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 (Director: Matti Geschonneck)
• 1996: 2 ½ Minuten (Director: Rolf Schübel)
• 1996: Absprung (Director: Hanno Brühl)
• 1997: Gegen den Strom (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 (Director: Torsten C. Fischer)
• 2001: Birthday (Director: Stefan Jäger)
• 2001: Liebesschuld (Director: Ulrich Stark)
• 2002: Hamlet - This is your family (Director: Peter Kern)
• 2002: Nachtangst (Director: Michael Rowitz)
• 2002: Ten Minutes Older (Director: Volker Schlöndorff)
• 2003: Belmondo (Director: Annette Carle)
• 2003: Tatort: Gefährliches Schweigen (Director: Martin Eigler)
• 2003: Der Neunte Tag | ‘The Ninth Day’ (Director: Volker Schlöndorff)
• 2003: Kammerflimmern | ‘Ventricular Fibrilation' (Director: Hendrik Hoelzemann)
• 2004: Tatort: Sechs zum Essen (Director: Fillipos Tsitos)
• 2004: 3° Grad kälter (Director: Florian Hoffmeister)
• 2005: Ricordare Anna (Director: Walter Deuber)
• 2005: Unter dem Eis (Director: Aelrun Goette)
• 2005: Der große Schlaf (Director: Mona Lenz)
• 2006: Das Leuchten (Director: Krystof Zlatnik)
• 2007: Il Pugno di Gesù | ‘Boxing Jesus’ (Director: Stefan Jäger)
• 2008: Was Du nicht siehst (Director: Wolfgang Fischer)

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 Düsseldorf:

• 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 Zürich:

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

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)

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