Karin Hanczewski (German: �kaʁin hanˈtʃɛfskiborn 22 December 1981) is a German actress.

Early life

Hanczewski comes from a

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family. After four years of training at the European Theatre Institute in Berlin, which began in 2002, she was given a permanent position at the Junge Theatre in

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from 2005 to 2008. She received her first film and television roles in the debut film ''Marla'' by Marta Malowanczyk, in which she played the leading role and which was nominated for the First Steps film award, as well as in ''

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: … es wird Trauer sein und Schmerz''. Since then, she has appeared in short, feature and television films. Furthermore, she starred in a play every year from 2009 to 2012. Since 2016, she portrays Karin Gorniak as part of the investigative team Winkler, Gorniak and Schnabel in the MDR television series ''

'' ("Dresden Detectives" episodes).mdr.de:

Personal life

On 5 February 2021, as part of the # ActOut initiative in SZ-Magazin, Hanczewski came out as

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alongside 184 other lesbian,

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and

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actors. The initiative was initiated jointly by

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and Hanczewski herself in order to create further acceptance in their industry and in society. In an interview, she has stated that she had been warned about coming out with regard to the casting of further role offers after she had been cast for the television series Tatort.''«Wir sind schon da».''
In: ''SZ-Magazin'', 4 February 2021.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hanczewski, Karin 1981 births Living people Actresses from Berlin German people of Polish descent German film actresses German stage actresses German television actresses 20th-century German actresses 21st-century German actresses German lesbian actresses