Bibiana Beglau

Bibiana Beglau

Bibiana Beglau (born July 16, 1971) in Braunschweig, Germany is a German actress.

Life

Bibiana Beglau began appearing on the stages of German-speaking theater immediately upon graduating from the Hamburg Hochschule for Music and Theater. Since the beginning of her career, she has worked with the directors responsible for transforming contemporary German theater and cinema. She performed regularly under the direction of Christoph Marthaler, Einar Schleef, Frank Castorf and Luk Perceval before winning national and international acclaim for her leading role in Volker Schlöndorff’s feature film The Legend of Rita.

Bibiana Beglau has been the recipient of many awards and commended as an actress for her outstanding performances, including the Berlinale Silver Bear for best actress, the Ulrich Wildgruber Prize and the Adolf Grimme Prize. Alongside theatrical engagements at all of the important German-speaking theaters including the Vienna Burgtheater, Schauspielhaus Zurich, Schaubühne Berlin or the Thalia Theater Hamburg, Bibiana Beglau has performed in many film and television productions including The Murderer and His Child, The Ninth Day, 3 Degrees Colder and Under the Ice.

Filmography (Selection)

• 1995: Der Mörder und sein Kind | ‘The Murderer and His Child’ (Director: Matti Geschonneck)
• 1996: 2 ½ Minuten | ‘2 ½ Minutes’ (Director: Rolf Schübel)
• 1996: Absprung | ‘Take-Off’ (Director: Hanno Brühl)
• 1997: Gegen den Strom | ‘Against the Current’ (Director: Thorsten Näter)
• 1999: No Sex (Director: Josh Broecker)
• 1999: Die Stille nach dem Schuss | ‘The Legend of Rita’ (Director: Volker Schlöndorff)
• 2000: Der Briefbomber | ‘The Letter Bomber’ (Director: Torsten C. Fischer)
• 2001: Birthday (Director: Stefan Jäger)
• 2001: Liebesschuld | ‘Guilty Love’ (Director: Ulrich Stark)
• 2002: Hamlet - This is your family (Director: Peter Kern)
• 2002: Nachtangst | ‘Night Fear’ (Director: Michael Rowitz)
• 2002: Ten Minutes Older (Director: Volker Schlöndorff)
• 2003: Belmondo (Director: Annette Carle)
• 2003: Gefährliches Schweigen | ‘Dangerous Silence’ (Director: Martin Eigler)
• 2003: Der Neunte Tag | ‘The Ninth Day’ (Director: Volker Schlöndorff)
• 2003: Kammerflimmern | ‘Heart Fibrillation’ (Director: Hendrik Hoelzemann)
• 2004: Sechs zum Essen | ‘Six for Dinner’ (Director: Fillipos Tsitos)
• 2004: 3° Grad kälter | ‘3 Degrees Colder’ (Director: Florian Hoffmeister)
• 2005: Ricordare Anna | ‘Remembering Anna’ (Director: Walter Deuber)
• 2005: Unter dem Eis | ‘Under the Ice’ (Director: Aelrun Goette)
• 2005: Der große Schlaf | ‘The Big Sleep’ (Director: Mona Lenz)
• 2006: Das Leuchten | ‘The Glowing’ (Director: Krystof Zlatnik)
• 2007: Il Pugno di Gesù | ‘Boxing Jesus’ (Director: Stefan Jäger)
• 2008: Was Du nicht siehst | ‘What You Don’t See’ (Director: Wolfgang Fischer)
• 2009: Mit Glanz und Gloria | ‘With Glamour and Gloria’ (Director: Dieter Wedel)
• 2009: Wahlverwandschaften | ‘Elective Affinities’ (Director: Thorsten Näter)

Theater (Selection)

Burgtheater Vienna:

• König Ottokars Glück und Ende - ‘King Ottokar’s Happiness and End’ (Director: Martin Kusej)

Schaubuhne Berlin:

• 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane (Director: Falk Richter)
• Disco Pigs by Enda Wash as Pig (Director: Thomas Ostermeier)
• Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov as Mascha (Director: Falk Richter)
• Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen as Frau Alving (Director: Sebastian Nübling)
• Im Ausnahmezustand - ‘In a State of Emergency’ by Falk Richter as die Frau (Director: Falk Richter)
• The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov as Ms. Ranewskaja (Director: Falk Richter)

Schauspielhaus Dusseldorf:

• Ivanov by Anton Chekhov as Sascha (Director: Anna Badora)
• Lulu by Frank Wedekind as Lulu (Director: Anna Badora)
• Salomé by Oscar Wilde as Herodias (Director: Einar Schleef)
• As you like it by William Shakespeare as Rosalinde (Director: Nikolai Sykosch)

Schauspielhaus Zurich:

• Hamlet by William Shakespeare as Ophelia (Director: Christoph Schlingensief)
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare as Lady Macbeth (Director: Sebastian Nübling)
• Synchron by Thomas Hürlimann as Sibylle (Director: Christoph Marthaler)
• Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O’Neill as Lavinia (Director: Frank Castorf)

Thalia Theater Hamburg:

• Portrait Image Konzeptpool by Falk Richter as the Girl (Director: Falk Richter)
• The truth about the Kennedys as Rose Kennedy (Director: Luk Perceval)

Theater Zurich:

• 57 Minuten 38 Sekunden Ewigkeit - ‘57 Minutes and 38 Seconds of Eternity’ by Bibiana Beglau und Stefan Jäger as the Missing (Director: Stefan Jäger)

Volksbühne Berlin:

• Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin as Mietze (Director: Frank Castorf)
• Fatherless by Anton Chekhov as Anna Petrovna (Director: Stefan Pucher)

Radio Play (Selection)

• 57 Minuten 38 Sekunden Ewigkeit’ - ‘57 Minutes and 38 Seconds of Eternity’ (Production: Theaterhörbuch Verlag)
• Gott ist ein DJ - ‘God is a DJ by Falk Richter’ (Production: Theaterhörbuch Verlag)
• Liebeserklärungen einer Reisenden - ‘Love declarations of a traveler’ by Annemarie Schwarzenbach (Production: Kein und Aber Records)
• Wie ein Stein im Geröll - ‘Like a stone in the debris’ by Maria Barbal (Production: DAV)

Awards (Selection)

• 2000: Berlinale Silver Bear for dramatic performance in The Legend of Rita
• 2000: European Actress of the Year (nomination) for dramatic performance in The Legend of Rita
• 2000: Ulrich Wildgruber Award for dramatic performance in The Legend of Rita
• 2007: Adolf-Grimme-Award for dramatic performance in Under the Ice

External links

• Bibiana Beglau at IMDb