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Thursday 03 March 2016
You just turned 17 – and yet quite large. In the film version of “The Diary of Anne Frank” Lea van Acken shines in the title role. In n-tv.de interview she talks about tears on set, her personal diary and the matter of the Abi.
n-tv.de: Hans Steinbichler said, without you would the film have been impossible. A greater compliment can a a director actually does not make, or
Lea van Acken: That’s right. Even to a director, I guess so, and with the cooperation was so great. I’m incredibly grateful that Hans has found me -. In the year in which I at the right age was just for the film
You are only just turned 17 – and “The Diary of Anne Frank “is your second big movie. How did you get into acting?
I’ve always looked very much like movies. 2011 I played with 12 at the Karl May Festival in Bad Segeberg a small extras role. I felt like it. And as a theater with horses – I thought that was cool. While I am there so jumped around, I realized, “Wow, that makes me really fun and maybe me is the same..” Then I looked for an agency that myself since transferred to casting.
You have but no acting training …
No, nothing. (laughs)
How do you get the controlled with your other life? You go surely going to school …
Yes, I am now in the eleventh grade and do Abitur. “Anne Frank” We have two months completely turned in the school. That said, I’ve been missing two months. I’m curious how the next two years are still running. Secondary school is of course again another blow. As you notice each day of absence
How did you get in school
Actually, good -.? Fortunately. I also always do my homework, so I no what bind my leg and I can say: “I indeed was not there, but I have homework.” So I’ve been trying to do everything possible to do both.
Already in your debut film “Way of the Cross” was about a pretty heavy topic. Are you already subscribed to such heavy roles?
I do not know which one would have to ask the German film industry. (laughs) But it is not so, that I have the nose of dramatic roles would fully now – not at all! I believe that this depth and abysmal human me very irritating.
Do not feel like sometimes turn as a comedy?
But! Or even a nice youth film. The great actress thing is that you can try everything, if one is given to the possibility. I do not know where it will go for me as an actress. But I certainly hope that it works.
Did you know “The Diary of Anne Frank” before the movie?
I knew the name of Anne Frank – by my family, stories, messages. I remember that a boy had read the diary very early in my class and was very moved. I myself have but it actually only read prior to casting the first time to give me a picture of Anne and its history.
How did you doing?
I had very different feelings. It has deeply moved me definitely, especially with a view on the fate of the eight people in the Secret Annex. But it also made me fascinated – Anne fascinated me: their self-reflection, their observation skills as they wrote. Sometimes I had to think really: How old was she again? In other places I just had a good laugh because she has described things as humorous and incredibly well.
In the film, you have a few times crying as Anne. Did you, when you read her story, even a few tears squashed?
In any case. There were moments when I had to put away the diary because it touched me so deeply. At times one can tolerate. But sometimes
because you have to also get out. What else have you prepared yourself for the role? When I got the role, I had respect for it to read the diary again. I thought I can not do it. That’s why I started to write letters Anne – about my school, my family, about what moves me and touches. So I have a kind of relationship with her prepared. And so I could read the diary again and study every thought and word.
What else?
Otherwise, I tried everything you over can get Anne to suck. I was with my family in the Secret Annex in Amsterdam and Bergen-Belsen, where Anne died. I have had many discussions and so then tapped me Anne and her life bit by bit.
How does it work with the wines in the film with you? Can you do that by pressing a button?
I was in the whole rotation on a total emotional high or low. I was very thin-skinned. I had such an extreme connection to fellow actors or Hans that he sometimes had to throw a glance to me, to show me all the suffering of the scene – so cheesy that sounds. As all dams are then broken. Sometimes I had quite the problem back to get out and not to hyperventilate. The wines I had the movie really no problem. (laughs)
The younger you are, the more distant it is of course purely time of Nazism. Nevertheless, the approximately 70 years that is now here, actually not a long time. How close or far you does that happen?
We talked in school about it, I’ve talked to my family and my grandma and my grandpa told me part of something about the war. But personally I feel the time of World War II, of course, no longer connected. For me, that time always seemed so incredibly awful that although I knew of course that there was the Holocaust, I could this time hardly imagine me. By Anne and intensive study I’ve ever only get a reference to the time. I think every generation has to find its own terms.
Visually you’ve got quite a resemblance to Anne Frank. Would you also the character draw parallels to her?
I have it, of course, no objective view. But I could imagine as well that Anne and I sit together on the bus, people-watch and talk about it. I am also someone who is very self-reflective, questioning and thinking much about himself. As inspired definitely me Anne.
Do you write diary?
Yes.
Really? I thought in my generation was more Facebook something like a diary …
I even write with pen diary! I wanted to make the time, but could never bring himself – no time, no desire. At the auditions I have then thought: “Okay, now I’d write this is somehow a kind of preparation..” Then I once about “Via Crucis”, the Berlinale and the things that I also still knew written. I wanted to have something with which I can remember back times – just like photos. But it is also good to organize thoughts and feelings. I sit like just once to the window, watch out and think about things
On “Diary of Anne Frank”, there are two facets:. Firstly, the historical facet of the fate of Anne and her roommates in the rear building, on the other personally-human experiences of a girl like Anne at puberty. What has called you more
The film shows very strongly Anne – just the girl Anne. That makes him, I believe, so tangible and more dramatic. The viewer can watch Anne grow and in how they want to live their lives and can not, as it is locked up and is eventually murdered. Only then did the story actually comes into play and the question: Why? Why is she murdered? I found it important that we have Anne depicted as a girl, on a personal and intimate way, as they are known only from the diary.
Funnily ran just last year under the title “My daughter Anna Frank “on television, a new docu-drama on the same subject. Therein Mala Emde played Anne. Have you met before?
Yes! We have met at last year’s “New Faces Award”, in which she was nominated. And this year, the film ball. Marla is totally sweet. We have also not spoken so much about Anne. We just played our both Anne – there is no competition or the like. We find totally sympathetic as Mala and Lea. And that’s what counts.
What lessons should be learned in your opinion of the story of Anne Frank?
For me shows Annes story well, whereas dull xenophobia and racism cause. But I think that our film, the one not set before plump: “Here: Nazism, dismay, everything awful.” The story of this girl makes it more tangible and can think for a lot more. For example, I thought about how of course it is for me to go to the movies. Or pop the door and just go out there. That it was not for Anne. It is important to be aware of this. Applied to today, shows the importance of moral courage.
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issues such as flight, persecution, expulsion are unfortunately again today out of date. Do you feel that people these lessons of history really don?
part, partly. I think: What makes Germany, people who want to help are. For me, they make a lot more than the spinners on the edge.
With Lea van Acken said Volker Probst
“The Diary of Anne Frank” is running now in the German cinemas
Source: n-tv.de
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