Veronica Ferres

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Veronica Ferres (2017)

Veronica Ferres (born Veronika Maria Cäcilia Ferres in Solingen on June 10, 1965 ) is a German actress . With the lead role in Sönke Wortmann's film Das Superweib , she became known to a larger audience in 1996. In 2002 she was awarded the Grimme Prize for her portrayal of Nelly Mann in the television production Die Manns - A novel by Heinrich Breloer .

Life

Early years

Veronica Ferres grew up as the youngest of three children and the only daughter of the coal and potato merchant Peter Ferres and his wife Katharina on their parents' farm.

During her school days, she was considered an outsider who was called "Fettes" by her classmates. She suffered extreme weight fluctuations and scratched her forearms. In 1984 she graduated from the Schwertstraße high school in Solingen . She then studied German , drama and psychology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , but left the university without a degree.

After rejecting some state drama schools because of her height of 1.80 m, she took private acting lessons at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna and passed a state examination in classical drama.

Acting career

Ferres began her career in the theater. She played at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, the Bavarian State Theater and in cabaret and off-theaters before she was mainly seen in television films and series. In her first film, Die Geierwally by Walter Bockmayer , she played the maid in 1988. In the second home of Edgar Reitz she played in 1992 the girl Dorli from the province. This was followed by the role of the secretary in the ZDF series Our Teacher Doctor Specht (1992) and the Cologne proletarian in Tom Gerhardt's Voll normaaal (1994).

In 1992 she played Fritz Knobel's muse in Schtonk! directed by Helmut Dietl , with whom she was in a relationship from 1990 to 1999. She also cast her in 1997 as Snow White for the film Rossini - or the murderous question of who slept with whom and in 1999 as actress Maria in the media satire Late Show . One of the great successes of the ZDF television game, with around nine million viewers, is the two-parter Eine disobedient woman (1998) with Ferres in the lead role. The following year she played in the international production Ladies Room at the side of John Malkovich . Since then she has been in front of the camera in several films, the last time in 2013 in the international cinema production Casanova Variations .

She was also seen from 1993 to 1994 in the television series Peter and Paul at the side of Helmut Fischer and Hans Clarin and in an episode of Bullen von Tölz . With the lead role in the movie Das Superweib (1996) she became known to a wide audience. Around 2.4 million viewers saw this production. Since then, Ferres has also worked in international productions, for example for French television in 2000 as Madame Thénardier in the four-part Les Misérables - Prisoners of Fate or as a handicapped Countess in Foundling at the side of Pierre Richard.

In 2001 she played Nelly Mann in the multi-award-winning television production Die Manns - A novel by Heinrich Breloer , for which she received the Adolf Grimme Gold Prize. From 2002 to 2004 Ferres played the Buhlschaft in the Jedermann production at the Salzburg Festival . In August 2010, the Austrian daily newspaper Salzburger Nachrichten named her the “best fanatic of all time”. In the television drama Annas Heimkehr (2003) she played the maid Anna Schweighofer, who saves a Jewish girl from deportation. This film tells the life story of Charlotte Knobloch . In the cartoon Till Eulenspiegel (2003), directed by Eberhard Junkersdorf , Ferres dubbed one of the main roles.

This was followed by the leading role in the television film Stars shine also on the day by Roland Suso Richter (director) and Richard Reitinger (book) from 2004, which is about ALS . In 2006 she took on one of the main roles in the ZDF two-parter Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger! , in which she embodies the single mother of a dark-skinned boy during National Socialism . In the same year she starred in the movie The Wild Chicks again the role of a mother and alongside John Malkovich as Gustav Klimt , the Emilie Flöge in the biopic Klimt the Chilean director Raul Ruiz . In the summer of 2007 she shot the three-part television series Die Patin - No way back in Munich. Also in 2007 she stood in front of the camera for the television films Mein Alter Freund Fritz and The End of the Ice Age by Friedemann Fromm . The latter was nominated for the German TV Award in 2007 as “Best TV Film” ; Ferres received a nomination for "Best Actress". The following year she received the German Television Award for “Best Actress” for the two-part television film Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie . In this, a mother in the West fights for her two daughters who are being held prisoner in the GDR . The film was based on the true story of Jutta Fleck , who became known as the "Woman from Checkpoint Charlie".

Ferres also worked on other films in 2008: for example, she played one of the main roles in the television film Das Wunder von Berlin , which was nominated for the German Television Prize and the Emmy as “Best Film” . Another production in 2008 was the movie A Life for a Life - Adam Resurrected , in which Jeff Goldblum and William Dafoe played the leading roles. In addition, in the autumn and winter of 2008/2009, shooting in South Africa for The Secret of the Whales , directed by Philipp Kadelbach , was followed by Ferres and Christopher Lambert in the lead roles.

In spring 2009 she stood in front of the camera in Munich for the ARD television film Rosanna's Daughter . Fritz Karl took on the male lead . The screenplay, which the film author Christian Jeltsch wrote based on the novel of the same name by Amelie Fried , was directed by Franziska Buch . In the fall of the same year, Ferres shot for the movie Life is Too Long , directed by Dani Levy , in Berlin and Italy. The main role was played by Markus Hering . Also that fall, she starred in the film She Deserved It, which she also co-produced. This fictional film by author and director Thomas Stiller tells of young people who - thrown off course - vent their hatred on others. In addition, Ferres took on the lead role of Holocaust survivor Marga Spiegel in the 2009 film production Unter Bauern - Retter im Nacht by Ludi Boeken . In 2010 there were repeated appearances in several television productions. Among other things, she played the role of Marco Weiss' mother in the television film Marco W. - 247 Days in Turkish Prison .

In the same year she also played the role of Natasha in the movie Life is Too Long , directed by Dani Levy . In addition to Die kleine Lady , an adaptation of the children's book classic Der kleine Lord , in which she plays a women's rights activist , and the literary film adaptation of Pavel Kohout The Long Wave Behind the Kiel , in which she stood in front of the camera alongside Mario Adorf and Christiane Hörbiger , she also shot in 2011 the TV movie Tsunami - Life After . Since 2011 she has also played the leading role in the ZDF crime series Lena Fauch .

In 2012 Ferres starred in the movie Der Teufelsgeiger alongside violinist David Garrett . In the cinema adaptations of the bestselling children's book Rubinrot und Saphirblau by Kerstin Gier , she embodied the role of Grace. Also in 2012 she was seen in the television productions Mein Mann, ein Mörder under the direction of Lancelot von Naso alongside Ulrich Noethen and in Port of Fragrances under the direction of Peter Gersina. In 2013, she shot the comedy The Luck of Others with Dominic Raacke .

In 2013, Ferres played an "average woman" in the comedy König von Deutschland , directed by Helmut Dietl's son David, alongside Olli Dittrich . In the film adaptation of the bestseller Hector and the Search for Happiness , she stood in front of the camera alongside Simon Pegg , Jean Reno , Christopher Plummer , Toni Collette and Rosamund Pike , among others . In 2014, the American thriller Pay the Ghost followed with Nicolas Cage in the lead role. In 2014, Ferres played a nanny in the German comedy Der Nanny , a production by Matthias Schweighöfer . In the same year she was seen in the television production Die Staatsaffäre as German Chancellor. In 2015 she played the leading female role in the film Salt and Fire alongside Michael Shannon and Gael García Bernal , directed by Werner Herzog , who also wrote the screenplay for the film. The film takes place in the salt desert of Bolivia at an altitude of 4200 m. In June 2018, TLC announced that Ferres would host the crime documentary series Married with Secrets from October 9, 2018 .

Private life

Veronica Ferres and Carsten Maschmeyer , 2010

Ferres was in a relationship with Helmut Dietl from 1990 to 1999 . They worked together on films such as Schtonk (1991), Rossini (1997), Late Show (1999) and numerous other films by the director. In February 2000, they announced their separation.

In May 2001, shortly before their daughter was born, she married advertising manager Martin Krug in Salzburg . At the time, she also fell into a coma because of encephalitic meningitis , and then had to learn to walk and speak again. In November 2008 Ferres announced the amicable separation from Krug, in June 2010 the marriage was divorced.

She has been with the German financial entrepreneur Carsten Maschmeyer since 2009 . The couple married on September 27, 2014 in Nice . In February 2017, Ferres took part in the Federal Assembly to elect the German Federal President .

social commitment

Ferres was the patron of the Power-Child e. V. for the prevention of sexual violence against children and young people. There she collected donations, which she used to finance plays for kindergartens and elementary schools. Since 2009, she raises funds for HOPE Cape Town Association & Trust, a non-profit organization, located in South Africa for HIV -positive and suffering from tuberculosis people involved. Furthermore, Ferres became involved in 2010 as an ambassador for the SOS Children's Villages .

Ferres has been the international ambassador for Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem since 2011 . In 2013 she was awarded the Hadassah “Citizen of the World” award. She is also the patron of the evangelical aid organization Die Arche - Christian children and youth organization in Germany. In February 2012 she took over the patronage of the Burgholz children's hospice in the Bergisch city triangle . She also volunteers for DKMS Life by appearing as a guest speaker at events.

Others

Ferres sits on the advisory board of the Metropolitan School Frankfurt , which is headed by her brother Peter. In 2002 she founded the production company Bella Vita Film GmbH with her then husband Martin Krug, which produced the ARD two-parter Kein Himmel über Afrika (2005) and the films The Secret of the Whales and Rosanna's Daughter . After separating from Krug, she withdrew from the company and in 2012 founded her own production company, Construction Filmproduktion , based in Munich .

In 2007 her children's book No, I don't go with strangers! It was developed by the "German Academy of Artists and Youth Literature e. V. ”was voted“ Book of the Month ”in March 2007. Two years later, don't touch me! released. Both books were illustrated by Julia Ginsbach and are intended to sensitize children to dangerous situations. On March 14, 2011, the book Children Are Our Life at Droemer Knaur was published , which Ferres wrote together with Nicole Maibaum . It portrays 15 extraordinary people who stand up for the rights of children. In addition, Ferres worked on various audio book productions, including a. at the Rilke project . She also contributed to the book Letters Moving the World , published by Hellmuth Karasek in 2010 .

In 2008, Park Avenue magazine published a report in its June issue entitled Fall Ferres - An Actress Between Do-gooding Addiction and Appeal . Ferres saw his personal rights violated by the publication and obtained an injunction before the Hamburg district court on July 25, 2008 , according to which the magazine had to print a reply . The following lawsuit by the actress against the publisher for payment of high monetary compensation was dismissed by the Hamburg district court as unfounded.

In January 2008 Ferres was hired as a testimonial for Adler Modemärkte . The planned remuneration was 800,000 euros annually. After the chain, which originally belonged to the Metro Group , was taken over by the restructuring company BluO, the company's new management separated from Ferres. The managing director Martin Vorderwülbecke justified this with the fact that the actress had been hired by the previous owner because of her positive image and that she had lost it because of her "adulterous relationship". In the course of the process brought on by Ferres, a comparison was made between the parties: Instead of the almost 460,000 euros she had requested, she received a sum of 400,000 euros from the fashion chain, which also assumed 75 percent of the process costs. From 2005, Ferres was the advertising medium for the Diadermine beauty line, for which she also advertised abroad. In 2012 Ferres appeared as a testimonial in an advertising campaign for the Bild newspaper . In 2014, Der Spiegel revealed that Ferres and Maschmeyer were multiplying money with controversial dividend strippings .

Reactions

Ferres also had to deal with critical voices due to her role choices, activities outside of acting, and her private life. Her predilection for “positive” female roles, especially the role of the “brave mother”, is reproached for being one-sided and flat.

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Awards

Bambi

  • 1992: Award in the National Acting category for the role of Martha in Schtonk
  • 2005: Award in the Acting National category for the role of Veronika Molin in The Return of the Dance Teacher

Bavarian television award

  • 2002: Award in the category Best Actress in a TV Movie for the role of Nelly in The Manns - A Novel of the Century
  • 2004: Award for Best Actress in a TV Movie for her roles in Anna's Homecoming , Lost Forever and Stronger Than Death

German television award

  • 2007: Nomination for Best Actress for her role in The End of the Ice Age
  • 2008: Award in the Best Actress category for her role in The Woman from Checkpoint Charlie

Golden camera

  • 1998: Award for Best Actress National for her roles in Rossini , The Chaos Queen , Dr. Knock and a disobedient woman
  • 2002: Awarded for her role in Bobby

Adolf Grimme Prize in gold

  • 1998: Nomination for her roles in The Chaos Queen , Dr. Knock and a disobedient woman
  • 2002: Award for The Manns - A novel of the century

Golden Romy

  • 2002: Award in the category Most Popular Actress for her roles in Bobby and The Manns - A Novel of the Century

Further prizes and honors

  • 1999: Award for Best Actress for her role in The Bride at the 9th Pescara International Film Festival , Italy
  • 2005: DIVA-Award in the category German Award (Hall of Fame)
  • 2006: Bavarian Order of Merit
  • 2006: Golden pen
  • 2007: Hans Rosenthal Prize of Honor
  • 2007: Book of the month of the German Academy for Children's and Youth Literature in March 2007 for the children's book No, I don't go with strangers
  • 2007: Bad Iburger children's literature award “Castle Stories” for the children's book No, I don't go with strangers
  • 2007: Pannekopp of the year for her services to "keeping the language clean in the Ruhr area"
  • 2008: Jupiter in the Best TV Film category for Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie
  • 2009: Steiger Award in the film category
  • 2010: Signis Award as part of the DC International Film Festival in Washington for Under Farmers - Saviors in the Night
  • 2013: Hadassah Citizen of the World Award for her social commitment to Israel
  • 2017: Askania Award in the Best Actress category
  • 2018: Order of St. George at the Dresden Opera Ball
  • 2020: Honorary Award of the Kitzbühel Film Festival

literature

Web links

Commons : Veronica Ferres  - Collection of Images
Wikiquote: Veronica Ferres  - Quotes

Individual evidence

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  9. ↑ a b Helmut Dietl and Veronica Ferres separated . In: Rhein-Zeitung , February 10, 2000.
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  19. ↑ gero von boehm encountered: Veronica Ferres ( memento from March 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) , broadcast on the ZDFdokukanal, March 24, 2008, 0:45 a.m.
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  46. ^ Website of Power-Child e. V: Prevention: theater / school
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  49. ↑ Veronica Ferres - International Ambassador for Hadassah ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Hadassah Official Website, accessed July 21, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hadassah.de
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  52. ↑ Veronika Ferres makes up for women with cancer in Düsseldorf . Westdeutsche Zeitung from December 5, 2012 .
  53. ↑ Film projects ( Memento of the original from December 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Official website of Bella Vita Film GmbH @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bellavita-film.com
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  63. ↑ 324 O 539/08 Martin J. Krug vs. Park Avenue GmbH on BUSKEISMUS , accessed October 1, 2014.
  64. ↑ online Veronica Ferres fails with lawsuit against Park Avenue
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personal data
SURNAME Ferres, Veronica
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jansen, Veronika; Ferres, Veronika Maria Cäcilia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Solingen , North Rhine-Westphalia , Federal Republic of Germany