Andrea Clausen (born 17 January 1959) is a German stage actress and a member of the Burgtheater ensemble.

Life and theatre career

Born in Oldenburg, Clausen first studied at the acting school of

Étienne Decroux Étienne Decroux (19 July 1898 in Paris, France – 12 March 1991 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France) was a French actor who studied at Jacques Copeau's École du Vieux-Colombier, where he saw the beginnings of what was to become his life's obse ...

in Paris and then at the

Folkwang University of the Arts The Folkwang University of the Arts is a university for music, theater, dance, design, and academic studies, located in four German cities of North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 1927, its traditional main location has been in the former Werden Abbey in ...

in Essen. After her studies she made her debut as an actress in Oldenburg and in

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...

. In 1986 she moved to Bochum and began to work with Andrea Breth. In 1991 she went to the Burgtheater and worked as well with Claus Peymann,

Hans Neuenfels Hans Neuenfels (; 31 May 1941 – 6 February 2022) was a German writer, poet, film producer, librettist, theatre director, opera director and theatre manager. As a director, he first focused on drama, staged at prominent houses such as the Vien ...

and Wilfried Minks. In 1994, she went to the

Schaubühne The Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz (Theatre on Lehniner Square) is a famous theatre in the Wilmersdorf district of Berlin, located on the Kurfürstendamm boulevard. It is a conversion of the ''Universum'' cinema, built according to plans designe ...

Berlin, returning two years later to

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. She received a ''Kainz-Medaille'' for her acting in ''

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''. Since 1996 she has worked with

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, Karin Henkel,

Paulus Manker Paulus Manker (born 25 January 1958) is an Austrian film director and actor, as well as an author and screenplay writer. Manker is considered one of the most maverick German-speaking actors, and polarizes public opinion like scarcely no other. H ...

, Theu Boermans and in many plays directed by Andrea Breth, such as ''

The Cherry Orchard ''The Cherry Orchard'' (russian: Вишнёвый сад, translit=Vishnyovyi sad) is the last play by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. Written in 1903, it was first published by '' Znaniye'' (Book Two, 1904), and came out as a separate editio ...

'', ''Emilia Galotti'', ''Minna von Barnhelm'', ''

Don Carlos ''Don Carlos'' is a five-act grand opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a French-language libretto by Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle, based on the dramatic play '' Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien'' (''Don Carlos, Infante of Spain'') by Fried ...

'' and ''Motortown''. One of her more famous roles was as Ines Finidori in ''Trois versions de la vie'' of

Yasmina Reza Yasmina Reza (born 1 May 1959) is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter best known for her plays Art and ''God of Carnage''. Many of her brief satiric plays have reflected on contemporary middle-class issues. The 2011 blac ...

(2000), which was first played in Vienna, at the

Akademietheater The Akademietheater in Vienna, Austria, is the smaller of two performance halls of the Burgtheater organization. It was constructed in the years 1911 to 1913 by architects Fellner & Helmer Fellner & Helmer was an architecture studio founded in 1 ...

. Andrea Clausen is married, and in 2003 she had twin daughters named Marie and Jelena. Since 2006 a large photography of Andrea Clausen, made by the Austrian photograph

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, has been hanging in the Portrait Gallery of the Burgtheater.

Theatre roles

Schauspielhaus Bochum

* Angelina in ''Sud'' ( Julien Green; D: A. Breth) * Girl in ''Summer'' ( Edward Bond; D: A. Breth) * Minna in ''

Minna von Barnhelm ''Minna von Barnhelm or the Soldiers' Happiness'' (german: Minna von Barnhelm oder das Soldatenglück, ) is a ''lustspiel'' or comedy by the German author Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. It has five acts, was begun in 1763 and completed in 1767 – ...

'' (Lessing, D: U. Troller) * Lucile in ''

Dantons Tod ' (German for ''Danton's Death'') is an opera by Gottfried von Einem to a libretto by Boris Blacher and Gottfried von Einem after Georg Büchner's 1835 play of the same name. Its first performance took place in Salzburg on 6 August 1947. It was ...

'' ( Büchner; D: F. P.Steckel) * Olivia in ''

Twelfth Night, or What You Will ''Twelfth Night'', or ''What You Will'' is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Vio ...

'' (

Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's natio ...

, D: A. Breth)

Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin

* Elektra in '' Elektra'' (

Euripides Euripides (; grc, Εὐριπίδης, Eurīpídēs, ; ) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars a ...

, D: A. Breth)

Burgtheater and Akademietheater, Vienna

* Marie in '' Clavigo'' (

Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as tr ...

, D: C. Peymann) * Eve in '' Der zerbrochne Krug'' ( Kleist, D: A. Breth) * Honey in ''

'' ( Edward Albee; D: H. Neuenfels) * Julie in ''

Liliom ''Liliom'' is a 1909 play by the Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnár. It was well known in its own right during the early to mid-20th century, but is best known today as the basis for the Rodgers and Hammerstein 1945 musical ''Carousel''. P ...

'' (

Molnár Molnár (or Molnar) is a Hungarian surname meaning "miller". The word might be a loanword from Slavic "mlynar" with the same meaning however most likely derived from the old Germanic "Mulinari”. It is the name of one of the most famous playw ...

; D: P. Manker) * Nora in ''

A Doll's House ''A Doll's House'' ( Danish and nb, Et dukkehjem; also translated as ''A Doll House'') is a three-act play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having be ...

'' ( Ibsen; D: K. Henkel) * Isabella in '' Edward II'' ( C. Marlowe; D: C. Peymann) * Irene in ''Tochter der Luft'' (

Hans Magnus Enzensberger Hans Magnus Enzensberger (11 November 1929 – 24 November 2022) was a German author, poet, translator, and editor. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Andreas Thalmayr, Elisabeth Ambras, Linda Quilt and Giorgio Pellizzi. Enzensberger was regarde ...

/ Calderón de la Barca, D:

Frank Castorf Frank Castorf (born 17 July 1951 in East Berlin) is a German theater director and was the artistic director of the ''Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz'' from 1992 to 2015. His work is often associated with postdramatic theatre. Biography E ...

*Ramona in ''

Viridiana ''Viridiana'' () is a 1961 Spanish-Mexican film directed by Luis Buñuel and produced by Gustavo Alatriste. It is loosely based on the 1895 novel ''Halma'' by Benito Pérez Galdós. The film was the co-winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1961 Canne ...

''of

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(D: Dimiter Gotscheff) * Ines in '' Drei Mal Leben'' (

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; D: L. Bondy), Akademietheater * Countess Orsina in '' Emilia Galotti'' ( Lessing; D: A. Breth) *Marchioness Mondecar in ''

'' ( Schiller, D: A. Breth) 2004 * Ranevskaya in ''

'' (

Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (; 29 January 1860 Old Style date 17 January. – 15 July 1904 Old Style date 2 July.) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career ...

; D: A. Breth) 2005 * A Mourning women in ''

'' (Lessing, D: A. Breth) 2005 *

Hippolyta In Classical Greek mythology, Hippolyta, or Hippolyte (; grc-gre, Ἱππολύτη ''Hippolytē'') was a daughter of Ares and Otrera, queen of the Amazons, and a sister of Antiope and Melanippe. She wore her father Ares' ''zoster'', the Gr ...

and Titania in '' A Midsummer Night's Dream'' (

, R: Theu Boermans) 2007 * Helen in ''Motortown'' (

Simon Stephens Simon Stephens (born 6 February 1971) is an English playwright and Professor of Scriptwriting at Manchester Metropolitan University. Having taught on the Young Writers' Programme at the Royal Court Theatre for many years, he is now an Artistic ...

, D: A. Breth) 2008

Movies

*2003: '' Brüder'' ''(Brothers)'', D: W Murnberger/ORF *1994: '' Kopf des Mohren'' ''(The Moor's Head)'', D:

*1983: '' Fremdes Land'' ''(Strange Country)'' D: Claus Peter Witt

Audio

* Speaker in the audio book ''Geboren in Bagdad''

Susanne Ayoub Susanne Ayoub (born 1956 in Baghdad) is an Austrian-Iraqi writer, journalist and filmmaker. She is known primarily for her crime novels, such as '' Engelsgift'' (2004), published by Hoffmann und Campe in Hamburg, which became an international succ ...

2004, Hoffman und Campe Verlag () * Speaker (Clelia) in the audio-drama ''Unter Frauen'' (''Tra donne sole'') of Cesare Pavese, 2006 (D: Götz Fritsch,

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)

Awards

*1987: ''Best young actress'' (theatre-magazine ''

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'') *1992: ''Kainz-Medaille'' *2001, 2003 und 2005: nominated for the Nestroy Theatre Prize in the category ''Best Actress'' *2007: ORF-Audio-Award (ORF-Hörspielpreis) ''Actress of the Year 2006''

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Clausen, Andrea German stage actresses 1959 births Living people People from Oldenburg (city) German voice actresses German film actresses