“Crime Scene: The Secret Lives of Our Children”
Who embodies the desperate mother?
Susanne Bormann plays Miriam Schenk in “Tatort: The Secret Life of Our Children”.
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In the new “Tatort: The Secret Life of Our Children” a blended family is investigated. Who plays the mother Miriam Schenk?
In the new “crime scene: The secret life of our children” (May 14, the first) Franziska Tobler (Eva Löbau, 51) and Friedemann Berg (Hans-Jochen Wagner, 54) go on a criminal hunt in the Black Forest again. The focus is on the death of a young adult who wanted to earn money in the drug scene. The patchwork family around Miriam Schenk and Paul Wolf (Christian Schmidt, 52) is the focus of the investigation. After all, Schenk’s son Benno (Aniol Kirberg) was the deceased’s best friend. The desperate and alienated mother is played by Susanne Bormann (43). But how do you know the actress?
Numerous TV and film productions
Susanne Bormann was born in Kleinmachnow in 1979 and can look back on more than 60 film and television productions. At the age of eight she was able to get the role of Röschen Forster in the film “Treffen in Travers”. She kept accepting engagements until she graduated from high school, after which she began to study at the University of Music and Theater in Rostock. From 2005 she was on the stage at the Nuremberg State Theater – further excursions into the world of theater followed. Like her appearance at the Nibelungen Festival in Worms in 2009.
Bormann was also seen more frequently in feature films, and in 1996 she received a Grimme Prize for her performance in the drama “Abfahr”. With Matthias Schweighöfer (42) she played in the movie “Polly Blue Eyes” in 2005, in “Rubbeldiekatz” in 2011 and in “Russendisko” a year later. In the film “The Baader Meinhof Complex” she was in front of the camera as Petra “Peggy” Schoenau in 2008.
And when it comes to crime thrillers, the talented actress has already gained a lot of experience. From 2012 to 2015 she played the chief inspector Sandra Reiß in the ZDF series “Letzte Spur Berlin”. She was also seen in popular formats such as “The Criminalist”, “Bella Block” or “A Strong Team”. She was also part of four Sunday crime thrillers, including “Schimanski must suffer” (2000) and most recently in 2022 in “Police call 110: You can’t choose your family”.