Johanna Wokalek
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Johanna Wokalek is a German stage and film actress. A student of Klaus Maria Brandauer
, she received critical recognition and three newcomer awards for her performance in the play Rose Bernd
. Wokalek is best known for her award-winning appearances in the German films Hierankl
, Barfuss
, and The Baader Meinhof Complex. She received the Bambi
award for her portrayal of the Red Army Faction
member Gudrun Ensslin
in 2008. She played the
lead role in the film Pope Joan in 2009.
. She attended the Friedrich-Gymnasium
in Freiburg where she first tried acting in the school's drama group
in 1991.
After her final exams
in 1994 Wokalek intended to allow herself up to three applications at drama school
s before choosing a different career. However, her first application to study at the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna was accepted right away, and she moved to the Austrian capital in 1995 to begin her four-year study as a student of Klaus Maria Brandauer
. Brandauer, well known for his parts in Mephisto
, Out of Africa and Never Say Never Again
, started teaching at the seminar at the same time.
, directed by Paulus Mankers. Soon after, she played Polly in Brecht's The Threepenny Opera
, shown in Vienna's Burgtheater
, one of the best-known stage theaters in the world.
In 1997, during the third year of her study at the Reinhardt-Seminar, she played the maid Ilse in Max Färberböck
's critically acclaimed drama Aimée und Jaguar, her first feature film.
In the fall of 1997 Wokalek accepted her first engagement with the Schauspiel Bonn and stopped attending the seminar. During the two and a half year engagement she played Leonore in Schiller's Fiesco
, and received three newcomer awards and wide critical recognition for her performance as Rose in Gerhart Hauptmann
's play Rose Bernd
.
In March 2000 she moved back to Vienna and became a permanent member of the Burgtheater ensemble. In her first performance she played the abused and abandoned Nina in Anton Chekhov
's The Seagull
, directed by Luc Bondy
, which was well received.
Wokalek repeatedly performed at the Salzburg Festival
. In 2000 she played Ophelia in Hamlet
, as a guest performance with the Staatstheater Stuttgart
, and in 2002 she played the leading part in the German language premiere of The Shape of Things
.
Wokalek also featured in TV versions of the plays Alma (filmed 1997) and Rose Bernd (filmed 1998).
. The modern Heimatfilm
, named after a district in Surberg, Germany
, is the film debut of writer and director Hans Steinbichler. Wokalek received several awards and nominations for her first leading part in a feature film, among them the 2003 Bavarian Film Award and the 2006 Adolf Grimme Award, which is considered the most important German TV award.
Wokalek starred in the 2003 TV three-parter Die Kirschenkönigin by Rainer Kaufmann.
In 2005 Wokalek was cast as the female lead in the romantic comedy Barfuss
, directed by Til Schweiger
. The film was a local box office success. Her performance as Leila, an escapee from a mental institution, opposite actor-director Til Schweiger brought her wide public recognition. She was nominated as best German actress for her performances in Barfuss, Hierankl and Die Kirschenkönigin for the Goldene Kamera award in 2006, and received the Shooting Stars Award
as best new German actress during the Berlinale in the same year. Previous Shooting Star winners were, among others, Franka Potente
, Moritz Bleibtreu
, August Diehl
, Heike Makatsch
, Benno Fürmann
and Daniel Brühl
.
Wokalek played Anna in the sci-fi thriller Silent Resident, which premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival
, and starred as the young journalist Luise in Phillip Stölzl's North Face
. The 2008 drama depicts the 1936 attempted first ascent of the Eiger north face.
Wokalek was cast as the Red Army Faction
terrorist Gudrun Ensslin
in Uli Edel
's 2008 film The Baader Meinhof Complex, an adaptation of the non-fiction book of the same name by Stefan Aust
. Her performance in the film was awarded with a nomination for the 2009 German Film Awards and a Bambi
award as best German actress. The film was chosen as Germany's submission to the 81st Academy Awards
for Best Foreign Language Film
, and was already nominated Best Foreign Language Film for the 66th Golden Globe Awards
.
In the summer of 2008 she replaced Franka Potente
as Johanna von Ingelheim
, the titular role in Sönke Wortmann
's Pope Joan. The adaptation of American novelist Donna Woolfolk Cross
' book of the same name
is the first time Wokalek has to carry a large-scale production by herself. Wokalek, who had to tonsure
her hair for the role, stars alongside David Wenham
and John Goodman
. The film was released October 22, 2009.
Wokalek continues to star in plays in the Burgtheater, including the title role in Andrea Breth
's acclaimed 2003 production of Emilia Galotti
, and Queen Margaret
in Shakespear
's The War of the Roses in 2008, directed by Stephan Kimmig.
Klaus Maria Brandauer
Klaus Maria Brandauer is an Austrian actor, film director, and professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna.-Personal life:...
, she received critical recognition and three newcomer awards for her performance in the play Rose Bernd
Rose Bernd
Rose Bernd is a stage drama in five acts by Gerhart Hauptmann. It premiered October 31, 1903 in Berlin.-Dramatic characters:BERND, deaconROSE BERND, older daughterMARTHEL, younger daughterCHRISTOPHER FLAMM, landowner and magistrate...
. Wokalek is best known for her award-winning appearances in the German films Hierankl
Hierankl
Hierankl is a German award-winning family drama which premiered July 1, 2003 at the Munich Film Festival. The modern Heimatfilm, named after a district in Surberg, Germany, is the film debut of writer and director Hans Steinbichler....
, Barfuss
Barfuss
Barfuss is a film by German actor and director Til Schweiger released in 2005. It is a romantic comedy and tells the story of Nick , a hedonistic bachelor, who falls for Leila, an escaped mental patient, portrayed by Johanna Wokalek. Til Schweiger was also involved in the writing of the...
, and The Baader Meinhof Complex. She received the Bambi
Bambi (prize)
The Bambi - Deutschlands Wichtigster Medienpreis, often simply called Bambi Awards and stylized as BAMBI, are presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year",...
award for her portrayal of the Red Army Faction
Red Army Faction
The radicalized were, like many in the New Left, influenced by:* Sociological developments, pressure within the educational system in and outside Europe and the U.S...
member Gudrun Ensslin
Gudrun Ensslin
Gudrun Ensslin was a founder of the German militant group Red Army Faction . After becoming involved with co-founder Andreas Baader, Ensslin was influential in the politicization of Baader's voluntaristic anarchistic beliefs. Ensslin was perhaps the intellectual head of the RAF...
in 2008. She played the
lead role in the film Pope Joan in 2009.
Early life
Wokalek was born in Freiburg, Germany, daughter of a professor of dermatology from Mediaş, RomaniaMedias
Mediaș is the second largest city in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania.-Geographic location:Mediaș is located in the middle basin of Târnava Mare River, at 39 km from Sighișoara and 41 km from Blaj. The health resort Bazna, officially recognized for the first time in 1302, is...
. She attended the Friedrich-Gymnasium
Gymnasium (school)
A gymnasium is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English grammar schools or sixth form colleges and U.S. college preparatory high schools. The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, meaning a locality for both physical and intellectual...
in Freiburg where she first tried acting in the school's drama group
Amateur theatre
Amateur theatre is theatre performed by amateur actors. These actors are not typically members of Actors' Equity groups or Actors' Unions as these organizations exist to protect the professional industry and therefore discourage their members from appearing with companies which are not a signatory...
in 1991.
After her final exams
Abitur
Abitur is a designation used in Germany, Finland and Estonia for final exams that pupils take at the end of their secondary education, usually after 12 or 13 years of schooling, see also for Germany Abitur after twelve years.The Zeugnis der Allgemeinen Hochschulreife, often referred to as...
in 1994 Wokalek intended to allow herself up to three applications at drama school
Drama school
A drama school or theatre school is an undergraduate and/or graduate school or department at a college or university; or a free-standing institution ; which specialises in the pre-professional training in drama and theatre arts, such as acting, design and technical theatre, arts administration, and...
s before choosing a different career. However, her first application to study at the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna was accepted right away, and she moved to the Austrian capital in 1995 to begin her four-year study as a student of Klaus Maria Brandauer
Klaus Maria Brandauer
Klaus Maria Brandauer is an Austrian actor, film director, and professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna.-Personal life:...
. Brandauer, well known for his parts in Mephisto
Mephisto (1981 film)
Mephisto is the title of a 1981 film adaptation of Klaus Mann's novel of the same name, directed by István Szabó, and starring Klaus Maria Brandauer as Hendrik Höfgen...
, Out of Africa and Never Say Never Again
Never Say Never Again
Never Say Never Again is a 1983 spy film based on the James Bond novel Thunderball, which was previously filmed in 1965 as Thunderball...
, started teaching at the seminar at the same time.
1996–2002: Stage acting and first feature film
Still in her studies, 21-year-old Wokalek made her professional stage debut during the 1996 Wiener Festwochen in Joshua Sobol's play AlmaAlma (play)
Alma is a play by Israeli writer Joshua Sobol based on the life of Alma Mahler-Werfel. It opened 1996 in Vienna."Alma" is the story of Alma Mahler-Werfel, the famous femme fatale and muse to many geniuses. She was the wife of composer Gustav Mahler, also married to architect Walter Gropius and...
, directed by Paulus Mankers. Soon after, she played Polly in Brecht's The Threepenny Opera
The Threepenny Opera
The Threepenny Opera is a musical by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, in collaboration with translator Elisabeth Hauptmann and set designer Caspar Neher. It was adapted from an 18th-century English ballad opera, John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, and offers a Marxist critique...
, shown in Vienna's Burgtheater
Burgtheater
The Burgtheater , originally known as K.K. Theater an der Burg, then until 1918 as the K.K. Hofburgtheater, is the Austrian National Theatre in Vienna and one of the most important German language theatres in the world.The Burgtheater was created in 1741 and has become known as "die Burg" by the...
, one of the best-known stage theaters in the world.
In 1997, during the third year of her study at the Reinhardt-Seminar, she played the maid Ilse in Max Färberböck
Max Färberböck
Max Färberböck is a German film director and writer. He was born in Degerndorf, Münsing, Bavaria. He began his career at theaters in Buenos Aires and in Italy. He later studied at the University of Television and Film in Munich and worked for Constantin Film and as an assistant for Peter Zadek at...
's critically acclaimed drama Aimée und Jaguar, her first feature film.
In the fall of 1997 Wokalek accepted her first engagement with the Schauspiel Bonn and stopped attending the seminar. During the two and a half year engagement she played Leonore in Schiller's Fiesco
Fiesco (play)
Fiesco is the second full length drama written by the German playwright Friedrich Schiller. It is a republican tragedy based on the historical conspiracy of Giovanni Luigi Fieschi against Andrea Doria in Genoa in 1547...
, and received three newcomer awards and wide critical recognition for her performance as Rose in Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann was a German dramatist and novelist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912.-Life and work:...
's play Rose Bernd
Rose Bernd
Rose Bernd is a stage drama in five acts by Gerhart Hauptmann. It premiered October 31, 1903 in Berlin.-Dramatic characters:BERND, deaconROSE BERND, older daughterMARTHEL, younger daughterCHRISTOPHER FLAMM, landowner and magistrate...
.
In March 2000 she moved back to Vienna and became a permanent member of the Burgtheater ensemble. In her first performance she played the abused and abandoned Nina in Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
Anton 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...
's The Seagull
The Seagull
The Seagull is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. The Seagull was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896...
, directed by Luc Bondy
Luc Bondy
- Biography :Trained in Paris with the theatre teacher Jacques Lecoq, he received a job in 1969 as an assistant at the Hamburg Thalia Theatre. In a surprise, he took over in 1985 after the resignation of Peter Stein at the Schaubühne in Berlin. He also worked as a producer of both plays and operas...
, which was well received.
Wokalek repeatedly performed at the Salzburg Festival
Salzburg Festival
The Salzburg Festival is a prominent festival of music and drama established in 1920. It is held each summer within the Austrian town of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...
. In 2000 she played Ophelia in Hamlet
Hamlet
The 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...
, as a guest performance with the Staatstheater Stuttgart
Staatstheater Stuttgart
The Staatstheater Stuttgart ' is an opera house in Stuttgart, Germany. It is also known locally as the Grosses Haus, having been the larger of two theatres of the former Königliche Hoftheater....
, and in 2002 she played the leading part in the German language premiere of The Shape of Things
The Shape of Things
The Shape of Things is a 2001 play by American author and film director Neil LaBute and a 2003 American romantic comedy-drama film. It premièred at the Almeida Theatre, London in 2001 with Paul Rudd as Adam, Rachel Weisz as Evelyn, Gretchen Mol as Jenny, and Fred Weller as Phillip. The play was...
.
Wokalek also featured in TV versions of the plays Alma (filmed 1997) and Rose Bernd (filmed 1998).
2003–present: Feature films
In 2002 Wokalek played Lene Thurner in the award-winning family drama HieranklHierankl
Hierankl is a German award-winning family drama which premiered July 1, 2003 at the Munich Film Festival. The modern Heimatfilm, named after a district in Surberg, Germany, is the film debut of writer and director Hans Steinbichler....
. The modern Heimatfilm
Heimatfilm
Heimatfilm is the name given to a film genre that was popular in Germany, Switzerland and Austria from the late 40s to the early 70s. They were usually shot in the Alps, the Black Forest or the Lüneburg Heath and always involved the outdoors...
, named after a district in Surberg, Germany
Surberg
Surberg is a municipality in the district of Traunstein in Bavaria, Germany....
, is the film debut of writer and director Hans Steinbichler. Wokalek received several awards and nominations for her first leading part in a feature film, among them the 2003 Bavarian Film Award and the 2006 Adolf Grimme Award, which is considered the most important German TV award.
Wokalek starred in the 2003 TV three-parter Die Kirschenkönigin by Rainer Kaufmann.
In 2005 Wokalek was cast as the female lead in the romantic comedy Barfuss
Barfuss
Barfuss is a film by German actor and director Til Schweiger released in 2005. It is a romantic comedy and tells the story of Nick , a hedonistic bachelor, who falls for Leila, an escaped mental patient, portrayed by Johanna Wokalek. Til Schweiger was also involved in the writing of the...
, directed by Til Schweiger
Til Schweiger
Tilman Valentin "Til" Schweiger is a German actor, director, and producer.He is one of Germany’s most successful filmmakers. Since 1968, when the FFA started counting, no other German actor has drawn more people to the cinemas. He runs his own production company, Barefoot Films, in Berlin.-Early...
. The film was a local box office success. Her performance as Leila, an escapee from a mental institution, opposite actor-director Til Schweiger brought her wide public recognition. She was nominated as best German actress for her performances in Barfuss, Hierankl and Die Kirschenkönigin for the Goldene Kamera award in 2006, and received the Shooting Stars Award
Shooting Stars Award
The Shooting Stars Award is annually presented to ten young European actors at the Berlin International Film Festival. It was introduced in 1998 by European Film Promotion , a pan-European network of film promotion and export organisations, and is supported by the MEDIA Programme of the EU...
as best new German actress during the Berlinale in the same year. Previous Shooting Star winners were, among others, Franka Potente
Franka Potente
Franka Potente is a German film actress and singer. She first appeared in the comedy After Five in the Forest Primeval and gained critical recognition in the action thriller Lola rennt . Potente received Germany's highest film and television awards for her performances in Run Lola Run and...
, Moritz Bleibtreu
Moritz Bleibtreu
Moritz Bleibtreu is a German actor.Bleibtreu was born in Munich, the son of actors Monica Bleibtreu and Hans Brenner, and the great-grand-nephew of the actress Hedwig Bleibtreu.Bleibtreu grew up in Hamburg...
, August Diehl
August Diehl
August Diehl is a German actor, known for playing SS-Sturmbannführer Dieter Hellstrom in Inglourious Basterds and Michael "Mike" Krause, Evelyn Salt's husband, in the movie Salt.-Life and career:...
, Heike Makatsch
Heike Makatsch
- Early life :Makatsch was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, the daughter of former German national ice hockey team goaltender Rainer Makatsch. She spent several months in New Mexico in 1988 in an effort to improve her English, and later studied politics and sociology at the University of Düsseldorf for...
, Benno Fürmann
Benno Fürmann
Benjamin "Benno" Fürmann is a German film and television actor.-Life and work:Fürmann was born in Berlin-Kreuzberg. By the age of 15 he had lost both his parents. At 17, he had a serious accident while train surfing, and had to spend six weeks in the hospital as a result...
and Daniel Brühl
Daniel Brühl
Daniel César Martín Brühl González Domingo is a Spanish/German actor. He is best known as Daniel Brühl.-Personal life:Brühl was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. His father was the late German stage director Hanno Brühl and his mother was a Spanish professor. He also has a brother and a sister...
.
Wokalek played Anna in the sci-fi thriller Silent Resident, which premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival
2007 Toronto International Film Festival
The 2007 Toronto International Film Festival was a 32nd annual film festival held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It ran from September 6, 2007 to September 15, 2007. The lineup consisted of 349 films from 55 countries, selected from 4156 submissions...
, and starred as the young journalist Luise in Phillip Stölzl's North Face
North Face (film)
North Face is a 2008 German historical fiction film based on a famous 1936 attempt to climb the Eiger north face.-Plot:...
. The 2008 drama depicts the 1936 attempted first ascent of the Eiger north face.
Wokalek was cast as the Red Army Faction
Red Army Faction
The radicalized were, like many in the New Left, influenced by:* Sociological developments, pressure within the educational system in and outside Europe and the U.S...
terrorist Gudrun Ensslin
Gudrun Ensslin
Gudrun Ensslin was a founder of the German militant group Red Army Faction . After becoming involved with co-founder Andreas Baader, Ensslin was influential in the politicization of Baader's voluntaristic anarchistic beliefs. Ensslin was perhaps the intellectual head of the RAF...
in Uli Edel
Uli Edel
Uli Edel is a German film director.-Work:After studying theatre science in Munich, he was accepted into Munich Film School alongside Bernd Eichinger. Uli befriended him and they started working together on their exercise movies, sharing a love for the nouvelle vague and Italian neorealism as well...
's 2008 film The Baader Meinhof Complex, an adaptation of the non-fiction book of the same name by Stefan Aust
Stefan Aust
Stefan Aust is a German journalist and was the editor-in-chief of the weekly news magazine Der Spiegel from 1994 to February 2008...
. Her performance in the film was awarded with a nomination for the 2009 German Film Awards and a Bambi
Bambi (prize)
The Bambi - Deutschlands Wichtigster Medienpreis, often simply called Bambi Awards and stylized as BAMBI, are presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year",...
award as best German actress. The film was chosen as Germany's submission to the 81st Academy Awards
81st Academy Awards
The 81st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , honored the best films of 2008 and took place February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST...
for Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
, and was already nominated Best Foreign Language Film for the 66th Golden Globe Awards
66th Golden Globe Awards
The 66th Golden Globe Awards Ceremony was broadcast on January 11, 2009, from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, United States on the NBC TV network...
.
In the summer of 2008 she replaced Franka Potente
Franka Potente
Franka Potente is a German film actress and singer. She first appeared in the comedy After Five in the Forest Primeval and gained critical recognition in the action thriller Lola rennt . Potente received Germany's highest film and television awards for her performances in Run Lola Run and...
as Johanna von Ingelheim
Pope Joan
Pope Joan is a legendary female Pope who, it is purported, reigned for a few years some time in the Middle Ages. The story first appeared in the writings of 13th-century chroniclers, and subsequently spread through Europe...
, the titular role in Sönke Wortmann
Sönke Wortmann
Sönke Wortmann is a German film director and producer.- Biography :Wortmann’s father was a miner. After Wortmann’s A-Levels he wanted to become a professional football player and started playing with Westfalia Herne at the third best category and with SP Vgg Erkenschwick...
's Pope Joan. The adaptation of American novelist Donna Woolfolk Cross
Donna Woolfolk Cross
Donna Woolfolk Cross is an American writer and the author of the novel Pope Joan, about a supposed female Catholic Pope from 855 to 858...
' book of the same name
Pope Joan (novel)
Pope Joan is a 1996 novel by American writer Donna Woolfolk Cross. It is based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan. For the most part this novel is the story of a young woman, whose desire to gain more knowledge compels her to dress up as a man, who eventually rises to become the pope.The novel...
is the first time Wokalek has to carry a large-scale production by herself. Wokalek, who had to tonsure
Tonsure
Tonsure is the traditional practice of Christian churches of cutting or shaving the hair from the scalp of clerics, monastics, and, in the Eastern Orthodox Church, all baptized members...
her hair for the role, stars alongside David Wenham
David Wenham
David Wenham is an Australian actor who has appeared in movies, television series and theatre productions. He is known in Hollywood for his roles as Faramir in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Carl in Van Helsing and Dilios in 300 and Neil Fletcher in Australia...
and John Goodman
John Goodman
John Stephen Goodman is an American film, television, and stage actor. He is best known for his role as Dan Conner on the television series Roseanne for which he won a Best Actor Golden Globe Award in 1993, and for appearances in the films of the Coen brothers, with prominent roles in Raising...
. The film was released October 22, 2009.
Wokalek continues to star in plays in the Burgtheater, including the title role in Andrea Breth
Andrea Breth
Andrea Breth is a stage director.Breth studied German and English language and literature in the University of Heidelberg from 1970 to 1972...
's acclaimed 2003 production of Emilia Galotti
Emilia Galotti
Emilia Galotti is a play in five acts by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , which premiered on 8 March 1772 in Brunswick . The work is a classic example of German bürgerliches Trauerspiel . Other works in this category include Schiller's Kabale und Liebe and Hebbel's Maria Magdalene...
, and Queen Margaret
Margaret of Anjou
Margaret of Anjou was the wife of King Henry VI of England. As such, she was Queen consort of England from 1445 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471; and Queen consort of France from 1445 to 1453...
in Shakespear
William Shakespeare
William 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"...
's The War of the Roses in 2008, directed by Stephan Kimmig.
Film and television credits
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Rose Bernd | Rose | TV adaptation of the play Rose Bernd Rose Bernd Rose Bernd is a stage drama in five acts by Gerhart Hauptmann. It premiered October 31, 1903 in Berlin.-Dramatic characters:BERND, deaconROSE BERND, older daughterMARTHEL, younger daughterCHRISTOPHER FLAMM, landowner and magistrate... |
| 1999 | Aimée & Jaguar Aimée & Jaguar Aimée & Jaguar is a 1999 German drama film set in Berlin during World War II. It was written and directed by Max Färberböck, based upon Erica Fischer's book, chronicling the actual lives of Lilly Wust and Felice Schragenheim during that time period. The book was based on the work of the American... |
Ilse | First feature film |
| 1999 | Alma – A Show Biz ans Ende | Alma Mahler | TV mini-series, adaptation of the play Alma Alma (play) Alma is a play by Israeli writer Joshua Sobol based on the life of Alma Mahler-Werfel. It opened 1996 in Vienna."Alma" is the story of Alma Mahler-Werfel, the famous femme fatale and muse to many geniuses. She was the wife of composer Gustav Mahler, also married to architect Walter Gropius and... |
| 2003 | Emilia Galotti | Emilia Galotti | TV adaptation of the play Emilia Galotti Emilia Galotti Emilia Galotti is a play in five acts by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , which premiered on 8 March 1772 in Brunswick . The work is a classic example of German bürgerliches Trauerspiel . Other works in this category include Schiller's Kabale und Liebe and Hebbel's Maria Magdalene... |
| 2003 | Hierankl Hierankl Hierankl is a German award-winning family drama which premiered July 1, 2003 at the Munich Film Festival. The modern Heimatfilm, named after a district in Surberg, Germany, is the film debut of writer and director Hans Steinbichler.... |
Lene Thurner | |
| 2004 | Ruth von Roll | TV mini-series | |
| 2005 | Barfuss Barfuss Barfuss is a film by German actor and director Til Schweiger released in 2005. It is a romantic comedy and tells the story of Nick , a hedonistic bachelor, who falls for Leila, an escaped mental patient, portrayed by Johanna Wokalek. Til Schweiger was also involved in the writing of the... |
Leila | Lead role opposite Til Schweiger Til Schweiger Tilman Valentin "Til" Schweiger is a German actor, director, and producer.He is one of Germany’s most successful filmmakers. Since 1968, when the FFA started counting, no other German actor has drawn more people to the cinemas. He runs his own production company, Barefoot Films, in Berlin.-Early... |
| 2007 | Silent Resident | Anna | |
| 2008 | North Face North Face (film) North Face is a 2008 German historical fiction film based on a famous 1936 attempt to climb the Eiger north face.-Plot:... |
Luise Fellner | |
| 2008 | Gudrun Ensslin Gudrun Ensslin Gudrun Ensslin was a founder of the German militant group Red Army Faction . After becoming involved with co-founder Andreas Baader, Ensslin was influential in the politicization of Baader's voluntaristic anarchistic beliefs. Ensslin was perhaps the intellectual head of the RAF... |
Won Bambi award Bambi (prize) The Bambi - Deutschlands Wichtigster Medienpreis, often simply called Bambi Awards and stylized as BAMBI, are presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year",... for best German actress |
|
| 2009 | Pope Joan | Johanna von Ingelheim Pope Joan Pope Joan is a legendary female Pope who, it is purported, reigned for a few years some time in the Middle Ages. The story first appeared in the writings of 13th-century chroniclers, and subsequently spread through Europe... |
Lead role |
Awards
- Alfred Kerr Actor Award (1999), best new German stage actor/actress in Rose Bernd
- Förderpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen für junge Künstlerinnen und Künstler (1999) for Rose Bernd
- Nachwuchsschauspielerin des Jahres (1999), best new actor/actress in Rose Bernd
- Nestroy-Theaterpreis (2002), best new actor/actress
- Förderpreis Deutscher Film (2003), best actress in Hierankl
- Bavarian Film AwardBayerischer FilmpreisThe Bavarian Film Awards have been awarded annually since 1979 by the State Government of Bavaria in Germany for “exceptional achievement in German filmmaking.” Along with the German Film Awards, these are the most highly regarded awards for filmmaking achievement in Germany.The Bavarian Film...
(2003), best actress in a German film in Hierankl - Shooting Stars AwardShooting Stars AwardThe Shooting Stars Award is annually presented to ten young European actors at the Berlin International Film Festival. It was introduced in 1998 by European Film Promotion , a pan-European network of film promotion and export organisations, and is supported by the MEDIA Programme of the EU...
(2006), announced by European Film PromotionEuropean Film PromotionEuropean Film Promotion is an organisation which works for the worldwide promotion and marketing of European cinema. The EFP network incorporates 31 national promotion organisations from 32 European countries.-Activities:EFP's major objectives are:...
, best new German actor/actress in Barfuss and Hierankl - Adolf Grimme Award (2006), best performance in Hierankl, along with Barbara SukowaBarbara SukowaBarbara Sukowa is a German theatre and film actress.- Work :Sukowa's stage debut was in Berlin in 1971, in a production of Peter Handke's Der Ritt über den Bodensee. Günter Beelitz invited her to join the ensemble of the Darmstädter National Theatre in the same year...
, Josef BierbichlerJosef Bierbichler-Awards:* Adolf Grimme Award , best performance in the ZDF TV film Freier Fall* Adolf Grimme Award , best performance in Hierankl, along with Johanna Wokalek, Barbara Sukowa and Peter Simonischek* Theaterpreis Berlin -External links:...
and Peter Simonischek - BambiBambi (prize)The Bambi - Deutschlands Wichtigster Medienpreis, often simply called Bambi Awards and stylized as BAMBI, are presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year",...
(2008), best German actress in The Baader Meinhof Complex - DIVA (2009), best actress of the year 2008
- German Film Awards (2009), nominated as best actress for her performance in The Baader Meinhof Complex
External links
- Johanna Wokalek at the Players agency
- Johanna Wokalek at www.shooting-stars.eu