Stephanie Stumph (born 7 July 1984 in

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...

) is a

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actress. She is the daughter of actor

Wolfgang Stumph Wolfgang Stumph (born 31 January 1946) is a German actor and cabaret artist. Early life Stumph was born in Wünschelburg, Lower Silesia (Poland) in 1946 to German parents. He was expelled from his hometown and grew up without a father in Dre ...

Personal life

Stumph was born as the daughter of

Wolfgang Wolfgang is a German male given name traditionally popular in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The name is a combination of the Old High German words ''wolf'', meaning "wolf", and ''gang'', meaning "path", "journey", "travel". Besides the regula ...

and Christine Stumph on 7 July 1984. During her childhood, she sang in

choir A choir ( ; also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform. Choirs may perform music from the classical music repertoire, which ...

s and danced

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. She subsequently took professional dancing classes, as well as piano and violin lessons. After completing

Abitur ''Abitur'' (), often shortened colloquially to ''Abi'', is a qualification granted at the end of secondary education in Germany. It is conferred on students who pass their final exams at the end of ISCED 3, usually after twelve or thirteen year ...

in 2003, she studied at the Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and Theatre in

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...

Acting career

Television

Since 1995, Stumph has a role in 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 ...

police investigation series '' Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall'' playing Christiane Stubbe, the daughter of (her father)

's character. In 2001 she played the daughter of Götz George's character in ''Liebe ist die halbe Miete'' and in 2003 and 2004 she starred alongside

Katharina Thalbach Katharina Thalbach (; actually ''Katharina Joachim genannt Thalbach''; born 19 January 1954) is a German actress and stage director. She played theatre at the Berliner Ensemble and at the Volksbühne Berlin, and was actress in the film ''The T ...

Katja Riemann Katja Hannchen Leni Riemann (, born 1 November 1963) is a German actress. The daughter of two teachers, Riemann grew up in Weyhe, near Bremen. After high school she went to Hamburg to study music and theater. She is the mother of actress Paula ...

and her father in the two-part film ''Der Job seines Lebens''. In 2005 she starred in the

Rosamunde Pilcher Rosamunde Pilcher, OBE (''née'' Scott; 22 September 1924 – 6 February 2019) was a British writer of romance novels, mainstream fiction, and short stories, from 1949 until her retirement in 2000. Her novels sold over 60 million copies worldw ...

film adaptation ''

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''. In 2008 she starred alongside her father in ''30 Tage Angst'', a hostage thriller. In 2009, she had a major role in the ARD film ''Väter werden ist nicht schwer'' alongside

Fritz Wepper Fritz Wepper (born 17 August 1941, Munich, Germany) is a German film and television actor. He is best known for his role as Inspector Harry Klein in the long-running crime series ''Derrick'' (1974–1998). Wepper is also remembered for his roles ...

and

Francis Fulton-Smith Francis Fulton-Smith (born 25 April 1966) is a British-German television actor. Life Fulton-Smith was born in Munich, Germany, the son of a German mother and an English father. After graduating school he trained as an actor at the Otto-Falckenbe ...

. Also in 2009, the

produced Stumph's first own series called ''

Die Bergwacht ''Die Bergwacht'' (since 2012 ''Die Bergretter'') is a German mountain rescue television series, broadcast since 26 November 2009 on ZDF. The series is set in the Austrian Alps and centers around a fictional ''Bergwacht'' (mountain rescue) team i ...

''.

Theater

Before studying, Stumph had her first theater role in 2000–2001 playing Carmencita in the play '' Das Haus in Montevideo'' at the Kleine Komödie in

. During her studies she was with the

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 ...

which she currently has a guest contract with.

Television

* '' Leipzig Homicide'' (2006) * '' SOKO Wismar'' (2007)

Theater

* ''

Der gute Mensch von Sezuan ''The Good Person of Szechwan'' (german: Der gute Mensch von Sezuan, first translated less literally as ''The Good Man of Setzuan'') is a play written by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, in collaboration with Margarete Steffin and Ruth Berlau. ...

'' (Staatsschauspiel Dresden): Shen Te / Shui Ta / Mrs. Yang / Wife of the carpet salesman (2006–2007)

References

External links

Official homepage
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stumph, Stephanie 1984 births German television actresses Living people Actors from Dresden University of Music and Theatre Leipzig alumni German stage actresses 20th-century German actresses 21st-century German actresses