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Anne Schäfer

Actress | 1979 | German | Hamburg

Personal Data

Languages: German (mother tongue), English (fluent), French (basic), Spanish

Residence: Hamburg

Nationality: German

Height: 1.72m (5' 7.7“)

Hair: brown

Eyes: brown

Training: 2020 - Die Tankstelle | Coaching | Film - TV - Theater (Coaching with Valentina Popovic), 2018 - Coachingteam Frank Betzelt, 2006 - Film Actors Workshop at Filmakademie Ludwigsburg Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Zürich

Dialects: Bairisch (native dialect), Berlinish, Mecklenburgish, North German (native dialect), Upper Austrian

Musical instruments: piano

Dance: ballet, standard dance, salsa

Sports: sailing, climbing, skiing, snowboard, yoga, stage-fighting, sword-fighting, boxing

Driving licence: PKW 3, Motorboat (Binnen)

Awards

2022 - Nominated as Best Actress for "Alle reden übers Wetter" for Preis der deutschen Filmkritik 2022

2021 - German Television Award "Die Toten von Marnow" Best Series Nomination

2019 - Nomination Jupiter Award for Best Female Lead for Hotdog

2014 - Nomination Oscar entry "The Beloved Sisters" (OT: Die Geliebten Schwestern)

2013 - Grimme Award "Fiktion Spezial" for Add A Friend

2011 - Nomination German Film Award "Best Actress": "Jasmin

2009 - Sponsorship Award of the Friends of the Bavarian State Theater / Residenztheater

2006 - TZ Rose for "Iphigenie auf Tauris", Residenztheater München

2004 - Oprecht Prize of the City of Zurich Audience Award Schauspielschultreffen for "Parzivality Show", Director: Tomas Schweigen

Feature | Television - Selection

2022 | Blindgänger | Tamtam Film | feature film | Director: Kerstin Polte

2022 | C'est la vie | Feine Filme, UFA Fiction, Warner Bros. Pictures | feature film | Director: Richard Huber

2021 | Civil Dusk | Jünglinge Film, DF Dock11 | Art project | Director: David Uzochukwu

2021 | Distanz (AT) | Distanz Film, Conscious Content, Carny Film | feature film | Director: Lars Knorrn

2020 | Ich liebe dich | Simon + Paul | short film | Director: Marko Roth

2021 | Diversity United | Kunstverein Hamburg | theatre | Director: Anne Schäfer

2020 | Virus | Theaterspektakel, Zürich - Kampnagel Hamburg | theatre | Director: Jan Duyvendak

2016 | In Deinem Pelz | Theater und Orchester Heidelberg | theatre | Director: Bernhard Mikeska

2020 | Kampnagel Sommerfestival | theatre

2020 | Theaterspektakel Zürich | theatre

2012-2013 | Theater Heidelberg | theatre

2011-2012 | Schauspielhaus Hamburg | theatre

2007-2011 | Residenztheater München | theatre

2006-2008 | Theater Basel | theatre

2005-2006 | Landestheater Tübingen | theatre

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Anne Schäfer was born in Munich and grew up in Chiemgau. She studied acting at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Zurich, where she also performed at the Schauspielhaus Zurich. Her first permanent engagement at the Landestheater in Tübingen was the start of a successful theater career with permanent engagements at the Residenztheater in Munich,Theater Basel, Schauspielhaus Hamburg and many others.

Anne Schäfer made her first step into the cinema genre with the leading role in “Cindy liebt mich nicht” directed by Hannah Schweier. The film premiered at the Berlinale in the section “Perspektive Deutsches Kino”. For her portrayal of “Jasmin,” Anne Schäfer was nominated for the Förderpreis Deutscher Film as “Best Actress” in the drama of the same name. The film was screened at the Munich Film Festival as well as the Indo-German Film Festival in Bangalore and was released in German cinemas in 2012.
Directed by Domink Graf, she made the 2012 feature film “The Beloved Sisters.” The film premiered at the 2014 Berlinale and was also the German entry for the Oscars.

In 2012, Anne Schäfer shot the first German pay-TV series Add a Friend, which won the Grimme Award. For three years from 2013, she was part of the main cast of the successful crime series “Soko Köln” on ZDF. She gave up the TV role to return to theater, but in 2017 was cast for the female lead in the action comedy “Hotdog” alongside Til Schweiger and Matthias Schweighöfer. Since 2018, Anne Schäfer and Clemens Schick have been investigating in the successful ARD series “Der Barcelona Krimi.” In “Hindafing” (2019), the bitterly wicked Bavarian political satire, Anne plays the antagonist of the main character Zischl (Maximilian Brückner) in the second season.

Anne Schäfer is in the multi-award-winning series “Die Toten von Marnow” (2020; directed by Andreas Herzog), the continuous role Susanne Elling – alongside Sascha Alexander Gerśak. Also in 2020, Anne played the female lead alongside Bjarne Mädel, in “Geliefert”,which screened at the Munich Film Festival in 2020.

The film “Alle reden übers Wetter” (2021, directed by Annika Pinske) will premiere at the Berlinale in the “Panorama” section. Anne Schäfer plays the lead role.

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