Alissa Jung

Alissa Jung (born 30 June 1981 in Münster) is a German actress and physician.

Alissa Jung
Born (1981-06-30) 30 June 1981
Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany (now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Occupation
  • actress
  • physician
Websitewww.alissajung.de

Life

Alissa Jung was born at first daughter of current Lord Mayor of Leipzig (Saxony) Burkhard Jung (SPD). She has three sisters.[1]

From 1992 to 1999 she was Member of the listening play for children's radio ensemble of MDR and dubbed | synchronized various children's films and series. From 1996 she began to play theater (among others in Leipzig Theaterhaus Schille as Antigone and in Schauspiel Leipzig in Jeff Noon's Yellow). At the age of 16, she was discovered during a theatrical performance and in 1998 she took her first film role in the ARD series In aller Freundschaft . Since then, she has appeared in many film and television productions. She was known in 2006 by the lead role of Nelly Heldmann in the Sat.1 - telenovela Schmetterlinge im Bauch, the fairy tale adaptation Des Kaisers neue Kleider or the Sat.1 Film Im Brautkleid meiner Schwester. Internationally, she became 2012's title role of the two-parter Ihr Name war Maria and the leading roles in the movies Zweisitzrakete and Open my Eyes.

In 2017, she received her doctorate.[2]

In the year 2019, Jung returned with the critically acclaimed[3][4] in the program Das kleine Fernsehspiel with Das Menschenmögliche back to the screen.

Jung initiated the "Schools for Haiti" campaign in 2008, which she has chaired since 2011 as chairwoman of the "Pen Paper Peace" association.[5] The association is committed to education in Central America and Europe. Among other things, it finances two schools in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and, through educational projects, heightens the global sense of responsibility among young people in Germany and Italy.

Private life

Lived with her longtime companion TV host Jan Hahn and their children Lenius (born 1999) and Julina (born 2004) in Berlin, until their relationship ended in autumn 2006.

Lives in Berlin with husband, actor Luca Marinelli. They met on the set of Ihr Name war Maria (2012).

Filmography

References
  1. "Schauspielerin Alissa Jung zu Gast". Das! (in German). NDR. 2019-07-10. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  2. In aller Freundschaft
  3. The Humanity - Criticism of the Film at Tittelbach.tv access-date=2019-09-13}}
  4. The human possibility on ZDF: a doctor at the limit access-date=2019-09-13
  5. "Pen Paper Peace". Archived from the original on 2019-11-02. Retrieved 2019-11-03.
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