Bibiana Beglau
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Bibiana Beglau is a German
actress.
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Bibiana Beglau has been the recipient of many awards and commended as an actress for her outstanding performances, including the Berlinale Silver Bear for best actress, the Ulrich Wildgruber Prize and the Adolf Grimme Prize. Alongside theatrical engagements at all of the important German-speaking theaters including the Vienna Burgtheater, Schauspielhaus Zurich, Schaubühne Berlin or the Thalia Theater Hamburg, Bibiana Beglau has performed in many film and television productions including The Murderer and His Child, The Ninth Day, 3 Degrees Colder and Under the Ice.
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
actress.
Life
Bibiana Beglau began appearing on the stages of German-speaking theater immediately upon graduating from the Hamburg Hochschule for Music and Theater. Since the beginning of her career, she has worked with the directors responsible for transforming contemporary German theater and cinema. She performed regularly under the direction of Christoph Marthaler, Einar Schleef, Frank Castorf and Luk Perceval before winning national and international acclaim for her leading role in Volker Schlöndorff’s feature film The Legend of RitaThe Legend of Rita
The Legend of Rita is a 2000 German film about fictionalised exiled West German radical left Red Army Faction members, though the fictional characters all have close parallels to several real-life RAF members...
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Bibiana Beglau has been the recipient of many awards and commended as an actress for her outstanding performances, including the Berlinale Silver Bear for best actress, the Ulrich Wildgruber Prize and the Adolf Grimme Prize. Alongside theatrical engagements at all of the important German-speaking theaters including the Vienna Burgtheater, Schauspielhaus Zurich, Schaubühne Berlin or the Thalia Theater Hamburg, Bibiana Beglau has performed in many film and television productions including The Murderer and His Child, The Ninth Day, 3 Degrees Colder and Under the Ice.
Filmography (Selection)
- 1995: Der Mörder und sein Kind (Director: Matti Geschonneck)
- 1996: 2 ½ Minuten (Director: Rolf Schübel)
- 1996: Absprung (Director: Hanno Brühl)
- 1997: Gegen den Strom (Director: Thorsten Näter)
- 1999: No Sex (Director: Josh Broecker)
- 1999: Die Stille nach dem Schuss | ‘The Legend of Rita’ (Director: Volker Schlöndorff)
- 2000: Der Briefbomber (Director: Torsten C. Fischer)
- 2001: Birthday (Director: Stefan Jäger)
- 2001: Liebesschuld (Director: Ulrich Stark)
- 2002: Hamlet - This is your family (Director: Peter Kern)
- 2002: Nachtangst (Director: Michael Rowitz)
- 2002: Ten Minutes Older (Director: Volker Schlöndorff)
- 2003: Belmondo (Director: Annette Carle)
- 2003: Tatort: Gefährliches Schweigen (Director: Martin Eigler)
- 2003: Der Neunte Tag | ‘The Ninth Day’ (Director: Volker Schlöndorff)
- 2003: Kammerflimmern | ‘Ventricular Fibrilation' (Director: Hendrik Hoelzemann)
- 2004: Tatort: Sechs zum Essen (Director: Fillipos Tsitos)
- 2004: 3° Grad kälter (Director: Florian Hoffmeister)
- 2005: Ricordare Anna (Director: Walter Deuber)
- 2005: Unter dem Eis (Director: Aelrun Goette)
- 2005: Der große Schlaf (Director: Mona Lenz)
- 2006: Das Leuchten (Director: Krystof Zlatnik)
- 2007: Il Pugno di Gesù | ‘Boxing Jesus’ (Director: Stefan Jäger)
- 2009: Was Du nicht siehst (Director: Wolfgang Fischer)
- 2010: Gier (Director: Dieter Wedel)
- 2010: Machtergreifung (Director: Bernd Fischauer)
- 2010: Tatort: Königskinder (Director: Thorsten Näter)
- 2010: Der letzte Angestellte (Director: Alexander Adolph)
- 2010: Tatort: Leben gegen Leben (Director: Nils Willbrandt)
- 2010: Stubbe - Von Fall zu Fall: Verräter (Director: Peter Kahane)
- 2011: Der kurze Ruhm des Alexander K. (Director: Manuel Fluryn Hendry)
- 2011: Der Weg zur Macht (Director: Bernd Fischauer)
Documentary Film
- Abgeschminkt: Bibiana Beglau. Documentary about Bibiana Beglau, Germany 2006 (Script and Director: Johanna Schickentanz)
Theater (Selection)
- 1997: Ivanov by Anton ChekhovAnton ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...
as Sascha at Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf (Director: Anna Badora) - 1997: As you like itAs You Like ItAs You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600 and first published in the folio of 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility...
by William ShakespeareWilliam ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
as Rosalinde at Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf (Director: Nikolai Sykosch) - 1997 - 1998: Lulu by Frank WedekindFrank WedekindBenjamin Franklin Wedekind , usually known as Frank Wedekind, was a German playwright...
as Lulu at Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf (Director: Anna Badora) - 1997 - 1998: Salomé by Oscar WildeOscar WildeOscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...
as Herodias at Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf (Director: Einar SchleefEinar SchleefEinar Schleef was a German dramatist, director, set designer, writer, painter, photographer, and actor....
) - 1998 - 2003: Disco Pigs by Enda WalshEnda WalshEnda Walsh is an Irish playwright born in Dublin and currently living in London. Walsh attended the same secondary school where both Roddy Doyle and Paul Mercier taught. Having written for the Dublin Youth Theatre, he moved to Cork where he wrote Fishy Tales for the Graffiti Theatre Company,...
as Pig at Hamburger Schauspielhaus, Deutschen Theater Berlin and Schaubühne Berlin (Director: Thomas Ostermeier) - 1999 - 2001: Nothing Hurts by Anouk van Dijk and Falk Richter at KampnagelKampnagelKampnagel is a theatre in Hamburg, Germany....
, Hamburg (Directors: Anouk van Dijk and Falk Richter) - 2000 - 2010: Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred DöblinAlfred DöblinAlfred Döblin was a German expressionist novelist, best known for the novel Berlin Alexanderplatz .- 1878–1918:...
as Mietze at Volksbühne Berlin (Director: Frank CastorfFrank CastorfFrank Castorf is a German theater director and since 1992 the artistic director of the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz...
) - 2000 - 2001: Polaroids by Mark Ravenhills at Schauspielhaus ZürichSchauspielhaus ZürichThe Schauspielhaus Zürich is one of the most prominent and important theatres in the German-speaking world. It is also known as "Pfauenbühne" after its location on the Pfauen Square in Zürich, Switzerland. The large theatre has 750 seats...
(Director: Falk Richter) - 2001 - : 4.48 Psychosis4.48 Psychosis4.48 Psychosis is a play by British playwright Sarah Kane. It was her last work, first staged at the Royal Court's Jerwood Theatre Upstairs on June 23, 2000, nearly one and a half years after Kane's February 20, 1999 death...
by Sarah KaneSarah KaneSarah Kane was an English playwright. Her plays deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture — both physical and psychological — and death. They are characterised by a poetic intensity, pared-down language, exploration of theatrical form and, in her earlier work, the use of...
at Schaubühne Berlin (Director: Falk Richter) - 2001 - 2002: HamletHamletThe Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
by William ShakespeareWilliam ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
as Ophelia at Schauspielhaus ZürichSchauspielhaus ZürichThe Schauspielhaus Zürich is one of the most prominent and important theatres in the German-speaking world. It is also known as "Pfauenbühne" after its location on the Pfauen Square in Zürich, Switzerland. The large theatre has 750 seats...
(Director: Christoph SchlingensiefChristoph SchlingensiefChristoph Maria Schlingensief was a German film and theatre director, actor, artist, and author. Starting as an independent underground filmmaker, Schlingensief later began staging productions for theatres and festivals, which often were accompanied by public controversies...
) - 2002: Synchron by Thomas HürlimannThomas HürlimannThomas Hürlimann is a Swiss playwright and novelist.His 1989 novel Das Gartenhaus was published as The Couple in the United States in 1991.-External links:*. Goethe-Instituts Website...
as Sibylle at Schauspielhaus ZürichSchauspielhaus ZürichThe Schauspielhaus Zürich is one of the most prominent and important theatres in the German-speaking world. It is also known as "Pfauenbühne" after its location on the Pfauen Square in Zürich, Switzerland. The large theatre has 750 seats...
(Director: Christoph Marthaler) - 2003: Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O’Neill as Lavinia at Schauspielhaus ZürichSchauspielhaus ZürichThe Schauspielhaus Zürich is one of the most prominent and important theatres in the German-speaking world. It is also known as "Pfauenbühne" after its location on the Pfauen Square in Zürich, Switzerland. The large theatre has 750 seats...
(Director: Frank CastorfFrank CastorfFrank Castorf is a German theater director and since 1992 the artistic director of the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz...
) - 2003 - 2004: 57 Minuten 38 Sekunden Ewigkeit - '57 Minutes and 38 Seconds of Eternity as Verschollene by Bibiana Beglau and Stefan Jäger at Schauspielhaus ZürichSchauspielhaus ZürichThe Schauspielhaus Zürich is one of the most prominent and important theatres in the German-speaking world. It is also known as "Pfauenbühne" after its location on the Pfauen Square in Zürich, Switzerland. The large theatre has 750 seats...
(Director: Stefan Jäger) - 2004: Attabambi-Pornoland by Christoph SchlingensiefChristoph SchlingensiefChristoph Maria Schlingensief was a German film and theatre director, actor, artist, and author. Starting as an independent underground filmmaker, Schlingensief later began staging productions for theatres and festivals, which often were accompanied by public controversies...
at Schauspielhaus ZürichSchauspielhaus ZürichThe Schauspielhaus Zürich is one of the most prominent and important theatres in the German-speaking world. It is also known as "Pfauenbühne" after its location on the Pfauen Square in Zürich, Switzerland. The large theatre has 750 seats...
(Director: Christoph Schlingensief) - 2005 - 2006: Fatherless by Anton Chekhov as Anna Petrovna at Volksbühne Berlin (Director: tefan Pucher]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibiana_Beglau])
- 2005 - 2007: Barebacklying by Simone Aughterlony at Gessnerallee, Zürich, Hebbel Theater, Berlin and Schauburg, Rotterdam (Director: Simone Aughterlony)
- 2005 - 2009: König Ottokars Glück und EndeKönig Ottokars Glück und EndeKönig Ottokars Glück und Ende is a tragedy in five acts written by Franz Grillparzer in 1823. Based on the historical events surrounding the life of Ottokar II of Bohemia, the play deals with the fall of the king from the height of his powers to his death, having lost most of his supporters and...
- 'King Ottokar’s Happiness and End by Franz GrillparzerFranz GrillparzerFranz Seraphicus Grillparzer was an Austrian writer who is chiefly known for his dramas. He also wrote the oration for Ludwig van Beethoven's funeral.-Biography:...
ass Queen Kunigunde at Burgtheater Wien and the Salzburger Festspielen (Director: Martin KusejMartin KušejMartin Kušej is an Austrian theatre and opera director and current Artistic Director at the Residenz Theatre in Munich. According to German news magazine Focus Kušej belongs to the ten most important theatre directors who have emerged in the German speaking world since the millenium...
) - 2006 - 2008: Ghosts by Henrik IbsenHenrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre...
as Mrs. Alving at Schaubühne Berlin (Director: Sebastian Nübling) - 2007: The Ugly One by Marius von MayenburgMarius von MayenburgMarius von Mayenburg is a German playwright, translator, and also instructor.In 1994, Mayenburg began his studies at Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. His first play, Haarmann, was first performed at Baracke in 1996.Fireface , written in 1997, was his breakthrough as a dramatist...
as Fanny at Schaubühne Berlin (Director: Benedict Andrews) - 2007 - 2009: Three Sisters by Anton ChekhovAnton ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...
as Mascha at Schaubühne Berlin (Director: Falk Richter) - 2007 - 2010: Im Ausnahmezustand - 'In a State of Emergency by Falk Richter as the Woman at Schaubühne Berlin (Director: Falk Richter)
- 2008: Macbeth by William Shakespeare as Lady Macbeth at Schauspielhaus ZürichSchauspielhaus ZürichThe Schauspielhaus Zürich is one of the most prominent and important theatres in the German-speaking world. It is also known as "Pfauenbühne" after its location on the Pfauen Square in Zürich, Switzerland. The large theatre has 750 seats...
(Director: Sebastian Nübling) - 2008 - 2009: The Cherry OrchardThe Cherry OrchardThe Cherry Orchard is Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's last play. It premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre 17 January 1904 in a production directed by Constantin Stanislavski. Chekhov intended this play as a comedy and it does contain some elements of farce; however, Stanislavski insisted on...
by Anton ChekhovAnton ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...
as Mrs Ranewskaja at Schaubühne Berlin (Director: Falk Richter) - 2009 - 2011: Oedipus, Tyrant by Friedrich HölderlinFriedrich HölderlinJohann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin was a major German lyric poet, commonly associated with the artistic movement known as Romanticism. Hölderlin was also an important thinker in the development of German Idealism, particularly his early association with and philosophical influence on his...
by Heiner MüllerHeiner MüllerHeiner Müller was a German dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. Described as "the theatre's greatest living poet" since Samuel Beckett, Müller is arguably the most important German dramatist of the 20th century after Bertolt Brecht...
as Creon, Tiresias and the Servant at Thalia Theater Hamburg (Director: Dimiter GotscheffDimiter GotscheffDimiter Gotscheff is a Bulgarian-born German theater director. His work is often associated with dramatist and director Heiner Müller.- External links :* from the Goethe-Institut....
) - 2009 - 2011: The truth about the Kennedys by Luk Perceval as Rose Kennedy at Thalia Theater Hamburg (Director: Luk Perceval)
- 2010 - 2011: Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare as Olivia at Thalia Theater Hamburg (Director: Jan Bosse)
- 2011 - : Antigone by Bertolt BrechtBertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director.An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the...
as Guard, Tiresias and the Courier at Thalia Theater Hamburg (Director: Dimiter GotscheffDimiter GotscheffDimiter Gotscheff is a Bulgarian-born German theater director. His work is often associated with dramatist and director Heiner Müller.- External links :* from the Goethe-Institut....
) - 2011 – : Eyjafjallajökull-Tam-Tam by Helmut KrausserHelmut KrausserHelmut Krausser is a German author, poet and playwright who was born in Esslingen am Neckar.-Biography:Krausser lives in Munich and Berlin. He married Beatrice Renauer in 1991.In 1993 he received the Toucan Prize....
at Residenztheater Munich (Director: Robert Lehniger) - 2011 - : Immer noch Sturm by Peter HandkePeter HandkePeter Handke is an avant-garde Austrian novelist and playwright.-Early life:Handke and his mother lived in the Soviet-occupied Pankow district of Berlin from 1944 to 1948 before resettling in Griffen...
as Ursula, at the Salzburger Festspielen, at Burgtheater Wien and at Thalia Theater Hamburg (Director: Dimiter GotscheffDimiter GotscheffDimiter Gotscheff is a Bulgarian-born German theater director. His work is often associated with dramatist and director Heiner Müller.- External links :* from the Goethe-Institut....
) - 2011– : Kasimir and Karoline by Ödön von HorváthÖdön von HorváthEdmund Josef von Horváth was a German-writing Austro-Hungarian-born playwright and novelist...
as Erna, Rosa und Schürzinger at Residenztheater Munich (Director: Frank CastorfFrank CastorfFrank Castorf is a German theater director and since 1992 the artistic director of the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz...
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Radio Play (Selection)
- 57 Minuten 38 Sekunden Ewigkeit’ - ‘57 Minutes and 38 Seconds of Eternity’ (Production: Theaterhörbuch Verlag)
- Der Verschollene - 'The Missing' by Franz Kafka (Produktion: SWR 2)
- Gott ist ein DJ - ‘God is a DJ by Falk Richter’ (Production: Theaterhörbuch Verlag)
- Liebeserklärungen einer Reisenden - ‘Love declarations of a traveler’ by Annemarie Schwarzenbach (Production: Kein und Aber Records)
- Wie ein Stein im Geröll - ‘Like a stone in the debris’ by Maria Barbal (Production: DAV)
Awards (Selection)
- 2000: Berlinale Silver Bear for dramatic performance in The Legend of Rita
- 2000: Riga Filmfestival Award for dramatic performance in The Legend of Rita
- 2000: European Actress of the Year (nomination) for dramatic performance in The Legend of Rita
- 2000: Ulrich Wildgruber Award for dramatic performance in The Legend of Rita
- 2007: Adolf-Grimme-Award for dramatic performance in Under the Ice
- 2008: Audience Award for outstanding performances at Zurich Schauspielhaus in Macbeth