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Adriana Altaras
Adriana Altaras
Born	Adrijana Altaras; 6 April 1960 (age 64); Zagreb, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia
Nationality	German
Alma mater	Berlin University of the Arts
Occupation(s)	Actress, theatre director, author
Children	2, including Aaron Altaras
Parent(s)	Jakob Altaras and Thea Altaras

Adriana Altaras (born 6 April 1960) is a German actress, theatre director and author.

Early life

Altaras was born in Zagreb, FPR Yugoslavia to Jewish parents, Thea Altaras (née Fuhrmann) and Jakob Altaras, who were part of the Yugoslav Partisans. Her father started to explore the true causes of the death of his brother, Silvio Altaras, who was killed by the communist regime of the Yugoslavia in early 1945. Because of that, in 1964, the League of Communists of Croatia initiated a court case against her father; as a result of this, she escaped Zagreb with her mother to Italy in 1964, in a car driven by her Italian uncle. She stayed with her mother in Italy for a few years, long enough to learn Italian. From Italy, Altaras moved to Konstanz, Germany in 1967.

Career

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 worked as an actress, director and writer. In 1982, she made her movie debut, and in 1989 she had a lead role in The Philosopher [de], directed by Rudolf Thome. However, the focus of her work remained with the various theater projects. She worked as a theater director at the Berliner Ensemble and Neuköllner Opera in Berlin, with her staging of the Vagina monologues, which was shown with different actresses in 2001, becoming a great success. In the cinema, she has mainly acted in films by Rudolf Thome, with whom she had worked since the 1980s. In 1988, she received the Deutscher Filmpreis for her role in Thome's film The Microscope [de].

In 1993, Altaras received the Theater Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. In 1998 she received the Deutscher Filmpreis Award.^{[citation needed]} In 1999, she received the 2nd Audience Award Friedrich Luft, Berlin. In 2000, she received a Silver Bear for acting.^[1]

Altaras worked with Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation as an interviewer and lecturer. Altaras has two sons with composer Wolfgang Böhmer; Aaron and Leonard Altaras.^[2]^[3]^[4]

She is a regular columnist at the German newspaper Die Zeit Online.^[5] Regina Schilling directed the film Tito's Glasses in 2014, based on Altaras's book Titos Brille, in which she travels through her Croatian homeland in search of her family past and fights for the return of stolen property.^[6]

Filmography

1964: Nikoletina Bursać – Director: Branko Bauer^[7]
1982: Dorado (one way) – Director: Reinhard Münster
1987: In der Wüste – Director: Rafael Fuster Pardo
1988: The Microscope [de] – Director: Rudolf Thome
1988: The Philosopher [de] – Director: Rudolf Thome (with Johannes Herrschmann)
1989: Seven Women [de] – Director: Rudolf Thome
1994: Löwenzahn – Eine dolle Knolle
1995: Secret of Love [de] – Director: Rudolf Thome
1996: Killer Condom – Director: Martin Walz
1997: Tatort: Gefährliche Übertragung – Director: Petra Haffter (TV series episode)
1997: Liebe Lügen – Director: Martin Walz
1999: Apokalypso – Director: Martin Walz
2000: Paradiso: Seven Days with Seven Women [de] – Director: Rudolf Thome
2003: Red and Blue [de] – Director: Rudolf Thome
2003: Tor zum Himmel – Director: Veit Helmer
2004: Alles auf Zucker! – Director: Dani Levy
2006: Smoke Signs [de] – Director: Rudolf Thome
2007: Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler – Director: Dani Levy
2007: Nur ein kleines bisschen schwanger
2007: Vollidiot – Director: Tobi Baumann
2007: Max Minsky and Me [de]
2007: Special Escort [de]
2007: Pastewka – Season 3 (TV series)
2009: Die Gräfin
2009: Germany 09
2011: Bloch: Inschallah – Director: Thomas Jauch
2013: Danni Lowinski (TV series)
2014: Josephine Klick – Allein unter Cops
2015: Nacht der Angst – Director: Gabriela Zerhau
2019: The Perfect Secret [de] – Director: Bora Dagtekin

Works

Titos Brille, Köln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2011
Doitscha! Eine jüdische Mutter packt aus, Köln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2015 ISBN 9783462047097
Das Meer und ich waren im besten Alter : Geschichten aus meinem Alltag, Köln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2017. ISBN 978-3-462-04958-9
Die jüdische Souffleuse. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln 2018, ISBN 978-3-462-05199-5

References

^ "Opera4u: Artists". www.opera4u.com. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
^ "Adriana Altaras" (in Croatian). Goethe-Institut. Retrieved 12 June 2013.
^ Mangold, Ijoma. "Meine Tante schmuggelte mich raus" (in German). Die Zeit. Retrieved 12 June 2013.
^ "Meine strapaziöse Familie" (in German). Das Erste. 25 September 2012. Archived from the original on 28 November 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2013.
^ Adriana Altaras. Die Zeit
^ Begegnung mit den Geistern aus dem Familienalbum. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 15 December 2014. Page 14
^ IMDB

Bibliography

Altaras, Adriana (2011). Titos Brille. Köln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch. ISBN 978-3-462-04297-9.
Altaras, Adriana (2015). Doitscha: eine jüdische Mutter packt aus. Köln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch. ISBN 978-3-462-04709-7.