , for which she received the Alfred Kerr Acting Prize , which was awarded for the first time .

In the years that followed, Steffi Kühnert worked with Haußmann. At the Salzburg Festival in 1993 she played the title role of Antigone . From 1992 she played at the Schillertheater in Berlin until the theater was closed in 1993. Her roles there included Marie in Clavigo and Elisabeth in Don Carlos . In 1994 she appeared in Three Sisters at the Burgtheater . She could be seen as Gwendolyn Fairfax in Bunbury at the Residenztheater in Munich and in 1995 at the Schauspielhaus Bochum . Her other stage stations were the Schauspielhaus Zurich , the German Theater Berlin and most recently the Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz .

Steffi Kühnert, who for a long time was almost exclusively a distinguished theater actor, increasingly developed into a film and television actress after German reunification. She also worked in various television films and TV series ( Polizeiruf 110 and SOKO Wismar ). In 2012, Kühnert received a nomination for the German Film Prize for her performance as a self-sacrificing wife and mother in Andreas Dresen's family drama Halt auf Freihang . In 2013 she played the leading role of The Woman Who Dares a former GDR swimmer who fell ill with cancer and then turned her life inside out.

Steffi Kühnert is married and has one son. Since November 2009 she has been a professor of drama at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she previously worked as a guest lecturer.

In 2017 she took on the role of Cornelia Harms, manager of the Freiburg investigators Tobler and Berg , in the TV series Tatort .

Kühnert has also worked as a theater director at the Mecklenburg State Theater Schwerin and the Hans Otto Theater Potsdam since 2017 .

Filmography

Radio plays

Productions (selection)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Film Prize 2012: "There is no envy between us nominees" Interview at berliner-zeitung.de, April 27, 2012 (accessed on April 27, 2012).
  2. ^ Tatort: ​​Goldbach , Das Erste.de, accessed on October 1, 2017
  3. ↑ lexicon - Kühnert, Steffi. Retrieved October 2, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Michael Laages: Die Ratten - Steffi Kühnert makes her directorial debut at the Mecklenburg State Theater Schwerin with Gerhart Hauptmann. Accessed October 2, 2019 (German).
  5. ↑ Frank Schlößer: To be or not to be - In Schwerin, Steffi Kühnert pulls out all the theater stops for Ernst Lubitsch's anti-Nazi comedy. Accessed October 2, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ Christian Rakow: The cat on the hot tin roof - Hans Otto Theater Potsdam - Steffi Kühnert stages Tennessee Williams' turn of the century drama with nuances. Accessed October 2, 2019 (German).
  7. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Bold, Steffi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH 19th February 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin