Juliane Köhler


Juliane Köhler is a German theatre, television and film actress. She was born in Göttingen to a puppeteer. During the period from 1985 to 1988, she studied under Uta Hagen in New York City and attended HB Studio. She also received ballet instruction in Munich. Since her first appearance at Hanover's Lower Saxon State Theatre in 1988, she has regularly appeared in German theatre productions. She performed in an ensemble cast of the Bavarian State Theatre during 1993–1997. She left the company because her filming of Aimée & Jaguar interfered with rehearsals for a production of Das Käthchen von Heilbronn. She later returned to Munich to participate with the Munich Kammerspiele.
She has starred in the 1999 film Aimée & Jaguar ; the 2001 film Nowhere in Africa ; the 2004 film Downfall ; the 2008 film Haber as Clara, the wife of Fritz Shimon Haber; Christina in Eden Is West and starred in Two Lives as Katrine Evensen Myrdal.

Selected filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1998Aimée & JaguarLilly Wust
1999Annaluise & AntonBettina Pogge
2001Nowhere in AfricaJettel Redlich
2004DownfallEva Braun
2006'Katharina Krüger
2008A Woman in BerlinElke
2008Adam Resurrected
2008HaberClara Haber
2009Eden Is West
2010A Quiet Life
2011'Sofia Schleier
2012Two LivesKatrine Evensen Myrdal
2016The King's ChoiceDiana Müller
2021FranceMme ArpelPost-production

Awards