Nina Hoss

Nina Hoss
Born	July 7, 1975 (1975-07-07) (age 36) Stuttgart, Germany
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1996 -

Nina Hoss (born July 7, 1975) is a German actress.

Early life

Nina's father, Willi Hoss, was a German trade unionist and politician (member of the German Bundestag in The Greens). Her mother, Heidemarie Rohweder, was an actress at Stuttgart National Theatre and later director of the Esslingen-based Württemberg State Playhouse (Württembergischen Landesbühne Esslingen).

Career

In 1997 Hoss graduated from the Drama School "Ernst Busch" in Berlin. Her first major success was the title role of Bernd Eichinger’s A Girl Called Rosemarie in 1996. In 2000 she was one of the Shooting Stars at the Berlinale. Her close collaboration with director Christian Petzold has been extremely successful: she won the 2003 Adolf Grimme Award for her role in his film Something To Remind Me and two years later the Adolf Grimme Award in Gold for Wolfsburg. Her performance of Yella earned her the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2007 and the German Film Award in 2008.^[1] Hoss has been a member of the Juries of the Locarno International Film Festival in 2009, and the Berlin International Film Festival in 2011. She has been an ensemble member at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin since 1998, where she appeared as Medea.

Social commitment

Hoss supports the Make Poverty History campaign which fights female genital cutting. She is quoted as saying, "For me, genital mutilation, torture, is one of the worst crimes in the name of so-called honour on earth. I dream that it will be possible for this form of domination over women to be abandoned."^[2]

Filmography

• 1996 - A Girl Called Rosemarie (Das Mädchen Rosemarie) - (Bernd Eichinger)
• 1996 - And Nobody Weeps for Me (Und keiner weint mir nach) - (Joseph Vilsmaier)
• 1998 - Fire Rider (Feuerreiter) - (Nina Grosse)
• 1998 - Love Your Neighbour! (Liebe deine Nächste!) - (Detlev Buck)
• 1999 - The Volcano (Der Vulkan) - (Ottokar Runze)
• 2002 - Naked (Nackt) - (Doris Dörrie)
• 2002 - Epstein's Night (Epsteins Nacht) - (Urs Egger)
• 2003 - Wolfsburg - (Christian Petzold)
• 2005 - The White Masai (Die weiße Massai) - (Hermine Huntgeburth)
• 2006 - Elementary Particles or Atomised (Elementarteilchen) - (Oskar Roehler)
• 2006 - Hannah (Leben mit Hannah) - (Erica von Moeller)
• 2007 - Yella - (Christian Petzold)
• 2007 - The Heart Is a Dark Forest (Das Herz ist ein dunkler Wald) - (Nicolette Krebitz)
• 2008 - The Anarchist's Wife (Die Frau des Anarchisten) (Marie Noëlle & Peter Sehr)
• 2008 - A Woman in Berlin (Anonyma – Eine Frau in Berlin) (Max Färberböck)
• 2009 - Jerichow (Christian Petzold)
• 2009 - My life - Nina Hoss (Mein Leben – Nina Hoss) (Lilly Engel) TV-Documentary
• 2010 - We Are the Night (Wir sind die Nacht) (Dennis Gansel)

Awards

2000 Shooting Stars Award - by European Film Promotion at the Berlin International Film Festival
2005 Bavarian Film Award for Best Actress, The White Masai[1]

References

1. ^ Berlinale 2011: International Jury Berlin International Film Festival, January 21, 2011.
2. ^ I have a dream

External links

• Nina Hoss at the Internet Movie Database
• Nina Hoss in the German National Library catalogue (German)
• Ensemble Deutsches Theater Berlin

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Name	Hoss, Nina
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Date of birth	July 7, 1975
Place of birth	Stuttgart, Germany
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