Born in Gladbeck.
The city of the hostage drama in 1988.
She asks herself: Is this where the tendency to play unpredictable, vulnerable characters with macabre games comes from?
Fritz Haarmann, Elektra, Jericho (Children of Olympus), Yvonne, the Burgundian Princess … have adorned her repertoire to date.
Grandad founded the WAZ (Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung) and saw his granddaughter become a young writer, but the ‘Blag’ (Ruhr German for child) had a mind of her own.
She played horse, dog and cat on all fours until the proud age of 12 … perhaps that explains her extreme physicality on stage? Fuelled by chips with mayo, of course.
Add all the invented stories, captured on cassette, the assembly line-like painting,https://www.newsmaenarts.com/blank-2
Hömma, that only leaves acting!
Even today, she still has to go to the little shop to get ‘Klümpkes’ (Ruhr German for sweets), for the dentist’s sake and of course to stroke her freelance heart.
She says hello to Frances McDormand, Joaquin Phoenix and Willem Dafoe! Some of her loves.
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Click here for Viola’s profile — a colourful bag full of ‘Klümpkes’:
https://www.agentur-kerstin.de/de/schauspieler/viola-neumann/
