Katja Frenzel (born 17 May 1974), also called Katja Frenzel-Röhl, is a German actress.

Career

Frenzel began her acting career in 1994 on the

ZDF ZDF (, short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; ; "Second German Television") is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is run as an independent nonprofit institution, which was founded by all fe ...

series ''

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''. She was only supposed to play an episode role there, but was then included in the permanent cast of the first season. Immediately afterwards, she was cast in the soap opera ''

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'', where she portrayed Melanie Hoffmeister in episodes 8 to 229 from the end of 1994 to 1995. She then worked as an actress in various TV films and series, including in the ZDF series ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

Familie Dr. Kleist ''Familie Dr. Kleist'' is a German television series about a German doctor named Christian Kleist and his family, internationally also known as ''Circle of Life''. Familie Dr. Kleist stars Francis Fulton-Smith in the title role, which has been b ...

'', and ''

SOKO Wismar ''SOKO Wismar'' is a German police procedural television series that premiered on 6 October 2004 on ZDF. It is the fifth offshoot of ''SOKO München'', launched in 1978 under the name ''SOKO 5113''. "SOKO" is an abbreviation of the German word ...

''. In 2016 and 2018-19, Frenzel portrayed the role of Tina Richter in the telenovela ''

Rote Rosen ''Rote Rosen'' (Red Roses) is a German telenovela produced by Studio Hamburg Serienwerft Lüneburg and broadcast by Das Erste since 6 November 2006. The show is a complex telenovela, which tells one love story every season about women in their ...

''. In addition to acting, she is also a comedian, including the sketch-comedy series ''

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'', and has also worked as an acting coach for children and young people since 2003.

Personal life

In addition to

Standard German Standard High German (SHG), less precisely Standard German or High German (not to be confused with High German dialects, more precisely Upper German dialects) (german: Standardhochdeutsch, , or, in Switzerland, ), is the standardized variety ...

, due to Frenzel's biographical constellations, she can also speak the

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

Colognian Colognian or Kölsch (; natively ''Kölsch Platt'') is a small set of very closely related dialects, or variants, of the Ripuarian group of dialects of the Central German group. These dialects are spoken in the area covered by the Archdiocese ...

North German Northern Germany (german: link=no, Norddeutschland) is a linguistic, geographic, socio-cultural and historic region in the northern part of Germany which includes the coastal states of Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Lower Saxony an ...

and

Upper Saxon Upper Saxon (german: Obersächsisch, ; ) is an East Central German language spoken in much of the modern German state of Saxony and in adjacent parts of southeastern Saxony-Anhalt and eastern Thuringia. As of the early 21st century, it's mostl ...

dialects fluently. Frenzel is the daughter of actress

Bärbel Röhl Bärbel Röhl (born 6 March 1950) is a German actress. Life and career Little is known about Bärbel Röhl regarding verifiable biographical data. Accordingly, she was born on 6 March 1950 in Kargow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in what was then Eas ...

, the sister of actress and children's book illustrator Anna Frenzel-Röhl and the cousin of actress

Henriette Richter-Röhl Henriette Richter-Röhl (born 9 January 1982) is a German actress. Early life Richter-Röhl comes from a family of actors. Her mother Siegrid Richter and her father Hans Otto Reinsch performed on stage and were seen in movies. Her brother Frido ...

. She has three sons and a daughter and lives in Berlin.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Frenzel, Katja 1974 births Living people People from Dessau-Roßlau German film actresses German stage actresses German television actresses 20th-century German actresses 21st-century German actresses