Sunnyi Melles

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Sunnyi Melles (2012)

Sunnyi Melles (born October 7, 1958 in Luxembourg , Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ), Judith-Viktoria Princess zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn since 1993 , is a Swiss actress of Hungarian descent.

Life

Sunnyi Melles is the daughter of the emigrated Hungarian music professor and conductor Carl Melles and the Hungarian-Jewish actress Judith Melles , née von Rohonczy. The parents fled Budapest to Luxembourg in 1956 ; they separated when Melles was three years old. Sunnyi Melles grew up with her brother with her mother in Basel , where she was engaged at the Comedy (later Theater) Basel until shortly before her death (2001). Her mother had become stateless after fleeing Hungary . Sunnyi Melles did not have a passport herself for 15 years, she described this as a bad time, "today almost unimaginable, daily survival was always in mind". In addition, she has often experienced xenophobia first hand in Switzerland.

At the Stadttheater Basel Melles was already ten years old on stage. At the age of twelve she stood in front of the camera in the film Steppenwolf with Max von Sydow .

From 1978 to 1979 Sunnyi Melles did her theater training at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich . From 1980 she appeared at the Münchner Kammerspiele , where she particularly shone in productions by Dieter Dorn and had her breakthrough; from 1982 she was part of the ensemble of the Kammerspiele. There she was, among other things, Emilia Galotti in GE Lessing's eponymous tragedy and Gretchen in Dieter Dorn's Faust production . Another highlight was the production of Troilus and Cressida at the Kammerspiele, where she played Cressida.

From 1990 to 1993 she played the Buhlschaft in Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival . In 2003 she followed her regular director Dieter Dorn to the Bavarian State Theater in Munich. There she played Jelena Andrejewna in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in a production by Barbara Frey and Isabella in Maß für Maß by William Shakespeare , directed by Dieter Dorn. In addition to numerous theater roles, Melles was also seen in a number of German films. At times she was part of the ensemble of the Vienna Burgtheater .

In 2005 she played the role of Sophie in the Japanese anime (cartoon) Howl's Moving Castle .

In 2019 she took part in the 12th season of the ORF dance show Dancing Stars , in which she and her dance partner Florian Vana were the first to drop out.

Private

Sunnyi Melles has been married to Prince Peter zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn , a younger brother of Prince Alexander zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn , since 1993 . The marriage had two children.

Filmography

Radio plays

Awards

Sunnyi Melles (right) with Barbara Rett ( Nestroy 2010)

literature

Web links

Commons : Sunnyi Melles  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview Sunnyi Melles Why Church in the Süddeutsche Zeitung from 24./25./26. December 2010.
  2. ↑ Sunnyi Melles in the Munzinger Archive , accessed on October 27, 2018 ( beginning of article freely available)
  3. ↑ a b Melles in conversation with Louis Lewitan, That was my rescue , ZEIT magazine from August 22, 2013.
  4. ↑ Sunnyi Melles - Dancing Stars 2019 candidates. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
  5. ↑ The "Dancing Stars" are complete! Sunnyi Melles and Peter Hackmair are dancing on the ORF parquet. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Sunnyi and Florian have to go first - Dancing Stars 2019. Accessed on March 22, 2019 .
  7. ↑ The film "THE INVENTION OF LOVE" in Freiburg. Retrieved April 30, 2014 .
  8. ↑ ORF: Sunnyi Melles shows in the “Universum History” docudrama “Elisabeth - Empress on the Flight” an Elisabeth as one hardly knows her . APA-OTS , April 19, 2019, accessed April 20, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Melles, Sunnyi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Melles, Judith Victoria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Luxembourg , Grand Duchy of Luxembourg