Adriana Altaras

Adriana Altaras ( born April 6, 1960 in Zagreb ) is a German actress and theater director.

Life

Adriana Altaras is the daughter of former chairman of the Jewish community of casting Altaras Jacob and Thea Altaras. The first few years were spent in Italy and Switzerland. In 1967, the family moved to Germany. Adriana Altaras studied after high school drama at the University of Arts in Berlin. According to a study in New York, she founded the independent theater in Berlin to the Western Stadthirschen where they could also serve as director and writer besides acting. Guest engagements have received as an actress at Maxim Gorki Theater and at the Freie Volksbühne in Berlin and in Stuttgart, Konstanz and Basel.

In the early 1980s she took first film roles, yet the focus of her work remained at the various theater projects. After directing work at the Berliner Ensemble and the Neukölln Opera made ​​its staging of the Vagina Monologues for great success, which was on display with changing actresses in Berlin in 2001. In the movies she appeared mainly in films of Rudolf Thome, with whom she worked since the 1980s. In 1988 she was awarded the German Film Award for her role in the film The Thomes microscope.

In addition to the theater and film work, she worked for Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation as an interviewer and worked as a lecturer at the Hochschule der Künste in the area of ​​musical representation. Adriana Altaras is the mother of the 1995 -born young actor Aaron Altaras.

Roles in films (selection)

Writings

  • Tito's glasses. The story of my grueling family. 1st edition. Kiepenheuer & Petrovich, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-462-04297-9, DNB 1008555320th
31143
de