Julia Zange (Elena)
»Maybe it was fate... A friend and I had organised a casting for a French film. When the casting took place in a hotel in Berlin, Jette insisted that I also get accepted. At that time Philip Gröning was looking for his leading actress – also in France. So my videotapes made a detour to Paris and back to Berlin. Gröning in turn thought that I was Dutch and couldn't speak German at all. We met anyway. And when I read the script, it was very clear to me inside: Elena is me.«
Julia Zange, born in 1983, makes her debut as a cinema actress with "My Brother's Name is Robert and He Is an Idiot". She has lived and worked in Berlin since 2006 and has made a name for herself as an author and writer. In 2008 Julia Zange caused a sensation with her first novel "Die Anstalt der besseren Mädchen" (Suhrkamp), followed by her second novel "Realitätsgewitter" (Aufbau-Verlag) in 2016.
Julia Zange attended the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and studied literature, afterwards she studied social and business communication at the University of the Arts in Berlin.
After the shooting for "My Brother's Name is Robert and He Is an Idiot" in 2013, Zange was in front of the camera in 2016 for Irene von Alberti in "The Long Summer of Theory". Her vita is completed by the short film "Traumschiff Season 5 Episode 2323" by Juno Meinecke, the web series "Transatlantics" and an appearance in the Kiel "Tatort" in the episode "Borowski und das verlorene Mädchen".