Simone von Zglinicki

Simone von Zglinicki (born September 3, 1951 in Chemnitz) is a German film and theatre actress. After graduating from high school, Simone von Zglinicki studied at the Theaterhochschule Leipzig from 1969 to 1974 and has been a member of the Deutsches Theater Berlin since her studies. At the Deutsches Theater Berlin she was among others as Miranda in Der Sturm von Shakespeare (directed by Friedo Solter), as Nina in Wolfgang Heinz (directed by Anton Chekhov's Die Möwe), as Regine in Thomas Langhoff's production of Ibsen's ghosts, as Katharine in Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung and as Frau Krehler in Georg Kaiser's Kanzlist Krehler (directed by Sylvain Maurice). Under the direction of Alexander Lang, she played in Der Cid, Die sade Geschichte von Friedrich the Great by Heinrich Mann, Ein Sommernachtstraum und Karate Billy returns. Under the direction of Jürgen Gosch, she played in Der Reigen, Auf der Greifswalder Straße and the Polina in Die Möwe. In recent years she worked with young directors. Thus with Philipp Preuss in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's drama Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant, and under the direction of Sabine Auf der Heyde in Dylan Thomas.Simone von Zglinicki played in numerous cinema and TV productions. Still during her studies she was cast in 1973 for the leading role in Bernhard Stephans Für die Liebe still zu meager?, when the originally intended Katharina Thalbach failed due to her pregnancy. Afterwards Zglinicki worked among others in the fairy tale film Hans Röckle and the Devil (1974), in the Tragikomödie Märkische Forschungen (1982), in the award-winning children's film Sabine Kleist, 7 years.. (1982), in the television film The Other Life of Mr Kreins (1994), in the film The Promise (1995), in the youth film Raus aus der Haut (1997) as well as in the rest of the TV radio.