Vivian Hanjohr

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Vivian Hanjohr (born August 18, 1966 in East Berlin ) is a German guitarist and former actress .

Life

Vivian Hanjohr's parents separated before she was born. Her mother gave the child a week after the delivery to the girl's grandmother in Berlin-Mitte, who Hanjohr raised in a sheltered manner. One grandfather was of Arab origin. Hanjohr's grandmother had few resources and was supported by an aunt of the girl who lived in England .

Hanjohr attended the Leo Spies music school in Prenzlauer Berg , where she started playing the guitar at the age of six. At the suggestion of her grandmother, she successfully applied to the public casting for a role in Helmut Dziuba's feature film appearance with Lissy Tempelhof and Peter Sodann . The literary film adaptation tells the story of a 16-year-old girl who grows up as the daughter of a well-deserved Brandenburg district council chairman, but who is torn from her privileged rhythm of life by the sudden death of her father in the early 1980s. Dziuba had taken almost half a year to constantly switch roles among young amateur actors in order to test their acting skills. The director was most impressed by the young Vivian Hanjohr, who was finally allowed to play the leading role of FDJ member Elisabeth.

Appearance duty celebrated its world premiere on May 16, 1984 as the opening film of the 3rd National Feature Film Festival in Karl-Marx-Stadt . However, the DEFA youth film was taken out of the program of cinemas in the GDR due to its socially critical content. Until it was broadcast on television after the political changes in 1989/90 , Dziuba's film was only allowed to be shown in closed screenings.

For Hanjohr, appearance was the only appearance as an actress. She later passed the Abitur at the Georg Friedrich Handel School , a special school for music, and then studied concert guitar until 1988 at the University of Music in Berlin. According to her own statements, Hanjohr would have liked to have completed an acting training, but since a double degree was not possible in the GDR, she stayed with music.

The qualified music teacher and single mother of twins has been working at the “Fanny Hensel” music school in Berlin-Mitte since then and was hired as a guest solo guitarist for performances at the Berlin State Opera at home and abroad. In 2002 Hanjohr was involved with three other music school teachers in founding the Berlin guitar quartet Cuarteto Apasionado . Since then she has been interpreting works by Debussy , Handel and Tchaikovsky , as well as pieces by well-known contemporary guitarists such as Roland Dyens and Pat Metheny .

Hanjohr was available several times as an interview partner for appearances , such as at the beginning of February 2009 at the German-German Film Worlds . In the same year she appeared together with Andreas Dresen and Anja Kling as a contemporary witness in the ARD documentary Friendship! on. The film by Lutz Hachmeister and Mathias von der Heide shed light on the overall history of the socialist youth association Free German Youth (FDJ) and was awarded the German Television Prize in 2009.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obligation to appear - Vivian Hanjohr . In: Elstermann, Knut: I used to be a movie kid. DEFA and its youngest actors . Berlin: Das neue Berlin, 2011. - ISBN 978-3-360-02114-4 , pp. 180-181.
  2. ↑ a b Amused by the predictable . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , September 20, 2008 (accessed on August 12, 2009 via Wiso praxis ).
  3. ↑ Obligation to appear - Vivian Hanjohr . In: Elstermann, Knut: I used to be a movie kid. DEFA and its youngest actors . Berlin: Das neue Berlin, 2011. - ISBN 978-3-360-02114-4 , p. 189.
  4. ↑ Obligation to appear - Vivian Hanjohr . In: Elstermann, Knut: I used to be a movie kid. DEFA and its youngest actors . Berlin: Das neue Berlin, 2011. - ISBN 978-3-360-02114-4 , p. 186.
  5. ↑ Leading actress speaks about "Duty to appear" . In: Nordkurier , January 30, 2009.
  6. ↑ prominent in the FDJ - The ARD shows the history of the youth organization / members ... . In: Thüringer Allgemeine , July 27, 2009, p. TCTV127.
personal data
SURNAME Hanjohr, Vivian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German guitarist and actress
DATE OF BIRTH 18th August 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin , German Democratic Republic