Susanne Wuest

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Susanne Wuest, 2018

Susanne Wuest (born September 26, 1979 in Vienna ) is an Austrian actress .

Life

From an early age, Susanne Wuest received training (ballet, piano, singing, step, speaking lessons) at her own request and was already active in various theaters as a teenager. After finishing school, she began to work at the Vienna Volkstheater and was cast for her first roles in various television and cinema films. In 2004 she played the supermarket clerk Sonja in Götz Spielmann's Antares , who tried to commit suicide in her jealousy and desperation, and was nominated for the Undine Award 2005 in the category “Best young leading actress in a movie” . Antares was submitted by Austria as a proposal for the Oscar in the category Best Foreign Language Film 2005 and has been shown at more than 20 international film festivals. The film was also distributed in Germany, France and North America.

In 2007 she played under the direction of Franz Xaver Kroetz in Arthur Schnitzler's play The Call of Life with great success at the Theater in der Josefstadt until the beginning of 2008. This was followed, among other things, by collaborations with Wolfgang Becker for the episode film Deutschland 09 , which was shown at the 59th Berlinale was shown, Pipilotti Rist for Pepperminta (the video artist's first cinema work was invited to the 66th Venice Film Festival) and the Danish director Anders Ronnow Klarlund for The Secret Society of Fine Arts . In 2010 a film biography was created about the boxer Max Schmeling , in which Susanne Wuest portrays the legendary boxer's wife, the film star Anny Ondra , at the side of Henry Maske and Heino Ferch . In the following years there was collaboration with numerous renowned directors, u. a. Roland Suso Richter, Franz Xaver Kroetz, Jessica Hausner, Philip Groening, Barbara Albert and Olivier Assays. In 2014 the film " Ich seh Ich seh " (Goodnight Mommy) premiered in Venice with her in the lead role, then ran in the USA in 2015 and, after numerous festival awards, was Austrian submission for the Foreign Oscar (2016), but was not nominated for it .

Filmography

theatre

  • Servant of two masters (D: Herbert Föttinger, Theater id Josefstadt, Vienna) - 2007/08
  • Call of Life (D: Franz Xaver Kroetz, Theater id Josefstadt, Vienna) - 2007/08
  • Maria Lassnig TB reading
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (D: Klaus Maria Brandauer , A. Janauschek)
  • Elfriede Jelinek reading (D: Gwendolyn Melchinger)
  • Adieu Europe, Horvath (D: Robert Quitta)
  • Before dying (D: M. Operschall)
  • Valparaiso (D: N. P. Rudolph)

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personal data
SURNAME Wuest, Susanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna