Ulrike Grote

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Ulrike Grote (born July 8, 1963 in Bremen ) is a German director , actress , speaker and screenwriter . As a director, she won the Student Oscar and was nominated for an Oscar . In 1994 she was named Actress of the Year for her theater work, and later she appeared as an actress mainly on television.

Life

The daughter of a north German pharmacist couple moved with her parents to Pforzheim when she was four years old , where she grew up. After completing secondary school, she left school and was initially unable to take up the desired film studies without a high school diploma. From 1985 to 1989 she studied acting at the Berlin University of the Arts . Immediately after graduating, she got a theater engagement at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg and was a member of the ensemble there until 1998. Engagements at the Schauspielhaus Zürich from 1998–1999 and at the Vienna Burgtheater from 2000–2001 followed. In 1994 she was by the magazine Theater heute under the Actor of the Year chosen.

Since the 1990s Ulrike Grote can also be seen as an actress in film and television. She played in several films by the director Rolf Schübel and in several Tatort episodes. In 2005 and 2006 she played in the ARD series The thickness of the Lisa Schubert , the neighbor and friend of the of Dieter Pfaff played the main character.

From 2002 to 2004 Ulrike Grote completed a film degree in directing with Hark Bohm at the University of Hamburg . Her graduation film Der Ausreißer was awarded the Student Oscar in 2005 and was nominated for the Oscar in the short film category the following year . Together with the producer Ilona Schultz, Ulrike Grote founded the company Fortune Cookie Filmproduction in 2006 , in which she develops her own film projects. Also her first feature film What if death do us part? , for whom she also wrote the dialogues, was awarded prizes. In her first films she was able to fall back on well-known actors with whom she had already worked during her time at the theater, including Monica Bleibtreu , Burghart Klaußner and Hermann Lause . In 2011 she shot the Swabian dialect comedy The Church stays in the village based on its own script, which was released in August 2012 and reached over 500,000 viewers. Based on the film, a television series of the same name for Südwestrundfunk was created again after Grotes Buch . Grote also directed the theater at the Altonaer Theater Hamburg.

Ulrike Grote has recorded numerous audio books as a speaker, including the Bis (s) series by the author Stephenie Meyer and some works by Dora Heldt . The audio book publisher Margrit Osterwold awarded her the Osterwold in 2009 , the speaker award for outstanding audio book interpretations. For Until (s) to the end of the night she and Peter Jordan received the Audience Award for Hörkulino children's audio books .

Ulrike Grote lives in Hamburg . Her son Paul Grote, born in 1991, played in What If Death Do Us Part? Ulrich Noethen's film son Anton.

Filmography (selection)

As an actress

As a director

Audiobooks (excerpt)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Director's chair instead of stage space - a portrait of the actress and director Ulrike Grote , Silke Lahmann-Lammert, Deutschlandradio Kultur, August 31, 2009
  2. ↑ Ulrike Grote at fortunecookiefilm.com ( Memento from August 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Gold / platinum database of the Federal Association of the Music Industry, accessed on May 30, 2016
  4. ↑ Goldener Biber goes to Ulrike Grote , Schwaebische.de of November 2, 2008, accessed on January 14, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Grote, Ulrike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and director
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen , Germany