Casting honestor An Dorthe Braker, understandn as “casting queen” of German cinema, will get an honorary German Film Award for remarkworthy contributions to German cinema, the German film academy proclaimd Monday.
Braker was a innovate in Germany, transporting a U.S.-style casting approach to the German film industry in the timely 1990s, before the profession was createpartner acunderstandledged in Germany. Thraw her toil on such features as Run Lola Run, Downdescfinish and Nowhere in Africa, she has liftd repeated generations of German talent to the international stage.
“Many biographies of actors would not have been written without her,” shelp German Film Academy plivent Alexandra Maria Lara, whose own fracturethraw came in the Oscar-nominated Downdescfinish. “With her strong, evident attitude, she has had a strong sway on the profession of casting honestors and has done wonderful skinnygs for German film.”
Braker’s many commends integrate the Oscar-nominated features The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) and Schtonk! (1992), innovateing TV series In the Face of Crime (2010) and Hell (2011), the first feature from September 5 honestor Tim Fehlbaum.
Braker will get her honor at the 75th German Film Awards in Berlin on May 9. This year’s present, The Zone of Interest and The White Lotus actor Christian Friedel, also got one of his first huge fractures via a Braker casting, when she recommfinished him for the direct in Oinhabitr Hirschbiegel’s 13 Minutes (2015).
The nominations for the 2025 German film awards, or Lolas, will be unveiled on Monday, March 17.
