Swetlana Schönfeld

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Swetlana Schönfeld (born September 9, 1951 in the Kolyma camp, Magadan Oblast , Soviet Union ) is a German actress and theater director .

life and work

Swetlana Schönfeld was born in a camp in Kolyma . Her mother, a staunch communist , was arrested in the course of the Stalinist purges in Moscow and sentenced to five and later to ten years in a prison camp. Her father was murdered in the camp. At the age of six she came to Berlin with her mother . The trained kindergarten teacher completed an acting course at the State Academy for Dramatic Art in Berlin-Schöneweide in 1971 . From 1973 to 1993 she was a member of the Maxim-Gorki-Theater ensemble in Berlin, followed by engagements at the Deutsches Theater , the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz and the Berliner Ensemble .

Parallel to her career as a theater actress, she began an extensive film and television career at DEFA and the television of the GDR , where she starred in various productions from the mid-1970s. She was often seen in literary adaptations , such as in 1984 in Thomas Langhoff's Drei Schwestern , based on the drama of the same name by Anton Chekhov , or in Herrmann Zschoche's film biography by the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin : Half of Life .

Since the 1990s, she has only occasionally appeared in front of the camera for television productions, for example in four parts of the Polizeiruf 110 series and in television series such as Stefanie For All Cases , In All Friendship and The Country Doctor .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Awards (selection)

Web links

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  1. ^ Bert Rebhandl: GDR film in the cinema: When script sentences happen a miracle. In: FAZ.net . September 6, 2019, accessed September 6, 2019 .
  2. ^ A b Norbert Kron: And facing the future. In: rbbKultur . August 31, 2019, accessed September 6, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Swetlana Schönfeld. Actor profile at the Windhuis agency, accessed on November 30, 2019 .
  4. ^ Frank-Burkhard Habel , Volker Wachter : The great lexicon of the GDR stars. The actors from film and television. Extended new edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89602-391-8 , p. 341.
personal data
SURNAME Schönfeld, Swetlana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film and theater actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolyma Camp, Magadan Oblast , Soviet Union