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Katja Frenzel is one of Germany’s most popular telenovela stars. As a “happiness coach,” she also helps people find personal happiness.
Born in Dessau and raised in Schwerin, Katja Frenzel got a taste of theater at an early age. Her mother Bärbel Röhl is on the stage of the State Theater. Her father Klaus Frenzel is one of the best puppeteers in the GDR. The path seemed to be pre-programmed. This was followed by roles in the ZDF series “Frauenarzt Dr. Markus Merthin” (1994 – 1995), “Küstenwache” (2001-2005) and the RTL soap “Unter Uns”.
At home as Tina Berger-Richter in “Rote Rosen”.
Since 2016, with a break, she has played the warm and nature-loving Tina Berger-Richter in the successful series Rote Rosen and quickly became one of the most popular characters. “It’s a very special job,” says the actress, “because you really spend a lot of hours a day doing it. It’s not just that I go to the studio to shoot, but I also learn the texts. I prepare myself “I think about what the character is going through.” The mother of four children spends a lot of time on set, especially with film partner Hakim Michael Meziani.
“In fact, I’ve gotten into the habit of actually entering a world like that. There’s a threshold inside that I go over and then I think as Tina,” says the actress. “After so many years, it’s easy to think like Tina because I know her very well now. It was a bit difficult at the beginning because we simply produce at an incredible speed. Sometimes you have to be very quick and precise know where is something now.”
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Close relationship with father, the puppeteer
When Katja Frenzel remembers her childhood with her father, two hearts beat in her chest. On the one hand, there was the father, who imaginatively created new worlds with his dolls and received a lot of attention for it. On the other hand, she experienced a father who changed when he drank alcohol: “My father then became a toddler. It was always the case that we had to look after him because he was no longer able to look after us . He then locked himself in his room or cried because he was sad. It was so emotional, incredibly exhausting for us.”
Today her father lives in a nursing home for people suffering from dementia. “At the end of the day, what’s left is a person who only exists in the moment. That was the point for me to say, well, then I’ll go into this moment and just give him the love that I have for him in this moment have.”
Came into contact with acting at an early age
Katja Frenzel’s mother, Bärbel Röhl, is one of the most famous actresses in the GDR theater sky. As a daughter, she experiences the world of the stage as fascinating: “They put on fantastic productions, for example, the Antique Evenings, where five plays ran in parallel and you could choose which play you wanted to go to – and stood in front of the theater a huge Trojan horse. Not to forget the Faust production, which was legendary.” Despite this influence, she did not want to become an actress. But things turned out differently. She became pregnant early and had to support herself and her child. An offer from television made this possible. After 13 episodes on the ZDF series “Gynecologist Dr. Markus Merthin” it was temporarily over – training to become a seamstress followed.
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In addition to the camera, he works as a happiness coach
In addition to her daily work as an actress, she helps other people as a happiness coach. It sometimes happens that, despite the autumn storms and constant rain, she sits in a good mood in the studio during the official “Rote Rosen” podcast and spreads positive vibes: “You have to build yourself up a little bit inside, that’s why I decided that it’s good for me goes.” She also found her private happiness in Lüneburg, where the 49-year-old now lives. It remains to be seen whether the happiness in the ARD telenovela will continue unbroken – its fans would certainly like it.
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THE! | 01/29/2024 | 6:45 p.m