Verena Altenberger

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Verena Altenberger (2020)

Verena Altenberger (born November 11, 1987 in Schwarzach im Pongau ) is an Austrian actress .

Life

Verena Altenberger grew up in the state of Salzburg in Dorfgastein , Hallein and Oberalm . She spent part of her youth at Winkl Castle , her mother was the director of the Winklhof agricultural school there . At the age of 18 she went to Vienna to study acting and first auditioned at the Max Reinhardt Seminar , where she was not accepted. Therefore, she began a bachelor's degree in journalism and communication studies at the University of Vienna , which she successfully completed. From September 2011 she studied drama at the Music and Art University of the City of Vienna , and in June 2015 she also successfully completed this degree.

theatre

In 2010/11 she was part of the Junge Burg Ensemble at the Vienna Burgtheater , where she appeared in the title role in Alice in Wonderland , as Blanche Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde and as Isolde Weißhand in Tricky Love - Tristan und Isolde . In the 2013/14 season she played the role of Lore at the Burgtheater in Puss in Boots . In 2015 she was on stage at the Volkstheater Wien in haben in the role of Rozí.

Movie and TV

In the television series CopStories she played the role of Chantal from 2013 to 2018, in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation she had a short scene in 2014 as assistant to the Vienna State Opera director . In 2016 she got the title role in RTL - sitcom Magda does it! in which she plays a Polish geriatric nurse. Filming for the second season began in June 2017 and the third season in May 2018. For her role as Magda she was nominated for the German Comedy Award in the category Best Actress / Best Actor in 2017 .

Verena Altenberger at the premiere of The Best of All Worlds in the Gartenbaukino, Vienna (2017)

For the lead role in The Best of All Worlds , she was awarded the Diagonale Acting Prize in 2017 and best actress at the Moscow International Film Festival . In this film by Adrian Goiginger , she played a heroin addict who tries to overcome her addiction and hide from her son, played by Jeremy Miliker , whom she loves more than anything and to whom she wants to be the best possible mother. The film premiered at the Berlinale 2017 and was awarded the Kompass-Perspektive-Förderpreis.

In the ServusTV feature film documentary The Makemakes in Hollywood - On the Trail of The Sound of Music (2017), she can be heard as the narrator. In autumn 2017 she stood in front of the camera for the ORF / BR / ARTE drama Das Wunder von Wörgl in the role of Rosa Unterguggenberger at the side of Karl Markovics , directed by Urs Egger . At the beginning of 2018 she shot under David Schalko for M - Eine Stadt sucht eine Mörder , in April 2018 she was in front of the camera for the historical drama Ein Dorf defends itself - the secret of Altaussee , a co-production by ZDF, ORF and Arte.

In August 2018 it was announced that she would succeed Matthias Brandt in the crime film series Polizeiruf 110 . With the episode The place from which the clouds come , she took on the role of the Munich investigator Elisabeth "Bessie" Eyckhoff . In the third season of the crime series SCHULD based on Ferdinand von Schirach , she played the role of Sheryl.

In September 2019, she shot the documentary Virginia - The unsolved riddle of the Salzburg Mafia Bride about Virginia Hill, produced by Adrian Goiginger and Peter Wildling, alongside Michael Dangl as Hans Hauser for ServusTV , directed by Sascha Köllnreiter . In the Arte television thriller Die Spur der Murder (2019) she played alongside Heino Ferch as SOKO chief investigator Ingo Thiel, Interpol investigator Carla Orlando. At the end of 2019, she stood in front of the camera at the side of Maxim Mehmet for the filming of the ORF / BR comedy Schöne Schlamassel by Wolfgang Murnberger , in which she embodied the bookseller Anne, who was enthusiastic about Judaism. In February 2019 she was a guest on the Ö3 broadcast Breakfast with me by Claudia Stöckl and in December 2019 on Wir sind Kaiser . For the production Märzengrund based on the play of the same name by Felix Mitterer , she worked again with director Adrian Goiginger in 2020.

Filmography (selection)

Awards and nominations

Web links

Commons : Verena Altenberger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Verena Altenberger: Vita ( Memento from July 5, 2016 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ castforward.de: Verena Altenberger . Retrieved July 5, 2016.
  3. ↑ Salzburger Nachrichten: The best of all career starts - Verena already does it . Article dated September 6, 2017, accessed on January 2, 2017.
  4. ^ Kurier: Verena Altenberger: Failure is only one step away . Article dated March 5, 2018, accessed February 24, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b Verena Altenberger in Breakfast with me with Claudia Stöckl ( memento from February 24, 2019 in the Internet Archive ), February 17, 2019, Ö3 broadcast breakfast with Claudia Stöckl .
  6. ↑ diepresse.com: Verena Altenberger: From the gut . Article dated August 30, 2017, accessed October 24, 2017.
  7. ↑ a b News: No "Mission Impossible" for a career . Article dated July 6, 2015, accessed July 5, 2016.
  8. ^ Verena Altenberger: Vita . Retrieved July 5, 2016.
  9. ↑ Music and Art Private University of the City of Vienna - Graduating year 2015 - Verena Altenberger ( Memento from July 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved July 5, 2016.
  10. ^ Volkstheater: Verena Altenberger ( Memento from July 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved July 5, 2016.
  11. ↑ Verena Altenberger clears leading role in RTL sitcom . Article dated May 31, 2016, accessed July 5, 2016.
  12. ↑ "Magda will do it": Start of shooting for the new RTL sitcom . Article dated May 31, 2016, accessed July 5, 2016.
  13. ↑ Music and Art Private University of the City of Vienna: Verena Altenberger plays the leading role in the new RTL sitcom ( memento from August 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Article dated August 18, 2016, accessed August 20, 2016.
  14. ↑ "Magda will do it" goes into the second season . Article dated June 20, 2017, accessed June 20, 2017.
  15. ↑ Shooting started: 3rd season: RTL slightly reduces "Magda" episode number . Article dated May 2, 2018, accessed May 2, 2018.
  16. ↑ Acting star Verena Altenberger visited the Christmas market . Article dated December 20, 2017, accessed December 20, 2017.
  17. ↑ The Makemakes in Hollywood: On the Trail of "The Sound of Music" . Retrieved December 20, 2017.
  18. ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Despite bad quota: RTL: Magda can continue to annoy . Article dated May 2, 2018, accessed May 2, 2018.
  19. ↑ derStandard.at: Verena Altenberger replaces Matthias Brandt at "Polizeiruf 110" . Article dated August 12, 2018, accessed August 12, 2018.
  20. ↑ Munich «police call»: Verena Altenberger no inspector . Article dated March 25, 2019, accessed March 29, 2019.
  21. ↑ ZDF is shooting the third season "Schuld nach Ferdinand von Schirach" . Article dated October 15, 2018, accessed October 17, 2018.
  22. ^ TV documentary "Virginia": Verena Altenberger is shooting in the Salzburger Land. In: Kurier.at . September 11, 2019, accessed September 14, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Maximilian Haase: When the Mafia came to Austria in the form of a woman. In: Weser Courier . August 30, 2020, accessed August 30, 2020 .
  24. ↑ Heino Ferch on the "track of the murderers". In: goldenekamera.de. Retrieved October 16, 2019 .
  25. ↑ Verena Altenberger stands for new comedy in front of the camera. In: Kurier.at . November 20, 2019, accessed December 19, 2019 .
  26. ↑ "We are emperors" asks for the Christmas audience on December 20th on ORF December 1st , 2019, accessed on December 21st, 2019 .
  27. ↑ SWR cinema co-production "Märzengrund" in the middle of shooting. In: presseportal.de. August 11, 2020, accessed on August 11, 2020 .
  28. ↑ orf.at: Large Diagonale Prizes were awarded . Article dated April 1, 2017, accessed April 1, 2017.
  29. ↑ orf.at: Grand Film Prize for a woman from Salzburg in Moscow . Article dated June 30, 2016, accessed June 30, 2017.
  30. ↑ derStandard.at: German Metropolis Director Award: Goiginger as multiple winner . Article dated November 6, 2017, accessed November 6, 2017.
  31. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: The winners of the Bavarian Film Prize 2017 . Article from January 19, 2018, accessed on January 19, 2018.
  32. ^ Kurier: Austrian Film Prize: Albert's "Light" the big favorite . Article dated December 6, 2017, accessed December 6, 2017.
  33. ↑ Austrian Film Prize 2018: Prize Winner . Accessed January 31, 2018.
  34. ^ Riverside Film Festival - Winners 2018. Retrieved March 4, 2020 (American English).
  35. ^ Harlem International Film Festival »2018 Awards. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
  36. ↑ 2018 Remi Winners - Worldfest Houston. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
  37. ↑ The Best of all Worlds | MIFF Awards. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
  38. ^ Hell's Half Mile Film & Music Festival. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
  39. ^ Hell's Half Mile Film & Music Festival. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
  40. ↑ Winners 2018. In: Courage. October 29, 2018. Retrieved March 4, 2020 (UK English).
  41. ↑ Kurier: Romy 2018 vote for the most popular actress cinema TV film Verena Altenberger . Article dated February 26, 2018, accessed February 26, 2018.
  42. ↑ Nominees 2018 - German Acting Award ( Memento from June 16, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved June 16, 2018.
  43. ↑ "The German Comedy Prize 2017" - nominations in 12 categories ( memento from September 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). Article dated September 12, 2017, accessed September 13, 2017.
  44. ↑ Courier: Romy 2019: Verena Altenberger . Article dated February 25, 2019, accessed February 25, 2019.
  45. ↑ From Salzburg to the wide world: people from Mozart town celebrated with many celebrities in Vienna . Article dated March 15, 2019, accessed March 15, 2019.
  46. ^ SALZBURG24: Verena Altenberger is International Salzburg Woman of the Year . Article dated March 15, 2019, accessed March 15, 2019.
  47. ↑ These are the nominees for KURIER ROMY 2020. In: Kurier.at . March 3, 2020, accessed March 3, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Altenberger, Verena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwarzach im Pongau