Awards & Winners

Adriana Altaras

Date of Birth 06-April-1960
Place of Birth Zagreb
(Croatia, Yugoslavia)
Nationality Germany, Croatia
Also know as Adrijana Altaras
Profession Actor
Adriana Altaras is a Croatia born German actress, theater director and writer. Altaras was born on 6 April 1960 in Zagreb to a Croatian Jewish family of Jakob and Thea Altaras. Due to political persecution she escaped Zagreb, with her mother, in 1964. They were smuggled from Zagreb to Italy, in a car, by her Italian uncle. She stayed with her mother in Italy for a few years, enough that she learns Italian. From Italy she moved to Konstanz, Germany in 1967. After high school education, Altaras graduated from the Berlin University of the Arts. Altaras completed her academic studies in New York City. She founded the Western Stadthirschen theater in Berlin where she works as an actress, director and writer. In the early 1980s she made the movie debut, but the focus of her work remained with the various theater projects. She worked as a theater director at the Berliner Ensemble and Neuköllner Oper in Berlin. In 1998 she received the Deutscher Filmpreis Award. In addition to the theater and film work, she worked with Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation as an interviewer and lecturer. Altaras has two sons with composer Wolfgang Böhmer; Aaron Altaras and Leonard Altaras.

Awards by Adriana Altaras

Check all the awards nominated and won by Adriana Altaras.

1988


German Film Award for Best Actress
Honored for : The Microscope

Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
German Film Award for Best Actress The Microscope