Nicole Marischka

Nicole Marischka received her first theatre engagements during her acting training at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna, as well as at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique in Paris, under the direction of Manfred Karge ("The Queen of Spades" by Pushkin) or Dieter Dorn ("The Lord and His Servant"). At the same time, she completed directing internships with Dieter Dorn ("The Marriage of Figaro"), Rudolf Noelte ("The Marquis of Keith" and "The Learned Women") and George Tabori ("Lovers and Lunatics"). After her training, engagements followed in Tübingen at the LTT and in Oberhausen, where she played Alkmene in Kleist's "Amphitryon" or the title role in "Yerma" by Frederico Garcìa Lorca, as well as Toinette in Molière's "Le malade imaginaire". One of her favorite works was Clementine in "Purgatory in Ingolstadt" by Marie Luise Fleißer, directed by Crescentia Dünßer and Otto Kukla. Nicole Marischka began her career in television in 1981 alongside Sepp Bierbichler in "Der Kondor". Since then, she has appeared in numerous film - and television productions, such as Xaver Schwarzenberger's "Vino Santo" and "A Dog Came to the Kitchen", Maria Bachmann's comedy "Theme No. 1", Maria Speth's "Into the Day", Franz Müller's "No Science Fiction" and Miguel Alexandre's two-parter "Fateful Years". From 2012 to 2016 she can be seen in the main cast of "Die Chefin". In sketch series such as "Hotel Nonsense" or the "BR Comedy Show", as well as in current productions such as "Tatortreiniger", "What Does Love Cost? A Big City Fairy Tale" or in the movie "Irren ist männlich" she proves her talent as a comedian. The feature film "Everyone Else" by Maren Ade with Nicole Marischka is one of the protagonist roles wins a Silver Bear at the Berlinale in 2009. This was followed in 2012 by "Homevideo" by Kilian Riedhof, which won the German Television Award for Best Feature Film and the Rose d'Or for Best European Television Film. In 2017, "Casting" by Nicolas Wackerbarth, an improvised satire in which Nicole Marischka forms the ensemble alongside Corinna Kirchhoff, Judith Engel, Milena Dreißig and many others, is the insider tip of the Berlinale. In 2020 she shot "Auster", the feature film debut of Antoina Uhl (for which she was awarded the Golden Actress Award and Best actress at the Female Berlin Festivals) and worked for the sixth time with director Katharina Bischof on her HFF graduation film: "Hitzig". Nicole Marischka has also remained true to the stage: As a singer she toured with self-developed and staged projects, "Babs the Boogie Boys - I don't want any chocolate" and the solo singing program "The Seal under the Piano" for years through the cabaret scene in Germany. In "It's a new dawn" she dared to play the classics of chansons. In 2013 she starred as Claire Ganz in Neil Simon's comedy "Rumors, Rumors", a Santini production at the Komödie am Kurfürstendamm in Berlin. In 2017, together with Sarah Alles and Jan Bolender, she developed the play "Life is a bitch", which they premiered at the Vaganten Bühne in Berlin. In 2017, the international theatre group Blauhauch was founded around Onimar Âme, in which Nicole Marischka is a member of the ensemble for their play "What Silence has to say". Since 2018 she has been written her first own cinema script "Everything happens today" with Jacqueline Jansen. In 2021 she played at the Wintherhuder Fährhaus under the direction of Ute Willing. Between 2016 and 2019, Nicole Marischka worked in the children's home for traumatized children in Lower Saxony. In addition to her acting activities, Nicole Marischka has been working as a coach with amateurs and professionals for acting and presentation for 15 years. She has been teaching the Michael Chekhov Method for actors since 2019. Since 2022 she has been certified in the Alivenessmethod for entrepreneurs on the topic of ®expression and liveliness: "Step onto your next bigger stage". 2023 she first time directed "A midsummer night's dream" at a school in Berlin.