Ann-Kathrin Kramer (born 4 April 1966) is a German actress and writer.
Biography
Kramer was born and educated in Wuppertal but left school at the age of sixteen.Setzen, Sechs! – Schulgeschichten aus Deutschland (3/3). Experiment Schule. Documentary by Susanne Bausch on behalf of SWR, broadcast in Germany on 22 December 2005 She worked as a shop window designer, made portraits of tourists in Greece, and applied to fashion school without success. She eventually took the "Technische Abitur" (baccalaureate-level qualification), but decided against studying physics as she had initially planned. At 26, she went to the Gmelin Drama School in Munich and completed her training as an actress.
Kramer took singing lessons with Anneliese Hofmann de Boer and acting lessons with John Costopoulos in the Lee Strasberg Method.
She has two brothers and a son who was born in 1997 from her relationship with Jan Josef Liefers. She married Harald Krassnitzer in 2009.
Kramer works with the charity "Dunkelziffer - Hilfe für sexuell missbrauchte Kinder" (Unreported - Help for Sexually Abused Children) in Hamburg and represents the "Bundesstiftung Kinderhospiz" (Federal Children's Hospice Foundation).
In 2005, she published the children's book Matilda - Oder die aus dem Haus ohne Fenster (Matilda - Or the House Without Windows), with a sequel, Neues von Matilda, dem Mädchen aus dem Haus ohne Fenster (News From Matilda, the Girl From the House Without Windows), in 2014.
In 2008, Stefan Loeffler wrote a biography of Kramer titled Ann-Kathrin Kramer – Begegnungen (Ann-Kathrin Kramer – Encounters).
Selected filmography
Film + Year Title Role Notes1998Das merkwürdige Verhalten geschlechtsreifer Großstädter zur PaarungszeitManuelaAbgehauenErika Salow2010BlackoutAnja Radtke
Television + Year Title Role Notes1993SOKO München1 episode1994Alles außer Mord1 episodeHallo, Onkel Doc!Nurse Anna12 episodes1995Zwei Brüder2000, 2006Der letzte Zeuge2 episodes2002–2006Das DuoLizzy Krüger11 episodes2006Ein Fall für zwei1 episode2007TatortFrederike Kawentz1 episode2009Polizeiruf 110Ruth Brehme1 episode2014Das Traumschiff2014/2015Ein starkes TeamGisela Kubasch/Maike Berger2 episodes2014, 2019The Old Fox2 episodes2016Die Chefin1 episode2017Der Bergdoktor1 episode
Bibliography Matilda – Oder die aus dem Haus ohne Fenster (2005) Neues von Matilda, dem Mädchen aus dem Haus ohne Fenster (2014)
References
External links
Ann-Kathrin Kramer interview with Tobias Goltz, 3 January 2008 Stefan Loeffler - Ann-Kathrin Kramer - Begegnungen