Elisa Johanna Lucie Schlott (born 7 February 1994 in

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) is a German

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. Her younger half-sisters are the actresses

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and Helena Pieske.

Life

Schlott starred in her first television productions as a teenager alongside

Ulrich Mühe Friedrich Hans Ulrich Mühe (; 20 June 1953 – 22 July 2007) was a German film, television and theatre actor. He played the role of Hauptmann (Captain) Gerd Wiesler in the Oscar-winning film ''Das Leben der Anderen'' (''The Lives of Others'', 200 ...

and Corinna Harfouch. This was followed by her first feature films, and she received the Förderpreis Deutscher Film for the lead role in ''

Draußen am See ''Losing Balance'' (German: Draußen am See) is a 2009 drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually ...

''. After graduating from high school, Elisa Schlott moved from

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for a year in October 2012 to take some acting courses. From 2014 she studied acting at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy"

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, which she completed in 2017. In 2015, she gained a lot of attention with her portrayal of a drug addict in '' Tatort: Borowski und der Himmel über Kiel''. In 2017, she starred in the film '' Fremde Tochter'', which was awarded the Golden Beaver at the Biberach Film Festival. In 2019, she was in front of the camera for the ARD multi-part series '' Unsere wunderbaren Jahre,'' which aired on

Das Erste Das Erste (; "The First") is the flagship national television channel of the ARD association of public broadcasting corporations in Germany. ''Das Erste'' is jointly operated by the nine regional public broadcasting corporations that are member ...

in March 2020, alongside

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, Anna Maria Mühe,

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and Ludwig Trepte. Between 2016 and 2018, she was working with

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. Schlott lives in Berlin.

Filmography

Film

* 2007: ''Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie'' * 2008: ''

'' (directed by Felix Fuchssteiner) * 2009: ''Giulias Verschwinden'' (directed by

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) * 2011: ''Fliegende Fische müssen ins Meer'' (directed by Güzin Kar) * 2011: ''Finn und der Weg zum Himmel'' (directed by Steffen Weinert) * 2012: '' The Weekend'' (directed by Nina Grosse) * 2013: ' (directed by

Gregor Schnitzler Gregor Schnitzler (born 1964) is a German film director. He directed more than fifteen films since 1991. His best-known films are ''What to Do in Case of Fire?'' and '' The Cloud'' based on the novel by Gudrun Pausewang. His father, Conrad, was w ...

) * 2014: ''Agnieszka'' (directed by Tomasz Emil Rudzik) * 2015: ''Bienenjunge & Blumenmädchen'' (directed by Clemens Roth) * 2016: ''La Cigale et la Fourmi'' (directed by Julia Ritschel) * 2017: ''Fremde Tochter'' (directed by Stephan Lacant) * 2018: ''Safari – Match Me If You Can'' (directed by Rudi Gaul) * 2019: ''Goliath 96'' (directed by Marcus Richard) * 2019: ''Limbo'' (directed by Tim Dünschede) * 2020: ''Narziss und Goldmund'' (directed by

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)

Television

* 2006: ''The Secret of St. Ambrose'' (directed by ) * 2007: ''Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie'' (directed by Miguel Alexandre) * 2008: ''Der große Tom'' (directed by Nikolaus Stein von Kamienski) * 2008: '' Polizeiruf 110 – Geliebter Mörder'' (directed by Christiane Balthasar) * 2011: ' (directed by Dominik Graf) * 2013: ''Nichts mehr wie vorher'' (directed by Oliver Dommenget) * 2014: ''

Tatort ''Tatort'' ("Crime scene") is a German language police procedural television series that has been running continuously since 1970 with some 30 feature-length episodes per year, which makes it the longest-running German TV drama. Developed by ...

– Borowski und der Himmel über Kiel'' (directed by

Christian Schwochow Christian Schwochow (; born 23 September 1978) is a German film director. He has directed more than ten films since 2005, including TV movie ' on the ARD channel, a tragicomedy about the fall of the Berlin Wall. Schwochow also directed episodes o ...

) * 2015: ''Marie Brand und der schöne Schein'' (directed by Jörg Lühdorff) * 2017: ''Das Verschwinden'' (directed by

Hans-Christian Schmid Hans-Christian Schmid (born 1965) is a German film director and screenwriter. Life and work Hans-Christian Schmid has collaborated with on several of the movies that he directed. Gutmann wrote screenplays for ''23 (film), 23 — Nichts ist so ...

) * 2018: ''Der Richter'' (directed by Markus Imboden) * 2019: ''Tödliches Comeback'' (directed by

Hermine Huntgeburth Hermine Huntgeburth (born 13 November 1957) is a German film director. She is best known for her 2005 film ''The White Masai''. Selected filmography *'' The Terrible Threesome'' (1991) *''Gefährliche Freundin'' (1996, TV film) *' (1998) *''The C ...

) * 2019: ''

Schuld nach Ferdinand von Schirach ''Shades of Guilt'' (German: ''Schuld nach Ferdinand von Schirach'') is a German television series. It was first broadcast on 6 February 2015, on the internet. The television release was on 20 February 2015, on German television channel ZDF. It bas ...

– Einsam'' (directed by Nils Willbrandt) * 2020: ''Unsere wunderbaren Jahre'' (directed by ) * 2021: ''Ostfriesenangst'' (directed by Hannu Salonen) * 2022: '' The Empress''

Theater (selection)

* 2003: '' Der Idiot'',

Volksbühne Berlin The Volksbühne ("People's Theatre") is a theater in Berlin. Located in Berlin's city center Mitte on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (Rosa Luxemburg Square) in what was the GDR's capital. It has been called Berlin's most iconic theatre. About The Vo ...

* 2013: '' Oleanna'', Hamburger Kammerspiele

Awards

* 2009: German Film Promotion Award in the category "Acting Female" for ''Draußen am See'' * 2015: Günter Strack Television Award for best young actress * 2018: Television Film Award of the German Academy of the Performing Arts, Actor Award for ''Fremde Tochter''

References

External links

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