Natja Brunckhorst, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Natja Brunckhorst

German actress and screenwriter

Date of Birth: 26-Sep-1966

Place of Birth: Berlin

Profession: screenwriter, actor, film actor

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra

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About Natja Brunckhorst

  • Natja Brunckhorst (born 26 September 1966) is a German actress, screenwriter, and director. Brunckhorst was 13 years old when she was selected by director Uli Edel for the leading role as Christiane F.
  • in the critically acclaimed 1981 dramatisation of the biographical work Christiane F.
  • - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo on Christiane Vera Felscherinow written following tape recordings of teenage girl Christiane F.
  • The film immediately acquired cult status (which it still retains today) and features David Bowie as both himself and the soundtrack composer, which gave the film a commercial boost.
  • A year later Brunckhorst appeared in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Querelle (1982).
  • After the unexpected success of Christiane F.
  • - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, in order to avoid public attention she retreated from public life and went to school in England.
  • After a short time in Paris she returned to Germany in 1987 to study at the Schauspielschule Bochum.
  • Since then she has acted on film and television, for example in The Princess and the Warrior, as well as the German TV series Dr.
  • Sommerfeld – Neues vom Bülowbogen.Following a recovery from cancer which caused a break in her acting career, in 1998, Brunckhorst began working as a scriptwriter, first for the television series Einsatz Hamburg Süd.
  • Her biographical film Wie Feuer und Flamme was awarded the Lola for the best script in 2001.
  • In the same year her first work as a director was published, La Mer, a playful-romantic short film.
  • In addition, she still appears in movies, such as her part in 2000 alongside Franka Potente and Benno Fürmann in the movie The Princess and the Warrior.
  • In Totem, the only German contribution to the Venice Film Festival in 2011, she embodied a woman in desperation for the speechlessness of her family.Brunckhorst has one daughter: Emma (born 1991), from a relationship with German actor Dominic Raacke that lasted from 1988 to 1993.
  • She currently lives in Munich, Germany.

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