Ann-Kathrin Kramer (born 4 April 1966) is a
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actress and writer.
Biography
Kramer was born and educated in
Wuppertal
Wuppertal (; "''Wupper Dale''") is, with a population of approximately 355,000, the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the 17th-largest city of Germany. It was founded in 1929 by the merger of the cities and tow ...
but left school at the age of sixteen.
[''Setzen, Sechs! - Schulgeschichten aus Deutschland (3/3). Experiment Schule''. Documentary by Susanne Bausch on behalf of SWR, broadcast in Germany on 22 December 2005] She worked as a shop window designer, made portraits of tourists in
Greece
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, and applied to fashion school without success. She eventually took the "Technische Abitur" (baccalaureate-level qualification),
but decided against studying
physics
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as she had initially planned. At 26, she went to the
Gmelin Drama School in Munich and completed her training as an actress.
Kramer took singing lessons with
Anneliese Hofmann de Boer and acting lessons with
John Costopoulos in the
Lee Strasberg
Lee Strasberg (born Israel Strassberg; November 17, 1901 – February 17, 1982) was an American theatre director, actor and acting teacher. He co-founded, with theatre directors Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford, the Group Theatre in 1931 ...
Method.
She has two brothers and a son who was born in 1997 from her relationship with
Jan Josef Liefers
Jan Josef Liefers (born 8 August 1964), is a German actor, producer, director and musician.
Life
Liefers was born in Dresden, the son of director Karlheinz Liefers and actress Brigitte Liefers-Wähner. After his apprenticeship he studied at th ...
. She married
Harald Krassnitzer
Harald Krassnitzer (born 10 September 1960, in Grödig, Austria) is an Austrian actor.
Life
Krassnitzer grew up in Grödig, in the Flachgau district in Salzburg state, Austria. His father was a locksmith, while his mother worked in a candy ...
in 2009.
Kramer works with the charity "Dunkelziffer - Hilfe für sexuell missbrauchte Kinder" (Unreported - Help for Sexually Abused Children) in Hamburg and represents the "Bundesstiftung Kinderhospiz" (Federal Children's Hospice Foundation).
In 2005, she published the children's book ''Matilda - Oder die aus dem Haus ohne Fenster'' (Matilda - Or the House Without Windows), with a sequel, ''Neues von Matilda, dem Mädchen aus dem Haus ohne Fenster'' (News From Matilda, the Girl From the House Without Windows), in 2014.
In 2008, Stefan Loeffler wrote a biography of Kramer titled ''Ann-Kathrin Kramer - Begegnungen'' (Ann-Kathrin Kramer - Encounters).
Selected filmography
Bibliography
* ''Matilda - Oder die aus dem Haus ohne Fenster'' (2005)
* ''Neues von Matilda, dem Mädchen aus dem Haus ohne Fenster'' (2014)
References
External links
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Ann-Kathrin Kramer interview with Tobias Goltz, 3 January 2008Stefan Loeffler - ''Ann-Kathrin Kramer - Begegnungen''
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1966 births
Living people
German television actresses
Actors from Wuppertal