Cast – BIS GLEICH

Gertrud Roll

Since the late nineties Gertrud Roll has added to her long established theatre legacy with a thriving presence in German film and television. She is a beloved face to German TV audiences from various series-episode roles as well as the television movies “The Last Chance” (1999), “I said no” (1999) and “Romeo” (2001)

Gertrud Roll was born in 1936 in Heidelberg and grew up in Colmar (Alsace) and Freiburg im Breisgau. After high school she attended drama school in Stuttgart. From 1957 to 1960 she played at the Stuttgart comedy in Marquardt. It was followed by numerous engagements in Saarbrücken, Freiburg im Breisgau, Bremen, at the Schauspielhaus (Vienna), the People’s Theater (Vienna), at Cologne Schauspielhaus and at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt. Her highlight performances include: Arcadina in “The Seagull”, Elena Andrejewna in “Uncle Vanya,” Isabeau “Thou shalt give me grandchildren”, Mary Stuart, in “The Maid of Orleans”, Laura in “father”, the mother in Dottie in “The Rat Race”, Isadora in “When she danced,” Linda in “Death of a Salesman” and Mrs Adam in “automatic buffet”. In 2006 Ms. Roll won the Nestroy Award for best supporting role as the Countess in “When Darkness Falls” at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt. In 2009 she starred in the dramatization of Ingeborg Bachmann’s novel “Malina” at the Schauspielhaus Graz. Other TV productions includes “The Reconciliation” in 2008, 2009’s “Fate Days in Bankok” directed by Hartmut Griesmayr, and “The Collapse – The Truth is Deadly”.

Awards:

– 1978/79 promotion to Kainz Medal for the 78/79 season, Schauspielhaus Wien
– 1984 Charles Skraup award for the role of Elena in “Uncle Vanya”, Public Theater Vienna
– 1987/88 Audience Award for the role of Mrs. Alving in Ibsen’s “Ghosts”, Public Theater Vienna
– 1989 Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art
– 2006 Nestroy Award for Best Supporting Actor as the Countess in “When Darkness Falls” (world premiere of Peter Turrini), Stadttheater Klagenfur

Horst Westphal

Horst Westphal, born 1929 in Leipzig, first served an apprenticeship as an automotive electrician. While working in the profession, he took private acting lessons in Meissen – and eventually landed a debut role with the local theater. Thus begins a successful theater career that continues to this day. Westphal historic performances include the Maxim Gorki Theatre Berlin, the Volksbühne in Dresden and Weimar, and the Mecklenburg State Theatre in Schwerin. Here he gives the “Uncle Vanya” in a production of Chekhov’s classic of the same name and embodies the controversial figure of Shylock in Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice“. Directed by Henry Hübchen he plays in Berlin Molière’s “Misanthrope” and he also appears in classics such as “Hamlet” and “Waiting for Godot“.

His first leading role in film came in 2008 – in Andreas Dresen’s critically acclaimed, Cannes award-winning relationship drama “Cloud Nine“, where he embodied the lover of a married woman.

Julia Richter

Richter began her acting career at the age of seven and played for almost ten years in the Friedrichstadtpalast. children’s ensemble. She learned the craft of acting at both the Berlin fringe theaters ‘Reissverschluss’ and ‘Theater Studio Friedrichstrasse’.

After completing her acting training in 1993 Richter landed a role on the television series ‘Friends for Life’. She gave her film debut as the lesbian ‘Kati’ in the lead role of the coming-out comedy ‘Kommt Mausi raus?!’.

Since then she has appeared in many lead roles such as Christoph Schrewes ‘Die Nacht’, ‘In der ganz ehrlich überhaupt niemand Sex hatte’ and in Florian Gärtners ‘Drachenland’. Additional film roles of note were in ‘Schwestern’, ‘Und das ist erst der Anfang’, as Ingrid Anschütz in “Sushi in Suhl’ and played Sarah Fischer in the 2012 Academy Award nominated short film ‘Raju’.

She has also appeared in a multitude of television series through the years such as ‘Polizeiruf 110’, ‘Die letzte Spur, ‘Tatort’, and ‘Der Bulle von Toelz’. 2012/2013 she recently played the role of ‘Marei Schiller’ in eight episodes of the TV series ‘Heiter bis tödlich: Hauptstadtrevier’.

Julia is also an accomplished stage actor where she has graced the stage at the Modern Theater, the Theater im Palais and the Theater 89. She has also tread the boards at the National Theatre in Weimar, the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, the Volkstheater Rostock and at the Munich Volkstheater.

Ricardia Bramley

Ricardia Bramley trained as an actor with Bill Esper at the acclaimed William Esper Studio in NYC. She now resides in Berlin and has been an actor and voice over artist for over ten years. She has recently appeared in 2 international movies starring, a.o., Ryan Reynolds in “The Voices” and Juliette Binoche in “Clouds of Sils Maria”.

Julian Mehne

Julian Mehne was born in West-Berlin and trained at the “Westfälischen Schauspielschule Bochum”. Since 1995 he has appeared in numerous theater productions in Bochum, Bremen, Mannheim, Mainz, Bielefeld, Bonn, Kiel, Dresden and Berlin (Maxim Gorki). He has won numerous accolades for his performances. Most of all as Leonce in “Leonce und Lena” and Orest in “Iphigenie auf Tauris“. Julian will be appearing soon on the big screen in Brigitte Maria Mayer’s “Jesus Cries” as Josef v. Arimathia.