Luise Aschenbrenner
Actress convinces in Dresden "crime scene: rescue so close"
Greta Blaschke (Luise Aschenbrenner) tries to save the life of a little girl.
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The role of Greta Blascke in "Tatort: Rescue So Close" gets under your skin. The unknown Luise Aschenbrenner is responsible for this …
German crime novels are often discredited for casting the immanently important episode roles with already familiar TV faces. But in Dresden's "Tatort: Rescue So Close", the makers took a rare path and relied on a previously unknown actress. So they hit the bull's eye: Luise Aschenbrenner (25) breathes an incredible amount of realism and charisma into the desperate, overwhelmed and fearful paramedic Greta Blaschke. But who is this young actress anyway?
Aschenbrenner was born in Munich in April 1995 and then grew up in Altomünster in Upper Bavaria. From 2014 she studied acting at the University of the Arts in Berlin. And yet the Dresden "Tatort" was a kind of home game for her: Since September 2017 she has been a permanent member of the Dresden State Theater. For several years she has also worked in smaller film productions. For example, she took on the lead role of the medical student Marie in the 2016 feature film "Brut".
This is how Luise Aschenbrenner prepared for the role
Aschenbrenner has also been seen on television, for example in the ZDF relationship comedy "Affair" with Claudia Michelsen (52) and Maren Kroymann (71). And even in the "Tatort" universe, she is no longer completely unknown: in the Berlin episode "Dein Name sei Harbinger", she played a small supporting role in 2017 as well as in the Munich edition of "Die Ewige Welle" in 2019. But after her first major Sunday evening crime role, there seems to be hardly anything standing in the way of a great film and television acting career.
By the way, she liked a lot about Greta Blaschke, as she said in an interview about the film. She was interested in the role from the start. "It starts with the emergency services and ends with the surname 'Blaschke'," says Aschenbrenner. They also share their preference for turtlenecks. In preparation for "Rescue so close", she also spent a day at a real rescue station in Dresden.