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Petras sheer appearance – fiery red and curly long hair, a hot temper, and devoted acting all add up to the fact that Petra Berndt is regarded by many as being an exceptional persona. After having completed drama school in 1991 she appeared on stage at the municipal theater in the town of Ingolstadt followed by more theater work in Munich’s prestigious Volkstheater. She turned out to be the perfect cast for feature film productions such as DAS SCHRECKLICHE MÄDCHEN or MUTTER COURAGE (both directed by Michael Verhoeven), HERR OBER! (dir.: Gerhard Polt), ROSSINI (dir: Helmut Dietl), and MARLENE (dir: Joseph Vilsmaier). She played in the international production SALZ AUF DER HAUT which was directed by Andrew Birkin. Numerous roles in TV movies and TV series across all genres are part of Petra Berndt’s extensive CV. Screen adaptations of present time novels as well as historic dramas are part of Petra Berndt’s impressive body of work. Among the latter are REGINA AUF DEN STUFEN and APPOLONIA (dir.: Bernd Fischerauer), LÖWENGRUBE (dir.: Rainer Wolffhardt), DER SCHANDFLECK (dir.: Julian Roman Pölsler), VERLORENES LAND  (dir.: Jo Baier), and JENNERWEIN (dir.: Hans Günther Bücking). Moreover, Petra Berndt played leading roles in the TV series LIEBE IST PRIVATSACHE (dir.: Sigi Rothemund), SOLANGE ES LIEBE GIBT (dir.: Detlef Rönfeldt), and DAS BESTE AUS MEINEM LEBEN (dir.: Matthias Tiefenbacher).

Doris Buchrucker was born in Munich and got her education at the Otto Falckenberg Drama School. Her very first role at the municipal theater of Ingolstadt was that of Recha in Lessing’s NATHAN DER WEISE (directed by Ernst Seitgen). She continued working on stage at the Deutsche Theater in Göttingen for three years, followed by two years in Heidelberg where she acted in plays directed by Fritz Zecha and David Mouchtar-Samorai among others. During the 1980s she was working at the Thalia Theater, also in Wuppertal and at Tübingen’s Zimmertheater until finally in 1989 she made her debut at the renowned Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel as Sophie in Goethe’s CLAVIGO (dir.: H.D. Jendreyko). Numerous roles at the Staatstheater Hannover, Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel, in theaters in Bonn, Hamburg, Konstanz, Münster, and Ingolstadt followed. Aside from her extensive stage work, Doris Buchrucker has also been able to build a career in front of the camera where she actually resembles MOTHER COURAGE given her dramatic intensity. She has been an emotional enrichment for any film production that she was a part of. From the very beginning, she worked with famous directors like Klaus Emmerich, Axel Corti, and Jo Baier and was cast opposite fellow actors Monika Bleibtreu and Jan Biczycki. Recently she has teamed up with Max Färberböck, Hans Steinbichler, and Konstantin Ferstl and all of those collaborations just felt like a natural fit. The up-and-coming director Boris Kunz had started working with Doris Buchrucker before and during his education at the prestigious Munich HFF Film School and they have continued working together up to this day. In the summer of 2013 audiences loved Doris Buchrucker when she appeared in one of the lead roles in Boris Kunz’ romantic comedy DREI STUNDEN.

Marisa Burger received her vocational training at Schauspiel Munich Drama School. Her first important TV roles were leads in Der Froschkönig (Bayerischer Rundfunk, dir.: Werner Siebert), Cafe Meineid (dir.: Franz Xaver Bogner), and Dem Himmel so nah (ZDF, dir.: Dieter Kehler). In 2009 Marisa Burger was cast by director Matthias Kiefersauer for the feature film production Baching and in 2012 she appeared opposite Gisela Schneeberger in the small screen comedy Familie Sonntag auf Abwegen under the direction of Ulli Baumann. Since 2002 she plays the role of the detective’s secretary Miriam Stockl in the ZDF crime series Rosenheim Cops (prod. Bavaria Fiction). Her role is that of a diligent worker with a sassy attitude and a good soul which makes her an audience’s favorite. On stage Marisa Burger appeared at Munich’s Volkstheater and as Helene in Thomas Vinterberg’s Das Fest at the Metropol Theater Munich. Being a very sporty type, Marisa Burger was trained to become a qualified skiing instructor and a professional gymnast.

Born in Belgrade, Serbia and raised in Frankfurt, Anica Dobra calls both Germany and the Balkans her home. Being a thoroughbred actress and having enjoyed the best in stage- and on-camera training, Anica Dobra is very busy working in both countries. She became well-known in the 1990s in Germany when she worked together with the finest of directors mainly in comedies for the big screen but also in crime and drama feature films for TV. During that time, which was marked by intense political upheaval in the Balkans, she exhibited her remarkable talent in that region by portraying heavily conflicted protagonists. Her characters take control in a straightforward, hard-hitting, and pugnacious manner. She was awarded Best Actress several times. Anica Dobra is a frequent traveler since her family lives in Belgrade and she herself is a star in Serbia.  But she also feels drawn to Munich, Germany which is her second home. Audiences love her for her unconventional beauty and charming wit. Here in Germany we’ve come to picturing her playing in films that allow fresh subject matters to be tackled from a humorous point of view. Take some time and check out the clips of the Serbian TV series „Black and White World“ on her current reel. To most it will obviously be incomprehensible (subtitles are to follow soon), but her body language alone is simply hilarious.

Lilly Forgách is a full blast thespian educated at Munich’s Zerboni Drama School. She feels at home on stage as well as on set. One of her first performances in an feature film was alongside Jan Josef Liefers and Marie Bäumer in the psycho-drama called SIEBEN MONDE (dir.: Peter Fratzscher). She played her very first roles in the TV movies ZEIT DER FISCHE and HINTERLASSENSCHAFTEN which were both directed by Steffi Kammermeier. She wasn’t the only one who repeatedly hired Lilly Forgách to perform in important roles. Immogen Kimmel, Hajo Gies, Martin Enlen, and Andi Niessner did likewise. Her ability to adapt to all genres allows her to intensely portray the most versatile characters from middle-class women to historic and glamorous heroines. In addition to her film and TV work Lilly Forgách has managed to pursue her stage career. She played at Munich’s Residenztheater, Prinzregententheater, and Volkstheater and performed at municipal theaters in Regensburg, Nuremberg, and Klagenfurt, Austria. In Cagliari / Sardinia she even played the role of HAMLET in Italian! Lilly Forgách is a regular ensemble member at Munich’s Metropol Theater, where she took on leading roles in plays like PORTIA COUGHLAN, DAS BALLHAUS, CLOCKWORK ORANGE, NACH DER HOCHZEIT, and in musical plays like DIE FURIEN (all directed by Jochen Schölch).

Bojana Golenac was born near the German town of Bonn and was raised in Germany as well as in Slovenia. The actress, who is very talented at speaking different languages, graduated from drama school in Hamburg and debuted there at the Altonaer Theater. Her magnetic performances in leading roles in Unter die Haut (1997, dir.: Christoph Schrewe), Zwischen zwei Feuern (1998, dir.: Sigi Rothemund), and Die Salsaprinzessin (2001, dir.: Dror Zahavi) helped her to establish a successful reputation in Germany’s TV industry. In 2004 Bojana Golenac was cast as the lead character in the ZDF daytime series Sabine!, which she worked on for two seasons. From 2010 to 2011 she was a series regular on another daytime ZDF series called Herzflimmern. On stage she had a national tour from 2007 until 2010 in the play called Mondscheintarif which was written by Ildiko von Kuerthy. In the fall of 2012 Bojana Golenac stood in front of the camera opposite Harald Krassnitzer in the TV movie Tatort – Grenzland, which was written and directed by Sascha Bigler.

Beate Maes was born in Berlin and studied drama at the Krauss School for Performing Arts in Vienna before she received her B.F.A. in dramatic arts in Berlin. She gained her first theater experiences when she started working in experimental productions for instance under the direction of playwright Heiner Müller. Many roles in dramatic as well as comedic plays were to follow at theaters in Bonn, Aachen, Hamburg, and Berlin. In film, Beate Maes debuted alongside Roman Knizka in 1994 in the TV drama Ausgespielt by Rolf Silber. In 1995 she took on a leading role in Rochade, a student film by Thorsten Schmidt that picked up the Honorary Foreign Student Academy Award. Since then she’s been hailed for her performances in TV mini-series like Die Semmelings (dir.: Dieter Wedel), Zodiak – Der Horoskopmörder (dir.: Andreas Prochaska), and the TV drama about an abducted airplane, Mogadischu (dir.: Roland Suso Richter). She enticed audiences with her interpretation of an esoteric midwife when she performed the phenomal song Wir sind Mütter in the feature film hit Männerherzen by Simon Verhoeven. Again on the big screen, this time in 2013,  Beate Maes starred in one of the leads opposite Martina Gedeck and Markus Krojer in Bastard by Carsten Unger.

Genoveva Mayer was born and raised in Munich. She graduated from Schauspiel Munich Drama School and took additional acting classes at the renowned Theaterakademie August Everding in Munich. Upon graduation she became an ensemble member for two seasons at the municipal theater Pforzheim where she was given the great opportunity to play several leading roles in plays like The Imaginary Invalid, Die Strategie der Schmetterlinge, and Bungee Jumping. Moreover, she acted and sang in musical productions like Happy End and Sekretärinnen. An engagement at Munich’s Komödie im Bayerischen Hof lured her back to her hometown. She performed in comedic plays like 8 Frauen and Der Damenschneider and took on a role in the British tragedy Honour, which then toured nationally. Genoveva Mayer has had roles in episodes of TV crime series like SoKo München, Der Bulle von Tölz, and Unter Verdacht and has played in films like Am Rande der Nacht, Der Kronzeuge, and In Letzter Sekunde. In 2010 she was picked by Til Schweiger to play in the box-office hit Kokowääh which went on to win the German Comedypreis in 2011. Big screen productions followed like Oscar Roehler’s autobiography Quellen des Lebens and Hans Steinbichler’s Q and A for which she was hand-picked by the director himself in 2012.

Just recently Genoveva Mayer started doing voiceover work and also reads for audio plays, special features, and TV reports.

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