Young actress – as deaf dance teacher in the “Tatort” – Süddeutsche.de

deaf are usually played by hearing. With Kassandra Wedel is the new Tatort “dead silence” different.

If dance is visualized music, then performances of Kassandra Wedel, 30, something extraordinary. For the dancer and actress is deaf, they can feel music just about bass vibrations.

Her extraordinary talent to television viewers on Sunday now admire the new ARD Tatort. Wedel plays in a deaf dance teacher -. A role that it fills in real life

The dancing since early childhood Kassandra frond passion. First Ballet, later, when she had lost the hearing in a serious car accident, she discovered the hip-hop itself, whose beats could physically feel so good.

Today, she teaches as Europe’s only deaf Hip -Hopperin hearing and deaf people the basics of dance. With their own hip-hop group and as a solo dancer the Münchnerin been there many times German and European champion.

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Her exceptional talent and positive attitude have the crime scene Author Peter Probst as well as to the figure of the deaf dance teacher Cassandra in the new episode “Dead Silence” inspired.

Because Wedel also loves drama and since its Studied theater also was always on stage, it was for the editor responsible Christian Bauer from Saarland Radio close to fill the role with her. “When you have Kassandra Wedel once experienced, you have no reason to look for someone else,” says Bauer.

For Kassandra Wedel, who belongs to the ensemble of the German Deaf Theatre for years, this is still a extraordinary commitment because deaf hardly occur in the regular television and film industry. And so there are times but deaf in a movie, they are usually played by hearing actors.

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Pigeons spectators falls naturally immediately as disruptive to, especially as they once more socially excludes even where they were at least involved the script after having.

This starts loudly Wedel already with training in drama schools, seem entirely unsuitable for the deaf, because the teaching is geared right there for good reasons much on spoken language and speech training.

A small role in the Police was cut

Deaf actors like fronds are usually so self-taught, which must therefore fight for their professional recognition harder. After Wedel but has played ever in a TV thriller: a small role she had been in a police call 110-series. At the end of this but was cut for time completely out.

In the current scene production “dead silence”, which plays in the Deaf milieu, now have the same effect with 20 deaf. Whoever does not understand their sign language, will have to call up the relevant teletext pages if necessary on Sunday evening. Only a few places are subtitled.

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For the authenticity made in the case but also the deaf lip reader and blogger Julia Probst, the the the scriptwriters and TV crew for this series from the beginning offering advice and support. “With a view to inclusion I will try in the future after this very positive experience, for example, a wheelchair if possible to occupy a wheelchair propelled actor” promises editor Christian Bauer.

The fact that the shooting itself because of deaf actor would have been more complicated, Kassandra Wedel does not believe: “You could say, for us deaf, it is more complicated when the other our sign language actually does not understand or can even now,” she replies

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