Lena Stolze is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 and film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 actress.

Life and work

Lena Stolze's father is Gerhard Stolze

Gerhard Stolze

Gerhard Stolze was a German tenor.A character tenor best known as a Wagner singer. His most famous roles were Mime , David , Loge , Aegisth and Herod...

, a tenor, and her mother is the actress Gabi Stolze. In 1961, the family moved from East Germany to Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

.

Lena Stolze is best known for playing Sophie Scholl

Sophie Scholl

Sophia Magdalena Scholl was a German student, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. She was convicted of high treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich with her brother Hans...

 in Fünf letzte Tage and Die Weiße Rose

Die Weiße Rose (film)

Die Weiße Rose is a 1982 German film about the White Rose resistance to the Nazi authorities led by a group of Christian students in Munich in 1942-1943 whose members were caught and executed in February 1943, shortly after the German capitulation at Stalingrad...

(Both 1982).

She and Julia Jentsch

Julia Jentsch

Julia Jentsch is a Silver Bear, two-time European Film Award, and Lola winning German actress. She is best known as the title character in Sophie Scholl – The Final Days, Jule in The Edukators and, Liza in I Served the King of England.-Career:Jentsch was born to a family of lawyers in Berlin and...

 both won the Film Award in Gold at the German Film Awards as "Best Actress" for portraying Sophie Scholl, in their separate portrayals, in Die Weiße Rose and Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage, respectively.

Awards

• 1983 Bavarian Film Awards
  Bayerischer Filmpreis
  The Bavarian Film Awards have been awarded annually since 1979 by the State Government of Bavaria in Germany for “exceptional achievement in German filmmaking.” Along with the German Film Awards, these are the most highly regarded awards for filmmaking achievement in Germany.The Bavarian Film...
  
  , Best Actress http://www.bayern.de/Anlage19170/PreistraegerdesBayerischenFilmpreises-Pierrot.pdf

Filmography

• 1978
  • Lemminge (TV movie)
• 1982
  • Fünf letzte Tage (Last Five Days, movie)
  • Die weisse Rose (The White Rose, movie)
• 1984
  • Die Schaukel (The Swing, movie)
  • Morgen in Alabama
    Man Under Suspicion
    Man Under Suspicion is a 1984 West German film directed by Norbert Kückelmann.-Cast:* Maximilian Schell as Lawyer Landau* Lena Stolze as Jessica Kranz* Robert Aldini as Werner Kranz* Wolfgang Kieling as Reporter 'Watergate'...
    
     (Man Under Suspicion, movie)
• 1987
  • Maschenka (movie)
• 1989
  • Das schreckliche Mädchen
    Das schreckliche Mädchen
    The Nasty Girl is a 1990 West German drama film based on the true story of Anna Rosmus from Passau, Bavaria. The original German title loosely translates as "The Terrible Girl."-Plot:...
    
     (The Nasty Girl, movie)
• 1991
  • Struppi und Wolf (TV movie)
• 1993
  • Todesreigen (TV movie)
• 1994
  • Die Vergebung (Forgiveness, TV movie)
  • Nur der Sieg zählt (TV movie)
• 1995
  • Schlafes Bruder (Brother of Sleep, movie)
  • Diebinnen (Women Robbers, movie)
  • Die Staatsanwältin (TV movie)
  • Dr.Vogt - Afrika vergessen (TV movie)
• 1996
  • The Wrinting on the Wall - Operation Schmetterling GB/D (TV movie)
  • Mein Herz - Niemanden! (My Heart Is Mine Alone, movie)
• 1997
  • Winterkind (TV movie)
  • Gefangene der Liebe (TV movie)
• 1999
  • Relative Strangers - Verwandte Fremde GB/D (TV movie)
• 2000
  • Brennendes Schweigen (TV movie)
  • Ein starkes Team (TV movie)
• 2001
  • Stubbe - Unschuldsengel (TV movie)
  • Späte Rache (TV movie)
• 2002
  • Tatort - schlaf, Kindlein, schlaf (TV movie)
  • Die Cleveren (TV)
  • Schlosshotel Orth (TV)
• 2003
  • Rosenstrasse
    Rosenstrasse (film)
    Rosenstraße is a 2003 film directed by Margarethe von Trotta, starring Maria Schrader and Katja Riemann. It deals with the Rosenstrasse protest of 1943.- Plot :In the present day, a widow mourns the death of her husband...
    
     (movie)
  • Väter (I'm the Father, movie)
  • Der Pfundskerl (TV movie)
• 2004
  • Delfinsommer (TV movie)
  • Tatort - Bitteres Brot (TV movie)
  • Northern Star (movie)
  • Schussangst (Gun-shy, movie)
• 2005
  • Die Affäre Kaminski (TV movie)
• 2006
  • Bis dass der Tod euch scheidet (TV movie)
  • Tatort - Unter uns (TV movie)
  • Tatort - Aus der Traum (TV movie)
  • Doppelter Einsatz - Rumpelstilzchen (TV movie)
  • Tatort - Das verlorene Kind (TV movie)
  • Lapislazuli (movie)
• 2007
  • Am Ende kommen Touristen (2007) .... Frau Schneider

External links

• Vogel Agency Berlin