Hannah Herzsprung

Hannah Herzsprung
Hannah Herzsprung
	Herzsprung in 2017
Born	7 September 1981 (age 43); Hamburg, West Germany
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1997–present
Parents	Bernd Herzsprung (father); Barbara Engel (mother);

Hannah Herzsprung (German: [ˈha.na ˈhɛʁt͡sˌʃpʁʊŋ] ^ⓘ) is a German actress.

Biography

Hannah Herzsprung is the daughter of actor Bernd Herzsprung and fashion designer Barbara Engel.

She debuted as an actress in 1997 in the BR series Aus heiterem Himmel, where she played the role of Miriam "Mimi" Pauly at the beginning of the fourth and last season. She was taking private acting lessons since 1999. She took over the clip show on musicbox channel (now known as Tele 5) with her sister Sara at the end of 2002; at that time she also started studying Communication Sciences in Vienna. She had many television roles, including Jule in Das böse Mädchen, and since 2003 as Vera in the series 18 – Allein unter Mädchen. In 2003 she also had a part in Unter Verdacht: Beste Freunde and a smaller role in the comedy Tramitz & Friends.

Her roles became more ambitious with the television film Emilia – Die zweite Chance, where she played a patient with borderline personality disorder. In 2005, she received her first leading role as the murderer Jenny in Four Minutes by Chris Kraus. On 19 January 2007, she received the Bayerischen Filmpreis for best new female talent. In 2005, she played a suicidal youth in Life Actually [de] by Alain Gsponer. She ended her studies in Vienna and moved to Berlin in order to act in these two films. For Life Actually she was awarded the 2007 Deutschen Filmpreis for best supporting role and the Adolf-Grimme-Preis in 2009.

In 2007, Herzsprung played terrorist Susanne Albrecht in The Baader Meinhof Complex as well as the leading role of Daniela in the film 10 Seconds. In 2008 she played the role of Julia in Stephen Daldry's film The Reader. She also played the role of Charlotte in Uwe Janson's adaptation of Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, as well as in Jo Baier's television movie Liesl Karlstadt & Karl Valentin [de] as young Liesl Karlstadt.

Filmography

Film
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Four Minutes	Jenny Von Loeben
2006	Life Actually [de]	Florina Krüger
2008	1st of May: All Belongs to You	Ratte
	Liesl Karlstadt & Karl Valentin [de]	Liesl Karlstadt
	The Baader Meinhof Complex	Susanne Albrecht
	10 Seconds	Daniela
	The Reader	Julia Berg
2009	Pink [de]	Pink
	Vicky the Viking	Waschweib 1
	Vision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen	Richardis von Stade
	Lila, Lila	Marie
2010	Habermann	Jana Habermann
2010-2013	Weissensee	Julia Hausmann	12 episodes
2011	Hell	Marie
2011-2013	H+: The Digital Series	Manta	13 episodes
2012	Wie zwischen Himmel und Erde	Johanna
	Guardians	Helena
	Ludwig II	Empress Elisabeth of Austria
2013	The Taste of Apple Seeds [de]	Iris
2014	Die geliebten Schwestern	Caroline von Beulwitz
2014	Who Am I	Marie
2015	Traumfrauen	Leni Reimann
2016	Rivals Forever: The Sneaker Battle [de]	Friedl Dassler	TV film
2016	The Bloom of Yesterday	Hannah Blumen
2017	Everything Is Wonderful	Lena's Sister
2017-2020	Babylon Berlin	Helga Rath	21 episodes
2018	Don't. Get. Out!	Pia Zach
	Mack the Knife: Brecht's Threepenny Film [de]	Carola Neher / Polly
	Dogs of Berlin	Trinity Sommer	7 episodes
2019	Sweethearts	Melanie Rossbach
2019	Juntas no crime	Mel
2021	My Son