thanks to Marc for sending this! Natja Brunckhorst has played some bad roles "I gladly play bad roles", she confesses. And in such is the native Berlinerin today experienced. Today the 29 year old actress has had difficulties so often that she knows how to fight enough. "Keep your eyes up, then you miss nothing", she says
"That is my motto", says the delicate energy bundle. It is a motto completely concentrated on the present. It is no miracle that Natja doesn't speak fondly about past events, which are situated in the past: over her title part in drug drama "Christiane F. - we children of zoo station", that is when the 14 year old became famous, long before her heavy illness of leukaemia, which took her 2 years to defeat.
"That is all so long ago for me. Important is only the future."
She it trying a new idea: "I write Film scripts. The first is called "William castle", being filmed in Hamburg." Dearest to Natja, though, is her daughter Emma (4). But also disadvantaged children the actress takes to heart. Thus she volunteers herself for the relief organization "Hand and Hand", which builds orphanages in former Yugoslavia.
Short hair under her cap, with a self-confident smile, that is Natja Brunckhorst today. But 15 years ago she also became famous for "Christiane F. - we children of zoo station" Natja Brunckhorst has a new role in "The hurt smile". The 29 year old, who at 14 was "Christiane F." in the film "we children of the zoo station", plays here a photo model, that is in an accident. The character is one day self-confident, the next disfigured, with her identity lost.
There the model in the hospital meets City gardener Richard (Rainer Egger). Between them they develop a purpose community of outsiders. For Natja that was the first large role after enduring leukaemia for two years. And she does not only convince as an actress - with 1.79 meters she brings the height and a fantastic figure and perfect model mass. Alongside this project, she has been working in Munich in another production.
Together with her life companion, the dramatist Juergen Bue, and daughter Emma (4) she is now going, for her 29th birthday, for one month to Southern France. The creative pair collaborated on the police series of "William Castle" at the end of 1996. They also share history over the a-cappella-group of "Comedian Harmonists", made in 1997 with the film's director Joseph Vilsmaier. And additionally Natja Brunckhorst is heading the idea to make a Crime film.
i've translated this from German, so thats why some parts might sound a bit dodgy!
this interview is a couple of years old - as it says that Natja is 29 y.o.
"no, no its not a vacation", she says, "Rather because we write film scripts there."