Ursina Lardi

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Ursina Lardi (born December 19, 1970 in Samedan ) is a Swiss actress . She lives in Berlin and works mainly in Germany for theater , film and television .

Live and act

Education and theater

Lardi first grew up in Poschiavo in the Italian-speaking part of Graubünden . Her first language was Italian, the second Romansh . Only when she moved to German-speaking Switzerland at the age of ten did she learn German more intensively. As a child, she already took part in theater productions in Graubünden. From 1986 to 1992 she trained as a primary school teacher in Chur , an internship took her to Bolivia from 1989 to 1990 .

In 1992 she went to Germany, where she studied drama at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art in Berlin until 1996 . Lardi had theater engagements at the Maxim-Gorki-Theater (1996), at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus (season 1996/97), at the Schauspiel Frankfurt (1997–2001), at the Schauspiel Hannover , at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg (since 2001), at the Berlin Schaubühne ( since 2004) and at the Berliner Ensemble (2009).

Her stage roles in the years 1996-2001 included: the title role of Sara Sampson in the production of Stella or The Last Day of Miss Sara Sampson based on motifs by Lessing and Goethe (1996, Maxim-Gorki-Theater; directed by Tom Kühnel / Robert Schuster ), the title role in Wilde / Einar Schleef's Salome , (1997, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus; director: Einar Schleef ), Lavinia in Titus Andronicus (1997, Schauspiel Frankfurt; director: Kühnel / Schuster), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (1998, Schauspiel Frankfurt; director: Amélie Niermeyer ), Gretchen in Faust I (1999, Schauspiel Frankfurt, director: Kühnel / Schuster) and Elisabeth von Valois in Don Carlos (1999, Schauspiel Frankfurt; director: Jens-Daniel Herzog ).

In 2001 Lardi played the title role in Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz 's theater fragment Catharina von Siena in the Sophiensaele Berlin, directed by Thorsten Lensing . In 2002, under Lensing's direction, the roles of Cordelia / Edgar in King Lear followed (co-production: Theater T1, Sophiensäle, Theater im Pumpenhaus ). Lardi continued to work with Lensing on numerous other theater projects. Lardi has appeared as a guest at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg since 2001 (including in 2002 as Sleeping Beauty in the world premiere of the play Prinzessinnendramen by Elfriede Jelinek ; director: Laurent Chétouane ).

In 2004 Lardi first appeared at the Berlin Schaubühne; she made her debut there as Martha Countess von Geschwitz in Lulu (director: Thomas Ostermeier ). Other roles there included Elvira in Turista by Marius von Mayenburg (2005; director: Luk Perceval ) and Warwara Michailowna in Sommergäste von Maxim Gorki (2012; director: Alvis Hermanis ). Lardi has been a permanent member of the Berliner Schaubühne ensemble since the 2012/13 season.

In 2008 she played the role of "harsh" again in the Hamburg Kampnagelfabrik and the Berlin Sophiensæle , directed by Thorsten Lensing and Jan Hein, alongside Devid Striesow (as Astrov doctor) and Josef Ostendorf (as Uncle Wanja) , elegant Jeléna, who robs both men of their calmness and reason », in Chekhov's Uncle Vanja . In 2011, directed by Lensing / Hein, she played the role of landowner Lyubow Andrejewna Ranjewskaja in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard (Sophiensæle Berlin, Kampnagel Hamburg). The Neue Zürcher Zeitung wrote in November 2011 about Lardi's interpretation of the Ranjewskaja: «Ursina Lardi stretches her Ranjewskaja between the greatest possible contradictions: defiance and sadness, despair and ecstasy. But she never lets the figure drift into the sentimental, she always has a cheerful and furious mixture, a rugged gentleness, an angular suppleness. " In 2011, directed by Lensing / Hein, the solo evening The Dresses of Women followed with texts based on three stories by Brigitte Kronauer (with Lardi as Rita; Sophiensaele Berlin, Kampnagel Hamburg).

In 2009 she took on the title role in the play Doña Rosita stays single from Federico García Lorca at the Berliner Ensemble ; Directed by Thomas Langhoff .

In 2006 she was awarded the prize of the Eliette-von-Karajan-Kulturfonds for her theater work on numerous important stages in Germany .

In 2017 she received the Hans-Reinhart-Ring , which is considered the highest award in theater life in Switzerland. At the beginning of March 2020 it was announced that she would be the sole juror for the Alfred Kerr Acting Award this year .

In 2020 she appeared for the first time at the Salzburg Festival .

Movie and TV

Lardi also starred in a number of film and television productions. She worked on Werner Schroeter's portrait of Marianne Hoppe ( Marianne Hoppe - Die Königin , 2000). At the side of Ulrich Tukur , she starred in the 2009 film The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story, which was awarded the Golden Palm in Cannes . She embodied the role of the sensitive and in her marriage unhappy Baroness Marie-Louise. In the crime film Der Kameramorders (2010) she played the role of his wife Eva Stubenrauch. In the German-Australian feature film Lore (2012) she embodied the mother of the title character. In the Swiss feature film Traumland (2013) she played the pregnant Lena, whose husband ( Devid Striesow ) regularly uses the services of prostitutes .

Lardi has appeared several times in crime films in the Tatort television series . In the crime scene film Der Schöne Schein (2011), Lardi played the surgeon and suspect Gloria Riekert. In the Tatort episode Noble be man and healthy (2011), she took on the role of Yvonne Schmuckler; she embodied the office hours assistant and wife of the doctor Dr. Martin Schmuckler. In the Tatort film Wishful Thinking (2011) she played the role of Elisabeth Widmer, widow of the dead man who drowned in a weir . In the ZDF crime series The Public Prosecutor , she played the role of the pregnant senior physician Dr in the episode The Cold Death (first broadcast: January 2013). Roses.

In Andreas Kleinert's TV psychodrama The Woman from Before (first broadcast: June 2013), which is based on the play of the same name by Roland Schimmelpfennig , Lardi embodied the role of Romy, who meets her childhood sweetheart Frank ( Devid Striesow ) for the first time in 24 years. In August 2013, she was at the side of her Schaubühne colleague Lars Eidinger in the ARD television film You're Turning to be seen as a “self-confident and goal-oriented” wife who receives a top-class job offer and thus forcibly leaves her husband to the role of housekeeper . In March 2014 Lardi was seen again in a Tatort production. In the episode Breakfast Forever , she played a lawyer with a penchant for sado-masochistic bondage and sex games, who turns into a murderer out of disappointed love and emotional dependence. This was followed by other roles in Tatort crime stories, such as art professor Claudia Denk in Cologne's Tatort: ​​Freddy tanzt (first broadcast: February 2015), as psychologist Helene Kaufmann in Frankfurt's Tatort: ​​The Story of Bad Friederich (first broadcast: April 2016) and as Christine Maihack , the ex-lover of Berlin Commissioner Karow and widow of his former police colleague, in Tatort: ​​Wir - Ihr - Sie (first broadcast: June 2016) and in Tatort: ​​Dunkelfeld (first broadcast: December 2016). In the television film Tell Me Nothing , which also premiered on Das Erste in December 2016 , she played Lena, a married woman who gets involved in an affair with a stranger and in this encounter lives out her needs and longings.

In 2013 Ursina Lardi received a nomination for the German Actor Award in the category “Best Supporting Actress” for her role in the feature film Lore (2012) . For her role in Traumland , Lardi was honored as best actress at the 2014 Swiss Film Prize and was again shortlisted for her role in Unter der Haut in 2015 .

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

watch TV

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Die Mauer muss weg Performance review of Der Kirschgarten in Neue Zürcher Zeitung from November 13, 2011; last accessed on October 1, 2013
  2. ↑ a b c d “It's your turn”: Ursina Lardi in conversation . WDR press lounge on July 10, 2013; Retrieved October 1, 2013
  3. ^ Sophie Diesselhorst: Portrait: Ursina Lardi. In: Theater heute of March 17, 2011
  4. ↑ Thomas Blubacher : Ursina Lardi . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1081. Accessed October 1, 2013.
  5. ↑ Belief in love performance review in: Berliner Zeitung of March 16, 2001
  6. ↑ a b c Ursina Lardi Vita (official website of the Berlin Schaubühne); Retrieved October 1, 2013
  7. ↑ a b With pigtails, in a red dress and in the face of death, performance review of The Dresses of Women in: Hamburger Abendblatt of March 9, 2011; last accessed on October 1, 2013
  8. ↑ Waiting for no reason Criticism at Deutschlandradio Kultur on February 17, 2009; last accessed on October 1, 2013
  9. ↑ Eliette von Karajan Kulturfonds awards six prizes. Media release from the registry of the Canton of Graubünden on November 27, 2006, accessed on October 1, 2013.
  10. ↑ Swiss Grand Prix Theater / Hans-Reinhart-Ring 2017 ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved April 18, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theaterpreise.ch
  11. ↑ Sole juror Ursina Lardi awards Kerr Prize 2020 , nachtkritik.de of March 5, 2020
  12. ↑ Die Zeit No. 34, August 13, 2020, p. 45.
  13. ↑ Very quiet night . Film review in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung on September 27, 2013. Accessed on March 22, 2014.
  14. ↑ Relationship drama: Devid Striesow in the Arte film in Der Tagesspiegel . Retrieved October 2, 2013.
  15. ↑ Konstantinos Mitsis: «Tatort: ​​Breakfast forever» - Who is the bondage sex lawyer? . Web.de from March 17, 2014. Accessed March 19, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Lardi, Ursina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Samedan