Part of the crime series since 2010.
Updated: 09:29 am
from Teleschau
“Polizeiruf 110: Born of Evil”: detectives Katrin Koenig (Anneke Kim Sarnau, left) and Mellie Boeve (Lina Beckmann, right) have grown together as one team.
Image: NDR/Michael Ihl
Injustice is a red flag for Policeruf 110 star Anneke Kim Sarnau. The actress remains unconvinced and says what she thinks – in her personal life and at work.
Steckbrief Anneke Kim Sarnau
Name: Anneke Kim Sarnau
Date of birth: February 25, 1972
Place of birth: Elmshorn
Vonort: Berlin-Charlottenburg
Height: 1.62 meters
Marital status: dating
Children: son, daughter
Anneke Kim Sarnau today in Polizeiruf 110
Country child
The town of Klein-Offenset-Sparrishoop near Elmshorn in Schleswig-Holstein has only about 3,000 inhabitants. But one former resident is known to many – even though she now lives in Berlin with her partner and two children: theater and film actress Anneke Kim Sarnau, born in 1972. However, she loves the country. This slows her down, as she told Teleschau: “The wind that blows around you clears your head. The sea carries your thoughts away.”
She criticizes life in the big city, including the fact that she lives “around the corner from Kudamm, on the street where the horse racing takes place in the evenings. It’s nice during the day, but in the evenings there’s a buzz of horse racing.”
Actress with character
Anneke Kim Sarnau has played Rostock investigator Katrin König in the film Policeruf 110 since 2010. There she impresses with her own methods of tracking down criminals. But not only in the Crimean series, Anneke Kim Sarnau adheres to her opinion in her personal life, which she finds difficult to hide.
“In certain situations, I find it difficult to keep my mouth shut about injustice or things that don’t suit me. Then they bother me so much that I have to say something.” Even if she knows that “sometimes…uncivilized things” come out.
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“This screams to the skies!”
There is a sense of justice in Anneke Kim Sarnau’s family. Her great-grandfather was the actor Hans Sönker. The State of Israel honored him with the title “Righteous Among the Nations” because he hid Jews several times during World War II.
Anneke Kim Sarnau’s sense of justice is expressed, for example, in the fact that she demanded the same price for Polizeiruf 110 as her then partner in crime Charlie Hübner because: “I feel obligated to other colleagues and all working women and housewives.” And she is outraged, “because I think it’s completely unfair and anti-social. We mothers always look after our children, then we have to work and earn money, and then we are supposed to receive even less salary? There are also “women cinematographers who are excellent at their jobs and shoot 90-minute films and feature films, but sometimes receive only a third of the salary of their male counterparts. This cries to the heavens!”
Great Invention: Getting Old
What Anneke Kim Sarnau wants, in addition to fairer treatment, are female roles after 40. She herself calls “aging a truly great invention,” even though she has “great respect for aging.” Especially when the kids are grown and there is time to travel, for example, “the physical stuff comes into play.”
And she wants “older people to be integrated in a completely different way.” In her opinion, “it should become a matter of course that children go to nursing homes once a week and be with older people.” Because society determines “how it treats its old and young people. This is a mirror of society.”
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An actress with heart and soul
Anneke Kim Sarnau loves her job and could never imagine doing anything else, even at a time when job offers were scarce. Why is this so? “As a child and teenager, it was always very difficult for me to express myself,” she told Teleshow. “I had a lot of emotions and I didn’t know how to express them in words… The roles gave me the opportunity to express a lot of emotions in words. There I can give free rein to my emotions.”
The great potential that the actress has can be judged by the awards she has already received. These include the German Television Award, the Adolf Grimme Award and the Bavarian Television Award for Hope Dies Last, as well as the Grimme Award for Police 110: Sabine.