Suzanne von Borsody

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Suzanne von Borsody at the Grimme Prize , 2015

Suzanne von Borsody [ ˈboʁʒodi ] (born September 23, 1957 in Munich ) is a German actress and voice actress .

Life

Jens Schniedenharn and Suzanne von Borsody (2014)

Suzanne von Borsody comes from a family of artists . She was born as the daughter of the actor couple Hans von Borsody and Rosemarie Fendel , who both died in 2013. Her parents separated when she was four years old. She grew up with her mother. Her grandfather Eduard von Borsody was a film director , her great-uncle Julius von Borsody was a film architect and set designer at Wien-Film , the Babelsberg film studio and Bavaria Film . Her half-sister Cosima von Borsody is also an actress.

Von Borsody was in a relationship with her fellow actor Heino Ferch from 1990 to 1999 , with whom she appeared in several film projects. She has been married to her long-term partner Jens Schniedenharn since April 2014. The couple lives in Munich and Berlin .

Acting career

Training and theater work

Suzanne von Borsody only attended drama school for a short time , as she immediately received an engagement at the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt . In 1980/81 she became part of the participation model at the Schauspiel Frankfurt. From 1987 to 1993 she had an engagement at the Schillertheater in Berlin. After the theater had to close, von Borsody switched to film.

At the end of 2007, after a long break from the theater, von Borsody was seen back on stage in the role of Lady Driver in the pleasure play Verdammt lang ago . In January 2009 she was a guest at the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater in Hamburg in Francis C. Winter's Search for Traces . The drama deals with the abuse and murder of a child by a young person. Von Borsody and Ulrike Folkerts embodied the mothers of perpetrators and victims.

In the 2012/13 season she played again at the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater, this time in the tragic comedy The Last Curtain by the Dutch playwright Maria Goos.

Movie and TV

Her first television appearance had von Borsody in 1964 in the episode The timetable of the television series The Crime Museum at the side of her mother Rosemarie Fendel . Her first major television role was in Hartmut Griesmayr's television film Adoptions in 1978 . In 1979 she received the Golden Camera for the role of Beate S. in the television series of the same name and honored recognition at the Adolf Grimme Prize in 1981. In 1980 she was awarded the German Actor Award for her role in Axel Cortis Das one Glück and the other . Director Margarethe von Trotta engaged von Borsody in 1999 for the four-part television film Anniversaries of the eponymous novel by Uwe Johnson , in which she played the leading role of Gesine Cresspahl. Directed by Alexander Kluge , she played a prostitute in the episodic film The Power of Emotions (1983) with Hannelore Hoger in the lead role. In the Friedrich Dürrenmatt film adaptation of Justice (1993) by Hans W. Geissendörfer , she took on the role of the noble whore Daphne Winter. In the 157th episode Blue Dream - Death in the Rain (1993) of Polizeiruf 110 , directed by Bodo Fürneisen , she played the waitress Natalie, who wants to go to Hamburg with her friend Rita ( Katja Riemann ) to open a boutique there. Tom Tykwer cast her for the role of Frau Jäger in his global hit Lola Run (1998). In Doris Dörrie's tragic comedy Am I beautiful? (1998) she took on the role of Lucy. During this time she had other roles in Margarethe von Trotta's Dark Days (1999) in the role of the alcoholic Angela, as Marga Nielsen in Die Mörderin (1999) and in Die Geisel (2003) as the courageous prison director Ella Jansen, who opposed a hostage can be exchanged. She also worked in international productions, such as Anita Zorzi de Lucca in Tödliches Geld (1995) alongside Michel Piccoli or alongside Richard Chamberlain in The Lost Daughter (1997).

For her role in the television film Mensch Mutter (2003) by the book editor Verena Kröger, who lovingly takes care of her mother Hilde, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia , which premiered at the Hamburg Film Festival , she was married to Rosemarie Fendel (who in the film as in real life her mother was awarded the DIVA Award . In 2005, the television love drama The Second Look , in which von Borsody played alongside Michael Mendl, married Linda who fell in love with another man, received a nomination for the Bavarian TV Prize .

In 2007 she presented her first directorial work with the episode The Teacher for the German version of the Basic Law GG 19 - A journey through Germany in 19 articles .

In autumn 2008, the psychological thriller A Mysterious Summer with Suzanne von Borsody in the role of photographer Esther Kaufmann was created for ZDF under the direction of Johannes Grieser . In the same year, she took on the role of kidnapper Marietta Lahn in Matti Geschonneck's two-part television thriller Abducted alongside Friedrich von Thun , Hanns Zischler , Matthias Brandt and Heino Ferch . In the fairy tale film Rapunzel , which was first broadcast on ARD in December 2009 as part of the fairy tale series Six in One fell swoop , she was seen alongside Luisa Wietzorek in the title role in the role of the evil sorceress.

From 2010 to 2013 she played the boarding school teacher Ms. Mägerlein in the three films about Hanni & Nanni based on the novel series by Enid Blyton . In autumn 2011 she was directed by Joseph Vilsmaier in the remake of Ludwig Anzengruber's musical folk piece The Perjury Farmer as farmer Anna Sobek for the first time in front of the camera at the side of her father Hans von Borsody, who took on a supporting role as the herb carpet. In Hermine Huntgeburth's film drama Männertreu (2014) she played the leading female role of the resolute lawyer Franziska Stahl, who was betrayed by her husband Georg ( Matthias Brandt ). This role earned her the German TV Prize for Best Actress and Ensemble Member in 2014 . In 2015 she was also awarded the Grimme Prize for her acting performance in the film . In the 2018 movie Die kleine Hexe, based on Otfried Preussler 's children's book of the same name , she was seen alongside Karoline Herfurth , who took on the title role, in the role of the evil witch Rumpelpumpel. In Dirk Kummer's film comedy The Lover of My Wife (2020) she played the leading female role alongside Christian Kohlund and Walter Sittler , a woman who has been married for almost forty years and who no longer feels that her husband is paying attention.

Von Borsody also works as a voice actress . In the American animated film The Treasure Planet , made at Walt Disney Studios , a free adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island , she spoke as Captain Amelia, who was originally spoken by Emma Thompson . She received the German Dubbing Award in 2007 for her dubbing work as the voice of Joan Allen in Sally Potter's British-American drama Yes .

Others

Suzanne von Borsody at the Lit.Cologne in Cologne, 2006

Besides acting, Suzanne von Borsody also gives recitations and readings . With the presentation of letters from the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo : Now that you are leaving me, I love you more than ever! she has been giving reading tours throughout Germany since 2006. In January 2010 she gave a reading with texts by the Jewish poet Mascha Kaléko in Dachau Castle together with Rosemarie Fendel and the musicians Willy Freivogel and Sigi Schwab .

She is also active as a painter . She conceived her first exhibition on the subject of "Changes" in Hallenberg in the Sauerland , where it was exhibited in 2013.

social commitment

Von Borsody is a UNICEF ambassador , an ambassador for the NINA and Hand in Hand for Africa associations and has been a mentor for the LILALU project since 2005 . Her social commitment was awarded the ARD media prize Brisant Brillant in 2006. Suzanne von Borsody is chair of the German television jury for the CIVIS Prize , the European Media Prize for Integration and Cultural Diversity.

Filmography (selection)

Synchronous roles

Radio plays

Audio books

Awards

Suzanne von Borsody and Maxim Mehmet , 2015

Web links

Commons : Suzanne von Borsody  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Anke Sieker: "The Perjury Farmer" with Suzanne von Borsody: Heimatfilm about guilt and atonement. In: RP Online . Retrieved September 27, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Heino Ferch: An incredibly versatile actor. In: vip.de. Retrieved December 11, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Heino Ferch: Secret daughter with a doctor. In: BZ Retrieved September 6, 2001 .
  4. ↑ Wedding on the anniversary of her mother's death: Suzanne von Borsody dares. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . Retrieved April 25, 2014 .
  5. ^ "Going on stage is like traveling" in: Berliner Morgenpost from June 10, 2008
  6. ↑ Dorrit Riege: Wanting to understand what cannot be understood. In: The world . Retrieved January 10, 2009 .
  7. ↑ "The Last Curtain" with Suzanne von Borsody. In: The world . Retrieved January 16, 2013 .
  8. ^ First flap for "Sommerspiel" report on the ZDF press portal
  9. ↑ a b c Jörg Böckem: Suzanne von Borsody: "I could only fulfill some dreams if I had magical powers in real life". In: The time . Retrieved February 7, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Suzanne von Borsody: "Männertreu" honored with a television prize. In: RP Online . Retrieved October 6, 2014 .
  11. ↑ 51st Grimme Prize 2015: Männertreu (HR) - Prize winners. In: grimme-preis.de. Retrieved November 2, 2015 .
  12. ↑ German Synchron Award 2007 awarded. In: beta.blickpunktfilm.de. Retrieved November 2, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Now that you are leaving me, I love you more than ever! Reading Frida Kahlo
  14. ↑ Cheerful to melancholy: Mascha Kaléko. In: Merkur.de . Retrieved January 17, 2010 .
  15. ↑ Andreas Thiemann: Hallenberg shows pictures by Suzanne von Borsody - an art coup in the Hochsauerland. In: Westfalenpost . Retrieved March 25, 2013 .
  16. ↑ Suzanne von Borsody Podcast
  17. ^ Ambassadors of NINA ( Memento of May 2, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Official website of NINA
  18. ↑ Hand in Hand for Africa Official Website
  19. ↑ Suzanne von Borsody Official website of LILALU
  20. ↑ ARD media prize "BRISANT BRILLANT 2006" for Suzanne von Borsody Press release at openpr.de
  21. ↑ "I was interested in the other view of things" ( Memento from June 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Interview with Suzanne von Borsody about the CIVIS Prize
  22. ↑ Joke van Leeuwen: Viegelchen wants to fly at uccello - good to hear.de. Retrieved April 22, 2013.
  23. ↑ Hanna Johansen: If I were a bird at uccello - good to hear.de. Retrieved April 22, 2013.
  24. ↑ Communication from the Office of the Federal President , accessed on October 4, 2013
  25. ↑ Prize winners. In: deutscher-fernsehpreis.de. Retrieved October 3, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Borsody, Suzanne von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and voice actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich