Regine Zimmermann

Source: Schlag Agency

Regine Zimmermann was born in Grünstadt/Pfalz. She attended the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich and was engaged as a beginner at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin. Here she played the title role in Effi Briest, Mieze in Berlin Alexanderplatz, alongside Ben Becker, and Jenna in Lars Norén’s Dämonen. She was nominated for the Ulrich Wildgruber Prize in 2000. She played Alice in Patrick Marber’s Hautnah (Closer). She worked regularly with Michael Thalheimer at the Deutsches Theater, where she was a member of the ensemble until 2009. In Emilia Galotti she created the title heroine, in Goethe’s Faust. Der Tragödie erster Teil she plays Gretchen and Sorge in Faust. The second part of the tragedy. In Gerhart Hauptmann’s Die Ratten (invited to the Theatertreffen 2008, together with Einar Schleef’s Gertrud) she can be seen as Pauline Piperkarcka. She has repeatedly worked with Nicolas Stemann and Armin Petras. In the 2013/14 season, she was permanently engaged at the Schaubühne Berlin.

Regine is currently back in the ensemble at the Deutsches Theater. There she has created important works with Pinar Karabulut, Bastian Kraft and Kirill Serebrennikov .

Zimmermann’s film and television work includes Caroline Link’s film Nowhere in Africa, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 2003, and Gegen Morgen (directed by Joachim Schönfeld). Most recently, she played the role of Marlene Dietrich in Erik Schmitt’s film Cleo.

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