Lavinia Heilig | Actress, Singer, Writer

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Welcome! It's lovely to have you here.

I am Lavinia Heilig - actress, singer and writer.

I completed my acting training at Cours Florent Paris and John Strasberg Studios New York.

Since I continuously keep training, I attended classes with Mel Churcher and a yearlong masterclass in Meisner Technique and camera acting.

More information can be found on my casting profiles embedded in the links below.

In addition, I earned a master's degree in Modern Philology and work as a freelance writer in the fields of prose, screenplay and stage play.

For further information please click the tab, Writer.

My work received funding from Frankfurt's Office for Science and Art, the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, the Hessian Theater Academy, the VG Wort, the Musicfonds and Geerdes Midimusic Berlin.

It is a special interest of mine to use the whole range of my human expressiveness.

I am excited to work with you and look forward to hearing from you.

Actress

As an actress and singer, I have worked on more than 50 film, theatre and musical theatre productions at a national and international level.

Contributing my part to a well told story and touching the audience with a truthful and authentic expression of my character’s worlds are the most satisfying elements of my work.

To get an overview of the productions, my education and to download photos and videos, please check my casting profiles following the links below.

Links

Crew-United Spotlight IMDb

Filmmakers.eu Castforward Schauspielervideos

ZAV Music University

Writer

My working experience as a freelance writer includes all my academic writing, copywriting and content creation (online and print) as well as writing screenplays and stage plays.

Academic writing

After graduating from high school (advanced courses: Latin and German) and training as an actress, I completed my master's degree in theater, film and media studies and Romance studies with top marks.

My master's degree thesis broaches the 20th Century Joan of Arc movies, comparing their dramaturgy and production in relation to the specific political background of their time.

Setting the focus on Carl Theodor Dreyer’s movie The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) and Luc Besson’s movie The Messenger (1999) since they represent chronological markers bordering the last century.

The work has been examined by Prof. Dr. Heide Schlüpmann and Prof. Dr. Hans-Thies Lehmann.

Further research topics of mine include (selection):

The Commedia dell'Arte - hierarchie structures and political subversion
The Role of Iphigenia in Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis
Deconstruction and construction of identity:

Six characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello

Female characters in Henrik Ibsen's work:

The Lady from the Sea in the contrasting context of European symbolism and naturalism

Rooms and spaces in Stanley Kubrick's work
RoGoPaG: La Ricotta by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Bodies on screen and construction of identity in Love me by Laetitia Masson
Elements of transnationality and hybridization in Yes by Sally Potter

Theater plays (selection)

TITLE	ROLE	DURATION	SUMMARY	PROD.	LANG.	FORM
December Revue	Writer Producer Director	73 min	What is the essence of art? How do you communicate with a deep-sea coelacanth without any accent? And what do you serve a benevolent alien at teatime?	Office for Science and Art Frankfurt Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Geerdes Midimusic Berlin	Ger.	Theater, Musical theater
Faust for two	Co-writer	59 min	Faust 1 (Goethe) for two Actors adapted for the upper secondary school.	Schwetzingen's municipal education authority	Ger.	Scenic reading
Baloney tour	Writer	80 min	An adventure trip through Berlin chasing the last Ice Age’s leftovers. With original coati-fossil Günni and Mrs. Dr. Dr. Charlotte Petersen.	Uitjes Holland	Ger. Engl.	Immersive Theater
AvVento Absolute Beginners#1	Writer performance text	25 min	Struggle in defining the words Home, Identity and Border within the field of international water politics. // Feedback: Ovid’s Metamorphoses	Movin' up Hessian Theatre Academy Frankfurt LAB	Ger. It. Lat.	Performance theater
Be someone - To have something	Writer	65 min	Humorous philosophical dispute on string theory, parallel universes, and the entire mess…	Heilig-Münger GbR	Ger.	Performance theater
Berlin, the rats are coming! (Version: 2013)	Co-writer	50 min	Will Chef Rat Jeffrey (working in Berlin’s city cleaning) finally abolish waste separation?	Foundation for Nature Conservation Berlin	Ger.	Musical theater

Screenplays (selection)

TITLE	ROLE	DURATION	GENRE	SUMMARY	LANG.	PROD.
We own this villa	Writer	90 min	Horror	Suspiria (1977) meets The Bold and the Beautiful.	Ger. Eng.	I.D.
Spidy's Adventure	Writer	90 min	Adventure Family CGI	Will Spidy and her friends save our planet from certain doom?	Eng.	I.D.
Bitchpoint- System	Writer	90 min	Road movie	It's never too late to come of age....	It. Ger. Eng.	I.D.
175°	Co-writer	6×6 min	Dramedy Web series	Rosi‘s snack car is the safe haven for her diverse customer base.	Ger.	Film workshop Münster Writers' Room
Broken Bird	Writer Producer Director	4:05 min	Experimental Film	Based on Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception, the filmic texture questions human perception and freedom of choice.	Eng.	GutDing Productions
Alarm: cockroaches!	Writer	5:30 min	Drama	Detention centre: Who is the real sociopath: the forensic psychiatrist or the incarcerated juvenile?	Ger.	Actors' Space Berlin

Copywriting

As a freelance copywriter (online and print content) and language assistant, I have worked for the following national and international companies (selection):

Universal Pictures Germany GmbH
Pulse Films UK
Goethe Institute
Tibet House Germany
Italian Consulate General (Cultural Institute)
Celebrity News AG
Alinari Archives Florence
Akzo Nobel (Nobilas GmbH)
#Kurzerklärt - YouTube channel
Spelsberg
and many more

My clients value my quick comprehension, the ability to put myself in someone else’s position, and my reliability.