Christine Sommer

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Christine Sommer
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Christine Sommer and Martin Brambach at the Grimme-Preis 2014
Born1970 (age 48–49)
Vienna, Austria
Occupation Actress
Spouse(s) Martin Brambach

Christine Sommer (born 1970 in Vienna) is an Austrian actress.

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Life and career

Sommer completed her training as an actress in the years 1986 to 1990 at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. This was followed by engagements at various theaters in Vienna, Tübingen, Braunschweig, and at the Ruhr Festival in Recklinghausen. On television, she appeared in, among other series like Inspector Rex and SOKO Wismar.

Max Reinhardt Seminar school

The Max Reinhardt Seminar is the School of Drama at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria. It is located in the Palais Cumberland, Penzingerstraße 9, in Vienna's 14th district.

Tübingen Place in Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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Braunschweig City and district in Lower Saxony, Germany

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From March 2009 to February 2010 she was in the ZDF telenovela Alisa – Folge deinem Herzen as Cornelia "Connie" Hundt, it also plays in many sketches of Kessler's etiquette with.

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Sommer lives with her daughters and their son with actor Martin Brambach in Recklinghausen. [1]

Martin Brambach German actor

Martin Brambach is a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films since 1988. He played minor roles in the Academy Award-winning films The Lives of Others, The Counterfeiters and The Reader, and worked with internationally known directors like Michael Haneke and Thomas Vinterberg.

Recklinghausen Place in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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  1. ↑ Martin Brambach Archived 2013-02-12 at Archive.today bei stimme.de
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