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Hannah Herzsprung

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Hannah Herzsprung
Herzsprung in 2017
Born (1981-09-07) 7 September 1981 (age 43)
Hamburg, West Germany
OccupationActress
Years active1997–present
Parents

Hannah Herzsprung (German: [ˈha.na ˈhɛʁt͡sˌʃpʁʊŋ] ) is a German actress.

Biography

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Hannah Herzsprung is the daughter of actor Bernd Herzsprung and fashion designer Barbara Engel.

She debuted as an actress in 1997 in the BR series Aus heiterem Himmel, where she played the role of Miriam "Mimi" Pauly at the beginning of the fourth and last season. She was taking private acting lessons since 1999. She took over the clip show on musicbox channel (now known as Tele 5) with her sister Sara at the end of 2002; at that time she also started studying Communication Sciences in Vienna. She had many television roles, including Jule in Das böse Mädchen, and since 2003 as Vera in the series 18 – Allein unter Mädchen. In 2003 she also had a part in Unter Verdacht: Beste Freunde and a smaller role in the comedy Tramitz & Friends.

Her roles became more ambitious with the television film Emilia – Die zweite Chance, where she played a patient with borderline personality disorder. In 2005, she received her first leading role as the murderer Jenny in Four Minutes by Chris Kraus. On 19 January 2007, she received the Bayerischen Filmpreis for best new female talent. In 2005, she played a suicidal youth in Life Actually [de] by Alain Gsponer. She ended her studies in Vienna and moved to Berlin in order to act in these two films. For Life Actually she was awarded the 2007 Deutschen Filmpreis for best supporting role and the Adolf-Grimme-Preis in 2009.

In 2007, Herzsprung played terrorist Susanne Albrecht in The Baader Meinhof Complex as well as the leading role of Daniela in the film 10 Seconds. In 2008 she played the role of Julia in Stephen Daldry's film The Reader. She also played the role of Charlotte in Uwe Janson's adaptation of Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, as well as in Jo Baier's television movie Liesl Karlstadt & Karl Valentin [de] as young Liesl Karlstadt.

Filmography

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Film
Year Title Role Notes
2006 Four Minutes Jenny Von Loeben
Life Actually [de] Florina Krüger
2008 1st of May: All Belongs to You Ratte
Liesl Karlstadt & Karl Valentin [de] Liesl Karlstadt
The Baader Meinhof Complex Susanne Albrecht
10 Seconds Daniela
The Reader Julia Berg
2009 Pink [de] Pink
Vicky the Viking Waschweib 1
Vision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen Richardis von Stade
Lila, Lila Marie
2010 Habermann Jana Habermann
2010-2013 Weissensee Julia Hausmann 12 episodes
2011 Hell Marie
2011-2013 H+: The Digital Series Manta 13 episodes
2012 Wie zwischen Himmel und Erde Johanna
Guardians Helena
Ludwig II Empress Elisabeth of Austria
2013 The Taste of Apple Seeds [de] Iris
2014 Die geliebten Schwestern Caroline von Beulwitz
Who Am I Marie
2015 Traumfrauen Leni Reimann
2016 Rivals Forever: The Sneaker Battle [de] Friedl Dassler TV film
The Bloom of Yesterday Hannah Blumen
2017 Everything Is Wonderful Lena's Sister
2017-2020 Babylon Berlin Helga Rath 21 episodes
2018 Don't. Get. Out! Pia Zach
Mack the Knife: Brecht's Threepenny Film [de] Carola Neher / Polly
Dogs of Berlin Trinity Sommer 7 episodes
2019 Sweethearts Melanie Rossbach
Juntas no crime Mel
2021 My Son

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