The Munich native trained to ice skate for months. After all, she embodies Olympic champion Katarina Witt. A conversation about failure, her only jump and her near-death experience on set.
Lavinia Nowak, 29, is sitting in her apartment in Vienna during a team discussion. She speaks enthusiastically about her profession, acting, and about her first major role as Katarina Witt; She talks and talks, only once does her cat interrupt the conversation because she is chasing a fly and the door rattles. The Munich native, who has lived in Vienna for five years, plays Witt in the ZDF film “Kati – A freestyle that stays”, which will be broadcast on Thursday, October 3rd at 8:15 p.m. It’s about the figure skater’s comeback at the 1994 Olympic Games in Lillehammer. Once, when Nowak thinks for a moment and, before she speaks again, looks from the top right to the bottom left, she really looks like young Witt.