Background
Ina Weisse was born June 12, 1968 in Berlin and is the daughter of a respected architect and an art mistress, which influenced her very early to choose an artistic life journey.
Ina Weisse was born June 12, 1968 in Berlin and is the daughter of a respected architect and an art mistress, which influenced her very early to choose an artistic life journey.
She is especially well known for her roles as the distant and ambivalent blonde, that usually plays the minor parts in films. She became apparent with roles in films like Tatort und Polizeiruf 110. Even though that the movies she directed have been successful, she is still better known as an actress than as a director
Her most famous film, which she directed is Der Architekt.
After she finished her degree at the acting school Otto-Falckenberg-Schule in Munich, received Ina Weisse her first engagement at the National Theatre Mannheim. Afterwards she started to study philosophy in Heidelberg in 1992.
In 2002 she finished her second degree at the University of Hamburg, where she studied film direction and production by Hark Bohm. Her graduation movie Alles anders was honored with the First Steps Award First Steps Award.
Ina Weisse is married to the German Film director Matti Geschonneck, with whom she worked together for the television-films Duell in der Nacht (2007), Tod in Istanbul (2009), Der Verdacht (2010) und Das Ende einer Nacht (2011).
Her first theater debut was with the comedy movie called Echte Kerle (1996). Henceforth she was seen in many TVproductions and several times in the German crime series Tatort. Weisse started in 2001 with making short movies, which have been successful and can be seen as her start for television productions.
Der Architekt (2008) was her debut as a film director, for which she had been writing the script together with Daphne Charizani.
Matthias Schweighöfer, Josef Bierbichler and Sandra Hüller, famous German actors, played the main roles in the drama. The movie was screened at the Berlinale and Max-Ophüls-Filmfestival in 2009 and was priced for the best screenplay.
The film critic Stefanie Rufle wrote: ”lieutenant"s a mature direction debut, which Ina Weisse handled stabile and confident".
