Annett Renneberg

Annett Renneberg was born in 1978 in Rudolstadt. In 1980 her family moved to Berlin, however she currently lives in Bremen. In 1991 she ended up by chance in the casting as the main character Anja in Rainer Behren’s film of the novel Offspring of the beautiful soul. In the interim Annett Renneberg also followed her dream of becoming an opera singer and started her singing education.

In 1997 followed TV films such as Bloody Divorce. This was followed with Annett in the leading role in The Bad. A year later Peter Zadek directed her in his opera production Rise and Fall of the City Mahagonny for the Salzburg Festival. This was followed as Ophelia in the by Hamlet production for the 1999 Vienna Fest Week, a role in which she could still be seen in the Winter of 2006 in Hamburg. Since the 1999 start of filming the Donna Leon Series Commissario Brunetti Annett Renneberg can be seen in front of the camera every year as the Commissioners beautiful and secretive Secretary Elettra, directed by Sigi Rothemund.. In 2002 Annett Renneberg was honored with the Lilli-Palmer-Memorial Camera award for best young actress as part of the Golden Camera Awards.

In April 2004 Peer Gynt premiered in Berlin and was also given in Vienna, Edinburgh, Bochum, Thessaloniki, Budapest and Lisbon. Alexander Nanau produced the film entitled Peter Zadek produces Peer Gynt. Also in 2004 Annett Renneberg enjoyed the title role in the premier of Lina by Marcus Hille, directed by Uwe-Eric Lauffenberg at the Hans Otto Theater, Potsdam. She played Karoline von Günderrode The same year Annett Renneberg appeared for the first time as solo artist - Upon Harald Seideläs invitation to appear in the context of the series Prominence in Conversation she presented Colorful Pictures at the Greiz castle. Accompanied by pianist Frank Eerenstein she sang songs by Mozart, Strauss, Reutter and Hollaender, framed in biographical anecdotes and by many stories of her favorite topic, Love. In the fall of the same year a second evening in this series took place at the Augustine Cloister in Erfurt in which Annett Renneberg musically honored the writings of poets like Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich von Schiller and their friendship and connection to Thuringia. Annett Renneberg is currently in rehearsals for Siegfried’s Women and The last days of Burgund at the Nibelungen Festival Worms. She plays Kriemhild, directed by Dr. Dieter Wedel.