Veronika Nowag-Jones

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Veronika Nowag-Jones , née Nowag , (* 1946 in Leipzig ) is a German actress and theater director .

Life

Veronika Nowag-Jones completed her acting studies at the University of Music and Theater in Leipzig from 1962 to 1966 . She had her first theater engagements at the Nationaltheater Weimar (1968–1970) as well as at the Nordhausen and Meiningen Theater (1972–1974). In the former GDR she made two attempts to escape and was imprisoned for fleeing the republic . Her professional and private new beginning began in 1974 in West Berlin .

After moving to the West , she was a member of the George Tabori group “Theaterlabor” at the Bremen City Theater from 1976 to 1979 . In the early 1980s Nowag-Jones moved to New York , where she was a member of the ensemble of the independent New York theater company New York Street Theater Caravan from 1980 to 1982 . In 1980 she directed her first own play Homeless women about and with homeless women. a. was performed at the Vienna Theater Festival. From 1984 to 1987 she worked as an actress, director and artistic director at the Theater Center in Philadelphia . During this time she gave guest appearances in Caracas , New York City and other cities in the United States . In Atlanta (Theater “7 Stages”) and Knoxville (“Clarence Brown Theater”) she staged plays by George Tabori, Sam Shepard and classics such as The Trojans .

From 1989 she appeared at various Berlin theaters and with independent Berlin ensembles (“Berlin Playactors”, Theater am Kurfürstendamm , Theater under the Roof , Barracks of the German Theater ). In 2015 she made a guest appearance at the ACUD Theater in Berlin.

In addition to her theater work, Nowag-Jones has been active as an actress in the cinema and on television since the 1970s. Your first film work was done at DEFA . For the cinema she worked with directors such as Bernhard Stephan , Marc Ottiker , Marco Kreuzpaintner , Veit Helmer , Sylke Enders , Martin Walz (as the mother of Alexandra Neldel in March melody ), Marcus O. Rosenmüller (as the Jewish grandma in child prodigies ), Sheri Hagen and Florian Gottschick .

TV productions with Nowag-Jones were directed by Karl Fruchtmann , Robert Dornhelm , Niki Stein , Dror Zahavi and Oren Schmuckler , among others . The two-part TV series Anne Frank (2001) is one of her international productions . She also appeared in the US television series Public Morals (2015).

Often used as a classic supporting actress, she embodied countless relatives (mothers, aunts, grandmothers), servants and employees (such as ward nurses, midwives , office hours help), neighbors and witnesses in the cinema and on television . She had a leading role in Elke Heidenreich's political satire No beautiful land (1985, director: Klaus Emmerich ) as the wife of a Bundestag candidate .

She has taken on roles in numerous German TV series and crime series. She was in episode roles a. a. for TV series such as SOKO Leipzig (2005), SOKO Wismar (2008 and 2012), Klinik am Alex (2005) and Ein Fall von Liebe (2015) in front of the camera. In the 18th season of the television series In allerfreund (2015), she had a leading role in the episode as an alcoholic patient and friend of the series character Barbara Grigoleit ( Uta Schorn ).

From 1989 she lived with her husband, the jazz musician Sirone († 2009), in Berlin. From 1992 she taught at the Institute for Acting, Film and Television Professions (ISFF). She is the founder of the acting studio "Acting for the Camera". For many years Nowag-Jones lived alternately in New York City and Berlin, now Berlin is the center of her life.

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Veronika Nowag-Jones at schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c Veronika Nowag-Jones . Vita and profile at Castforward.com. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Veronika Nowag-Jones . Vita. Official website of the Studio Theater Stuttgart. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b c d HANIX No. # 28 / May 2014 / From New York to Heilbronx / »Veronika Nowag-Jones« . Video portrait and interview. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
  5. ↑ Episode 707: Deceptive Package . Plot, cast and picture gallery. Official website of the MDR . Retrieved October 21, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Nowag-Jones, Veronika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nowag, Veronika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig