Jördis Triebel Biography
Jördis Triebel is a German actress born on 30th October 1977 in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Germany. She is the second born in a family of four. Her mother was a prop master at the then Theater der Freundschaft , currently Theater an der Parkaue , in Berlin-Lichtenberg, she came into contact with the theater at an early stage and was able to watch rehearsals.
Jördis Triebel Age
- Jördis Triebel was born on 30th October 1977 in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Germany (40 years as at 2017)
Jördis Triebel Career
After graduating, Triebel became an actress with the Bremer Theater. She was part of the ensemble cast up until 2004. While there Triebel among other things worked on the production of Henrik Ibsen’s Baumeister Solneß , Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and additionally Mark Ravenhill’s Gestochen scharfe Polaroids .
Upon cutting ties with the Bremer Theater in 2004, Triebel worked with the Schauspielhaus Zürich during 2004 and 2005 for a short time, where she acted in Arthur Schnitzler’s Das weite Land, a 1911 tragi-comedy about light-bulb producer Friedrich Hofreiter and his affair with his wife’s banker’s accountant, Adele. In 2006, she personified “Italy” in the Cologne playhouse’s production of “Europa für Anfanger” .
After playing a guest role in the television series Wolffs Revier in 2005 she took over with the figure of the idiosyncratic pig breeder Emma in Sven Taddicken Emma’s luck her first starring role in a film, for which she has won several awards and a nomination for the German Film Award. In 2009,she received another nomination for the German Film Award for her supporting role as a mother in Sönke Wortmann’s Die Päpstin . In 2013 she won the title role in Christian Schwochow’s West feature film “Best Actress” at the World Film Festival in Montreal .
Jördis Triebel Husband
She was married to Matthias Weidenhöfer up to the year 2014 when they separated.
Jördis Triebel Children
She has one kid from her marriage with Matthias Weidenhöfer by the name Jack Oskar Weidenhöfer.
Jördis Triebel Movies
- 2003: Lange Tage
- 2005: Wolffs Revier: Herzblut
- 2006: Emma’s Bliss
- 2006: heteros nomos
- 2006: Speed Dating
- 2007: Frühstück mit einer Unbekannten
- 2007: Eine gute Mutter
- 2007: Der Kommissar und das Meer: Den du nicht siehst
- 2008: A Woman in Berlin
- 2008: Das Duo
- 2008: Warten auf Angelina
- 2009: This Is Love
- 2009: Pope Joan
- 2010: The Hairdresser
- 2010: Tatort: Am Ende des Tages
- 2011: Familiengeheimnisse
- 2011: Freilaufende Männer
- 2011: Ein guter Sommer
- 2012: Rosa Roth: Trauma
- 2013: Meine Schwestern
- 2013: West, Director: Christian Schwochow
- 2013: Das Jerusalem-Syndrom
- 2013: Der fast perfekte Mann
- 2013: Wolfskinder
- 2015: Me and Kaminski
- 2015: Blochin – Die Lebenden und die Toten
- 2015: Familienfest
- 2015: One Breath
- 2017: Dark
Jördis Triebel Video
Jördis Triebel Interview
Interviewer: Ms. Triebel, do you smoke?
Jördis Triebel: How did you get that?
Interviewer: We’ve seen you in West for which you got the Golden Lola for Best Actress last year . You smoke one after the other until you’re dizzy with watching.
Jördis Triebel: The film is set in 1975, that’s how it was. True, smoking in front of the camera is always hard, because you can barely pretend. I was really bad myself.
Interviewer: They obviously always give everything. Although you have an animal hair allergy, you played in “Emma’s luck” on the side of Jürgen Vogel a pig farmer.
Jördis Triebel: I even did a three-week internship in a pig farm before. I read back then that it would help, for example, to send children who are prone to allergies to a farm for just one summer. So I thought I was immunizing myself by throwing myself in there.
Interviewer: Did it work out?
Jördis Triebel: My allergy is not that strong anymore.
Interviewer: Did you have a pet as a child?
Jördis Triebel: One? Me and my sister, we had rabbits, guinea pigs, mice, parrots, a turtle, we had everything.
Interviewer: They grew up in the GDR. Rabbit breeding was a popular hobby there for slaughtering the animals at some point.
Jördis Triebel: Our rabbits were there to cuddle. Battles, that’s not possible. Although, the guinea pig … that was more of an accident. And I was still very small, at most three. I wanted to play catching with him, with a dice thrown back by the guinea pig. That did not work out so well.
Interviewer: In your new movie “The Family Festival”, the family is the place of greatest horror.
Jördis Triebel: For me personally, family means a lot, especially since I have my own. After that, I always longed for it, because then I have the feeling that I have arrived in real life.
Interviewer: The film celebrates the patriarch’s 70th birthday, a real tyrant, and things are getting out of hand. Have you ever experienced such a nightmare?
Jördis Triebel: Not even remotely, you maybe?
Interviewer: Strife occurs in the best families.
Jördis Triebel: Well, my parents are separated, so I have to celebrate everything twice, but that’s not so bad either. My dad has a big family, my mother too, so everyone has their own party.
Interviewer: Her character is a nurse and can be taken by a hitherto unknown to a family party. He turns out to be terminally ill, the party is horrible, it remains anyway. Is not that strange?
Jördis Triebel: I found that fascinating that people fall in love with a dying person. And do not forget, my character is a nurse. In addition, the Max, the Lars Eidinger plays, so pretty schnuckelig. Being invited by an interesting man, I wish that would happen to me more often. I would have gone as well.
Interviewer: They are coquetting! Is it true that you got your first acting prize as a child?
Jördis Triebel: Well, not quite. When I was little, my father worked in the GDR as a holiday camp manager of his business, and I was always allowed to. However, I was younger than the other kids and not really competitive in the competitions. Because I danced all the time, my dad arranged it so that I got a consolation prize as a dance mouse.
Interviewer: What music do you dance to?
Jördis Triebel: At that time it was disco, today more soul and funk. I also dance at home through the apartment. And I have a big apartment. Which is true: I’ve always wanted to be an actress since childhood.
Interviewer: They have excelled in the school theater.
Jördis Triebel: Unfortunately not. Although I was quite rebellious, very loud, very naughty, but on stage I was terribly shy. Sometimes I have problems with that today. Although my mother has always supported me a lot.
Interviewer: Her mother comes from the theater. Did she send you to the casting?
Jördis Triebel: We spent our summers virtually always on Hiddensee, the island was also an artists’ meeting place in the GDR. Once there was a movie shot there, “The Flight of the Hawk,” I saw the shooting and wanted to participate necessarily. My mother started everything until I sat in a corner as an extra and was incredibly happy.
Interviewer: What exactly was it that got you so excited?
Jördis Triebel: I had great role models, all those GDR fairy tale films, the actors, that was all done with great attention to detail. I wanted to be part of it, dress up. To slip into a strange world fascinated me.
Interviewer: They grew up in the GDR in a time of political upheaval. Politics can also become a topic of controversy in families.
Jördis Triebel: Never, luckily. If there were conflicts in our family, it was because my parents got married very young and became parents. That’s not always easy. If I said before that we no longer celebrate our festivals together, then that is a precautionary measure, because everything was not always harmonious with us.
Interviewer: They were eleven when the wall fell. What did you do on November 9, 1989?
Jördis Triebel: We sat in front of the TV. That was highly emotional. I knew everything would change now.
Interviewer: At eleven did you realize that?
Jördis Triebel: I’ve already learned a lot in the time before. My parents took me to demonstrations, there were discussions in the school, teachers threatened with reference.
Interviewer: Did you talk about it with your parents?
Jördis Triebel: Of course, the theme played a role, especially in the artist scene, which was present in our home. As a child I was friends with Christian Schwochow, the director of “Westen”. We had pantomime lessons together. And at some point he told me, “we’re going west.” I thought I’d never see him again. Say goodbye, that’s how I grew up.
Interviewer: Did you ever say that Christian goes over, can not we go there as well?
Jördis Triebel: That was not an option for me. I loved my home, definitely did not want to leave. This time of great change has not always and everywhere triggered the great euphoria. There were also fears associated with how this continues now. Especially in the intellectual scene, there were hopes that we could go our own way and see how we reconstruct it.
Interviewer: Did you not look forward to the new world of goods when you were eleven?
Jördis Triebel: I really wanted a funny Amaro backpack. The front had a compartment with zipper, there was the pencil case in it. Because we never had Western money, but some in my class already had such a backpack, I sewed it myself.
Interviewer: Do you still have that?
Jördis Triebel: Unfortunately not. I bought the real Amaro. The West was for me the Intershop: You came in, and that was like Disneyland. Colorful, glittering, it smells of strawberry gum. When the wall came down, we were the first to cross over to Kreuzberg. There was no glitter and no strawberry gum.
Interviewer: It was a shock.
Jördis Triebel: But how. I had never seen a beggar before. I thought Kreuzberg crazy dirty and thought that should now be the West? Added to this was the noticeable uncertainty everywhere. In school, teachers soon did not know what to teach. My mother lost her job at the Theater of Friendship.
Interviewer: In addition to the uncertainty, the early 90s were a time of great freedom , especially for young people.
Jördis Triebel: It often happens to me that people from the West think we must have been really happy. I was eleven and I loved the country I came from. Suddenly it was not there anymore. Many people from the West can not understand that.
Interviewer: We are from the Ruhr area and from West Berlin. The land of our childhood, with its collieries, the workers’ culture and the West Berlin Laubpieper cosiness, that is also gone.
Jördis Triebel: Even when the roads are there, and the places, it’s not the country I’m coming from. And of course that has something to do with me, that the West has taken the East completely for themselves. That much less was worth what came from the East.
Interviewer: Have you kept any personal belongings or furniture from your childhood?
Jördis Triebel: Unfortunately not. I still have my Pioneer ID, and my testimony, that’s very funny.
Interviewer: How so?
Jördis Triebel: Because there were still notes for cooperation, behavior and diligence. Let’s not talk about it. This frontal lesson, this memorization, that was not the school for me, it’s better for kids today. What is there for special schools, with playful learning.
Interviewer: Do you send your children to special schools?
Jördis Triebel: What does it mean? Montessori, that’s nothing special here in the Friedrichshain neighborhood.
Interviewer: Is there anything from the past that you think I miss?
Jördis Triebel: For example, these little paper rolls that hung on the doors. Most of the time you did not have a phone, so you had to visit, and if the other was not there, you left a message.
Interviewer: There are cell phones today.
Jördis Triebel: Yes, but it is not binding. You could not call and say I’ll be there 15 minutes later, or not at all. Because you had to stand by his word, because you knew the other is otherwise eternally on the Litfaßsäule.
Interviewer: You can still remember exactly what you did on November 9, 1989. Do you know where you were on 3 October 1990?
Jördis Triebel: No I dont know.
Interviewer: We did not find it that easy to say, I’m German. It was better to say that I am a Berliner or from the Ruhr area. How is that with you?
Jördis Triebel: I always say that I am a Berliner, that is well received everywhere. Especially when I say that I am East Berliner.
Interviewer: You speak Berlin dialect, while you can read everywhere, you do not berlinern anymore.
Jördis Triebel: Due to the fact that I played theater in Bremen for several years, in Cologne and Zurich, I had to speak High German. Since I had lost the Berlinerische a little. But I do not want that to die out.
Interviewer: They were in Bremen at the Stadttheater, so an ensemble is also a bit like a family. In the “time” you once said, the fear around you during the turnaround that would have shaped you. Even today, you missed the ease with which others went through life. Why did you give up the security of an ensemble?
Jördis Triebel: When I decided to stop there after three years, everyone made me crazy or megalomaniac. It is a fallacy to believe that an ensemble is like a family or a home. But I do not want to go into such detail because I had a great time in Bremen.
Interviewer: As an actress, did you ever have to experience that nobody comes to see you?
Jördis Triebel: No, that few come, all right, but that’s not the worst. Much worse is when you realize that a staging does not work and you are ashamed of the stage. It’s hard to know, you have to get out of here now and have no idea how to somehow save that.
Interviewer: They returned to Berlin in 2007 after six years absence. What did you say?
Jördis Triebel: It was quite difficult in the beginning, because I noticed that many people I knew from earlier on were now spread all over Germany. I imagined what it must be like for someone who comes completely from outside. On the one hand, it’s great that not everyone looks the same in Berlin, what’s he doing? You can be very lonely very fast for that.
Interviewer: You said the country you came from is no longer there. Where is your home today?
Jördis Triebel: Where I am with my friends, my family. Treptower Park is one of the places that is still the same as it used to be, even when it is being rebuilt. This is still a beautiful, big park. Homeland is also Brandenburg for me. Everything that keeps his face a bit. Berlin, even though I love the city, sometimes gets too loud, too fast, steals too much energy. Then I drive out to Brandenburg.
Interviewer: Today, many people who have lost their homes are fleeing to us.
Jördis Triebel: This is a disaster, and basically, everyone has to be able to identify with it when he wonders what if that happened to me, who would help me? I am hopeful when I see how many people volunteer. I hope that will last.
Interviewer: Whereby it seems that the resistance against taking up protection seekers is rather greater in East Germany.
Jördis Triebel: I can only assume that many people felt that they were not welcome after the fall of the Wall. And that now turns into aggression against the weaker. I do not mean that well, I do not want to tolerate anyone behaving like that. But I try to understand, how did that start? Maybe it also has to do with lack of communication from the side of politics.
Source: Der Tagesspiegel.