Vérénice Rudolph

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VÉRÉNICE RUDOLPH (* 17th August 1951 as Verena Rudolph in Munich ) is a German actress and director .

After finishing high school, she attended the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich. She then got engagements at the Wuppertal theaters and at the Schillertheater in Berlin.

She became known in 1976 with the role of Gertie in Alexander Kluge's The Strong Ferdinand . The television films Endstation Paradies (1977, with Inge Meysel ) and Elfriede (1978, title role) followed. In Hartmut Griesmayrs and Herbert Reineckers ...... from hearts with pain (1978) she played alongside Werner Hinz and Vera Chekhova . Uli Edel hired her for Der harte Handel that same year . In Tatort : Midnight, or shortly thereafter , she played the lead role as Regine Homberg alongside "Inspector" Nicole Heesters . In 1979 she worked again with Griesmayr for the film Case Studies . George Moorse gave her an episode lead role in Seasons of Love in 1979 .

In 1981 two supporting roles followed: In Margarethe von Trotta's Die Bleierne Zeit she played Julian's ( Jutta Lampe ) friend, the doctor Sabine, who takes care of foster parents for her nephew Jan. In Gabi Kubach's rendezvous in Paris , she played the strong confidante of the fragile heroine Evelyn ( Claude Jade ), who finally persuades her friend to follow her lover to Paris for a weekend.

In 1983 she shot her last film as an actress with A Peaceful Couple for the time being and successfully switched to directing. From 1980 she trained as a director at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin . There she co-directed the film Mikado in 1984 . The documentary film Daheim was also made at the dffb . This was followed by occasional roles as an actress, for example under the name Verena Rudolph in Maria Langs Zärtereien (1985).

Under her real name Verena Rudolph, she shot the movie Francesca in 1987 with greats like Marianne Hoppe (with whom she played in Die Baronin in 1981 ) and Bernhard Minetti . For her directorial debut, in which she declared a fictional heroine to be a real character, Rudolph received, among other things, the Max Ophüls Prize and the German Film Prize for direction and screenplay.

Today Verena Rudolph works among other things as a professor at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg and at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne .

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SURNAME Rudolph, Vérénice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rudolph, Verena (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and director
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich , Bavaria , Federal Republic of Germany