Maja Schöne (born 1 January 1976) is a German actress. She is best known for portraying Hannah Kahnwald in the Netflix TV show Dark.
Biography Schöne was born in Stuttgart and has an older brother. After graduating from high school, she completed a stage and director's internship. In 1997, she decided to become an actress and began studying at the Westphalian Drama School in Bochum, a program that she completed in 2001. Schöne moved to Hamburg in February 2001 and began appearing in Friedrich Schiller plays. In 2002 she received the Young Talent Promotion Award from the Friends of the German Playhouse. From 2007 to 2009 she acted in several roles at the Schauspiel Köln, the first being Brunhild in Friedrich Hebbel's Die Nibelungen. For this role, she received the award for best actress at the Theater Festival NRW. Since 2009 she has had an engagement at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg.
In 2004, she made her cinema debut in Mark Schlichter's film Cowgirl, alongside Alexandra Maria Lara, which earned her a nomination for the Undine Award. From 2008 to 2013, she was in the Stuttgart episodes of the crime series Tatort, playing the wife of the investigator Bootz. In 2011 she starred in Brigitte Bertele's film as a rape victim in search of retribution; for this role, she was awarded the German Actor Award for Best Actress.
She began her screen career in the German TV movie Schluss mit lustig! She appeared in a number of television series in her country, appearing in the late 2000s in film productions such as Buddenbrooks, , and . She appeared in the Tatort series between 2005 and 2015, playing Felix Klare's wife. She starred in the TV miniseries Neu in unserer Familie in 2017 as the matriarch who has children by two different men, and they all live in the same household. In 2017 she achieved international recognition as a member of the main cast of the Netflix sci-fi family drama television series Dark, in which she plays the role of Hannah Kahnwald.
She is married to the actor Carlo Ljubek and has a daughter.
Filmography
2001: Schluss mit lustig! 2004: Doppelter Einsatz: Der Fluch des Feuers 2004: Das Zimmermädchen 2004: Cowgirl 2004: Der Traum vom Süden 2004: Aller Tage Abend 2005: Tatort: Im Alleingang 2005: Mörderische Erpressung 2005: Dow Jane Index 2006: Stubbe-Von Fall zu Fall: Verhängnisvolle Freundschaft 2007: Polizeiruf 110: Dunkler Sommer 2007: Tatort: In eigener Sache 2007: Tatort: Hart an der Grenze 2007: Der Dicke: Angstpartie 2007: 1. Mai – Helden bei der Arbeit 2008: KDD – Kriminaldauerdienst: Chancen 2008: Buddenbrooks 2008: Tatort: Das Mädchen Galina 2008: Tatort: Oben und unten 2008: Tatort: Tödliche Tarnung 2009: 2009: Wanna Be (short film) 2009: 2009: Tatort: Blutgeld 2009: Tatort: Altlasten 2010: KDD – Kriminaldauerdienst: Chancen 2011: Polizeiruf 110 – Feindbild 2011: 2012: Stralsund – Blutige Fährte 2012: Tatort: Spiel auf Zeit 2013: Bella Block: Hundskinder 2014: Frau Roggenschaubs Reise 2014: Sternstunde ihres Lebens 2015: Blochin – Die Lebenden und die Toten (TV miniseries) 2015: Tatort: Preis des Lebens 2016: Neu in unserer Familie 2017: Neu in unserer Familie 2 (TV film) 2018: Tatort: Du allein 2018: A Dark in the Light 2019: Eine fremde Tochter 2017–2020: Dark (TV series) 2020: Der Mann der die Welt aß
References
External links
Maja Schöne at filmportal.de Agency profile at Hoerstermann agency