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Nadja Uhl | |
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.jpg) Uhl in 2018 | |
| Born | (1972-05-23)23 May 1972 (age 53) |
| Education | University of Music and Theatre Leipzig |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, model |
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) |
| Spouse | Kay Bockhold |
| Children | 2 |
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One day the leader of the drama group that she attended after school each Monday asked Nadja Uhl if she had ever considered making acting her profession. Suddenly new possibilities opened up and with them a legitimation for the future:
- "I might be permitted to grow up and yet somehow remain a child .... depending"
- "Ich durfte erwachsen werden und trotzdem irgendwie Kind bleiben – je nachdem."
- Nadja Uhl, interviewed by Katja Hübner in 2008[3]
Nadja Uhl (German:[ˈnadjaˈʔuːl]ⓘ; born 23 May 1972) is a German actress.
Uhl grew up in the town ofFranzburg, near her birth city ofStralsund. She lived with her mother in a three-generation house, shared with aunts and her grandparents, who had moved in shortly after the war. Her father left the family home when she was two; she never got to know him.[1] Many years later, after setting up her ownmulti-generation multi-family house in Potsdam in 2005, with friends and relations ranging in age from 20 to 90,[1] she told an interviewer that childhood experience of living with aunts and grandparents taught her that this type of extended family community in a single home was a challenge which could only succeed if each member was allowed some free space.[3]
At school, Uhl tried shooting, ballet, table tennis, and gymnastics. A perceptive school report noted that "Nadja likes to be part of a group". An art teacher spotted her talent for entertaining others and arranged for her to take part in a weekly amateur drama group after school each Monday. That became a weekly highlight.[3]
Uhl studied at theFelix Mendelssohn Bartholdy College of Music and Theatre in Leipzig between 1990 and 1994, beginning her career as a theatre actress at theHans Otto Theater in Potsdam in 1994.[1] There, she opened a music hall with her partner (and business manager) Kay Bockhold in 2006.
Uhl first appeared in a film in 1993 (Thomas Koerfer'sDer Grüne Heinrich, playing Agnes' role), but in 2000 she attracted international attention acting inVolker Schlöndorff'sThe Legend of Rita (Die Stille nach dem Schuß). In this film she played Tatjana, an East German waitress who rebels against the system of her country. Due to her work in this film, she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at theBerlin International Film Festival and was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at theDeutscher Filmpreis (German Film Awards).
In 2002, Uhl appeared inTwin Sisters (De Tweeling), directed byDutch directorBen Sombogaart and based on the novelThe Twins, a bestseller byTessa de Loo. Here she played Anna, Lotte's sister. They are separated from each other after the death of their parents; theSecond World War and theHolocaust will consolidate their situation. The film was a76th Academy Awards nominee forAcademy Award for Best Foreign Language Film of 2003.
In 2005, Uhl played the role of Nicole inSummer in Berlin (Sommer vorm Balkon), directed byAndreas Dresen, and was nominated for Best Actress at the German Film Awards.
In 2006, Uhl played Katja Döbbelin inStorm Tide [de], directed by Jorgo Papavassiliou. This successfulRTL TVminiseries focused on theNorth Sea flood of 1962, which left 315 dead.
In 2008, Uhl participated inUli Edel'sDer Baader Meinhof Komplex, based on the bestseller of the same title by Stefan Aust; the film and the book are based on real events. In the film, Uhl playsBrigitte Mohnhaupt, a member of theRed Army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion or R.A.F., a German terrorist group ofMarxist ideology active from the late 1960s to 1998), and leader of its second generation. Also in 2008, Uhl participated in a TV production, also based on real events, about theLufthansa Flight 181 hijacking (during theGerman Autumn of 1977), which was perpetrated by four terrorists of thePopular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in collusion with the R.A.F. Here, Nadja Uhl plays flight attendantGabriele Dillmann, who was one of the victims of the hijacking. Coincidentally, at the time of the hijacking, the R.A.F.'s leader was Brigitte Mohnhaupt. In the filmMogadischu she plays a flight attendant aboard hijacked Flight LH181.[3]
In 2017, Uhl told an interviewer that she still loves the land of her birth, theGerman Democratic Republik (GDR) "in spite of everything ... that happened with my family".[4] Although the family in which she grew up was not particularly politicised during her early childhood, they were forced to confront an uglier side of the socialist paradise when her uncle was arrested during the later 1980s and imprisoned atBautzen in connection with his "environmental activism which at that time was not welcome [to the authorities] in the GDR ... [Those activists] did nothing wrong. They just pointed out the abuses. That alone was enough to be seen as an attack on the system."[4]
Uhl has two daughters, born in 2006 and in 2009.[2][5]
