- Andrea Clausen
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spouse =Andrea Clausen (born
January 17 ,1959 inOldenburg ) is a German stage actress, member of theBurgtheater ensemble.Life and Theatre career
Born in Oldenburg, she first studied at the acting school of
Etienne Decroux inParis and then at theFolkwangschule inEssen . After her studies she made her debut as an actress in Oldenburg and inCologne . In 1986 she changed toBochum and began to work withAndrea Breth . In 1991 she went to the Burgtheater and worked as well withClaus Peymann ,Hans Neuenfels andWilfried Minks . 1994, she went to theSchaubühne Berlin, returning two years later toVienna . She received a "Kainz-Medaille" for her acting in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Since 1996 she has worked withMatthias Hartmann ,Luc Bondy ,Karin Henkel ,Paulus Manker ,Theu Boermans and in many plays directed by Andrea Breth, such as "The Cherry Orchard", "Emilia Galotti", "Minna von Barnhelm", "Don Carlos", "Motortown". One of her more famous roles was as Ines Finidori in "Trois versions de la vie" ofYasmina Reza (2000), which was first played in Vienna, at theAkademietheater .Andrea Clausen is married, and in 2003 she had twin-daughters named Maria and Jelena.
Since 2006 a large photography of Andrea Clausen, made by the Austrian photograph
Ilse Haider , has been hanging in the Portrait Gallery of the Burgtheater.Theatre roles
Schauspielhaus Bochum
* Angelina in "Sud" (
Julien Green ; D: A. Breth)
* Girl in "Summer" (Edward Bond ; D: A. Breth)
* Minna in "Minna von Barnhelm" (Lessing, D: U. Troller)
* Lucile in "Dantons Tod " (Büchner; D: F. P.Steckel)
* Olivia in "Twelfth Night, or What You Will " (Shakespeare, D: A. Breth)Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
* Elektra in " Elektra" (
Euripides , D: A. Breth)Burgtheater and Akademietheater, Vienna
* Marie in "
Clavigo " (Goethe, D: C. Peymann)
* Eve in "Der zerbrochne Krug " (Kleist, D: A. Breth)
* Honey in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? " (Edward Albee ; D: H. Neuenfels)
* Julie in "Liliom " (Molnar; D: P. Manker)
* Nora in "A Doll's House " (Ibsen; D: K. Henkel)
* Isabella in "Edward II" (C. Marlowe; D: C. Peymann)
* Irene in "Tochter der Luft" (Hans Magnus Enzensberger /Calderón de la Barca , D:Frank Castorf
*Ramona in "Viridiana "ofLuis Buñuel (D:Dimiter Gotscheff )
* Ines in "Drei Mal Leben" (Reza; D: L. Bondy), Akademietheater
* Countess Orsina in "Emilia Galotti " (Lessing; D: A. Breth)
*Marchioness Mondecar in "Don Carlos" (Schiller , D: A. Breth) 2004
* Ranevskaya in "The Cherry Orchard " (Chekhov ; D: A. Breth) 2005
* A Mourning women in "Minna von Barnhelm " (Lessing, D: A. Breth) 2005
*Hippolyta andTitania in "A Midsummer Night's Dream " (Shakespeare , R:Theu Boermans ) 2007
* Helen in "Motortown" (Simon Stephens , D: A. Breth) 2008Movies
*2003: "
Die Brüder " "(Brothers)", D: W Murnberger/ORF
*1994: "Kopf des Mohren " "(The Moor's Head)", D:Paulus Manker
*1983: "Fremdes Land ", "(Strange Country)" D:Claus Peter Witt Audio
* Speaker in the audio book "Geboren in Bagdad"
Susanne Ayoub 2004, Hoffman und Campe Verlag (ISBN 3-455-30377-3)
* Speaker (Clelia) in the audio-drama "Unter Frauen" ("Tra donne sole") ofCesare Pavese , 2006 (D:Götz Fritsch ,ORF )Awards
*1987: "Best young actress" (theatre-magazine "
Theater heute ")
*1992: "Kainz-Medaille"
*2001, 2003 und 2005: nominated for the "Nestroy-Preis " (Vienna theatre-award) in the category "Best Actress"
*2007: ORF-Audio-Award (ORF-Hörspielpreis) "Actress of the Year 2006"External links
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