Valerie Niehaus

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Valerie Niehaus (2018)

Valerie Niehaus (born October 11, 1974 in Emsdetten , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German actress . She was best known for playing Julia von Anstetten in the soap opera Verbotene Liebe .

Life

Origin and education

Valerie Niehaus is the daughter of former Siemens - top manager Peter Niehaus and the great-niece of the actress Ruth Niehaus (1925-1994), they at their 20th anniversary on September 24, 2014 at the inauguration of Ruth Niehaus Street in Meerbusch the eulogy held .

In 1987, at the age of 13, she moved with her family to Munich and was discovered for the television series Rote Erde , where she was seen as Gerda in March 1990 in the episode Heil Hitler or Glück . On the day she received her high school diploma , she got a contract for the soap opera Verbotene Liebe , where she played the role of Julia von Anstetten for two years and 408 episodes , who - without knowing who it is - in hers own brother Jan Brandner ( Andreas Brucker ) fell in love. In 1995 and 1996 she was awarded the Bravo Otto Prize in the “TV Star Female” category (bronze in each case) while she was in soap . In the romance film Rosamunde Pilcher: Hours of Decision (first broadcast: March 1997), she starred alongside Timothy Peach as Christabel Lowyer , who is studying in the USA and visiting her parents in England during the semester break , in the female lead. After leaving the series, Niehaus studied at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute in New York from 1997 to 1999 .

Movie and TV

In 2000 Niehaus returned to Germany from New York. In Michael Karen's directorial debut, the horror thriller Flashback - Murderous Holidays , she took on the lead role of the traumatized Jeanette Fielmann , who lost both parents in her childhood. For this role, she and her colleague Simone Hanselmann were nominated for the New Faces Award . In the television film Das Glück ist ein Insel (first broadcast: May 2001) she was Saskia Janssen , who assists the environmental activist Jens Groote ( Christian Kohlund ), who runs a breeding station for orphaned young seals on a North Sea island. Directed by Sharon von Wietersheim , she starred as the "personified sunshine" Irina Burger in the comedy The Little House (first broadcast: September 2003) in the role of the wife of a successful manager who gave up her career as a journalist out of love for her husband depends, runs the household and puts their concerns in the background. In Dietmar Klein's two-part melodrama Rose unter Dornen (first broadcast: January 2006) she played the main role of the single operator Sofie Winter , who falls in love with the hotel king Simon Wahlberg ( Heinz Hoenig ) and eventually marries him. From March to May 2006 she was seen as Anna Hoffmann in the title role of the ten-part ZDF television series Alles über Anna . In Joseph Vilsmaier's fictional drama Die Gustloff (first broadcast: March 2008), she was the daughter of the Königsberg bookseller Thomas Galetschky, Erika Galetschky , who met and fell in love with Captain Hellmuth Kehding ( Kai Wiesinger ) in 1944 in her father's bookstore . From March 2009 to April 2010 she was part of the regular cast of the three-part ARD crime series Kommissar LaBréa with Francis Fulton-Smith in the title role as painter Celine Charpentier . In the television film Eine Liebe in St. Petersburg (first broadcast: October 2009) she played the young Berlin anesthetist Nora Sanders , who is supposed to give an important lecture at a congress in St. Petersburg after she is newly engaged.

In the Sat.1 film comedy Are all men pigs? (First broadcast: September 2010) she starred alongside Oliver Mommsen as divorce lawyer Maja Nielsen , who can hear men's thoughts after being electrocuted. In the German-Austrian Christmas film Love Comes with the Christ Child (first broadcast: December 2010) she was seen in the female lead of the judge Annemarie Eggert , who is on the run from her unfaithful friend Felix ( Hary Prinz ) and with her son Peter ( Nico Liersch ) moves from Vienna to Sankt Gilgen. In the ARD melodrama Garmischer Bergspitzen (first broadcast: December 2010) she took over as midwife Christa Sailer , who, at the same time as her husband Karl Sailer ( Timothy Peach ), started her job in the clinic after an argument with the chief physician Dr. Ranke ( Heike Trinker ) loses the female lead. In the two-part film biography The Man with the Bassoon (first broadcast: September 2011) she was seen as the young actress Gitta , who met the musician Udo Jürgens ( David Rott ) during his time as a bar musician in Salzburg and later married him. In the film comedy Survival on the Winding Front (first broadcast: May 2012) she was seen as the lawyer Esther Lindemann , who has become the mother of twins, but cannot and does not want to take a year-off due to taking over the management of a new law firm. She took on a double role in the Sat.1 mistake-up comedy Mich's Only Twice (first broadcast: October 2012); she played on the one hand the production designer Katrin and on the other hand the android Kate . In the Christmas television film Beutolomäus und der False Suspicious (first broadcast: December 2012) with the fictional KiKA Christmas figure Beutolomäus she was seen as the artist Liliane Lercke in the role of the film mother of the protagonist Louis ( Tim Rietz ). In the ARD television film, Niehaus took on the role of German agent Vera von Schalburg in Die Spionin (first broadcast: December 2013) . In the comedic Sat.1 ensemble film Frauenherzen (first broadcast: September 2015) she was seen alongside Nadeshda Brennicke , Anna Fischer , Julia Hartmann , Marie Schöneburg and Julia Dietze as housewife Karo Richter in one of six female lead roles.

From February 2016 to April 2019, Niehaus took on the leading role of forensic doctor, Dr Dr, alongside David Rott (2016) and Matthias Weidenhöfer (2017 to 2019). Katrin Stoll in the ZDF crime series The Specialists - On behalf of the victims . In episode 37 she is led by the IEK management Dr. Dorothea Lehberger ( Katy Karrenbauer ) on leave because the outbreak of the felon Zoch , who once killed her brother, influenced Stoll's work too much. In total, Niehaus was seen in 40 episodes, in the other eight episodes she cannot be seen herself, her name only comes up in connection with the kidnapping of Zoch. In the television film My Stranger Friend (first broadcast: November 2017), she played Andrea Bredow , an employee of the Hanoverian health department, who, along with her new work colleague Judith Lorenz ( Ursula Strauss ), who pretends to be from her new work colleague Volker Lehmann ( Hannes Jaenicke ) to have been raped. For the ARD Friday Film Series at home in the mountains it was subsequently Sister Love (Original: April 2019) in a dual role as twin sisters Leonie and Lena Assmann front of the camera.

Niehaus is also involved in various ZDF comedy programs . From 2015 she was seen in a total of 30 episodes of the comedy series Sketch History . Since June 2018, she has been part of the cast in the heute-show both under her own name and under the pseudonym Saskia Lindemann-Engelhardt . In Jan Böhmermann's Christmas film Böhmermanns Perfect Christmas (first broadcast: December 2018) she played the single woman Bettina Rüstlinger , who has the Dalai Lama and Ai Weiwei on the wall and is looking for meaning in Eckart-von-Hirschhausen books.

Private

Valerie Niehaus is divorced and has a son (* 2002). She lives in Berlin .

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

watch TV

Web links

Commons : Valerie Niehaus  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marcel Romahn: Meerbusch: First street named after the actress. In: RP Online . Retrieved September 25, 2014 .
  2. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : Valerie Niehaus, Gedeon Burkhard, Tim Bergmann, von Wietersheim. Just nice! Film review at tittelbach.tv , accessed on August 2, 2020.
  3. ↑ Valerie Niehaus as Erika Galetschky. at tv.orf.at; accessed on June 24, 2019.
  4. ↑ Garmisch mountain peaks. In: Augsburger Allgemeine . Retrieved December 10, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Actress Valerie Niehaus: Now she's even allowed to seduce Udo Jürgens. In: RP Online of September 27, 2011; accessed on June 24, 2019.
  6. ↑ A charming double role: Valerie Niehaus in the SAT.1 comedy "I only exist twice" on October 30, 2012 at 8:15 pm. In: presseportal.de . Retrieved October 25, 2012 .
  7. ^ Marie-Luise Braun: Valerie Niehaus is "The Spy" in the First. In: New Osnabrück Newspaper . Retrieved December 27, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Anja Rützel: Sat.1 comedy "Frauenherzen": Stöckelziege, Moppeline and the rest. In: Spiegel Online . Retrieved January 14, 2014 .
  9. ^ "Cut by cut" on the truth: ZDF shoots a crime series with Valerie Niehaus and David Rott. In: presseportal.de . Retrieved July 29, 2015 .
  10. ^ Matthias M. Machan: Valerie Niehaus: "I make TV from the deepest conviction". In: Prisma.de . Retrieved October 2, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Heike Hupertz: TV FILM "MY STRANGER FRIEND": A man under suspicion. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . Retrieved November 8, 2017 .
  12. ↑ David Denk: New Show "Sketch History" on ZDF: Brutus, you stupid pig. Retrieved October 9, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Today show from October 5, 2018. Retrieved November 12, 2018 .
  14. ↑ "Böhmermanns perfect Christmas" with Nazi grandma and hipster family. In: Focus.de . Retrieved December 18, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Jürn Kruse: Böhmermann Christmas on ZDF: The new "Hoppenstedts". In: taz.de . Retrieved December 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Niehaus, Valerie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Niehaus, Vera (alternative name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Emsdetten , North Rhine-Westphalia , Federal Republic of Germany