Anna Katharina Schwabroh (born October 21, 1979) is a German actress.

Life

Anna Katharina Schwabroh was born in 1979 in

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. Her love for the theater began with visits to the Thalia Theater Hamburg. When she was 11 years old, she saw Robert Wilson's ''

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'' and later ''Time Rocker'' and ''Alice''. These productions impressed Schwabroh deeply and she wanted to know theater. She won insights behind the stage, she completed internships by the Thalia Theater. She felt the urge to act on stage. Her first stage experience she gained before studying acting as lead singer of the band from Hamburg ''Alto''. From 2002 to 2006, she completed her acting studies at the

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. She received her diploma. Engagements have taken her to the

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to the Lucerne Theater and the Theater Fabrik Hamburg. She appeared in television productions, including the crime scene and ''Hamburg Dockland''. In the Swiss film ''

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'' Schwabroh played the main role. In summer 2009, she played Clara in the operetta ''

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'' on the floating stage

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. In the summer of 2010, she performed at the

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in the musical ''The Island Comedy''. Since 2010, she has been a permanent member of the

Landestheater Detmold Landestheater Detmold is a theatre for operas, operettas, Musical theatre, musicals, ballets, and stage plays in Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It began as the Hochfürstliches Lippisches Hoftheater, founded in 1825 by the court of Lipp ...

. In the 2011/2012 season she performed as Mae in ''

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'' and as Recha in ''

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''. She also played Pauline Piperkarcka in

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's ''The rats'' and the title role in the musical ''

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''.

Theater

Filmography

cinema

* 2005: ''Helga'', short film, directed by Fabian Niklaus * 2005: ''Aporue was aroused'', short film, directed by Fabian Niklaus * 2006: ''Bridges'', short film, directed by Fabian Niklaus * 2009: ''

'', directed by Ivan Engler and Ralph Etter

Television

* 2004: ''Oeschenen'', Swiss TV film, directed by Bernhard Giger * 2008: ''

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: Herzenssache'', directed by Ulli Baumann * 2009: ''

Tatort ("Crime Scene") is a German-language police procedural television series that has been running continuously since 1970 with 30 feature-length episodes per year, making it the longest-running German TV drama. Developed by the German public-se ...

: Tote Männer'', directed by Thomas Jauch

References

External links

*
Official website of the actress Anna Katharina Schwabroh
{{DEFAULTSORT:Schwabroh, Anna Katharina 1979 births Living people German film actresses German stage actresses German television actresses 21st-century German actresses Actresses from Hamburg