Actress Alwara Höfels on role stereotypes in German films, the old white man and the series “Mein Freund, das Ekel”, in which she plays an illiterate single parent.
Interview by
Kathrin Müller-Lancé
We have known her face since No-ear bunnies. As a kindergarten teacher wearing braids, Alwara Höfels told Til Schweiger about oral sex – and ensured one of the better moments in German cinema comedies: “When the woman pulls the pelvis forward, it eats well. And when the woman pulls the pelvis back, it doesn’t eat well. And then it is important that you never, really never slip up. ” The actress is considered picky: after six episodes, she gave up her role as Dresden crime scene inspector because she lacked artistic consensus.