Julia Thurnau


Julia Thurnau is a French-German fine artist and actress. She is working in the field of fine arts as a part of the collective ClaudeHilde as such she developed the social Sculpture "artist at work" together with Margarita Breitkreiz for the Volksbuehne am Rosa-Luxemburg Platz in Berlin in 2023.
Raised in a multi-cultural family Thurnau, Julia Thurnau speaks English and Spanish additionally to her mother tongues French and German.
She had her debut as a director with the short film Ondinas in.
She studied acting in Munich at the Schauspielstudio München and later at the Ernst Busch acting school Berlin.
She first appeared in the film After Five in the Forest Primeval with Franka Potente in 1995. Since that she had major roles in more than 20 French and German cinema movies and TV-films, such as Der Weibsteufel by Jo Baier and D'Artagnan et les trois mousquetaires by Pierre Aknine.

Cinema films (selection)

TV (selection)

Theater (selection)

  • 2002: Birdsong, Regie: Beatrice Murmann
  • 2004: Liebst du mich Lump, Regie: Beatrice Murmann
  • 2005: Fräulein Julie, Regie: Marcel Krohn
  • 2007: The vagina monologues, director: Laurie Norquist
  • 2009: Roses Geheimnis, Regie: Frank Mattus
  • 2022: ClaudeHildes Pop up Galerie is hosting Sprachmaschine, director: Daniel Wittkopp, Margarita Breitkreiz.
  • 2023: Artist at Work, social sculpture, ClaudeHilde