Rhea Harder (born 27 February 1976 in

East Berlin East Berlin (; ) was the partially recognised capital city, capital of East Germany (GDR) from 1949 to 1990. From 1945, it was the Allied occupation zones in Germany, Soviet occupation sector of Berlin. The American, British, and French se ...

) is a German actress, best known for appearances in various German television series.

Early life

Harder was born in

and grew up in

East Germany East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from Foundation of East Germany, its formation on 7 October 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on ...

, completing her

abitur ''Abitur'' (), often shortened colloquially to ''Abi'', is a qualification granted at the end of secondary education in Germany. It is conferred on students who pass their final exams at the end of ISCED 3, usually after twelve or thirteen year ...

. She then sat tests for the civil service in Berlin before being cast in ''

Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten ''Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten'' ("Good Times, Bad Times"), often abbreviated ''GZSZ'', is a long-running German television soap opera, first broadcast on RTL Television, RTL in 1992. The programme concerns the lives of a fictional neighborhoo ...

'' and deciding on a career as actress.

Career

Harder played the role of Florentine 'Flo Spira' Spirandelli di Montalban in the television series ''

'' from 1996 to 2002. She played the role of Sarah Hermann in '' Berlin, Berlin'' from 2003 to 2005, and the role of Valerie Kopp in ''

Alles außer Sex ''Alles außer Sex (Sex & More)'' is a German comedy drama television series which aired on the TV station ProSieben between 2005 and 2006. The German television premiered on 9 November 2005 with an audience of 2.9 million viewers. Thematically, ...

from 2005 to 2007. She has been playing the role of police officer Franziska 'Franzi' Jung in the series ''

Notruf Hafenkante is a German television series broadcast on ZDF. It is set in Hamburg and is about the members of the police department PK 21 and the doctors of the fictional hospital Elbkrankenhaus. The show's premise is modelled on the Davidwache police st ...

'' since 2006. Following the death in 2009 of Veronika Neugebauer, Harder took over the role of Gaby Glockner in the

audio drama Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatised, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine ...

series

TKKG The Junior detective series TKKG is a German series of audio dramas and novels created by "Stefan Wolf", a pseudonym used by Rolf Kalmuczak. The characters and their creator In all German-speaking countries they are the most commercially succ ...

Personal life

Harder's first son Moritz Paul Harder was born in 2004 and appeared as baby Ben in the series ''Berlin, Berlin'' in 2005. Her second son, Bruno Franz, was born in 2010. In June 2013 she married her longtime boyfriend Jörg Vennewald and in 2014 she gave birth to their daughter. The family lives in Hamburg.

Filmography

Films

* 2000:

TV series

* 1994: Frauenarzt Dr. Markus Merthin * 1995: Die Straßen von Berlin * 1995–1996:

Für alle Fälle Stefanie ''Für alle Fälle Stefanie'' is a German medical drama television series created by Werner Krämer that aired on Sat.1 from 15 May 1995 to 29 August 2005. It was produced by Novafilm Fernsehproduktion. ''Für alle Fälle Stefanie'' follows th ...

* 1995–2002:

als ''Florentine 'Flo Spira' Spirandelli di Montalban'' * 2000: Küstenwache – Jetski-Rowdies * 2001:

Balko ''Balko'' is a German prime time television series broadcast on the private TV channel RTL. It is a police detective story with comical twists featuring two inspectors of the Dortmund police, Balko (played by Jochen Horst until episode 48, t ...

– Die Nervensäge * 2002:

Leipzig Homicide ''Leipzig Homicide (SOKO Leipzig)'' is a German crime drama television series first broadcast on 31 January 2001 on ZDF. More than 400 episodes have been screened since. On 12 November 2008, the first of a two-part crossover between ''SOKO Leipz ...

– Verliebt in einen Lehrer * 2002: Küstenwache – Skrupellos * 2002/2003:

* 2003–2005: Berlin, Berlin as ''Sarah Hermann'' * 2005: Küstenwache – Verloren in der Tiefe * 2005–2007:

as ''Valerie Kopp'' * 2006–2022:

as ''Polizeiobermeisterin Franziska "Franzi" Jung'' * 2008:

SOKO Wismar ''SOKO Wismar'' is a German police procedural television series that premiered on 6 October 2004 on ZDF. It is the fifth offshoot of '' SOKO München'', launched in 1978 under the name ''SOKO 5113''. "SOKO" is an abbreviation of the German word ...

– Tödliches Gebräu

Audio dramas

* Die drei ??? - Spuk Im Netz (Folge 132, Voice of Felica Sparing) * TKKG - Das Mädchen mit der Kristallkugel (Folge 166, Voice of Maren) * TKKG - Voice of Gaby Glockner (seit Folge 167) * Fünf Freunde - Fünf Freunde und das Abenteuer im Hundeschlitten (Folge 83, Voice of Eva Moser) * Die drei ??? - Der DreiTag

References

External links

Website of Rhea Harder
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Rhea Harder at her agency Fitz+Skoglund Agents
{{DEFAULTSORT:Harder, Rhea German television actresses Actors from East Berlin 1976 births Living people Actresses from Berlin 20th-century German actresses 21st-century German actresses