Actress Pheline Roggan not only likes to swing her sword in the new “crime scene”, but also in real life – for the environment.
Actress Pheline Roggan, 42, had a lot to do in the new Ludwigshafen “crime scene”: While her colleagues were mostly allowed to shine in static dialogue scenes on vineyards or in Nibelungen museums, she had to play her role as Melania Wolter, the crazy ex-wife of a Bankers with a penchant for jousting, deliver full drama in every scene.
With drastic realism, she firstly illustrates the neglected misery of Melania, who has fallen victim to alcoholism. She then, sword in hand, embarks on a Wagnerian revenge campaign against her ex and his supposed lover. At the big showdown in the “Pflzer Hof” hotel in Deidesheim, she once again demonstrated all her dramatic talent by smashing the furniture.
At the latest after this furious performance, you should have Pheline Roggan on your screen – after all, she is one of the most interesting faces in the German film business.
Breakthrough with Fatih Akin’s “Soul Kitchen”
After a five-year modeling career, she started acting in 2001 at the age of twenty and soon celebrated her breakthrough with roles in films such as “Kebab Connection”, Fatih Akins, 50, “Soul Kitchen” or “Russendisco”. In addition, she can often be seen on theater stages, most recently in 2018 at the Nibelungen Festival in Worms in Feridun Zaimoglu’s, 58, play “Siegfrieds Erben”. The casting of her role in the Nibelungen “Tatort” may have been significantly inspired by her appearance there as a mystical shaman.
Soft spot for cinematic experiments
In addition to a preference for striking and sometimes bitchy characters, the Hamburg native is characterized by a passion for cinematic experiments that largely do without a script and demand a high degree of improvisational talent from the actors. She presented this talent particularly impressively between 2017 and 2023 in a total of five seasons of the extremely successful improv format “jerks.” alongside Christian Ulmen, 47, and Fahri Yardm, 43. By the way, the busy actress is not at “Tatort” for the first time: In 2010 and 2011 she was seen in “Tatort: Vergissmeinnicht” and “Tatort: Im Abseits”.
Commitment to sustainable film production
Even without a sword in hand, Pheline Roggan is dedicated to making the world a little better with her work. In 2020, she set up the Initiative “Changemakers.film” fr sensation, with which she wants to encourage German film productions to work more sustainably and environmentally conscious. Together with fellow actors Miriam Stein, 35, and Moritz Vierboom, 40, and director Laura Fischer, 37, she formulated a 13-point explanation with the principles of “green shooting”. With great success: In the meantime, more than 600 protagonists of the German film industry have agreed to the ecological production standards contained in a voluntary commitment.
Philine Roggan is currently in the ARD documentary series “We can do it differently” to see in which she, together with Anke Engelke, 57, Bjarne Mdel, 55, Axel Prahl, 63, and other acting celebrities, is looking for a “constructive way of dealing with the climate crisis”.
