Jeanette Spassova Explained

Jeanette Spassova

Jeanette Spassova (Bulgarian: Жанет Спасова, born 27 January 1962) is a Bulgarian-German actress.

Life and career

The daughter of actor and general theatre administrator Vassil Spassov and his wife Teresa Azaryan (sister of director Krikor Azaryan), Spassova grew up in Sofia. She attended the Galabov Gymnasium, a German-language secondary school in Sofia, and then studied drama at the Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts. While still a student she met author and director Ivan Stanev. She was one of the founder members of Stanev's first theatre company, and together they developed their own special language for theatre. This provoked a fierce reaction from the board of censors in Bulgaria, an Eastern Bloc state at the time, and led to Stanev being temporarily barred from exercising his profession

In 1987 Spassova was engaged by the State theatre “ Sofia” in Sofia, where she made her debut in the role of Marie in Stanev's production Die Wunde Woyzeck.[1] In 1988 Heiner Müller invited the company to stage the production in West Berlin. After this guest performance, which formed part of the Heiner-Müller Werkschau, Stanev did not return to Bulgaria. In 1989 he invited Spassova to Munich, where she played the leading role in Stanev's collage Betrogen/Gestern nach einem sonnigen Nachmittag[2] [3] at the Studiotheater Munich.In 1990 Spassova moved to Berlin, founded an international theatre company with Stanev and performed at the Hebbel Theater and the Podewil.

In 1996 she signed on with the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and until 2000 performed there in numerous productions by Frank Castorf, Christoph Marthaler and Penelope Wehrli, among others. She went on to work as a free-lance actress in Basel (Theater Basel), Munich (Münchner Kammerspiele) and Salzburg (Salzburger Festspiele) and continued to work with Ivan Stanev and his ensemble in Berlin and France.

In 2004 she returned to the Volksbühne in Berlin and until 2017 remained there as a permanent member of the company.In addition to her work in theatre, Spassova has also played parts in many radio plays and audio books.

Her first roles as a film actress were in Tom Toelle's Bismarck, Stanev's Villa dei Misteri and Luxor Las Vegas and in Castorf's Dämonen and Der Idiot.

In 2012 Spassova played the leading role in the Bulgarian feature film "Az sum Ti" (English: "I am You") and received several awards for her performance. In 2013 "Az sum Ti" was screened at the 16th Shanghai International Film Festival.[4]

Work in theatre (selection)

Radio plays and audio books

Filmography (selection)

Awards

External links

References

  1. http://berlin.ivanstanev.com/15-presspop1-02.html "Theater heute, 9/88"
  2. http://berlin.ivanstanev.com/15-presspop2-02.html Totentanz der Gefühle
  3. http://berlin.ivanstanev.com/15-presspop2-03.html Osteuropäische Sphynx
  4. http://www.siff.com/InformationEn/ViewNews.aspx?CategoryID=3242fa27-c8a9-4dba-9f75-0a682b6b0586&SubCategoryID=f0e6f83d-2066-46ad-a1d2-86460297c619&ParentCategoryID=f0e6f83d-2066-46ad-a1d2-86460297c619 16th Shanghai International Film Festival: Nominees
  5. Peter Laudenbach: Sag niemals Nil, Der Tagesspiegel, 28. November 2002
  6. http://d-nb.info/1008771317 Der Process im DNB-Katalog

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