Ann-Kathrin Kramer

Ann-Kathrin Kramer (born 4 April 1966) is a German writer and actress.

Kramer was born and educated in Wuppertal but left school at sixteen. She worked as a shop window designer, made portraits of tourists in Greece and applied in vain to fashion school. Finally she took the Technische Abitur (baccalaureate-level qualification), but decided against studying physics as first envisaged. At 26, she went to the Gmelin Drama School in Munich and completed her training as an actress.

She took singing lessons with Anneliese Hofmann de Boer and acting lessons with John Costopoulos in the Lee Strasberg Method.

She has two brothers and a son who was born in 1997 from her relationship with Jan Josef Liefers. She is now married to Harald Krassnitzer.

She works with the charity Dunkelziffer - Hilfe für sexuell missbrauchte Kinder ("Unreported - Help for Sexually Abused Children") in Hamburg and represents the Bundesstiftung Kinderhospiz ("Federal Children's Hospice Foundation").

In 2005 she published her children's book Matilda - Oder die aus dem Haus ohne Fenster ("Matilda - Or the House Without Windows"), with a sequel Neues von Matilda, dem Mädchen aus dem Haus ohne Fenster in 2014. In 2008 there appeared a book Ann-Kathrin Kramer - Begegnungen ("Ann-Kathrin Kramer - Encounters") by Stefan Loeffler.

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