Nadja Uhl

One day the leader of the drama group that she attended after school each Monday asked Nadja Uhl if she had ever considered making acting her profession. Suddenly new possibilities opened up and with them a legitimation for the future: "I might be permitted to grow up and yet somehow remain a child .... depending" "Ich durfte erwachsen werden und trotzdem irgendwie Kind bleiben – je nachdem." Nadja Uhl, interviewed by Katja Hübner in 2008

In 2017, Uhl told an interviewer that she still loves the land of her birth, the German Democratic Republik (GDR) "in spite of everything ... that happened with my family". Although the family in which she grew up was not particularly politicised during her early childhood, they were forced to confront an uglier side of the socialist paradise when her uncle was arrested during the later 1980s and imprisoned at Bautzen in connection with his "environmental activism which at that time was not welcome [to the authorities] in the GDR ... [Those activists] did nothing wrong. They just pointed out the abuses. That alone was enough to be seen as an attack on the system."

Filmography and roles

Der grüne Heinrich (1993) ... Agnes Zerrissene Herzen (1996, TV film) ... Britta Polizeiruf 110: (1996, TV series episode) ... Bibi Alarmcode 112: Haus im Grünen (1996, TV series episode) Tatort: Eiskalt (1997, TV series episode) ... Petra Schächter Mein ist die Rache (1997, TV film) ... Evi Beichtstuhl der Begierde (1997, TV film) First Love – Die große Liebe (1998, TV series, 1 episode) ... Wolke Murderous Legacy (1998, TV film) ... Helen Braddy Blutiger Ernst (1998, TV film) ... Marysa Heeren Scent of Seduction (1998, TV film) ... Sophie Auf eigene Faust (1998, TV series episode) ... Laura Basenius Ufos über Waterlow (1998, TV film) No Sex (1999, TV film) ... Isabell Jacobi Snow on New Year's Eve (1999) ... Nora Verrat (2000, short) The Legend of Rita (2000) ... Tatjana Verhängnisvolles Glück (2000, TV film) ... Gloria La Volpe a tre zampe (2001) ... Doris My Sweet Home (2001) ... Anke What to Do in Case of Fire? (2001) ... Nele (2002) ... Zitrone Twin Sisters (2002) ... Anna (2003, TV film) ... Helga Wolbert Soundless (2004) ... Nina (2004, TV film) ... Paula Reinhardt Summer in Berlin (2005) ... Nicole "Nike" Pawelsky Artour (2006, TV series, 1 episode) Dornröschen erwacht (2006, TV film) ... Juliane Meybach (2006, TV film) ... Katja Döbbelin Four Minutes (2006) ... Nadine Hoffmann (2006, TV film) ... Anna Degen Cherry Blossoms (2008) ... Franzi The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) ... Brigitte Mohnhaupt Mogadischu (2008, TV film) ... flight attendant Gabriele Dillmann I've Never Been Happier (2009) ... Tanja Men in the City (2009) ... Susanne Feldberg Spreewaldkrimi: Der Tote im Spreewald (2009, TV series episode) ... Tania Bartko Die Toten vom Schwarzwald (2009, TV film) ... Inka Jungle Child (2011) ... Doris Kuegler (2011) ... Susanne Feldberg The Tower (2012, TV film) ... Josta Fischer Der Kaktus (2013, TV) ... Thea Cronpichel (2014) ... Apple Tannbach (2015, TV series, 3 episodes) ... Liesbeth Erler Ich werde nicht schweigen (2017, TV film) ... Margarete Oelckers (2017, TV film) Die Schule der magischen Tiere (2021)