Nisma Cherrat (Nisma Bux-Cherrat, born 1969 in
Casablanca
Casablanca, also known in Arabic as Dar al-Bayda ( ar, الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء, al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ, ; ber, ⴹⴹⴰⵕⵍⴱⵉⴹⴰ, ḍḍaṛlbiḍa, : "White House") is the largest city in Morocco and the country's econom ...
,
Morocco) is an
Afro-German
Afro-Germans (german: Afrodeutsche) or Black Germans (german: schwarze Deutsche) are people of Sub-Saharan African descent who are citizens or residents of Germany.
Cities such as Hamburg and Frankfurt, which were formerly centres of occupatio ...
actress.
Life and career
She grew up in the
Schwarzwald region in
Germany and attended 1989 to 1992 the ''Neue Münchner Schauspielschule''. She studied classical singing 1993 to 1995 with Bennie Gillette in
Munich and at the ''Jazzschool München''.
Nisma Cherrat is a founding member of the ''
SFD - Schwarze Filmschaffende in Deutschland
''SFD - Schwarze Filmschaffende in Deutschland'' (Black Artists in German Film) is a professional association based in Berlin, Germany for directors, producers, screenwriters, actors and actresses who are Afro-Germans or of African origin an ...
'' (''Black Artists in German Film'') association.
Cherrat was trained at the Schlaffhorst-Andersen school in
Bad Nenndorf
Bad Nenndorf (Northern Low Saxon: ''Nenndörpe'') is a small town in the district of Schaumburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. Its population is 10,210 (2005). It is situated approximately 12 km east of Stadthagen, and 25 km west of Hanover, a ...
as teacher for
respiratory and
speech therapy
Speech is a human vocal communication using language. Each language uses phonetic combinations of vowel and consonant sounds that form the sound of its words (that is, all English words sound different from all French words, even if they are th ...
. Since July 2011 she works for a research project at the ''Freiburger Institute for Musicians' Medicine'' of the
University of Music in
Freiburg, Germany.
Film and TV work
*''Warten auf Gott'' (Series) (1992 ARD)
*''Spieglein'' (2000 Filmhochschule Köln)
*''Valley of the Innocent'' (dir.
Branwen Okpako, 2003 ZDF)
Theatre work (selection)
*''Skins'' als Gloria (1992 Kampnagel Kulturfabrik)
*''Mephisto'' als Juliette (1995 Landesbühnen Sachsen)
*''Diener zweier Herren'' als Smeraldina (1995 Landesbühnen Sachsen)
*''Hexenjagd'' als Tituba (1995 Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern)
*''Hechinger'' als Mpenzi (1997 Thalia Theater Hamburg)
*''Die Blume von Hawaii'' als Raka (2000
Staatsschauspiel Dresden
The Staatsschauspiel Dresden (State Playhouse Dresden) is a theatre in Dresden. It is maintained by the Free State of Saxony, hence its name. It consists of a main auditorium, the ' (play house), and a studio theatre, the '. It was created in 19 ...
)
*''Tartuffe'' als Dorin (2001 See-Burgtheater Schweiz)
*''Der Streit'' als Carise (2002 Stadttheater Bielefeld)
*''Hysterikon'' als Mädchen mit Impuls (2003 Theater Kosmos, Bregenz)
*''I have a dream'' als Coretta King (2004 Tourneetheater Kempf)
*''Mephisto'' als Juliette (2006 Theater Hof)
Publikation
*''Mätresse – Wahnsinnige – Hure: Schwarze SchauspielerInnen am deutschsprachigen Theater'' in Mythen, Masken und Subjekte Kritische Weißseinsforschung in Deutschland (2006, Unrast Verlag)
References
External links
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Website(in German)
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German television actresses
German film actresses
Living people
1969 births
German people of Moroccan descent
Actors from Casablanca
German stage actresses
20th-century German actresses
21st-century German actresses
Moroccan emigrants to Germany