Ina Weisse

Ina Weisse

Born	12 June 1968 in Berlin
Occupation	Actress Screenwriter Film director
Nationality	German

Ina Weisse is a German actress, screenwriter and film director. She is especially well known for her roles as the distant and ambivalent blonde, that usually plays the minor parts in films. She became apparent with roles in films like Tatort und Polizeiruf 110. She won several awards with her films, regarding acting and directing films in Germany. Even though that the movies she directed have been successful, she is still better known as an actress than as a director. Her most famous film, which she directed is Der Architekt.

Life and education

Ina Weisse was born June 12, 1968 in Berlin and is the daughter of a respected architect and an art mistress, which influenced her very early to choose an artistic life journey. But it was her uncle, who introduced her to the theater, as he took her to the Berliner Schaubühne.^[1]

After she finished her degree at the acting school Otto-Falckenberg-Schule in Munich, received Ina Weisse her first engagement at the National Theatre Mannheim. Afterwards she started to study philosophy in Heidelberg in 1992. In 2002 she finished her second degree at the University of Hamburg, where she studied film direction and production by Hark Bohm.^[2] Her graduation movie Alles anders was honored with the First Steps Award First Steps Award.^[3]

Ina Weisse is married to the German Film director Matti Geschonneck, with whom she worked together for the TV-films Duell in der Nacht (2007), Tod in Istanbul (2009), Der Verdacht (2010) und Das Ende einer Nacht (2011).

Career

Her first theater debut was with the comedy movie called Echte Kerle (1996). Henceforth she was seen in many TV- productions and several times in the German crime series Tatort. Weisse started in 2001 with making short movies, which have been successful and can be seen as her start for TV productions. Der Architekt (2008) was her debut as a film director, for which she had been writing the script together with Daphne Charizani.^[4] Matthias Schweighöfer, Josef Bierbichler and Sandra Hüller, famous German actors, played the main roles in the drama. The movie was screened at the Berlinale and Max-Ophüls-Filmfestival in 2009 and was priced for the best screenplay. The film critic Stefanie Rufle wrote: ”It's a mature direction debut, which Ina Weisse handled stabile and confident".^[5]

Filmography

As Actress [edit]

As Director [edit]

Awards

Further reading

• Ina Weisse articles
• Interview with Ina Weisse
• Ina Weisse at pr-emani.de
• Ina Weisse at prisma-online.d
• Biography at firststeps.de
• Filmography

References

1. ↑ David Denk. "Porträt Ina Weisse: Die kluge Menschenleserin - taz.de". taz.de. Retrieved 2014-03-19. 
2. ↑ "Ina Weisse | filmportal.de". filmportal.de. Retrieved 2014-03-19. 
3. 1 2 "Studio Hamburg Nachwuchspreis verliehen: FIRST STEPS". firststeps.de. Retrieved 2014-03-19. 
4. ↑ ""Gebenedeit unter den Weibern" - Ina Weisse - FOCUS Online - Nachrichten". focus.de. Retrieved 2014-03-19. 
5. ↑ "Der Architekt: Kritik und Info zum Film – moviesection.de". moviesection.de. Retrieved 2014-03-19. 

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ina Weisse.

• Ina Weisse at the Internet Movie Database
• Ina Weisse at filmportal.de
• Interview with Ina Weisse
• Interview with Ina Weisse