Franziska Junge

After graduating from high school (completing her Abitur), she studied musical theatre at the Bayerischen Theaterakademie „August Everding“ in Munich. From 2003 to 2006 she studied acting at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater „Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy“ Leipzig. She completed both diploma courses. The first with a "very good" grade, and the second with "distinction". During her studies she gave guest performances at the Schauspiel Leipzig and the Bregenzer Festspiele.

She took screen-acting lessons with Jordan Beswick (New York)[1] and completed the master class for camera work "The Naked Face" with David Penn (London). Besides her work in film and television, Franziska Junge also acts in theatre. Claus Peymann brought her to the Berliner Ensemble while she was still studying in 2006. There Junge had the opportunity to realize a German premiere of the solo play "Kabarett der letzten Hoffnung" by Wladimir Alekseewic Klim (Klimenko) under the direction of Makedoniy Kiselev.[2] She took part in the commissioned play "Pffft ... oder der letzte Tango am Telefon"[3] by George Tabori under the direction of Martin Wuttke, travelled around the world with the successful production of The Threepenny Opera under the direction of Robert Wilson and was allowed to take over the role of Lena in Leonce und Lena with music by Herbert Grönemeyer; also under the direction of Wilson.

She describes her early years at the Berliner Ensemble as follows:[4]

Thanks to Claus Peymann, my first engagement at the Berliner Ensemble gave me the great fortune to be able to stand on stage together with exceptional artists and to learn together from the very beginning. At times, I had 16 roles in the programme at the same time. I can therefore describe my first years of training at the theatre as a very work-intensive and fulfilling time.

From 2009 to 2017, she was a member of the ensemble at Schauspiel Frankfurt.[5] In particular under the direction of Andreas Kriegenburg, Junge performed prolifically in roles including the air spirit Ariel in The Tempest, Maria in Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung and the landowner Natalya in the German premiere of Three days in the country by Patrick Marber, which earned her a nomination as 2017's up-and-coming actor from the magazine „Theater heute". Junge has also worked with Sebastian Hartmann, Christopher Rüping, Philipp Preuss, Schorsch Kamerun, Bernhard Mikeska, Oliver Reese, Hans Op de Beeck and Rainald Grebe. Since season 2017/18 she has been a guest player at the Berliner Ensemble, appearing as Lucy in Robert Wilson's The Threepenny Opera, in the role of Karen Weston in August: Osage County in a production directed by Oliver Reese and as Anita in the German premiere of Wheeler (original title: Linda Vista) by Patrick Marber.

In addition to her acting activities, she sings concerts with her band, her project „Junge singt", and works regularly as a speaker for Hessischer Rundfunk, Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln and Südwestrundfunk.

She lives in Berlin.

For her portrayal of Natalya Petrovna in Three Days In The Country by Patrick Marber at the Schauspiel Frankfurt, she was nominated as best up-and-coming actor in 2017 by the magazine Theater heute.

In 2013, she made her cinema film debut in Giulio Ricciarelli's Labyrinth of Lies , selected as the German contribution to the 2016 Oscars.[6] Among others, she acted in the critically acclaimed Tatort episodes of Hessischer Rundfunk's Tatort: Das Haus am Ende der Straße and Tatort: Es lebe der Tod von Sebastian Marka. She also appeared in Bastian Günther's Tatort: Wer bin ich?, which won the Media Culture Award 2015, in Marc Bauder's television film "Dead Man Working" at Das Erste, which won the Grimme Award 2017, and in the television film "Unser Kind" at Das Erste, which was nominated for the Grimme Award 2019 and the German Television Award (Deutschen Fernsehpreis) 2019.

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