Tanja Wedhorn

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Tanja Wedhorn in Iserlohn , 2015

Tanja Wedhorn (born December 14, 1971 in Witten ) is a German actress .

Life

Origin, education and theater

Tanja Wedhorn's parents were the third generation to run the Witten travel agency Gerd Wedhorn eK, which she was supposed to join until she developed an interest in acting in the last school years at the school theater group in Witten .

In the youth and culture center WERK ° STADT she got her first acting role with the title role in Friedrich Dürrenmatt's The Visit of the Old Lady . She then played other roles in various classic and modern stage plays. This solidified her desire to become an actress. After graduating from high school , due to a rejection from the Folkwang School in Essen, she initially began a teaching degree , which she later broke off. In 1994, after her third audition, she was accepted at the University of the Arts in Berlin , where she studied until 1998.

After completing her acting studies, Wedhorn received her first engagement at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg . Afterwards she was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Nationaltheater Mannheim . Together with her fellow actor Oliver Mommsen , she was repeatedly on stage at the Komödie am Kurfürstendamm from 2010 .

Movie and TV

During her acting studies Wedhorn received small supporting roles in television series such as Wolffs Revier and SK-Babies . From 2000 to 2002 she was seen in the ZDF family series Nesthocker - Family to be given away as Nina Brandt, the daughter of the series lead role Marianne Brandt ( Sabine Postel ). She then took on a number of guest roles in other television series, such as Hallo Robbie! , In all friendship , SOKO Munich and Edel & Starck .

Tanja Wedhorn had her breakthrough as a television actress in 2004 in the first German telenovela Bianca - Ways to Happiness as a Housemaid Bianca Berger, who spent several years innocently in prison for allegedly setting fire to her father's business. She spoke to A new life , Bianca's dream of happiness and love finds its way a total of three audio books for the series. In 2005 she was awarded the Golden Romy in the category Most Popular Female Shooting Star. She then took part in several television film productions in which she took the lead role. In Ulli Baumann's film comedy Deutschmänner (first broadcast: January 2006) she was seen in the role of the attractive Katharina, who, as a civil servant in a immigration office, is supposed to verify the homosexual relationship between the two students Don ( Carlo Ljubek ) and Kalle ( Matthias Koeberlin ).

In the melodrama Mein Herz in Afrika (first broadcast: November 2007) she was seen alongside Hannelore Elsner as zoologist Dr. Verena Beckmann, who had a car accident on the way to the rescue center in Cape Town and was seriously injured. In the seven-part ZDF film series My wonderful family , she took on the female lead of the divorced Hanna Sander from 2008 to 2010 at the side of Patrik Fichte . In the two-part Ruhr area comedy London, Liebe, Taubenschlag she played the young Annina Kasper, who made a career in London and is now returning to her old home in Wiemelhausen near Bochum for the divorce of her husband Tom ( Marco Girnth ) .

In the romantic love film A Summer in Alsace (first broadcast: April 2012) she was the newly engaged shoe store owner Jeanine Weiss. In the television comedy Tür an Tür (first broadcast: December 2013) she was seen alongside Thekla Carola Wied as the young architect Sophie Mehnert, who wants to move into an apartment in an old building as soon as possible with her still married friend Martin Ahlers ( Bernhard Schir ). In the German-Italian television film I would rather live Italian! (First broadcast: February 2014) she played the role of Martina Sanseviero, whose marriage to the Italian engineer Paolo Sanseviero ( Alessandro Preziosi ) is not going so well.

Directed by Zoltan Spirandelli , she played the lead role of the molecular biologist Maja in the television melodrama Die Kraft you give me (first broadcast: June 2014). In the ZDF crime series Taunuskrimi she was seen in a supporting role in the two-part film Die Lebenden und die Toten (first broadcast: January 2017); she played the transplant coordinator Bettina Hesse, whose husband became the third victim of a sniper.

Wedhorn played the title-giving lawyer Katharina Reiff in the ARD series Reiff for the island from 2012 to 2015, who wants to finish her distance learning law degree and is struggling with her helper syndrome . Since 2017, she has embodied Nora Kaminski, a doctor without a doctorate, in the ARD series Praxis mit Meerblick .

In April 2020, the first broadcast of the ZDF television series Fritzie - Heaven must wait was postponed due to the corona pandemic .

Private

Tanja Wedhorn has an older sister who lives in her hometown Witten and who runs the family travel agency.

Tanja Wedhorn has been married to her long-term partner, the political scientist Simon Raiser, since 2010 and has two children with him (* 2007 and * 2011). Wedhorn lives in Berlin .

Filmography (selection)

theatre

  • 2002–2003: Joking aside ( Berlin Tribune )
  • 2002–2003: Romeo and Juliet
  • 2002-2003: BAAL
  • 2002–2003: The Potato Chamber
  • 2003–2004: Rendezvous after closing time
  • 2010: Good against north wind
  • 2013: A summer night
  • 2014: A summer night
  • 2015: A summer night (tour)
  • 2016: Better beautiful
  • 2016: A Summer Night (Tour)
  • 2017–2019: The dance lesson

Audio books

  • Audiobook 1: Bianca - Paths to happiness / A new life
  • Audiobook 2: Bianca - Paths to happiness / Bianca's dream of happiness
  • Audiobook 3: Bianca - ways to happiness / love finds its way

All three audio books were spoken by Wedhorn.

Radio plays

Awards

  • 2005: Golden Romy in the category Most Popular Female Shooting Star .

Web links

Commons : Tanja Wedhorn  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Talk time: Tanja Wedhorn. In: radiobremen.de . Retrieved February 26, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Tanja Wedhorn (CULTURE) - City magazine Witten. In: City magazine Witten. Retrieved June 3, 2002 .
  3. ↑ Tanja Wedhorn. In: rtv.de. Archived from the original on April 17, 2008 ; Retrieved December 15, 2009 .
  4. ↑ Dream couple Oliver Mommsen and Tanja Wedhorn: Is so much love really just an act? In: Bild.de . Retrieved January 10, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Start of shooting My wonderful family with Tanja Wedhorn and Patrik Fichte. In: finanznachrichten.de. Retrieved December 15, 2009 .
  6. ↑ Britta Bingmann: Tanja Wedhorn back in her area. DerWesten , accessed April 16, 2010 .
  7. ^ Actress Tanja Wedhorn secretly married. Berliner Morgenpost, November 4, 2010, accessed on April 16, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Tanja Wedhorn's love lasts and lasts ... BZ, April 7, 2012, accessed on April 16, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Wedhorn, Tanja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Witten